The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-05-28
Confederates in the Next Congress.



Some OF the Grant organs affect 10 be
terribly alarmed because 30 many COnfcd-
crate generals have been elected 10 the
next Congress. We regard this. on the
contrary. as an excellent sign; for "a q
rule those men who ranked highest in the
Confederate service were the best repre-
,entatiyes of the intelligence OF their party
in the seeding States. and we know that
the most influential and intelligent classes
in those States desire nothing so much as
a thorough reconstruction OF the Union in
fact as we'll as in name. They feel that the
worst enemies of both races i'm the South
are those who try 10 keep alive the ami
mosites engendered during the rebellion
and arising from the former existence OF
slavery: and they are fully aware that
their own prosperity, "a wellas thar OF the
North. depends upon the complete restor-
alton OF harmonious relations between the
two great sections OF the country which
were lately arrayed against each other in
all the bitterness of civil war. Nothing
but the mean devices Of politicians has
prevented complete reconciliation. Gen.
w. f. Bartlett, Union soldier now living
in Virginia. spoke words of truth az the
centennial celebration M Lexington when
he said that between the soldiers of the
two sections fraternal relations were estab-
lished long ago. IL was only the other
day in Little Rock. Arkansas-in the State
which Grant wished TO lawiessly suhiu.
gate anew because the people would rot
elect notorious robbers TO administer their
afiairs--that the Confederate General. John
l.. Bull. united with Union officer 10 iu-
wife their comrades of the blue and the gray
10 Join in common decoration ct the
graves of soldiers who had belonged 10
the two armies. At Richmond. Va. when
Gen. Bartlett was rendered sercnade b.
a large number of distinguished ex-Con-
federates in recognition OF his patriotic
speech at Lexington, il was Gen. Bradley
Il. johnson who was selected 10 RETURN
him thanks for his manly utterances. On
~ few days after Gen. Bartlett's speech
was delivered, the laying ola cornerstone
of monument to the Confederate dead
in Augusta, Ga. was made the occasion
for public declaration BY Gen Evans.
another Confederate, which was as paul
otic In its tone as that of the Union Gen
eral at Lexington. Gen. Evans said
Let us do nothing TO keep aly, tile
passions OF war. TO study its lessons i
prudence, To profit by its teachings t. wis
dom but to stir up the old animosiiie> is
madness. The voice of this mouH
will not be for war. bat for peace Il will
say 10 us, the Confederacy has expired.
lis great life went out on the purple tide
of blood that flowed from the hearts of its
sons. We have buried H., we do not in
tend to exhume it, remains. l respond
with the truest feeling to-day 20 the fra
ternal words of Gen. Bartlett. spoken az
the centennial celebration OF the first bat
tie of the old revolution"
Equally earnest expressions OF "a pstr-
otto desire for a complete obliteraiion Of
sectional hatreds are to be found In let
ter from Fitzhugh Lee, another Confeder-
ate General, which has justbeen published;
and these are the sentiments generally
prevailing among those who weie.leaders
ON the Southern side during the late war.
If the seat of every carpet-bagger who
disgraced the late Congress could be filled
with a Confederate General in the next.
the moral and the political atmosphere in
the Capitol would be improved beyond all
measure.