Show A PRETTY TRIBUTE The dispatches yesterday yester a told old of the unveiling of a a memorial ilal window to General Gen ral Stonewall Jackson in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church col colored colore ored ore of Roanoke Va on Sunday The funds with which w to pay for the win window wIndow window dow were vere raised by a colored pastor L K KL LL LL L Downing and all aU the contributors were negroes Negroes and whites joined however in the unveiling cere ceremonies ceremonIes ceremonies monies Two camps of Confederate vet veterans veterans veterans erans and two chapters of ot the Daugh Daughters Daughters of the Confederacy participated d with their their colored friends In iii doing honor to the memory of of the great southern leader As pretty as the story of the unveiling is ia the story of ot the mo motives motives tives that prompted the preparation and installation of the th memorial l Before the war General Jackson who was an Intensely religious man taught a Sunday school class of oi which the members were slaves Downings fath father er and mother belonged to this class They must have haye spoken often to their son of their teacher and their love for him because a deep impression was made macic upon Downing The story of the ceremony says the unveiling was the culmination of the great ambition of Downings life And here we have a picture of the brighter side of the long dead slavery question General Jackson fought to the best of his ability for the cause of the south the cause caus as many writers unhesitatingly say of slavery It Is absolutely ab absolutely certain that if the south had been victorious freedom would not have been given to the slaves at the close of that conflict or for years thereafter It is Impossible to believe that the the in institution Institution of slavery an institution so repellant so abhorrent to the principles of enlightened Christian government would be in existence today if the south had won But it would have existed for a quarter of a century perhaps after the war warThe warThe warThe The negroes knew this and yet thou thousands thousands thousands sands of them were loyal to their mas masters masters masters and to the cause of their masters They The preferred to bear the ills they had ills that have been grossly exaggerated exaggerated exaggerated by br some writers rather than thai to flee to others that they knew not of They were generally speaking fairly sure of the necessaries of life Ufe in slave slavery ry 7 They could not be sure of ot them as freedmen Therefore they clung to their masters as children cling cUng to a father or mother It It is difficult for people who have never lived in the south to appreciate the truth of ot these statements but a afew afew afew few instances such as the unveiling of the Jackson memorial window cannot fall fail to be convincing And these in instances stances cannot fail fall either to convince the residents of other sections that the decent negro has today no better friend than the decent southern south rn white man that they need each other and are wil willing willing ling Ins to help each other |