Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-12

.ION lNlELJ
as the representatives of indignant
LOYALTY against confederate brigadiers
take to their bosoms this confederate
officer who bathed his sword i'll the
blood of Fort Pillow.
have heard of the lean of grace.
l used when a boy to attend camp
meetings. l have heard the richest
outpourings of the gospel. l have
heard grace described as a fountain
flowing in boundless beauty and etcr-
nal wealth. l have listened when it
was claimed that this grace washed
away all stains, cleansed the murder
er's SOU on the gallows, purified and
gave peace to :he guiltiest conscience
ever called shivering and quaking
with fear from this world to the
world beyond ; but l have never be-
fore heard of u fountain of grace so
wide, SO deep, so exhaustless, so
spontaneous in it's u%nceasiDg flow as
that of the republican party to con-
federate officers if they will only vote
the republican ticket!
Take. next Louisiana, that fated
region of riot, disorder M stupend-
GUS %unveracity. We have known it
long as the land of the magnolia and
the cypress ; we know it now as the
land also OF stalwart liars, as dis
| closed within the last few weeks in
| this capitol. Let the curtain be rails
| ed and let US look at some federal
officials III Louisiana. We see one
| who was long in Office there and who
has made a great and bloody figure
in history I; u man Of commanding
military capacity-General James
Lengstrset. General Grant made
him surveyor of the port Of New
Orleans, took his bloody hand in his,
not only forgave but rewarded him,
not only welcomed him but said,
"Come up higher" Who was Long
street? 1 have heard one who COM
handed q corps in the Wilderness
speak of that dreadful shock Of bat
tie when his corps encountered
Longstreet's, and the blood ran in
rivulets. No Drawer, harder fighter
ever drew a sword or encountered
an enemy than Longstreet. He was
educated for soldier by his govern
ment, and he cost it more lives than
any other one man who commanded
no more than q corps in the confed-
crate army. Who was Longstreet at
Gettysburg and at Antietam? An
educated American soldier fighting
with desperate courage to establish
al independent government.
When the history of the late sec
tional war shall be written, along
| side of the names of Gordon, Stone
wall Jackson, of Joseph E. Johnston
and Albert Sidney Johnston, will be
written i'll living letters the military
achievements of James Longstreet.
Yet nothing stood between him and
civil preferment the moment he was
willing to turn his back upon his old
comrades who had shared with him
the bloody charge, the nightly biv-
ouac, and the Overwhelming disas-
ter that fell upon them all at the close.
And am l to sit still in my eat and
hear hourly reproaches from the
men who confirmed James Long,
street to q civil Office because this
side of the chamber is composed in
part of those who were in the same
contest by his side? No, Sir, l do
not propose to doit. | propose to
appeal for fairness, for common hon
esty, and common decency to the
country upon this question. l do
not intend that the record shall be
made up III the interest of injustice.
1t is not in the power of republican
senators to make it up in the way
they propose, for the truth is not
their way. Their accusations shall
recoil on their W heads Their
charges rest upon false foundations.
If there is guilt ut. all on this subject
the leaders of the republican party
are themselves the guilty parties.
Other officers may by cited in Louisi-
ana Colonel Wharton ia Uuited
States marshal. He wa a confeder-
ate officer, Colonel William H..
Hough is n district judge, Mr.. Leon
ard is a United States district attor-
ney. Colonel Smith is postmaster at
Baton Rouge, George 3. johnson
was late auditor, Alexander Boarman
is United States judge, General p. o.
Hebert was in Office as of the
lrvee commissioners under General
Grant. All these were officers in
the confederate army.
l cannot dwell, however, longer Oil
Louisiana. turn for II moment to
Alabama. Who was Judge Humphreys.
who is now of the judiciary of this
district! Is there amy office of more
importance than a Judicial Office ?
Who was Judge Humphreys He
raised a regiment for the confederate
service. He had, however, only to
join the republican party and he was
at once appointed one of the Judges
of the supreme court of this district,
where he now sits. lie was confirm
ell by republican senators, who now
prate about the presence Of confeder-
ate brigadiers in the public service.
l could proceed on this theme al
most without limit. l could. DIV ell
upon federal appointees in other
states and territories, but l shall for
bear for the present. Some days ago
received q spaper, published at
my own home by y gentleman whose
birth, training aud education ali
make him u republican upon every
issue between the north and south.
He was himself a soldier, and no
Drawer or better Il than Major
Smith wenttn the front from Indiana.
lie tasted all the horrors Of the war
on the field and in prison. In speak
ing of the political issues now pre-
senIed he INDUCES in tilei following
article, which | will venture to read:
THE CONFEDERATE BROADER.
The confederate brigadier is looming up to
considerable Importance rs II political issue in
the north Republican politicians are urging it
with rs much persistence as they did the faise is
sue of southern war claims'' u few years ago.
The Iimid ones-th"ae who staid ut home during
the war, and. on government contracts furnish
ed the soldiers ut the front with stale rutiOns and
slodiy clotlIng ut full ~prices-greatly fear the
confederate brigadier. As all this truhlpery
about paying the rebel debt and pensloning the
rebel soldiers was made Use of in the political
canIpaigns OF the past. SO will the confederate
brigudicr be utilized in those OF the future. The
campaigning on confederate brigaiiers is a new
style of bloody shirt-a new political issue inten-
ded far those whose fear. not understanding, in.
furnces their votes.
The fact That there are more rebel soldiers in
congress than union soldiers shows that the
south thinks more of her military heroes than
the north does OF hers. The north has us many
brigadiers rs the south; men, too. OF eminent
ability. and il she does not send them " con-
gre.s It is her own iault.
That is what l have been trying to
impress on my patient listeners.
II there is danger 10 De apprehended from the
southern b%rigadier in congress-. why not send
the northern brlsadler there to meet him! The
northern brigadier met him ~ on the
battlefield, and his ability to meet HIM in con