The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-04-19
THE NEW SOUTH

bitterness, which survived the war be
tween the states have died out in the
ashes Of the long ag0, and, while am
the son Of Confederate soldier and
proud beyond the power of speech To
tell of ancestry 50 glorious, as a rep
resentatiye of the American people,
shall rejoice to cast my vote to pen
sion the deserving soldiers OF this
great nation, and in so doing / know
that ! reflect the sentiment of the
outhern people. Today / would pay
Ieyerent tribute TO my mother cOun
try, that beautiful and far-away en-.
chantcd land the old south. 1t was
a country lowered by the God Of ma
ture with elemental wealth noun.
tains stored with iron and coal, plains
bounded only by the horizon. primeval
forests of the long-leaf pine, and the
I've oak trees.
Druids Of ED with voices sad and
prophetic" majestic rivers rushing to
tae sea and valleys ike the happy val
ley of Rasselas, where every blast
shock spices from the leaves and
every month dropped fruits upon the
ground
II you take from the structure of
the United States government and
from the nation in It's making the con,
tributi0n of the south, it would be as
ii you stripped from the skies its ra-
diant considerations and the starry
scarf Of the milky way and left the
heavens in dim eclipse, black, wintry
dead, unmeasured.
Have you estimated the contribution
Of the south to llberty's cause IN
the revolt against Great Britain? But
for the sword and spirit of the south
thorp would have been no revolution;
there would have been no new naticn;
N proportion to population statistics
show that the southern colonies con,
trlbuted mere than the number Of sol.
diCrs contributed by the northern col
cnicS 10 the continental armies. Long
prior 10 the historic declaration In
Ihiladelr ha the citizens of Meckklen.
berg, ~ G., declared the first declara-
ton of independence. Patrick Henry
BOUNDED the bugle note and call to
battle He was Virglnian Richard
Henry Lee, IN the Continental cen,
gross, June 7, t776, submitted reso,
ulion declaring that these united col
cnies are, and of right ought to be,
free and independent states" He
was Nirglnian Thomas jefferson
wrote the Declaration of independence
that marvellous state paper set ON fire
with the aspirations for human lib
efty, a paper that win live to the last
syllable OF recorded time, lie was n
Virgin.an. George Washington com
manded and led to glorious victories,
Sio was u Nirginian. The English
armies were defeated. the lndepend
once Of the colonies secured by south.
ern soldiers on southern battle fields.
The convention that framed the Con.
stitution Of the United States was pre-.
sided over by George Washington,
That constitution toek its mold aud
conformation from the brain Of James
Madison, a Nirginian
No one influence gave to the new
government as much strength, sta.
hility, aud power In Its formative pc
riod as the decisions of the greatest
Jurist who over sat ON the bench OF
tina, exalted tribunal. the supreme
court of the United States John Mar.
shall. Virginian.
Time would lail me even to name
the great men Of the south She gave
to civilization and to the future ages
Thomas Jefferson, the worlds great.
est constructive statesman: Georgo
Washington in his day and through
all the tide Of time first In the hearts
.of his coantrymcu Henry Clay. whom
Champ Clark, in his wonderful speech
of yesterday called the greatest
sneaker of this house, who was also,
perhaps. the worlds greatest orator:
Matthew Fontaine Maury, who dis
covered aud charted tho circulation of
the currents of the ocean and wrote
the Physical Geography of the Sea:
james Audubon. Americas foremost
atura&st and ornithologist; Edgar
Alien Pee the weird poet whose gen.
US was divine; and, finally. let me
ell you that the state OF Kentucky,
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