The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-02-27
APPRECIATE GREATLY THE
SPIRIT OF THIS LETTER.

tuted by the Roman Catholics and
their mentally putrefying adherents
On account of spell of fever [ was
thrown out of the Mercer Law School
this year, where I should have been
Senior, and although I shall need
all the money my good husbandry can
supply from teaching school to put
me through college next year, feel
1t my duty to extend to you my mite
or encouragement and assistance for
so faithfully and zealusly guarding
the liberties we who follow after
shall inherit.
| have been reading after you ever
since I was twelve years DID, have
heard you speak many times and have
had the pleasure of talking with you.
Therefore I feel that I understand
you perfectly and as one who has
read and understood and believed
you to be right, because that kindred
spirit that dwells within each Of us
says so, want to encourage you in
your fight. Let your good work go
on. Plan your journey to the hori-
zOn of life as it has been thus far
along the mountain tops Give a
deaf ear to those who would down
your good fortune and mar your good
name and live in hope of the boun-
tifu1 harvest of the grain that you
have sown. For out Of the historians
Of the future your life will be writ
ten as it was and as it should be
unvillif1ed by prejudice nor with en-
nifty obscured. Though you may feel
the aspersions of the present like a
wound, know that the posterity of
fhhdo WI OF oicf0
will be proud to do honor to the
ground on which you stand, and that
future readers of history will keep
redo1ent within the ''rose-iars of
their memory each noble deed of
your immortal life.
You have yet to begin fight with
out my sympathy. And to see you
standing out against the Roman Cath
olics, dealing such telling blows,
makes me love and honor you more
/ am reading Gibbons decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire" and find
the venomous vine of Catholicism
over it all. Planting itself only up
on the sedentary and decaying parts
where alone it is prolific it hastens
the decay upon which it feeds, thus
decaying that upon which it lives and
living upon that which it decays; the
more it grows the more it feeds and
the more it feeds the more it grows,
until the fabric of empire falls into
chaotic heap. So it was with an
cient Rome.
And who cannot see the trail of
the selfsame vine over our own glori-
GUS republic, threatening the funda-
mental tenets of our government and
designing with persistent effort to
level our magnificent tree of human
liberty with the ground. Loving
superstition and ignorance as the bac-
terra loves darkness, it shuns the
pure sunlight of reason. Hating
truth like lie, it would destroy him
who utters it.
| would, Mr.. Watson, that more of
our big magazines and newspapers
would join you in your fight. But it
seems that they would sit supinely
by while the sacred fires of freedom
blight upon the hearth and neither
fan nor feed the holy flame. And
all for the sake of little political
prestige or perhaps for the enjoy
ment of salutary ostentation for a
day. Better ten thousand times would
it be for them to throw their in
fuence against the invading plalanx
of Catholicism and secure the bless
ings of liberty to themselves and to
their posterity forever.
But on account of their indiffer-