Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-05

capitol. There stood around menIhar.
Of that body men who had fought nm.
der him. They had followed him IN
the gates of hell, or obeyed when he
sent them thither. They came orr n,
the furnace of rebellion swearin a.
that Longstreet was the bravcst of ths
brave and truest of men and soldiers
But Longstreet, when beaten i'm battle
aud when he surrendered, SURRENDERED
all. He went over head. neck and
heels to the victors. He was wbinnad
and thus bravely did he confess II ~
No soldier was Mahone's superior In
all the elements of force and 'beroism
that constitute a true soldiers cborac-
ter. He was esteemed worthy of
! Stonewall Jackson's baton. He leaned
into the crater at Petersburg and
lead the forlorn hope when the Confed-
eracy was undone. But he has hesn
reviled and besmeared by geniu, for
invective and tiercest tasks of narIl.
sanship until the multitude contemn
and despisc him, and when Ionyytrect
stood in he very front of the speakers
chair, as was telling ON the floor of
the house, not one OF those who had
followed him in battle went
forward to greet the veteran of two
wars
LONG AGO.
| was schoolboy when Lonpstreet
came home from Mexico in lSl7.S. He
was youthful captain in the regular
army and had then made himself
famous. 1t was the first speech of the
kind | ever attempted to make when
l responded to n toast expressive of the
admiration of schoolboys of the coun-
try for virtues Longstreet had ilustra-
ted at Chiputapec and Malino del
Rey. Greater renown had he won in
all the bloody battle fields OF the
east and yet these partisan members
OF congress, once soldiers under Long
street, summed and spurned him and
simply because lie thinks, about pub
lie questions, differently from them
selves.
| was reared in the same village and
born near the birthplace Of Longstreet,
aud can't help liking him, and though |
moi OF his politics. | still think he is AS
gqod u fellow and as brave and gener-
Gus AS when lie led Confederate
legions.
CHALMERS.
The policy of the party seems to be
to destroy the social rather than politi-
cal character of its enemies. AS in
lSG0-l, il practices the acts and vices of
moral despotism. God-knows they
were Il vicious depraved and vulgar
lot of thieves sent into the South with
the Freedmen's bureau, aud while
John Sherman and visiting statesmen
were celebrating, with Eliza Pinkston,
Tie filthy orgies Of reconstruction, the
appointed projects of the South were.
very many of them, renorseless scoun-
dreis. IN truth the purpose OF the
then governing power of the union
was 20 subject the whites to
the dominion of the blacks |
and true it is and was that
Repubi icanism Of that day was exc
cradle; but, teD1pOyd muto}lfUT. Hayes
armies disappeared and the thieves
stolen. They were even more fortu-
women, piteously into Washington,
exhibiting wounds and bruises and
pNtrefying sores. They became objects
OF Federal pity. They had suffered
for the cause. Proceeds OF theft and
robbery and wrong were no conlpensa
ton, and each OF them was chucked
into office here or elsewhere.
Isn't il dreadful that Gen. Chalmers,
u native born MisSissippian, an origi-
nal, before brealliast fire. eating jeff
Davis secessionist, should now be
"cheek-by -jowl,h as the stump-speak-
ers say with this reconstruction
Shernan-.Eliza Pinkston party? L
propose to interview him that he may
explain.