American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-09-28
TERMS-Four Dollars per annunn.
POSITION OF GEN JEFF. THOMPSON

o Gen. NJ. jeff. Thompson has ad
S dressed q circular from Boston y
!, the officers and soldiers who were
4 under his command during the late
war, explaining what he meant by
= his letter to Mr.. Prentice, Of the
, Louisville Journal, indorsing Gen
Y LOngstreet. lie does this, he says
as the best method Of replying tC
[ numerous letters from persons of his
S old command, the gist Of all Of which
2 is contained in this extract from Cne
! OF them:
Lougstrpet is forever damned throughout
the country which became the tLeater Of his
, Immortality, and your old friends ere rot re-
served in their anathcmas against you Give
me some argument with which to defend
= you, for ! am too well acquainted with the
spirit which animated you in our disastrous
struggle. with your cheerful endurance Of
/ suffering aHd your persistent featy to The
last, to believe that you have abandoned
your devoted followers or have relinquisbed
the principles or memories of the past.
The substance of the remarks
which the general appends to the
above may be briefly summed up.
He assumes that the Southern peO-
pie lost not only Confederate indepen-
dent, but also the Southern theory
of the federal government. This
theory being dead, he argues that
Southern men can DO nothing to-
wards improving their situation, un-
less they frankly recognize its utter
extinction and address themselves to
the I'VE issues Oh Ihe DItSeIt anu ~,
Inture'' he assumes tilaV !ne VIII VIII
OF Ihe c9nqueforS r. IoI FIaclic"i ,..l5 7
po'eS' lHG ID" oi 'he IaIu 1'Iu
Ihou9h Ihe PROVISIONS ol tnIs ID"
may De ee.t?Io"hlS eau bldLes-l''''L-
'Shlp', yet, he says we must ac-
IcepI 'ieSe terms or 90 NoFae' lor we
cannot S'ol' 'ug - mar CI Gi y o"'s' dS
'he power Is sun III VAF ll"u"S u CuI
IPollticaI enemies. III coACIueIoA
zen: thompson observes .,
lew years Wl aenons's@,g S tnv dn-i "Sqg tgs
nrobo,;o, rra ', s-,nId uor to bn;,j 1n orr
broken fortunes. and prove o-r,elres worthy
to lie trusted therefore advise you Uot to
3oPe oyer Ire '+ oCs o5 5St-g'0L, 5r.bs5 rs
member. his bri5e when he looks uron his
mo,aarless children. accept all Io'itical
privileges that may be granted you, and then.
without being actus'ed hy hatred or revenge
ne'taer Of |hISn are soI-.S5Iy Sen'lirel.s'-
sa. an"pI- m5 ,rr 'v he wo-iinr % ,o 5aye@n
her resources and increase her wealth.
/ This presents the position of Gen.
t |Tb0npeon in a very different Iight
from fiat of un1eservcd adhesion to
the Republican party, which many
supposed him to occupv. The differ
|encp between acceDtinr terms which
cannot be rejected without iucurIing
sometime worse. and afiliating with
1.-The authors Of those terms, it is need
less to point ont. The Grstmight be
COMPARED to die ayU of q prisoner If.
war in referring. when the outi0u
was riven. release on parole to con
finement in prison walls: the second .
to the act OF prisoner OF war i'm en- (
listing in the ranks of his uaptys. f.
PREPARED to fight or stand guard o-er| !
his former comrades.
pyzs7ro7J T-r,yr ana MRS z--7pAr7
III E.TlnInr l,rIC5r-ITI of lToniaT
annaornd vnrT inliTnant and varL
mnrb. shocked in conspnrnncp Of tLn
Statements In some noner TO the efie.t
thot ov.Sararor Preston kim, of,
New York drowned himself because
of remorsp for his havfu- norsistpnt.
Iv ref1spd +o admit Miss Srrraft to
see tLn President while her mother
was -,nder sentence of death This /
: no now story. neither is II without 1
foundation. 1T is well known that
Preston E-1o was " on ruard . NJ
tLe White Tr0use at +hat time Who
nIacoI him tbarr or WHY lac w0z
nIaced there wc know not. but he
was tbnrn and turnad q deaf cav n
oil Miss Snrso++'s most earnest orl
eioGnan+ nIoadinns to ha nernittoJ IN
saa tba rresidont IN baboIf of Ler
convicted mother.
Tho mother was cvocuted-w,y.-
g,,,o7 Not oven tbc recommendation
to ,,orcv stoned Inv roaioritv Of
avon +hG military officers Who con.
domned her ON ygrotceod tcsf;ror1
vaS aIlowod 70 roach tbo owes of tba /.
President Tho [vb;r, iio-so was
soa;ad crainsf any and
III of 1.a~ Ef-7d- nvan bor ,vnonirar