National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-20
HnTT G1RRY ne ELAG.

Our recent publications regarding the
Floating of Confederatehags" IN the ooutn
have attracted extraordinary attention and
nrovoked no little discussion. Among
other charges brought against US, as the
result of this discussion, is one that we have, |
without reason or any excuse whatever,
excited long-forgotten feelings and aroused
anew the bitterness ofthe civil war. Tothis
we reply, that our first publication, regard
ing the Lynchburg boat club, was made as
a matter of current news, and the response
bility for the results which followed conse-
quently rests upon the persons VINO were
guilty of the act recorded. No responsible
authority has pretended to deny the state
ment; or the contrary, the entire press OF
Virginia has attempted to excuse the laet'
and explain that it had no public or ponu-
cal Significance. Since then we have re-
ceiyed numbers of letters from different
sections of the South relating similar incl
dents, the most significant of which we
printed few days ago, showing that GER
tain companies of Georgia militia, although
eouipped with arms Of the most ap-
proved pattern from the arsenals OF the
United States, refuse to carry the United
States flag. They also refused to parade
in common with another company com
nosed of ex-Confederates, because 1t did
carry the United States flag. The differ
ence betwsen a Government musket and
Government flag may not be apparent TO
some of our readers, but those who remem,
Der the experience of the earlier periods OF
the war will recall the fact that United
States arms were frequently carried under
Confederate colors, and, as now, no ooJec'
ton was made on account Of that difference
When the war ended and the banner OF the
lost cause was furled and buried away, OF
fairly smothered with volumes of poetica
efFusious. the promises made by the South
ern people led US to believe that In The
future we should have but one flag, ont
country. The Confederate emblem was II
have been replaced by the Stars and Stripes
and the full spirit and intent of the parole
voluntarily given by the rebel armies whel
tbev surrendered was to have been kept re
ligiously and with the spirit of homes
'ichivaIry." Why, then, do these Geor
gians, now that their State has been hande
over TO the control of the political organ
zatiou of which they ere members, rejeC
the plainest implication of that surrende
and the clearest inference Of their paroles
The answer which involuntarily suggest
l itself to this question Is, that souther
Democracy is but thin disguise for tre'
sonable opposition to those sentiment
which, during and since the war; foun
i and now inh an emblem in the flag OF OF
: forefathers. But the truth has not bee
half told. Below we give a list Of fort.
: eight companies of the militia of that Sta
bearing United States arms, drawn frol
u the ursenals of the General Government
and refusing to carry the United Stat
a flag:
u Swashington Rifles, ssndersyille; Repu6
/ can Blues, Savannah; Macon volunteers;
IS vannah Volunteer Guards, battalion, % col
n panies;) Atlanta Cadets; Irish Volunteer
" Augusta; oglethorpe Infantry, August
3 Floyd Rifles, Macon; German Voluntee'
Savannah; Ciinch Rifles, Augusta; Irish Jasp
Greens, Savannah; Columbus Guards; Mel
s. tosh Light DFegoons, lIansn; GeoFglA nu ans,
Etowah Dragons, Barlow county; BaldH
IN Blues, MAlsdgeyiIe; Governors Guards, =
s, lanta; Georgia szouaves, Atlanta; LaGran
y, Light Guards; fhenix Rihemen, saYanna
~ City Light Guards, Columbus; Oglethor
Is Light Infantry, Savannah Athens Guar
Te QGitman Guards, Forsyth; Governors Guard
IN Fort Valley; Early Guards, Blskely; Cutho
~ Guards; ,Thomasville Guards; Bsinbridge
ID dependents; Newman Guards; Clayton Volt
lie teers; Jefferson Rifemen, Louisville; Hanec
It Troop of Cavalry, Sparta; Glynn Guar
= Brunswick; l. Burke Huzzars, Green Z
II. Hardwick ,Rihemen, Edeni screVen Tro
nd sylyania; jefferson Huzzars, Louisville; 81
a ter Light Guards, Americus; Albany Guar
Liberty; Independent Troops, Mcintosh; "
Gu rem Light Inhutry, Warrenton; Fort CAT
he Guards; Fulton Blues, Atlanta"