The Bossier banner., 1883-08-16
Morgan and His Men.

COLUMBUS tefa-1 Enqulref-Snnt
We have never taken any great
amount Of stock in the gush which
usually follows shaking hands
across the bloody chasm.n For the
past eighteen years there have been
reoouciliations and reunions of the
blue and the gray, but it has been a
rare exception when they failed to
rake mp theennities Of the war and
cause more or less harsh epithets to
beapplied to ex Confederate soldiers.
Occasionally wednd a Southern man
on these gushing occasions who ex-
presses himself as glad that the cause
was lost and that tive retarR as a
whipped child returns tohis father,n
but these are exceptions. When.
such is the case all is serene ard
lovely 50 far as the blue is concern
ed. The reunion of Morgan's men
at Lexington, Kentucky, which was
attended by Kentucky's most dis
tinguished citizens, as well as
number of Union veterans, has es-
pecially excited the wrath of some
of the boys in blue-notably those
who did none of the fighting in the
late unnleasantness. Among the
latter class We end the editor of the
Pittsburg Dispatch foaming at the
mouth and giving vent to his pent
up feelings which he failed TO do
while the war was going on. He
thinks 1.-THE Sioux sun dance and
| the reunion of John Morgan's guer-
| rillas occur ina suggestive way at the
same date.' And then the Chicago
News proceeds in a maryelously in
temperate way to pile on the eepithets
upon the heads of "John Morgan's
desperadoes.n The command is re-
ferred to as tsa band of cold -blooded
bushwhaciKers, mnrderers and as,
sassins." The editors of these pa.
pers, who propose to do their fight
| ing now that the war is over, know
| that Morgan's men number many of
the best and most law abiding citi-
zens of Kentucky, and do not De.
serve the vituperation heaped upon
them. They are recognized as pa
triotic gentlemen By the men who
fought against them, and such
terms OF ignomy and reproach could
only eminate from towards who
shirked their duty when their coun.
try needed the services OF brave
/ s
men.
1t is very easily understood why
|. these vituperations are heaped upon
the Southern soldiers. 1t is the in.
satiate desire to keep alive the old
animositIes that the Republican
party may reap the benefits thereof
as well as to bulldoze Southerners
from an honest expression of their
views. Now and then it succeeds
and we bear men who fought for the
Confederacy gushing over the de
feat. Such characters have tht
, sympathy of those who believe the
. principles Tor which they Tough
were eternally right, and no amour
} Of beeror banqueting can alter them
But that the South has no desire t,
stir up any of these things, may b.
! judged from this, which we tax,
) from the Nashville American:
! "a feature of the meeting was th
! fraternal greesingsextendedto to man,
} to the boys who wore the blue, wh,
: were present at times. All rance
) was forgotten, and the blue and th
! gray united hands over what ono
was wide chasm, and in sent
> ments of friendship and patriotism
) buried the bloody shirt too deep t
: be ever again exhumed.p
Yonkers Gazette: Climb as higt
young man, as a worthy ambitio
2 will let you; but never despise th
D. ladder. which auSia4od xT~ss .yt1vu-.. ~