Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-27
A few Lines from Reb 70 EX-Reb. He
Wants More Light Upon Some
Paints


HENDERSON Co., Tenn, May 18th, '76.
| Editors Wing and Tribune;
! notice in the last issue of the sun,
] what puTpOrts to be a communication
from Henderson, Tenn, signed Y. |
r. Z. B., in reply to one from me, in !
| your issue of May 4th. Now, as / said |
before, it is not my habit to write for |
| newspapers, bat the article above refer !
red to certainly provokes a reply. In the !
| first place, then, 1 acknowledge my sur
| prise, that any one, and especially one |
who manifests such warm friendship and |
ardent admiration for Gen1 Atkins, as |
| does the writer of the aforesaid article, |
| should even intimate that the language |
used by me in my former communion |
| ton in any way applies TO him. Ny |
! communication was no more an attack |
! upon the distinguished Gen. Of the Militia, !
| than upon others, who have thought it
/ the height Of patriotism to censure aud |
/ abuse their superiors for doing that which |
/ they had not the brains and manhood to |
/ do themselves.
did not use Gen. Atkins name, and |
If the charges laid therein are applica-
bic TO him, Ex-Reb. would have done
him a greater service had he curbed his /
desire to write, and kept tile secret with
in his own bosom; aud, If they are not
applicable to him, then his wOuld-be adj |
vocate has done him gross injustice by
asserting as much. reiterate what
said in regard to Ben Hill, and dare to
believe that the masses, the honest, think
ing people of the country, both North
and South, agree with me. For the ben
eft of ExReb. 1 will say that 1 never
have been, am not now, nor do ever ex-
pect TO be, candidate for Congress, aud
hence cannot be Classed with those who
are casting lots for Gen. Atkins cloak
Ex-Reb. seems to profess an acquaint-
ance with the war record OF many OF the
Southern delegation In Congress, and
says they are quite as distinguished, and
| did perhaps rs much goOd vice for the
| lost cause as Eeb. We feel highly com
| plimented BY the comparison; but, as
Ex-Reb. takes up the cudgel for our pres
ent representative, and strikes out so
boldly in his defence, will he please tell
an anxious public of the military career
Of General Atkins? Will he furnish an
account of the engagements he was in,
and the victories he won? Was Ex-Reb. |
in the Generals Brigade, and what axe
has he now to grind? The truth some
times hurts, and since our representa-
tive's man has been introduced by Ex-
Reb., we ask him If the General did not,
with all his might, advocate secession in /
the incipieney of the war-if he did not
| literally denOuuee such union men as Ben /
Hill-if lac did not, before a gun WAS |
hardly fired in the West, announce him /
self as candidate for the Confederate /
COngress-if he was not candidate for |
re-election-and If he did not remain in !
the Confederate Congress, safe from Yam
kee bullets, during the entire war? And |
was lie not in Texas at the close of the /
war, with his ''dudds" packed, prepara-
tory to flight to Mexico, and laboring /
under the hallueination that he would be
martyr to a cause in which he had
wasted much wind but no blood? We are
told that it is wise for young men to go
to war, and old men to serve as counsel.
Was the General too old for service? On
what CORY field did he win his high SCUM
ding title.
Ex.Reb. says the people endorse Gen.
Atkins course in the present Congress.
We approve, and honor him, for his able
efforts in behalf of the great Southern
Pacific Railroad, and also for his action,
in procuring the establishment of the
Federal Court at jackson, but we pre-
sumo that any one, representing the Sth
District, would have done all that he did
in this regard.
We agree with Ex-Reb. in all he SAYS
about wanting the improvements of the
Tennessee river completed, but are not
so ready to accord honor and praise to
Gen. Atkins for his action in regard there
to. This was a measure of as much i'm
portance to great majority of the people
of this District, as any that has been be-
fore Congress, and yet, our information
is, that Gen. Atkins was not present, and
did not vote upon the question. Will Ex-
Reb. be good enough to tell US whether
we are correct?
Will Ex-Reb. be kind enough to give
us information in regard TO the appoint
ment of Mr.. Steele, as cadet by the
General. 1t is the understanding in this
portion of the District that Mr.. Steele was
at the time of his appointment, resi-
dent of OkOlOna, Miss, and was at Jack
son, Tenn, temporarily at College. viii d
EX-Reb. tell us when Mr.. Steele is now
living-if living N jackson, how long he
has been living there, and what vocation
in life he is following; and was he not re-
ally school boy at the time of his APP
pointment, and a non resident of the Dis
trict and State? If the above is true,
then we deny that the masses endorse
everything he has done.
Do the people of the District approve
of this, and do they endorse his action in
taking advantage of the salary grab, and
after being elected to Congress under the
law fixing his salary at s., 900 per annum,
receiving the increased pay up to the
date of the repeal of the infamous meas
ure-he having been elected upon plat
form of economy, retrenehment and re.
form, and honest government: Can it
be supposed that the people endorse his
vote for Mr.. Adams, the present Clerk of
the House, who was notorious salary
grabber, aud who, on that account, was
not returned TO Congress from Kentucky
by his Democratic constituents.
Now, Mr.. Editor, 1 have gone further
in this matter than l desired, or intended
to, but the article of Ex-Reb. has prOvok-
ed it, and if he desires more of it, he can
have lit by notifying us in another cont
mURicated editorial. Success to the Wing
and Tribune, the most reliable and thor ;
Oughly Democratic newspaper in West ,
Tennessee. R.E.B.
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