The north Mississippi herald., 1919-12-12
ers, and Albert G. Brown.

ers, and Albert G.. Brown.
Georgia has furnished US legion
as valiant as ever courted fortune,
or bearded danger, represented by
Governor Runnels, General Dicker-
son, Flonnoy, .Longstreet, Cotesworth,
Smith and that distinguished gentle
man who has proven himself equal to
every emergency and every position,
from seat in the Georgia Legisla-
ture to his present exalted seat, Mr..
Justice Lamar, and that no less con-
spicuous character, that stalwart,
massive and unvarnished representa-
tive of the truth and honor and in
tellect, the grand commoner of the
United States Senate and the peer of
any jurist in America-the Hon. J.
z. George.
From New York we inherited a
rich vein of our finest material in a
long line of characters like Bradish,
John D. Freeman and Anthony Quit
man.
"New Jerseys best blood has per-
meated the entire State in the de-
scendants of the Ashfords, Colemans,
Farrars, Fowlers, Griffins, Hopkins,
Luses, Montgomeries, Mobiles, Stock
tons, and many others.
Delaware is represented in a
brilliant line of Shields, Robertsas,
Rodnys, and many others.
Massachusetts bestowed a price,
less legacy in the exalted genius and
renowned character Of such men as
Judge Fletcher, Judge Winchester,
and LYMAN Harding
From far off Maine, sitting among
her cold, inhospitable hills, came a
race as proud, as pure and famous as
any in the records of our history
Boyd, Volney F. Howell, Judge Pray,
and that burning and bright luminary
of thought and spirit, coming like a
planet let loose from its moorings
in the heavens, cleaving, Illuminating
and electrifying the elements through
which it passed, the matchless and
immortal Sargent s. Prentiss.
"From the cultivated, chivalrous
and patriotic Maryland, we have the
Wilkersons, Calvists, Chews, Cow
ingtons, Graysons, Rawlings, Waitses
and Magruders.
From the grand "Old Dominion, I"
the roll is simply innumerable, the
contemporaries and followers of Gov
ernor McNutt, Powhattan Ellis,
Poindexter, Walker Broke, General
Cooke, Chalmers Claiborne, Danger
field and Henry S. Foote; the Leas,
Leakes, Lattimores, Kempers, Mar
shals, Randolphs, fuckers, Starks,
Cato West, and that still lofty spirit
whose magnetic character touches a
sympathetic chord which thrills the
heart of every son and daughter of
Mississippi, the soldier, statesman and
patriot, Grenada's distinguished son,
Hon. E. c. Walthall.
"As the swelling stream swept
down through the Middle States it
gathered from Pennsylvania men
like George Holmes, Balch, Clarke,
Duncan, Minor, Rankin, Simpson,
Taylor and r. j. Walker.
when it reached Tennessee the
volume was augmented by Antryes,
Andersons, Adamses, Roger Barton,
Barrys, Barksdales, Rueben Davis,
Trimble, Morgans, Yergers, Sharkeys
and William M. Gwin.
''Kentucky's sons, too, have reared
here enduring names and monu-
mental fame: Thomas B. Reed, O..
r. Singleton, w. r. Miles, and that
other name which should pass even
the lips of grateful eulogy, only with
modesty and Difference; whose
sublime character rises like a mighty
promontory of eternal stone, jutting
out into the ages, beating over the
shoreless ocean of past and future
history, defying alike the winds and
waves of adverse criticism, and the
"slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune" the Hon, ex-President
Jefferson Davis.
'The spirit of liberty was restiye
and turbulent in the souls of such a
people.
'They could not long be content to
enjoy the boon alone. We are told
by our own historian that the inde-
pendence of Texas was born on Mis-
sissippi soil, that the historic city of
Natchez is the cradle which rocked
in its infancy and nursed it in the
hearts Of Magee, Toledo, Childs,
Archer, Lamar, Hunt, Green, Cham
bers, Houston and Quitman, till it
leaped into life and rushed into bat
tie, carrying victory and freedom
from the Sabine to the Rio Grande.
These two currents of immigration,
pouring their treasure of population
into the lap Of Mississippi, comprising
nearly all of the then existing ele-
nents of church, society and State.