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THE HENRY
COUNTY WEEKLY
FRANK ItKAGAN, Editor.
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McDonough, Georgia.
Official Organ of Henry County.
McDonough, Ga., June 2, 1911.
THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF TOMORROW.
Tomorrow, June 3rd, is the anni
versary of Jefferson Davis’s birth
day. We need to have our atten
tion called to the fact and its
meaning, lest in the turmoil and
toil of a busy life, we forget.
Truly we need to give more
thought, in these days of success
worship, to this great character of
our great past; or we shall cease
to merit the honor of which Davis
himself so fitly spoke in his ora
tion at the Lee Memorial meeting
at Richmond, on the evening of
November 3,1870:
“Soldiers and Sailors of the Con
federacy,Countrymen and Friends:
“Assembled on this sad occasion,
with hearts oppressed with grief
that follow's the loss of him who
was our leader on many a bloody
• battlefield, there is a melancholy
pleasure in the spectacle which is
presented. Hitherto, in all times,
men have been honored when
successful; but here is the case of
one who, amid disaster, went
down to his grave, and those who
were his companions in misfortune
have assembled to honor his mem
ory. It is as much an honor to you
who give as to him who receives,
for above the vulgar test of merit
you show yourselves competent
to discriminate between him who
enjoys and him who deserves suc
cess.”
And so may we today still honor
ourselves in honoring him and re
garding the morrow marking the
day of his birth with most sacred
recollection and contemplation of
bis life and virtues.
’Tis adversity that tests the man,
and this test, of the severest kind,
was endured by Davis with sub
lime success.
The morrow to which the new
President of a new republic looked
forward on Februar> 18, 1861,
when he was inaugurated, was
filled with much that he could not
foresee.
He may have looked forward to
a morrow of a brief period of war
fare, and then a sad hut success
ful severance of the ties with the
earlier union, and then, on into the
far future, interminable years of
glory and growth of the fair young
nation.
As president of a successful na
tion, we do not know what Davis’
career would have been. That it
would have been one of lustre,
however, we are justified in be
lieving by the character and ca
pacity of the man.
That, however, would he mere
speculation. What concerns us
now is the fact that his high hopes
could not be realized, and gave
way to defeat and the destruction
of the fairest government men
have yet established.
Though the government per
ished, we do not regard Davis’ ca
reer or his presidency as a failure.
Rather did he achieve a triumph
even in defeat itself.
Senator John W. Daniel, in that
eloquent defence of Mr. Davis, de
livered by him before the Virginia
Legislature in 1890, aptly and
graphically expresses the truth in
these words:
“ Blame Jefferson Davis for this
or that; discount all that, critics
say, and then behold the mighty
feat which created and for four
years maintained a nation;.behold
how armies without a nucleus
were marshalled and armed —how
a navy, small indeed, hut one that
revolutionized the naval warfare
of all nations and became the ter
ror of the seas, was fashioned out
of old hulks or picked up in for
eign places; see how a world in
arms was held at bay by a people
and a soldiery whom he held to
gether with an iron will and hpried
like a flaming thunderbolt at their
foes.”
We have not mentioned the
Davis of earlier times, hut we say
that they justified the Confederate
States in choosing him chief. In
each of a number of capacities, he
had rendered such service to his
country before the secession, as
entitles him to world-wide and
time-defying renown, had he
never accomplished either of the
others or survived to secession
times.
A fighter in the frontier and In
dian wars; hero of the Mexican
War; Secretary of War; United
States Senator and Congressman,
and the peer of any in each of
these great bodies: would not such
a record justify his selection for
the most solemn and arduous duty?
And we of this day, who so
glibly speak of a “new South,”
would well remember two things:
First. That the old South had
the highest ideals of public and
private life, and they fought for
what they knew to he right and
was right and is right to-day. We
shall only preserve the best in our
Southland and our nation as we
still strive and, die if necessary,
for the same sacred principles
which come down and flow
through our veins in the blood of
our fathers;
SECOND. When we are pointed
to one of our times for an example,
we can well go back to such a
man as Davis and recall the words
of Senator Daniel’s peroration:
“And we but forecast the judg
ment of the years to come when
we pronounce that Jefferson Davis
was great and pure as statesman,
man, and patriot.
