Dear Ms. Lunelle,
S.A. Cunningham would continue writing on the Measure presented to the Government to give The Old Slave A Home.
He proclaimed that it would: enable many Whites to provide more literally for them than they ever have done. It would induce many darkies to remove from dingy suburbs of Cities and Towns to the open and healthier atmosphere of the country. It would tend to increase respect of the younger Negroes for their ancestry, thereby strengthening one of the Commandments.
A plea for our old Black people is deservedly pathetic. Who among us does not feel genuinely kind to the old darky on whose lips "Massa" and "Missis" are still heard with musical euphony? Who among us, passing that period of their lives when many of them had hard task- Masters, does not recall with an everlasting gratitude that, during the four years of war, thousands of them were loyal, to the last degree, to the dependent members of the family whose protectors were in the War?
Why, if the great Government to which we all bear allegiance should refuse them the benevolence herein suggested, it would be fitting for the Southern people, themselves, robbed by the Government of billions of money in holding them as lawful property, to undertake a provision of this kind. Republicans on the other side, cannot afford to oppose this measure. Their partisan Representatives, years ago, before the Southern people had recovered from the great disaster to their estates, promised “forty acres and a mule" to these identical persons.
The principles of Democracy are not observed in this plea, but the peculiar exigencies of the case should excuse the digression. It is a broad charity to a class whose simple, unfailing faithfulness, though not strict as to chicken roosts, merits the unstinted liberality of the American people. A distinguished Tennessean, and Democratic official, who limps from the effect of a Federal bullet, said," if not Democratic it is Confederate."
It is important to note that on this day, Wednesday, October 15, 2024, alongside Ms. Harris Faulkner of Fox News, President Trump, in the City of Cumming, Georgia, would participate in a Town Hall meeting where, in the City Library a picture of me, don in the uniform of the Southern Soldier on the Historic March Across Dixie, in celebration, was hung.
God bless you!
HK
Chairman, Board of Advisors Emeritus, Southern Legal Resource Center
Member, Save Southern Heritage Florida
Honorary Life Member, Jackson Rangers Camp 1917 Sons of Confederate Veterans
Life Member, Friends of Jefferson Davis Historic Site
Honorary Life Member, Longstreet Zollicoffer Camp 87 Sons of Confederate Veterans
Member, Judah P. Benjamin Camp 2210 Sons of Confederate Veterans
Honorary Associate Member, Abner Baker Chapter 1404 United Daughters of the Confederacy
Honorary Life Member, James M. Keller Camp 648 Sons of Confederate Veterans
Honorary Life Member, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia Orders of the Confederate Rose
Honorary Life Member, Bradford Rose Camp 1638 Sons of Confederate Veterans
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