CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: EVERY WORD TRUE.

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Submitted by Doris Peirce - ginlu@charter.net
24 February 2002 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson 
EVERY WORD TRUE.

Senator Carmack in his splendid address on the character of 
Jefferson Davis paid this tribute to President Davis and the 
South.  Every fighting Confederate soldier will endorse it:

"Here let me say that there is no Southern soldier pusillanimous 
enough to accept that lenient judgment sometimes proffered by 
the charity of his critics that he was the innocent, deluded 
victim of a wicked leadership.  No soldier of the South, 
however ruined in fortune or broken with wounds, no wife bereft 
of her husband, no mother bereft of her son, has ever raised an 
accusing voice against the leaders of the South.  The Southern 
people are not of that coward breed that seeks a vicarious 
sufferer for its own deeds.

"Let no man mistake us, the South, the whole South, gave both 
heart and hand to the war of secession; and as history shall 
Judge Jefferson Davis, so let it judge every soldier who fought 
beneath the flag of the Confederacy.  Yes, and so let it judge 
us of a new generation who ask for ourselves no higher honor 
and no prouder fame than that by their deeds we may be judged, 
and whose most fervent prayer is that the sons of these heroes 
may be worthy of their sires.  No, my countrymen, it is not a 
trembling penitent that the South approaches the judgment bar 
of history.

"Standing in the presence of this noble and impressive monument, 
we proudly front the world and proclaim to the present and coming 
time: 'This was our here, and his cause was ours.'"