The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-04-20

TIE RExEGADEs-A Virginia correspondent of the
Banner of the South in allusion to statistical article
from Northern paper under the caption Of Loyalty
of West Point" which shows that while seventy eight
per cent. remained loyal" twenty-five per cent.
Joined inc rebellion" puts some pertinent queries
and asserts some damnng facts, the last of which
sharply prcks the bubble reputation that the New Or.
cans Times and other admirers give the "late la
mented" Gen. George H. Thomas who occupied a
prominent position in the roll of infamy We append
portion Of the communication, which find repub1
lished in the New Orleans Pcayune:
What is the meaning OF loyal in the West Point vo,
cabulary?
Which OF the " loyal Southern graduates of West
Point will encounter the Nuns Stbi c0nScid Tectl which
CLEANS from the steady eye of Robert f. Lee Joe
Johnston or Beaurcgard? There is still enough OF
the States rights heaven i'll Us to us to revert in
this connection, the pursued by the gradu-
atps Of West Point from State the State which
has contributed to the maintenance of West
Point than any ofhrr and whose representative sons
in that academy have reflected more renown upon il
than all others; the State of which Washington, Joe
Johnston, Jackson Lee. the representative gentle
men and sodiers-the State of Virginia.
Only six graduates of West Point who first saw the
light Of day within her boundaries proved loyal,
and tonight by the side of Sickes Sherman Beast Bot
Ter and the like, to degrade and destroy the noble
Commonwealth which Johnston, Lee and Jackson de
Tended against their parrcidal hands. We hope the
West Point statistics will be continued and will furnish
the country and to posterity complete list of the
loyal from the Southern States.
During the war, remember thatit proposed
in South Carolina, and suggested in Virginia. to pub
fish roll Of infamous" officers of the army and Ia
Wy who had aided in accomplishing the suhugaton o
their own kindred, and their degradation the con
dton in which all good men in the South now Ian
guish But generous pride forbade the formal dea
nation of these miserable men, and they con
signed to the contempt Of mankind and to the self
abasement which awaits all renegades.
But now that they reputed loyal call fo
list of Southern born graduates at West Point WHIT
fought against their native States which shall show thu
county, town city, in which Providence decreeC
each one of them should be born.
OF the six loyal graduates from Virginia, it i
said there one" who thought General, then Col
Lee, was all " too slow" that Virginia was too slow 7
That for himself he had procured furlough in or
der to 90 to Virginia to offer his sword to her if sh
would 60 out Of the Union and if she would not theI
to any other Southern State which "would secede
He went to Virginia, made arrangements to enter he
service, and the unhappy might have occupied al
honorable rank in the army Of his native State hav
been now resppctabe-or have died as Jackson did
But he had property in the North, and he went OF
through Virginia to the North and remained there
loyal man of the West Point school.