Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06

Grant and Sheridan and Thomas
have won IL they had fought
a cowardly people, capable
of starving prisoners of war; Blaine
not only spoke falsely but knowingly
wronged defeated enemy, and an en-
envy who had bravely confessed defeat.
None but a coward would insult and
wrong disarmed, helpless foeman rs
does bullying Ben Butler when he
says he has fought and whipped the
South once and can dos again, and as
Blaine did when he inveighed in 1876,
with unexampled bitterness, against
conquered people.
soLD1ERLY GENEROSITY.
How differently soldiers-brave,
honest men-dealt with one another,
even when war ragged Just after the bat
tie of Chickamauga 6000 federals array
ed in long blue overcoats moved before
daylight AS prisoners of war guarded
by brigade of Confederate veterans,
through Atlanta. | was aroused from
sleep by the resembling measured
tread of these rapidly moving battal.
ions. When / went out, even as they
approached the center Of this Southern
capital, this whole army sang: "Old
John Browns soul Is marching on"
When federal soldier asked the
Southern officer in charge of the pris-
oners If this song were offensive to his
people, the Confederate soldier replied:
"These are brave fellows. ] fought
them. They are my guests now and
id If they shRn't say and sing what
they please" And yet Blaine, in his
place in the house, ascribed TO the
people of whom this officer was
representative man, vices and crimes
without parallel in atrocity in all the
annals of time. Perhaps It was all
"magnetism" and therefore altogether
admirable and perhaps some South
erner who would deny, for very
shame, the land of his nativity where
Blaine's speech remains unanswered,
will forgive, for the sake of this mag
netism,h the objectionable insult and
outrage involved in Blaine'a "Horrors
of Andersonville.n
THE WHOLE TRUTH.
1t was necessity, incident TO
Grants policy, that starved the pris-
oners at AndeTsonville. IL was even
the same necessity, incident to Grants
policy, that Dl0ckaded and starved the
South. Grant could not exchange
prisoners, because Confederates went
at once into the ranks, while federal
soldiers from Southern prison pens
were 'urloughed.
BLAINE's CowARDICE.
When Hill had recited the simple
facts and told how the word Anderson
vile became the synonym of all hui
man griefs and how Blaine had
wronged Southern people and soldiers,
he turned upon Blaine himself then
sitting near the speakers desk. Cicero
never pronounced more frightful in
vective and like the subject of Cicero's
philippe even so did Blaine shrink
and cover and grow pale and
shudder. AT last, like his
infamous Roman prototype, he
fed. Abiit effugit erumpit! evasit!
exclaimed the old Roman senator,
to whom Ben Hill was second in
nothing involving genius or eloquence
or patriotism. Poor Malone does not
think so, but the rest of mankind do.
And Hilps anathemus rest forever
upon these two men. The story of
their vices, as told by Ben Hill, will be
recited by school-boys wher this
defeated candidate for the presidency
and that pettifogging bully and cor
ruptionlst of Virginia are only
remembered as objects dissected
by the matchless blade welded
by the cunning hand of Ben Hill
Ben Hill, full of indignation because
of foul wrongs done him and his ueo-
| pie by Blaine's boosted magnetism
and impulsively "written" speech,
gave utteranee to passions which
might well have been silenced. Pas
sages in the terrible invective were
censured alike by Southern aud
Northern conservatism. Blaine took
advantage of these ebullitions of Hills
violence ard thus partly concealed his
reeking wounds; but no Southerner,
whether Unionist or Secessionist, ever
forgave Blaine's vile, shameless ira
duction of Southern character and
morals, and no Northern patriot can
forgive Blaine that, in 1876, he became.
practically, the foremost of secession
lsts, rending in twain every band
Of moral union. He defeated
every benign purpose Of those who
had sought in gliding the celebrations
Of the year, utter oblivion OF the
crimes and vices and woes and enmities
Of fratricidal war. Blaine's genius
was his country's Chi, fest curse, and
yet they who pretend most 10 love the
Union are adherents OF this man who,
more effectively than Jefferson Davis,
sought to destroy the Union. Davis
undertook the task on battle-felds,
Blaine, in the hearts and memories of
the people. His name and deeds
should be eXecrated even as he sought
10 make the fame and deeds ana char
acter of the South execrable.
DLAINEis IAIPULsIvENEss AND THE
PLUNDERERs OF ARKANSAS.
There were honest Republicans,
even in Arkansas, even during the
memorable Claytonian and Birthstone
Brooks era, in the political history of
that hapless commonwealth. The in
tegrity, neither of A. p. Curry, nor of
Page, state treasurer, nor Of Poker
Jack Mcclure, then chief justice with
Tom Bowen associate of the supreme
court bench, was ever questioned.
But these Arkansas Republicans were
not admirers OF Jas. Ct. Blaine.
They We're fighting men on the street
or In battle. They were not OF the
star route gang; but potent members
OF this body polite were of Little