The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-27
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Palatka News.

Palatka News.

Sometimes the editor of the News
longs for the power of suitable seIec-
ton and an ability to string words of
the English language in such manner
as TO express thoughts artisticaIly in
the golden threads of poesy like his old
friend, Benz. w. Partridge of Month
cello, adtutant general and chief of
staff of the United Confederate Vet
Grams OF Florida. But perhaps it is
just az well, for if all men were gifted
poetic weavers of the mother tongue
there would be no one to get down to
the Yernacular of the street and say
come across" to those who have
money but little or no sentiment In
another column of this paper General
Partridge makes an appeal to the vet
Grams and sons of veterans of the Con-
federacy for funds with which to erect
q monument to the Florida women of
the Confederacy. If you have not done
SO, please read that appeal. Then
think or the cause. Can you go~ba elk
in your thoughts to the modest homes
scattered here and there over the pc
n1nsula OF Florida so years ago? If
you cannot, let US help you. For years
statesmen representing all sections of
our country had tried to settle in the
arena OF debate a vexed constitutional
question. The statesmen of the south
held to one view-those of the north
to an opposite. There were compro-
misors in those Gays, too, but they as
always when a principle is involved
were failures. Then came the war
which lasted four long years. And
what war! No such fighting had
been seen on the earth before, nor has
there been since. The total loss in
killed, wounded and missing at the
battle of Antietam was SS.36s; at Chan
cellorsville. 1881; at Chickamauga
1855; at Gettysburg, 54,S07; at Shiloh,
24,272; at the Wilderness, 29,757, be-
sides score of other battles where
the losses totalled all the way from
10000 to 10000. Losses of what? Why
men. And each one Of those men was
a father, a son, a brother, a husband
to some woman. Florida contributed
of its men to the southern cause. In
splendid proportion to its then meagfe
population. It's noble, patriotic wom-
en-, broken and beavy-hearted over the
absence and perils of husband. father,
son. brother made their full sacrifice.
And what a sacrifice! Now it is pro-
posed to recognize that noble sacrifice
OF these women by erecting q shaft tS
their memory. The fullness of time
has arrived. Soon 1t will be too late.
The cause OF the south is a lost cause.
The survivors are rapidly passing.
When they are gone there will be no
one to take up the love work Of a lost
cause-to make appeal for recognition
of the awful sacrifices of the Confed-
crate mother and wife. The recent
Florida legislature appropriated $1,000
for the monument Veterans have sub
scribed $2,5o0 more. Much more is
needed. Let every veteran respond.
Let every son OF a veteran respond
with thoughts of mother. Let every
son OF Florida who is accustomed to
uncover In the presence OF the queen of
his own home pause in the pursuit of
business or pleasure and give one mo-
ment Of reverential thought to the
Florida queens of so years ago, and
then show appreciation for the awful
sacrifice they made by mailing a con-
trihntion that VIII help to perpetuate
the memory Of their deeds as q benefit
to the generations now living and
those vet unburn.