The Pascagoula Democrat Star

TEACH THE TRUTH.

Atlanta Journal.

The speeches at the Confederate reunion at Memphis have been eloquent, strong and admirable in every way.

Colonel Bennett H. Young, of Louisville in his splendid address yesterday paid a glowing tribute to the Confederate army of the west and its heroic leaders, and there were other appropriate utterances.

One of the most timely speeches that has yet been made at the reunion was that of Bishop Gailor, of Tennessee. He urged that the children of the South of this and all succeeding generations be educated in the true faith; be taught to comprehend and glory in the struggle and sacrifices for the right which their Confederate ancestors made. He condemned severely, but with full justice the so-called histories which assail the motives of the South in going to war. The real causes of the war, he pleaded, should be clearly set forth to the rising generation in the South, and without maligning or misrepresenting the North, we must be true to ourselves and teach in all our schools that the South fought for a righteous cause, the preservation of the Constitution.

Bishop Gailor is an eloquent and powerful speaker and the ringing words which fell from his lips yesterday find an echo in every true Southern heart.

Let us teach our children the truth.