The daily gazette., 1875-05-19
COnfederates I'm Congress.
From the New York Sun.


Some of the Grant organs affect to be
terribly alarmed because SO many Con-
federate generals have been elected to
the next Congress. We regard this, on
the contrary, an excellent sign: for as
a rule those men who ranked highest in
the Confederate service were the best re-
presentatlves OF their party in the Sc
cedlng States, and we know hat the most
influential and intelligent classes IN
those States desire nothing so much as
thorough reconstruction of the onion
in fact as well as in name. They feel
that the worst enemies of both races in
the south are those who try to keep a.
live the animosities engendered during
the rebellion and arising from former
existence OF slavery; and they are fully
aware that their own prosperity, as well
as that Of the north, depends upon the
| lations between the two great sections
of the country which were lately array
| ed against each other in all the bitter
ness of civil war. Nothing but the mean
| devices Of politicians las prevented a
complete reconciliation. Gen. W. +.
| Bartlett, Union soldier now living in
Virginia, spoke words of truth at the
centennial celebrated at Lexington, when
| he said that between the soldiers of the
| two sections fraternal relations were es-
tablished long ago. 1t was only the
other day in Little Rock, Arkansas-in
the State which Grant wished to lawless-
by sabjugate anew because the people
would not elect notorious robbers to ad-
minister their affairs-that the Confed-
crate General, John p. Bull, united with
a Union officer to invite their comrades
of the blue and the gray to Join in com
mon decoration of the graves Of soldiers
| who had belonged to the two armies.
AT Richmond, Va, when Gen. Bartlett
| was rendered OF distinguished ext on
federates in recognition of his patriotic
speech at Lexingt on, it was Gen. Brad.
ley L. johnson who was selected TO re.
turn him thanks for his manly utter.
ances. Only a few days after Gen. Bart.
let's speech was delivered, the laying
| OF corner stone OF monument to the
Confederate dead Augusta, Ga, was
made the occasion for public declara.
ton by Gen. Evans, another Confedera. {
which was as patriotic in its tone as that
OF the Union General at Lexington. Gen
Evans said:
Let us do nothing to keep alive the
passions of war. To study it's lesson il
prudence, to profit by its teachings is
Wisdom but to stir up the old animos-
tiles is madness. The voice Of this mon
ument will not be for war, but for peace;
it will say to us, the Confederacy has ex.
pred. Its great life went out on the
purple tide of blood that flowed from the
hearts of its sons. We have buried it
we do not intend to exhume its remains
| respond with the truest feeling today
to the fraternal words of General Bart.
lett, spoken at the centennial celebration
OF the first battle of the old revolution. -
Equally earnest expression of n patri
otto desire for complete obliteration OF
sectional hatreds are to be found in q
letter from Fitzhugh Lee, another Con.
federate General, which has just beer
published; and these are the sentiment:
generally prevailing among those who
were leaders on the southern side durins
the late war. If the seat of every car
pet bagger who disgraced the last Con.
gress could be filed with n Confederat,
General in the next, the moral and tht
political atmosphere in the Capital wout
be improved beyond all measures.