The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1884-08-22

this evening. We will let the col.
onel know when We feel like it.n
Military terms and military tao.
tics were altogether unknown to the
m0untaineers and their officers, but
they did the best they could and were
always ready tor "A fight. When
Captain Gambler wanted his CON.
pany TO advance few PAGES to the
front he always said: '1Gentlemen
OF the Banks county guards | will
thank YOU TO step this way.r But
IN due time they became familiar
with right oblique and file left and
countermarch and charge aud fix
bayonets and all the other orders
except tall back and retreat, and
no company in Colonel Semmesf
command stood higher for courage
and patriotism than the Banks
county guards. Long may the rem.
nant live to honor their country,
and long may Capt. Gambler live
TO command them In peace as faith.
fully as he did in war.
| see that mauy'oi the regiments
have presented their banners, their
tattered and torn aud faded ban.
uers, and il is now lawful for the
boys to plant our old colors iu their
midst aud do homage TO them and
there are none TO molest or make
US afraid.
That is q good sign, a sign OF re.
turning reason in the midst of our
masters. / remember well when it
was not tolerated. / remember
whom the young folks Of Rome had
some tableaux In the city hall to
raise money to put the pcws back
in the churches, the pews that
Sherman's men had taken out to
make pontoons of and kindle their
camp fires. They had q battle
scene on the stage and set MP an
old Confederate flag iu the corner.
DE Ia Mesa was there, the CON-
mandant of .be post. He was half
French and half Spanish, half fool
aud half dog aud would have made
II splendid priest IN old Spanish in.
QUESTION. When he saw the flag
he lett the hall IN u tower Of rage.
Next morning he put all the promi.
ncnt persons connected with the
| tableanx under arrest and threat.
ened to put the girls In Jail but he
was afraid.
WAS lord mayor Of the little
town ut that time and rs In duty
bound wrote tv Gen. George II
Thomas, at Louisville, Kentucky,
and told him frankly all about II
and asked for the discharge Of th,
young men.
The reply that ] received in du'
time reminds me OF Logan's lette
OF acceptance. 1t is a splendi,
bloody shirt, | have 1t now before
mo aud will give an extract just t,
show where We stood in February
1867. had written him rs humbl
AZ a dead niger. | told him tha
our people In Rome had In goof
faith accepted the situation, an,
the boys intended no insult by th
display of the flag.
| The answer says, eff your peopl
have ordinary intelligence they mis-
understand their present status
which is that tue rebellion is ;
huge crimc embodying all th'
crimes in the decalogue. 1t ha'
been conquered and disarmed ant
| it's very name aud cmblelns are bate
fol to the people of tho trusted
States, and he must be indeed OBJ
tuse who expects to be allowed to
parade before the eyes Of loyal peo
pie that which they execrate and
abhor.
Your excuse that tho youug men
did not know it was wrong is too
prerile to answer. They know well
enough what is right In such mat.
ters without waiting to be warned
by orders from these headquarters.
The sole cause of this offensc Is
that the citizens of Rome have not
accepted the situation which Is that
the civil war was y rebellion and
those engaged 10 It are rebels, aud
rebellion is treason, and treason is
u crime, q heinous one, deserving Of
punishment, and that you rebels
have not been punished is owing
to the magnsnity of your conquer
crs, with many Of you, the war is
called \ revolution and rebels are
called Confederates, and loyalists to
the Union are called "d--d yankees
and traitors and over the whole
great crime with its nccursed record
Of slaughtered heroes aud patriots,
you are try ng to throw the gloss Of
respectability.
As however, it is pretended by
you that the persons arrested were
90 innocent az not to know that It
was wrong tor unpunishcd traitors
to glory In their shame and plant
tho symbol OF their crime in tue
face of the country they will be re-
leased from confinement with the
understanding that no act Of trea
son will hereafter pass unuoticed,
aud may they aud all Others profit
by the lesson they have received
VIM. ID. WHIpPLE,
Asst. Adjt. Gen.
That is very nice and affection
ate and we'll calculated to max,
good Union men Of those boys
wasn't iti Thank the Lord vi
have survived such bitterness ant
tyranny, and II It was not for sucl