New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-06

on in the Confederate theatre of va,
should at least lave vouchsafed kim
words to the actors for al time after tn
curtain went down. Heroes are soon for
gotten. On decoration day show of re
membering the dead is made; it is but .
show, and comelks the fourth of March
comes, once a year. The dead do no
suffer from neglect. Bones Of dead sol
dlers are Indifferent alike to unmarked
graves or monumented tombs nothing dis.
turbs the fortunate dead. The living alone
feel the pangs caused by ingratitude. The
eloquent empty sleeve is not eloquent
enough to insure safety from calumny
the wooden leg, supplying the place of a
better one lost in Confederate service is
no passport, and only a hindrance to OBJ
tanning employment. It is not, What did
you do for us in the past! but how do you
stand to-day?
We have seen Longstreet and hundreds
OF prominent Confederate officers ostra-
cised because they dared become Union
men, and had the temerity to stop fighting
after the war was over. Men who stayed
at home and shirked fighting have even
denied that they were ever good soldiers.
A White League journal has lately tried
to strip the Confederate laurels from the
Vice President of the ephemeral govern
ment. It believes that but for the bad
management of Mr.. Stephens the war
could have been prolonged, and more
patriots could have been killed. Mr..
Stephens believes that in measure all
men have equal rights, and Southern men
who never surrendered, owing to the dis
lance between them and the battlefield,
say that Stephens is man who never was
entitled to the confidence of the chivalry.
He is not hero because he did not try to |
run away from the ruins of his fallen gov
eminent, clothed in female apparel.
A late instance of abusing man for his
opinions, is shown in the attack of the
Vicksburg Herald on Senator M. w. Ran
som, of North Carolina. Mr.. Ransom was
q Confederate Major General and surren-
dered at Appomattox. He never lowered
his Democratic colors, however, and
travelled into Congress on his war record,
As great many others have done during
The past year. The Herald is color line
paper, devoted to prescribing Repub-
leans. killing negroes, and writing about
Crosbys bond. 1t gets up quarrel with
Mr.. Ransom, and holds him responsible
or defeating the bill calculated to aid the
construction of the Texas Pacific railroad.
dr. Ransom probably deserves the CEN
ure of his Democratic brother, but bad
aste is shown in assailing his war record.
'uch taunts should not be heard outside
f the family circle. The Herald says he
7as ''cudgeled through West Point when
e was a youngster. His being so cudgeled
aade him a major General in the Conted-
rate army" There is ingratitude. MI.
sansom knows he could have joined the
Jnion army and been respected to this day
'herever the Union is loved. The fling
West point is also uukind, even from
confederate standpoint, for Lee and Beau a
sgard, the Johnstons and many other tai i
nted officers there learned the arts which !;
ley used in their endeavors to break up {
lie national government. The vicksburg !,
racle says: !;
But, in referring to Senator Ransom. who Fl
said to be very estimable gentleman, it r.
not our purpose to write an essay on r.
lest Point, but simply to show the people 81
the South what a mighty weight of ohli- A
atoms they are under to the ex-Major
oneral OF the Confederate army, who now
rites himself United States Senator from ! a
q old North State. ir
In spite of all arguments upon a question | .,
at really needed no arguments, In spite -
the appeals OF unanimous South. Mr.. 81
ansom, never having seen the name OF the | IL
,xas Pacific Railroad mentioned in the :.
1t books at West Point or in Hardee's ~
cites, sagely concluded there must be CO
netting wrong about it, and so he stub n.
rnly kept the committee tied, aud pre- Z
nted q report on the bill until it was too es
e to obtain action upon it! sy
And SO the White League world runs dc
ay, dividing against itself. breeding TO
1tiny in its camp and causing one war ne
n to revile another. Republics and in
publicans may be ungrateful, but Con- all
Ierates are terrible in Clay Statue an
athena and "outpouring" vengeance. ne