The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-19
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From the NJ Y. Tribune.

From the ~ Y. Tribune.
A friend of General f. p. Blair's has re-
vived letter, written by that gentleman in
1865, to show that his respect for the Confede-
rate heroes, which he manifested 50 often
sively at the Long Branch banquet, is no new
thing but a feeling which he has always
cherished. The letter in question is one in
PRODUCING clergyman who purposed erect
ing monumental cathedral in honor of
the Rebel dead and Mr.. Blair saw nothing to
disapprove, but much to admire, in this
effort to consummate Commemorate p their
virtues of consistency and courage" The
clergyman's name is not given, but we pre-
sumo he is the Rev. Mr.. Rogers of Memphis
well known for some time an advanced
Ritualist and now Roman Catholic, whose
project for a monumental cathedral at
tracted, about four years ago, good deal
of interest. Mr. Rogers proposed that the
surviving friends of Confederate war
riors should be allowed to erect in the
church statues, memorial windows, tablets,
etc., inscribed with the names of any indi-
viduals whose deeds they chose thus to honor;
SO that there was no reason why Booth, Wirz,
or any of the vilest agents of the secession
conspiracy might not receive sort of canoni-
zation, and the gorgeous rays through tinted.
panes shed down upon the worshippers an
honorable reminiscence of treachery and
murder General Blair saw nothing to dis
We can respect the personal character of the
men against whom we fought, but we don't
see why they must be honored precisely be-
cause of their errors and offenses. The kind
est thing we can do for them is to forget their
past deeds, and look only to their present and
| their future.
| General Blair's mistake is that of all the
Democratic politicians. They are constantly
straining their eyes to look beyond the line;
| when the war was at it's height, they watched
| for salvation not in the national arms, but in
the debates of jeff. Davis Congress. While
our soldiers were laying down their lives for
the Union, these foolish politicians were trea-
sonably corresponding with the Rebel Presi-
| dent. MIR. Pollard has recently told us of the
mass of letters from Northern Democrats hid
den away in Mr.. Davis private archives; of
| their offers to subsist the Southern armies out
| of our granaries and warehouses; and of the
! complete understanding between the Richmond
| Government and certain members of the DEM
| ocratic National Convention of 1864. Anybody
| who doubts that an important section of the
| Democracy were intriguing during the war to
| secure the triumph of the Southern arms, can
easily have his doubts removed by Mr.. Pol
| lard. Their fault was the same as Mr. Blair's
like the Bourbons, they neither learn nor for
| get. They cannot forget that the Northern
Democracy, for years, pinned its hopes of
success upon the favor of the South, tiattered
it, fawned upon it, obeyed its slightest wish.
| They cannot learn that war and emancipation
have changed the whole aspect of the politi-
cal field, and no party can now become estab-
lished in power except by identifying itself
with the interests of all the loyal portion of
| the country.