“In the eyes of Him to whom a
thousand years are as a watch in
the night, the war and the century
in which it came are but as a single
heart-throb in the breast of time,
and when tlie myriads of this
great land shall look back through
unclouded skies to the old heroic
days, the smoke and stain of the
battle will have vanished from the
hero’s name. The tall chieftain of
the men who wore the gray will
stand before them with a ‘coun
tenance like the lightning and in
raiment as white as snow.’ ”
LEADERS TOWARDS THE TRUTH
In this issue of The Weekly is
published a call to the colored
people for a school convention,
signed by J. Clifton Walker, Prin
cipal of the McDonough Colored
School.
When it comes to the education
of the negro, we always desire to
know who is doing the educating
before we approve or disapprove
such education.
But Walker has already demon
strated to his white friends that
we can approve him as an edu
cator of his race. We shall not
soon forget how heroically he
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worked at our recent disastrous
fires and sought to influence other
negroes to do the same.
Let the race learn that all teach
ing and all learning must not lose
sight of the truth that service and
co-operation with the white people
are the only insurance of security
to the colored man and of the
white man’s help, and such will be
true education indeed.
Walker’s deeds indicate that he
would educate them to this truth;
and we hope his call will be heed
ed and produce good.
McDonough is fortunate in hav
ing among its colored people such
leaders as this, and the preacher,
Robert Adams, who realize the
colored man’s sphere, and are
ambitious for fitting him credit
ably to fill it.
FARMERS’ INSTITUTE IN
JULY OR AUGUST.
Do the people of Henry County
desire a Farmers’ Institute during
the summer?
The State College of Agriculture
has written to Hon. E. M. Smith,
our representative, and Mr. J. B.
Brown, of the Farmers’ Co-Opera
tive Demonstration work, offering
to furnish several of the best
speakers in the state, without any
expense whatever, 7 for such an
institute.
When all the crops are laid by,
a large crowd would no doubt at
tend.
All farmers interested should
mention their desire either to Mr.
Smith or Mr. Brown, so that it can
he determined whether there is
enough interest in the matter to
have the meeting.
Change of Preaching Dates at
Sharon.
We are requested to announce
that the meeting days at Sharon
church have been changed from
the third Sunday in each month
to the first Sunday and Saturday
before the first Sunday in each
month.
This change begins with the
services on First Sunday in June
and the Saturday before.
For Administrator.
Georgia, Henry County.
To whom it may concern:
J. B. Thurman, having made applica
tion to me in due form to appointed per
manent Administrator upon the estate
of Mary E. Thurman, late of sail
county, notice is herehy given that sail
application will be heard at the regula
term of the Court of Ordinary for sai(
county, to be held on the First Monday ii
June. 1911.
Witness my hand and official signaturt
this Ist day of May, 1911.
A. G. Harris,
5-26, 4. Ordinary.
TAX RECEIVERS REGULAR
ROUNDS FOR 1911.
District or Place. Honrs. Day. June,
LOCUST GROVE. Thursday 1
Thursday 22
SANDY RIDGE. Monday 5
BEERSHEBA. 10 to 12 a. m. Tuesday 6
Ola 1 to 3p. m. Tuesday 6
MCMULLEN’S. 10 to 12 a. m. Wednesday 7
Julia Ito 3p. m. Wednesday 7
LOVE’S. Thursday g
KNOB. Friday 9
SHAKERAG. Monday 12
STOCKBRIDGE. Tuesday 13
Wednesday 21
FLIPPEN. Wednesday 14
SIXTH. Thursday 15
HAMPTON. . Friday 16
Tuesday 20
LUELLA. Morning. Monday 19
GREENWOOD. Afternoon. Monday 19
At McDonough every Saturday until the books are closed.
J. H. WALLACE, Tax Receiver, Henry County, McDonough, Ga,
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