The north Mississippi herald., 1919-12-12
MISSISSIPPI
(By DIR. B. F. WARD.l

ISH udyS III WHICH TO RaLHSr the ma
terial and this must be done in the
midst of very heavy practice of
medicine. The association was to
meet at Grenada and the subject as
signed to DR.. Ward was Mississippi" +"
Desiring to say something as he al
ways does, out of the ordinary, he
set to work and prepared the follow
ling address, the most interesting of
the kind ever delivered.
DR.. WARDS ADDRESS.
"Our genial and philosophic friend,
Bill Arp, in one of his attractive and
instructive letters, alludes to Missis-
sippi as the "child of Georgia." but
/ am happy to greet you tonight in
the proud and lofty descendant of
eighteen sovereign sisters, distinct in
the elements and organization of her
population from any other State in
this Government. q
"While Virginia is loved and vene-
rated as the mother of States"
Mississippi sits gracefully and right
fully in the National family circle as
the bright and beautiful Daughter
of the States"
"Just as the great river which
washes our borders gathers its waters
from a thousand tributary streams,
so the blood of Mississippi comes
coursing from many rich and varied
sources.
History has verified the physio-
| logical proposition that mixed blood
| is the strongest and mixed races
dominate the world. AS the highest
type of race development and race
supremacy stands the Anglo-Saxon,
the offspring of the Britton, the Ro-
man, the Saxon and the Norman.
Numerically less than one-fifteenth of
the human family, it holds dominion
today over more than one-third of
the earth's surface and governs more
than one-fourth of the worlds popu-
lation.
every race debarred by natural,
social or legal restrictions from the
opportunities of progressive and un-
limited transfusions is doomed to in
evitable subordination. What is true
of nations is equally true of their
subdivisions into families and gen.
erations.
'The same physical laws which
govern the trunk, also form and
fashion and vitalize the branches.
Law governs everything in the
Universe, from the microscopic atom
to the motion of the spheres and from
this fixed and definite physiological
law which evolves increased strength
and higher attributes from the union
of blood currents, arises today, the
physical, moral, and intellectual
forces which characterize the State
of Mississippi.
'For more than one hundred years,
while three of the great nations of the
earth were struggling for supremacy
on the continent, the noblest and
bravest knights of England, France
and Spain met and shivered their
lances on Mississippi territory, i'm
pressing their powers on her earliest
history and transmitting their ming
led heroism to the generations that
followed.
"After the establishment of this
Government for nearly three-fourths
of century or more, two distinct
tides of immigration moved steadily
across the continent from east to
west, starting from widely divergent
sources and gradually converging
to point of confluence on the terri
tory of Mississippi.
"This is a demonstrable fact, due
to natural causes and geographical
influences. The tide from the South
Atlantic States moved directly west
and halted for long time at the
Mississippi river-then the western
boundary of civilization. The other
extending from Virginia to the most
remote corner of New England,
moved constantly to the southwest.
I'm the absence of railroads emil
grafton in the early history of the
country, naturally followed natures
great highways Of travel, hence this
tide from the northeast took the
course of the Ohio river to its june
ton with the Mississippi, thence down
till it met and coalesced with the tide
from the South Atlantic in the FAM
Gus Natchez district on Mississippi
soil.
"This is no imaginary picture, but
historical truth. These early set
tiers were choice spirits from eigh-
teen States, who through their COM
bined characters and interviewer
energies and sentiments have be-
queathed to Mississippi a population
peculiar in the fineness of its fibre
and the susceptibility Of its nervous
organization.
''Thus from North Carolina came
long list of her finest material,
represented by Governor Williams,
Jacob Thompson, the Sessionesses,
Willises, Hutchinses, Barnses, Hum
phries, Whitfields, McLaughlins, and
host of others.
From South Carolina came a
splendid column of such men as
Governor Scott, the Fords, Mont
gomeries, Hamptons, Prestons, Pinck-
nies, Calhouns, Witherspoons, Hook
.BITION