Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-12-25
LETTER FROM NIB. WILSON.

| Enron MISUNDERSTANDING Sentinel OF the
1lst comes nobly to my rescue; and If 1 have
waved the "b-y Shirt it Is not your place &c
blame mo for it, as your candidate, Gen. Cock
rell, has. according to the Sentinel. persistently
waved 1t in his own selfish interest at every 9th
or confederate who has aspired to an ohice oil
any importance. l have frequently heard II
charged that he tried to beat Col. Vest by use oil
the argument which you call waving the bloody
shirt. only regret that your esteemed contem'
porsry could not turn from the ''poetical JUS
toe now visiting Gen. Cockrell long enough to
dc me and itself Justice in plain prose by ac-
knowledging that the facts did not warrant 1t In
charging me with opposition to confederate ior
ONCE.
do not agree with the Sentinel that this is .
Dangerous subject;'' nor do 1 believe in whis-
ject that is roared through the northern radical
press like q whirlwind. II Cockrell Is the best
the senate. no matter who likes it or dses moi
like 1t. But ii he is no better than many others,
and il . nail in our coffin for 1884. and will
blunder as badly again as he did In opposing
| Tilden, let US send some one else.
The term ''waving the bloody shirt has only
one meaning. and mad its origin IN The public
north after Brooks assaulted him. 1t now means
to charge the south, or southern men, with a Sc
crst intention to renew the attempt at sece ;slon.
Therefore your charge that I waved the bloody
shirt 10 simply absurd. As apropos OF what l
said about confederate privates and undsr-of-
icers getting places. l invite your attention to
an article from the New Orleans Picayune.
saying that there are ten thousand of 1.-The liv-
ing dead who faced the storm Of battle, and suf-
tered worse than death in the cause.-The loss OF
| limbs which enabled them to MAINTAIN the strug-
gle Of life.' SO touching is It that even the
Globe-Dsmocrat copied 1t. The selfshness Of Il
few generals has had much to do with keeping
these men beyond any hope Of the advantages Of
| federal patronage; and the editor OF the Senti-
mel, who 10 one OF the sufferers, is the most APP
propriato person living to visit Gen. Cockrell
with poetic justice Tor his part in it as he has
done. That role suits him better than either OF
the others he proposed for himself-SittinE Bull
and . Thug.
But We are all wandering from the subject.
Fernando Wood is WORKING at his bill to refund
from six hundred millions to seven hundred
nillisns Of the bonds of lssI into City year three
per cent. bonds. Three times fifty will make
one hundred and fifty per cent. interest, or
about . round billion OF interest, that the peo-
Ple must pays; and the principal will be the same
At the end Of dfty ) ears that it Is now. Yet we
could withdraw the national bank notes and re.
ever half OF the volume Of bonds; and the re.
mainder could he carried at three per cent. and
paid IN three years. Is 1t worth while to work
for the paltry sum of q billion dollars? Why
should any man want them refunded Because
they are necessary to the existence of the fe1er.
n banking system. Refuse to refund them, and
that system begins at onos to die. Is your can
didate, who wastes these precious days on q
private claim, twenty-sne years old, growing
out Of the ~csmpIiation OF the territorial laws OF
Kansas, the right man in the right place, or, as
GEO. WILSON.
Lexinpten. Dec. q. 80.