August Eightb

Here Carolina comes, her brave cheeks warm And wet with tears, to take in charge this

dust,

And brings her daughters to receive in form Virginia's sacred trust.

JAMES BARRON HOPE

Monument erected to Anne Carter Lee, Warren County, N. C., said to be the first monument erected by Southern women, 1866

August Mintb

"All quiet along the Potomac," they say, "Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

'Tis nothing-a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost-only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle."

From "All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night”

[This poem has been claimed by a Mississippian. It has also been claimed on behalf of a New York writer; but it now seems probable that the verses were originally written in camp by Thaddeus Oliver, of Georgia, in August, 1861. -Editor]

Francis Scott Key born, 1780

August Tenth

To defend your birthright and mine, which is more precious than domestic ease, or property, or life, I exchange, with proud satisfaction, a term of six years in the Senate of the United States for the musket of a soldier.

JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE

General Lyon killed and his army defeated by General Ben. McCulloch at Wilson Creek, Mo., 1861

August Eleventb

Against the night, a champion bright,
The glow-worm, lifts a spear of light;
And, undismayed, the slenderest shade
Against the noonday bares a blade.

JOHN B. TABB

(Heroes)

August Twelfth

I will say that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And, inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior; and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white

race.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The Mississippi Constitutional Convention meets in Jackson, 1890, principally for the purpose of restricting suffrage

August Thirteenth

Virginia, mother of States and statesmen, as she used to be called, has contributed many men of worth to the multitude that America can number. All her sons have loved her well, while many have reflected great honor on her. But of them all, none has known how to draw her portrait like that one who years ago, under the mild voice and quiet exterior of State Librarian and occasional contributor to the Periodical Press, hid the soul of a man of letters and an artist.

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

George W. Bagby born, 1828

August Fourteenth

Look, out of line one tall corn-captain stands
Advanced beyond the foremost of his bands,
And waves his blades upon the very edge
And hottest thicket of the battling hedge.
Thou lustrous stalk, that ne'er may walk nor
talk,

Still shalt thou type the poet-soul sublime
That leads the vanward of his timid time
And sings up cowards with commanding
rhyme.
SIDNEY LANIER

(Corn)

August Fifteenth

In the hush of the valley of silence
I dream all the songs that I sing;
And the music floats down the dim Valley
Till each finds a word for a wing,

That to hearts, like the Dove of the Deluge,

A message of Peace they may bring.

Abram J. Ryan born, 1839

ABRAM J. RYAN