The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-02

s-U IFrom the Sou thsra Home
''You Need Manufactures moro than
Ohivalry"-- President Grant to
the Virginia Delegation.
In the formation Of the Federal
Constitution, Madison, Pinckney
and Mason were unquestionally
the controlling spirits. The Sn-
preme Court Bench has. had no
ADLER nor purer Cheif Justices than
Rntledge, Marshall and Taney.,
The North has produced no States
men equal to Calhoun, Madison.
Jefferson, and Clay. No theolo-
gians comparable with Thornwell
and Alexander. No poet superior
to Poe. No painter superior to
Allston. No naturalist equal to
Audubon. No inventors OF really
important things superior to
Brooke, inventor of deep-sea
sounding apparatus. and tortoise
she'll iron-clads to Mccormick in,
:ventor Of the reaper; to Gill, in
lventor of the revolver, and to
Clemmons, inventor of the tele-'
graph. But thefact that two-thirls
OF the life Of the Nation has been
spent under the administration OF,
Southern born men is proof
enough that '<chivalry" has not
[dwarfed the Southern intellect.
Let us look at the second head.
In the first great rebellion. the
army OF the United States was
commanded by q Southern born
man. In the war of 1912, Andrew
Jackson, Of Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina, gained the most
laurels and inflicted the heaviest
blows upon the enemy. In the
war Of 1916, both wings of the
American army were commanded
by Virsinians, Scott on one line
aud Taylor ON the other. In the
war of 1861, it is notorious that.
the South fought better and en-
dured better than the North. ALI
Europe was ransacked to fill the
armies of the Union, though the
North had four times the popula-'
ton of the South. And yet after
getting recruits by hundreds of
thousands from among Germans.
Irish, Italians, French, Poles,
Swiss, Spanish, &C., the Secretary
of War of the United States made
the humiliating confession that
the rebellion would have been es-
tablished but for the timely aid of
two hundred thousand Southern
But this is not all, the
South from first to last furnished
four hundred thousand men to the
Union cause. No great. disaster
befell the arms of the South at
any time during the four years
struggle, without the blow COM
ing mainly or in part from one of
her own recreant sons. The first
reverse was inflicted at Mill Greek,
by Thomas, of Virginia. The first
confidence inspired in the demor-
allied army of Bull Run, was ow-
ing to the generalship Of Ord, of
Maryland, at Dranesville. When
two-thirds Of tho Federal army
had been scattered at Chickamau-
ga, Thomas, of Virginia, stood
,like a rock in the ocean against
which the waves dash and fume
and fret in vain. Had it not been
for the stubborn resistance Of this
one man, and he a Virginian,
Chickamauga would have been q
complete Federal route and the
Southern Confederacy an estab-
lished fact at this hour. Blair,
Candy, Crittenden, Alexander and
Nelson were born in Kentucky.
Northern writer's tell us that the
last named saved Grant from an
nihilation at Shiloh. Thomas.
Newton and Cooke are Virginians.
Ord and Sykes are Marylanders.
The most successful of all the ma
val heroes was David G. Farragut,
of Tennessee. This is the ex-
pressed sentiment of the Northern
Government itself. Dupont, of
slaveholding Delaware and Colds
borough, of Maryland, made the
first Judgments Oh the Atlantic
coast. ts s --<s
There is not an intelligent man
in either section Of the country,