The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-07-05
HISTORY RECALLED.
Something About Eleyenth-Hour Patri-
OTIS whom Republicans GlOrify.

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Col. Thomas Scharf, after abiding to the
controversy over the speech of Hon. Thomas
F. Bayard, at Dover, DEL, in 1861, and the
criticisms thereon by the Republican press,
proceeds to speak of those now hailed as pa
| triots and saints who were on the Confederate
side in spirit and deed, but who have enlisted
under the Republican flag since. His article
appeared in the Baltimore Day, and is as
follows:
1t will do no harm to briefly notice few
of these eleventh hour patriots, these prodi-
| gal sons for whom the fatted calf is being
Killed by the Republican party. About the
| time Mr.. Bayard made his famous Dover
speech, ]. A. J. Creswell, who was afterward
honored with seat in Grants cabinet as
Postmaster General, was loud and vehement
in his denunciation of the conduct of the
North and earnest in his expressions of SYM
pathy for the South. At public meeting
held at Elkton, Cecil county, Md, of all those
opposed to coercion and civil war, Mr.. Cres-
well presented series of resolutions in which
he thought that sectional party had ''ar-
rayed the fanaticism and bigotry of the North
against the domestic institutions of the
South" and had thereby brought about the
then distracted condition of the country"
He thought the Northern States had violated
the constitution; he solemnly protested against
of slavery, and he insisted that if the North
did not grant us the constitutional rights we
claimed, and thereby occasioned a disruption
of the Union, then we would be compelled,
by "every obligation to our honor and digni-
ty, as well as our interests" to cast our lot
with the Southern border States. Governor
Hicks, of Maryland, expressed the same SEN
timents in December, 1860, but earnestly dis
avowed them few months afterward, and
subsequently died in the odor ofpolitical sane
tity. Ard the politician who SO drew up and
reported the resolutions adopted by the meet
ing at Ellzton became loyal United States
Senator, Postmaster General, Commissioner
of the freedmen's Bureau, &C., &c. He is
now intensely patriotic and ready to die for
Blaine and Logan.
1t may be well enough also to demonstrate
in this connection the extraordinary differ
ence in the estimation of the Republican par
ty between an ex-rebel who is Republican
and an ex-rebel who is Democrat. | sub
NIT few cases to the "boys in blue,i remind
ing them at the same time that while Mosby
and his guerrillas have nice places at the pub
lie crib, there are thousands of crippled and
broken-down Union soldiers ''left out in the
cold' to get on as best they may. General
James Longstreet "wore the gray to some
purpose, as the veterans of the army of the
Potomac are aware, but when he joined the
Republican ranks he was received with much
Joy. He was made collector at New Orleans,
afterward postmaster in Georgia, and is now
United States marshal in that State. Mosby
was the boldest and most successful of the
Virginia guerrllas and harrassed the Federal
army to such an extent that the government
would willingly have given for his head ten
times its weight in gold.
He was among the earliest converts to he
publicanism, and had the distribution of Fed
eral patronage in Virginia until he wanted to
90 abroad, and is now consul ut Hong Kong.
Samuel +. Phillips, solicitor general of the
United States, was a leading North Carolina
secessionist, and did as much as any other
man to carry this state out of the Union. He
turned Republican and received a fat office.
Thomas Settle, Republican candidate for gov
ernor of North Carolina, was captain in the
Confederate army, and drove dozens OF poor
Confederates out of camp because they were
suspected of Union sentiments; and the same
distinguished gentleman advocated the shoot
ing of all rebel deserters on the spot. Yet
Settle was appointed minister to Peru, and
elected president of the Republican conven-
ton in 1872, and is now United States Circuit
Court Judge in Florida. VIM. III. Chapman
was lieutenant in Mosby's command. and is
charged with the inhuman torturing of cap
tured Federal soldier; also with assisting to
hang several soldiers belonging to a Michigan
regiment Chapman at last accounts was
special agent of the Postoifce Department.
Elias Griswold, one of the chief managers of
the Andersonville prison, was or is holding
fat Office in the Treasury Department. To
say nothing of Chalmers, Wise, ,,Riddleberger
and other Republican Confederate briga-
diers," Malone is the lion of to-day. The
ubnIa Rpnnhlican Marty Is Mt his feet. the adj