The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when  the facts are, that their courage and steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South.  When "the bottom rail was on top" all over the Southern States, and today, as a consequence, the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States - Praise God.

I trust I may be pardoned for one allusion howbeit it is rather personal. One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomatox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lade, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a shot gun under my head.