Henry R. Jackson said: “The stern glory of Sparta, the rich beauty of Athens, the splendors of Imperial Rome, the brilliancy of ancient Carthage – all pale before the glories of the Old South, the South as our forefathers lived it, the South as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison lived it, and, last but not least, the South as our Robert E. Lee lived it.”

And Henry Grady said: “In the honor held above estate; in the hospitality that neither condescended nor cringed; in frankness and heartiness and wholesale comrade-ship; in the reverence paid to womanhood and the inviolable respect in which woman's name was ever held the civilization of the Old South has never been surpassed, and perhaps will never again be equalled by any people or nation upon this globe.”

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