Excerpt from Letter From Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to Ex-Senator Allen G. Thurman: With Explanatory Papers And calls upon her people to glory with her to-day. Her glory is in her history; her history is the memory of her dead; and this day is consecrate to her Confederate dead. They were guilty of no treason to her. To whom, then, could they be trai tors? Where shall we seek their higher sovereign? Shall we find him in the Federal Constitution '2 Then here was a sovereign smitten to earth by traitor hands, trampled in the dust by traitor feet; but the hands and the feet were not theirs. Do we hold that the men who fought against them were traitors? Not at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.