January Twenty-Fourth

Dem sassy young niggers, dey plum' disgrace
De res' uv de' 'spectable cullud race.

Dey got dey books, dey kin read an' write,
But dey dunno 'nough fer to be perlite.
I kain't see how dey gwine git erlong,
Hit seem lak sump'n have done gone wrong.
I gits wo' out wid'em, dat's de fac',
But I orter mek 'lowance fer how dey ac',
'Kase de times an' de doin's is changed a lot,
An' dey ain' had de raisin' dat I done got.
Dar's nuffin lef' me but lookin' on

Twel me an' de ol'-time ways is gone.

ANNE VIRGINIA CULBERTSON

January Twenty-Fifth

Ah, only from his golden throne,

Upon his golden lute,

He touched the magic note; then Poe was

known,

And so was quelled dispute.

Open thy portal, Fame! Let soar

That sombre bird, whose song is heard

forevermore.

DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS

(Referring to first publication of Poe's Raven, 1845)

George E. Pickett born, 1825

January Twenty-Sirtb

THREE VIEWS OF SECESSION CONNECTED WITH LOUISIANA; 1803-1811-1861

Resolved, that the annexation of Louisiana to the Union transcends the Constitutional power of the Government of the United States. It formed a New Confederacy to which the States united by the former compact are not bound to adhere.

MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE (Upon Purchase of Louisiana Territory, 1803)

Louisiana secedes from the Union, 1861
Virginia readmitted to the Union, 1870

January Twenty-Seventh

If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union, that it will free the States from their moral obligations, and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.

JOSIAH QUINCY

(Representative from Massachusetts in Congress, opposing statehood for Louisiana Territory, 1811)

Richard Taylor born, 1826

January Twenty-Eightb

The rights of Louisiana as a sovereign State are those of Virginia; no more, no less. Let those who deny her right to resume delegated powers successfully refute the claim of Virginia to the same right, in spite of her expressed reservation made and notified to her sister States when she consented to enter the Union. For two-thirds of a century this right has been known by many of the States to be, at all times, within their power.

JUDAH P. BENJAMIN

(Farewell Address in the United States Senate)

January Twenty-Mintb

It was Lee who suggested the capture of Stony Point, and it was a band of North Carolinians who formed Wayne's head of column in the assault upon that fortress. Three hundred Virginians followed Lee in his successful dash against Paulus Hook on the Jersey coast, August, 1779.

HENRY A. WHITE

Henry Lee ("Light Horse Harry") born, 1756

January Thirtietb

UNCLE REMUS AT THE TELEPHONE

"Yer 'tis, Miss Sally," said Uncle Remus after listening a moment.

"Dey's a mighty zooin' gwine on in dar, en I dunner whe'er Mars John tryin' ter scramble out, er whe'er he des tryin' fer ter make hisself comfertuble in dar."

"What did he say, Remus?"

"He up en low'd dat one un us wus a vilyun but dey wuz such a buzzin' gwine on in dar dat I couldn't 'zactly ketch the rights un it."

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

January Thirty-First

I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom;

Look away, away, away down South in Dixie. Her scenes shall fade from my memory never; For Dixie's land hurrah forever!

Look away, away, away down South in Dixie.

Chorus:

I wish I was in Dixie;

Away, away;

In Dixie's land I'll take my stand,

And live and die in Dixie.

Away, away,

Away down South in Dixie.

Look away, away, away down South in Dixie.

MARIE LOUISE EVE

(Version of "Dixie")