The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-01

direct special attention to the fact that
this charge has been made against the
Democratic party, and that you, its can
didate for president, have not denied it, /
This war is made in all seriousness and
with great earnestness. and
day after day in the press ard
in speeches. You are known to the
country as a frank, honest soldier, now
of the Democratic party,
and having the right to speak for it.
Whatever you may say the people will
hear and believe. | submit the matter
to your good judgment as TO what you
should say, or whether you should make
any public utterance at all.
Very respectfully yours,
THEODORE COOK.
HANCoCK's ANSWER.
GOVERNORS ISLAND, N. Y, Sept. %.
Theodore Cook, Esq, Cincinnati, o.:
DEAR SIR-Your letter of the Goth
inst. has been received. Iregret that you
are disturbed about the effect of that bug
bear, southern war claims. The people
cannot be misled by it. To suppose that
the rebel claims, or claims in the interest
of persons who were in the rebellion can
in way or in any degree be countenanced
is an Imputation of disloyalty, such as
used to be made against Democrats,
even when in arms defending the coun-
try. So far as it touches me, | denounce
it, The government can never pay a
debt or grant pension or reward of any
sort for waging war upon its own exist
ence, nor could be induced to approve
or encourage the payment of such debt,
pension or reward. Nobody expects or
wants such unnatural action. To pro
pose it would be an insult to the intelli-
gence and honor of our people. When
the rebellion was crushed the heresies of
secession, in every form, and in every in
cident, went down forever. We move
forward, not backward. If I were presi-
dent l would veto all legislation which
might come before me providing for the
consideration or payment of claims of
any kind for losses or damages by per-
sons who were in rebellion, whether par
doned or not.
In relation to the Union war claims,
the governments obligation to its de-
Tenders come first. They are lasting and
sacred. The public laws ofciviliZed ma
tions do not in general recognize claims
for injuries TO property resulting from
the operations of war; nevertheless, our
government has treated with great indul-
gence the claims for losses and damages
suffered by Union men from military
operations of the war for the Union, but
as hostilities were closed more than fif-
teen Yeas ago, claims of that nature,
now mostly in the hands OF brokers or
persons other than the original sufferers,
are becoming stale, and in my judgment
might be fairly be considered buried by
the lapse of time, and if hereafter enter
tanned ut all should be subjected to the
strIctest scrutiny.
Yours very truly, ''i'''
WINFIELD S. HANCOCK.
Popular History.-MentaI PabulGnb for
the Youth of the South
Anew School History of the United
States of America, from the earliest dis
covery to the present time, by j. S. Black
burn, principle of Potomac Academy,
Alexandria, Virginia, and w. N. Nc
Donald, A. NJ. principal of the male
high school of Louisville, kentucky.
Eleventh edition revised. Baltimore,
VIM. J. G. Dulaney 81 Co, 1880" The
above is the title of a southern school
history, whose use and popularity in the
south may be guessed from the fact that
it has reached It's eleventh edition. 1t is
a book of 529 pages, OF which over 100
pages are devoted to the war of seces-
sion aud reconstruction. The mental
pabulum upon which the minds of
southern youth are fed may be judged
by 8 few specimens from this history
On page 3S9, it describes John Brown
as ga northern fanatic and a noted Kan
sas assassin"
Page 1894 says of Abraham Lincoln
that he was "a sectional cand: date" and
"a large portion of the southern people
regarded his election, under the circum-
stances, as virtual commencement of
hostilities. They asserted that Tor years
they had been prevented by mob vio-
lence from enjoying their constitutional
rights IN the north; that the spirit of alb
olitionism would now, under the coun-
tenance and by means of federal power,
assume the aggressive; and that it was
time for them to abandon a government
which had fallen into the hands of their
avowed enemies"
Page 395, describing the leave taking
of southern congressman, says: "Some on
bidding farewell hurled defiance at their
political enemies, who had driven them
to this last resort of honor"
Page 1888 says of Calhoun: '"He was
in every sense of the term statesmen. 1t
was the chief aim of, his ,politiealjiife to
strengthen the power of the south in the
government, so that she might be ena-
bled to resist the Entertainments of the
North upon her rights"
OF the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise the southerners had been excluded
from carrying their slave property into
the territories north of 5000 north lati-
tude. As this prohibition was clearly
unconstitutional, it seemed but right
that it should be repealed"
Page 297 says: mir. Buchanan was
what is politically termed a state rights
Democrat. He had always protested to
believe in the right of secession and
now. when for the first time in the histo-
ry of the country, it was exercised, he
made no attempt to prevent it by force."
OF Jefferson Davis, on his election to
be president Of the confedeIacy, il says,
page 400: 1.-THE merit which cotld cont
mand such an expression of popular
confidence must have been conspicuous.
He was no extremist yet resolute in the
defense of the rights of his section"
The south is depicted as always victo-
rious unless overwhelmed by numbers.
Page 427 says: 1.-THE south had nothing
but her gallant childred to put in the
field, and she was thus condemned TO
stake her most precious jewels against
the trash of Europe
OfGen. Butler it says, page 42S, "As
military commandant at New Orleans
his conduct was almost without parallel
The most studied modes of tyranny and
were UScu 10 DOW the MENUS anu
break the hearts of the defenseles citi-
zens. He and his officers unblushingly
plundered the city, robbing the elegant
mansions of its princely merchants, and
shipping their stolen wares to points in
the north. Women were torn from their
homes and cast into prison for laughing
at Federal soldiers > 1t was
then that he received the name of
BEST and by the common consent OF
Europe and America that name has be-
come historical"
Page 455 says: "A respectable por-
ton Of the Democratic party at the north
were opposed to the war, and never
ceased to cry out against it."
Page $50 instructs southern youth how
to succeed next time, saying: '.The pri-
mary cause of the failure of the confed
eracy was that the people of the south
were not unanimous in their efforts 10
eain their liberty In the history of the
world a united people, struggling for
liberfy. have never been sujugated.n
These quotations are from the edition
of 1850. The advertisement of this his
tory sLosgs THAI il Is officially approved
and recommended by the Senate and
House of the Virginia Legislature. and
by the various county commissioners of
schools. II is also commended by Judge
Carmichael, Of MARYLAND, by the Balii-
more Episcopal Methodist, the Balii-