The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-09-04

Or Lot very lar from doubie the number
fnIly double considering the populations
In the Mexican war Massachusetts, fur
nished .041 men. and all the other New
England states furnished 534 men. while
the entire North furnished 23O54 men
and the entire South furnished 43 $50
men This shows the South to have fur
nished, according to their respective pop
ulations. about four times as many as the
North for the Mexican war To this our
author adds II got my facts from the
archives AT WASHINGTON
Asregards : the execution of Major Wirz
Of the Andersonyille prison, We have the
following. TO which We are prepared 10 say
nAmen after reading the account of the
Sam. horrible indiciaI murder ~ mar ~
imitably grand work The Rise and Fan
of the Confederate Government. bl ex-
President Davis: .-One poor creature
who commanded a Southern IrISuu Was
hanged because his amiabihty Na~ sup
posed to have. been moi so GREAT AS wa, me.
poverty of his government. could equal
Justice as therein displayed have breu
meted out to the gentle spirit, on The
other side. who served their country bv
originating and enforcing the policy Of re-
taliation There would have been = line Of
gibbets in that country from Maine to the
Rocky Mountains Further on. our au-
thor gives a dcscription of the rise and fall
of the ..ku kluX klan. in which he at
tacks the position of the Hon. - \. W.
TOurgee, and shows to the candid mind of
the disinterested that those times emphat
ically called for such an institutions or to
use the lanouat,r Of . famous Republican
.Iudop ..Thp Judiciary was exhausted
and All manner Of crime and license ran
RAMPANT over The whole south Yet. he
does not come up to the noble yindication
of the khan BY John Marchmont in his
Thirty -four Years whose eulOgeS of
different members of the order are but a
feeble tribute to the bravery and self
abnegation of those devoted patriots who
sought not only death. but braved igno-
miny for the sake of the far daughters
and helpless old age of our Southern land
But we cannot devote too much space
to the credit side Of our account with Can
tain Floyd. We must proceed to charge
him with some Of the sins aforementioned
or alluded to Now we would here state
that we feel most kindly toward him. and
| nauoht. but a strict sense of duty as a re-
viewer could conpel us to say aurht
against him but Il. Lord Nacaulay once
wrote ia one of his admirable though
scathjng criticisms IF our remarks give
pain we are sorry for if But at whatever
cost of pain to individuals. literature must
be purified Of taint. and to show that We
are not actllated by any feelings of per
sonal cumity towards him. We hereby give
notice that ~ soon as an, hook. hy means
| of nutfino be inflated and ..xalted 10 the
skies s.our intention is ia do unto the wri
ter as we shall now do unto Captain y
J Floyd. We moreover feel that we can
do this without RENDERING ourSeIf often
siye when we take into consideration ssthe
cr,,mhs of comfort already thrown him
out, p,1ore gong furth her. ler ..> z.,a.ve
at some of the opinions of the press l. e.
the professed Opini0n, of several Virginia
newspapers who would do our author
honor.
The Richmond estate" saws 1t is in
fact = mastery showing of historical fact,
Threaded upon a romance of closer adbsr
ence to reality and vet of greater and
more thrilling powers than .tJnclc Toms
| Cabin" or "A Fools Errand." We can
not speak as the former, as we never could
| bring oursef to the task of reading the
| foul and malignant aspersions Of the old
/ shc-slandcrer of one of the nobest Of
/ British poets and his near relative. who,
/ .thouph woman did not forsake him. =
but as to the Justice of the comparison
with the child Of Tourgee's brain. we deem
ourself competent and able to ..sav our
say So far as being truthful is concern
I ed our aut hOr has the ADVANTAGE of our
Carolina carpet -bagger. ex- Judge and nov
eIist. Yet he is no match for him in de
scripriye powers. and as Il dtllneator Of
character. 1t grieves our heart our heart
T., saw this but slet Justice be done tough
the heavens fall !" and although Fair Al
bion, was not lust to our people. let Us
ratnrn good for evil saws the Iynchbure
| ,I,aily News. >.It IS the work of a man
of oanius We donot hazard too
mnch in nredicting that it will reach the
fornm of tho nation etc etc Let not
our author ..lay this hatterine junction to
himself" Saws the Lvnchburg Advance :
His views are not ONLY sound. but conser-
| vative and still they are Southern and
yiroinian throuoh and through" Hardly
so When we take into consideration the
doctrine of the miscegenation of the races,
taught in the work, and, which we can
hardly keep from thinking was intended
for j ..son 10 Cerberns and to help the
| hook ia sell in Yankeeland ,Tis true his
octaroon i ranresnnted AZ heinp beautiful
and accomnliihed vat She was a slave.
and Lnown TO have African blood in her
Inins and bancn would not have heen on
terms Of aonalitv with tho hest class of
Snnthern neonle and onr another does his
section q 1redt wrono in so misrenresentl
mo matters and wonld lead \ STRANGER to
hn7inya tbat tho noonle of the Sonthern
states are very lax in their social relations