enced by their patriotism or love for the Union, for they never possessed either, but by their love for the Almighty Dollar. Their money loving, shifting policies afford a striking illustration of the moral inculcated in Rabelais' couplet, "The Devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he." > The South, however, resorted to every honorable means of averting war, and in the Congress of 1860, that grand and noble man, whose fame and patriotism will endure while time lasts, Jefferson Davis, with all the power of his great nature, pleaded for the Union and urged the adoption of the Crittenden compromise, which was a measure much more favorable to the North than the South, and which was conceived in the interest of peace and intended to prevent a rupture between the two sections of the government, but which did not receive in Congress a single Republican vote. In the Charleston Convention the South and the Democratic party in the platform then adopted stood for the Union and the Constitution, while Abraham Lincoln was nominated and elected on a platform avowedly inimical to the Constitution and the South and which repudiated the United States Supreme Court and had for its purpose the subjection of the South to the rule of the North. Northern rebellion against the Constitution and the undisguised determination to rob the South of her inalienable rights and hold her a vassal to Northern greed and despotism caused the South to withdraw from the Union. It was the North that declared and forced war on us of the South, for the North sought revenue and empire and on our part we simply fought for defense and existence. The result was against us and the absolutely null and void 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States were without any authority of law or right ruthlessly foisted upon us for the infamous purpose of Africanizing the South and to rivet the fetters in which we were bound by war's iron hand and which was only averted by that grand, invincible and invisible army that, Phoenix-like, rose from the remnants of the Confederate armies and under the mystic name of the Ku Klux Klan saved the South from negro domination and spoilation and established white control and supremacy, in spite of the seemingly insuperable obstacles thrown around us and the dangers which confronted us. Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, in his masterly work "Is Davis a Traitor," and from which I obtained much data and whose ideas and language I have made liberal use of in discussing the Constitutional right of secession, so admirably presents the causes of secession that I approve, adopt and present them as follows: "First, the destruction of the balance of power, which was originally established between the North and the South; and which was deemed by the authors of the Constitution to be essential to the freedom, safety and happiness of those sections of the Union. Secondly, the sectional legislation by which the original poverty of the North was exchanged for the wealth of the South; contrary to the great design of the Constitution, which was to establish the welfare of all sections alike, and not the welfare of one section at the expense of another. Thirdly, the formation of a faction, or "the party of the North pledged against the South;" in direct and open violation of the whole spirit and design of the new Union; involving a failure of the great ends for which the Republic was ordained. Fourthly, the utter subversion and contemptuous disregard of all the checks of the Constitution, instituted and designed by its authors for the protection of the minority against the majority; and the lawless reign of the Northern Demos. Fifthly, the unjust treatment of the slavery question, by which the compacts of the Constitution made by the North in favor of the South, were grossly violated by her; while, at the same time, she insisted on the observance of all the compacts made by the South in her own favor. Sixthly, the sophistry and hypocrisy of the North, by which she attempted to justify her injustice and oppression of the South. Seventhly, the horrible abuse and horrible abuse and slander, heaped on the South, by the writers of the North; in consequence of which she became the most despised people on the face of the globe; whose presence her proud ally felt to be a contamination and a disgrace. Eighthly, the contemptuous denial of the right of secession; the false statements, and the false logic by which that right was concealed from the people of the North; and the threats of extermination in case the South should dare to exercise that right. These are the principal causes by which the last hope of freedom for the South in the Union was extinguished; and consequently, she determined to withdraw from the Union. Bravely and boldly did she stroke for Liberty." We are no cringing sycophants, no hypocritical penitents hovering around the altar of a mock and sham patriotism who "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning;" but "Unawed by power and unbribed by gain," we always have and ever will proclaim our undying devotion and unwavering fealty to the principles for which we fought for four long and bloody years. Pean of Wasted Possibilities Samuel Harley Lyle, Jr. Ye have reaped as ye sowed, and your sowing was bad, Of tares where the need was of grain, And the bountiful yield that ye might have had Lies weed-choked on Life's plain. What good in the curses ye call to the night, enced by their patriotism or love for the Union, for they never possessed either, but by their love for the Almighty Dollar. Their money loving, shifting policies afford a striking illustration of the moral inculcated in Rabelais' couplet, "The Devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; void 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States were without any authority of law or right ruthlessly foisted upon us for the infamous purpose of Africanizing the South and to rivet the fetters in which we were bound by war's iron hand and which was only averted by that grand, invincible and invisible army that, The Devil was well, the Devil a monk Phoenix-like, rose from the remnants was he." of the Confederate armies and under the mystic name of the Ku Klux Klan saved the South from negro domination and spoilation and established white control and supremacy, in spite of the seemingly insuperable obstacles thrown around us and the dangers which confronted us. Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, in his masterly work "Is Davis a Traitor," and from which I obtained much data and whose ideas and language I have made liberal use of in discussing the Constitutional right of secession, so admirably presents the causes of secession that I approve, adopt and present them as follows: The South, however, resorted to every honorable means of averting war, and in the Congress of 1860, that grand and noble man, whose fame and patriotism will endure while time lasts, Jefferson Davis, with all the power of his great nature, pleaded for the Union and urged the adoption of the Crittenden compromise, which was a measure much more favorable to the North than the South, and which was conceived in the interest of peace and intended to prevent a rupture between the two sections of the government, but which did not receive in Congress a single Republican vote. In the Charleston Convention the South and the Democratic party in the platform then adopted stood for the Union and the Constitution, while Abraham Lincoln was nominated and elected on a plat-sential to the freedom, safety and hapform avowedly inimical to the Constitution and the South and which repudiated the United States Supreme Court and had for its purpose the subjection of the South to the rule of the North. Northern rebellion against the Constitution and the undisguised determination to rob the South of her inalienable rights and hold her a vassal to Northern greed and despotism caused the South to withdraw from the Union. It was the North that declared and forced war on us of the South, for the North sought revenue and empire and on our part we simply fought for defense and existence. The result was against us and the absolutely null and "First, the destruction of the balance of power, which was originally established between the North and the South; and which was deemed by the authors of the Constitution to be es piness of those sections of the Union. Secondly, the sectional legislation by which the original poverty of the North was exchanged for the wealth of the South; contrary to the great design of the Constitution, which was to establish the welfare of all sections alike, and not the welfare of one section at the expense of another. Thirdly, the formation of a faction, or "the party of the North pledged against the South;" in direct and open violation of the whole spirit and design of the new Union; involving a failure of the great ends for which the Republic was ordained. Fourthly, the utter subversion and contemptuous disregard of all the checks of the Constitution, instituted and designed by its authors for the protection of the minority against the majority; and the lawless reign of the Northern Demos. Fifthly, the unjust treatment of the slavery question, by which the compacts of the Constitution made by the North in favor of the South, were grossly violated by her; while, at the same time, she insisted on the observance of all the compacts made by the South in her own favor. Sixthly, the sophistry and hypocrisy of the North, by which she attempted to justify her injustice and oppression of the South. Seventhly, the horrible abuse and slander, heaped on the South, by the writers of the North; in consequence of which she became the most despised people on the face of the globe; whose presence her proud ally felt to be a contamination and a disgrace. Eighthly, the contemptuous denial of the right of secession; the false statements, and the false logic by which that right was concealed from the people of the North; and the threats of extermination in case the South should dare to exercise that right. These are the principal causes by which the last hope of freedom for the South in the Union was extinguished; and consequently, she determined to withdraw from the Union. Bravely and boldly did she stroke for Liberty." We are no cringing sycophants, no hypocritical penitents hovering around the altar of a mock and sham patriotism who "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning;" but "Unawed by power and unbribed by gain," we always have and ever will proclaim our undying devotion and unwavering fealty to the principles for which we fought for four long and bloody years. Pean of Wasted Possibilities Samuel Harley Lyle, Jr. Ye have reaped as ye sowed, and your sowing was bad, Of tares where the need was of grain, And the bountiful yield that ye might have had Lies weed-choked on Life's plain. What good in the curses ye call to the night, enced by their patriotism or love for the Union, for they never possessed either, but by their love for the Almighty Dollar. Their money loving, shifting policies afford a striking illustration of the moral inculcated in Rabelais' couplet, "The Devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; void 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States were without any authority of law or right ruthlessly foisted upon us for the infamous purpose of Africanizing the South and to rivet the fetters in which we were bound by war's iron hand and which was only averted by that grand, invincible and invisible army that, The Devil was well, the Devil a monk Phoenix-like, rose from the remnants was he." The South, however, resorted to every honorable means of averting war, and in the Congress of 1860, that grand and noble man, whose fame and patriotism will endure while time lasts, Jefferson Davis, with all the power of his great nature, pleaded for the Union and urged the adoption of the Crittenden compromise, which was a measure much more favorable to the North than the South, and which was conceived in the interest of peace and intended to prevent a rupture between the two sections of the government, but which did not receive in Congress a single Republican vote. In the Charleston Convention the South and the Democratic party in the platform then adopted stood for the Union and the Constitution, while Abraham Lincoln was nominated and elected on a platform avowedly inimical to the Constitution and the South and which repudiated the United States Supreme Court and had for its purpose the subjection of the South to the rule of the North. Northern rebellion against the Constitution and the undisguised determination to rob the South of her inalienable rights and hold her a vassal to Northern greed and despotism caused the South to withdraw from the Union. It was the North that declared and forced war on us of the South, for the North sought revenue and empire and on our part we simply fought for defense and existence. The result was against us and the absolutely null and > of the Confederate armies and under the mystic name of the Ku Klux Klan saved the South from negro domination and spoilation and established white control and supremacy, in spite of the seemingly insuperable obstacles thrown around us and the dangers which confronted us. Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, in his masterly work "Is Davis a Traitor," and from which I obtained much data and whose ideas and language I have made liberal use of in discussing the Constitutional right of secession, so admirably presents the causes of secession that I approve, adopt and present them as follows: "First, the destruction of the balance of power, which was originally established between the North and the South; and which was deemed by the authors of the Constitution to be essential to the freedom, safety and happiness of those sections of the Union. Secondly, the sectional legislation by which the original poverty of the North was exchanged for the wealth of the South; contrary to the great design of the Constitution, which was to establish the welfare of all sections alike, and not the welfare of one section at the expense of another. Thirdly, the formation of a faction, or "the party of the North pledged against the South;" in direct and open violation of the whole spirit and design of the new Union; involving a failure of the great ends for which the Republic was ordained. Fourthly, the utter subversion and contemptuous disregard of all the |