The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-16
DREAMED AND DEFENDED
VIEWS ON JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A"Boy Who Wore the Blue" Writes as
Though Still In Uniform, "March-
ing Through Geors Re-
tired Gray Saws "Let
Us Have Pence"

I FoRNEY, Avg. IA Il Editor HERALD
The writer was delighted with your
! editorial on l'The Death OF Grant" II
was the finebt he saw anywhere, and
40 saw maAy, including those of the
'big EASTERN and Northern papers.p
md the writer might add that he is
ghly delighted with this new burial
- The hatcbet (bloody shirD in tho
] hondrs given to General Grant.
mLhs'V..7YI THE HERALD must be
are a. !, superstition tbat the old
the 1en who stood by
tCity no, sand GrauE win repay
Com L9afe deratos by kindly honor-
Lam Lsaon Davis. They cannot do
II. V NO, Twas honnred by all for his
sum ~ SUI ,cesS as soldier, for
Il. Mo- y and purity rs man, for
bull icaGism and for his love for all
met NO including his Old opponents
me hstbe wnr lie never taught sec
IL. nos hate, be never spoke
age DeR anyone--Horth or South.
pie "'Av is IL with Mr.. Davis? He
RS jmsef ON record in his book.
TIM in speaks of the Northern
ToI GGcsoodestitute, entirely destitute
4oiple; saying that all they
st. Il was "to grasp tho reips of
1t, Ly had so long coyet5d," TO
SO ss.sssg phrase, to ride lough-shOd
yer the Southern people. He seys
10 Republican party, that ruled the
orth, was composed Of the slow and
ase." Does The HERALD think
int Lincoln, Chase, Saw
I'd, Greedy and their associates
tere not the equal If any people, NOR.
lily and intellectually, North or South.
But worst Of all, eight years alter
incoln was foully murdered, grand
tateSman and most kind-hearted gen
eman, Mr.. Davis, in his book, stig
latized him az Il tyraut, usurper, aud
)mpares him to tho devil In the gar
On of Eden, and cody asserts that
ipon the skirts of his administration
the blood of a million Of
Human beings! Very modest, certainly.
And last and meanest OF all, he slan-
ders Grant and Sherman and all the
Union army. He says that "Grant
could not comprehend the grand STRAIT
egy OF Lee" yet admits the fall OF
Richmond came "sooner than
Lee expected" aud was q "sorrowful
surprise" to him (Davis) and his
friends in Richmond. Thus
admitting that neither Lee
nor NO could comprehend
the strategy OF Grant. And Ihon he
stigmatizes the entire Union army
officers and soldiere--as the most in
human brutes and ssvages that ever
went TO war. He says that expeditions
were often "sent out to sack defense
less cities, murder the unarmed
people and commit outragos spon
women and children too horrible
to be recorded" His book is fillsd
with such stun about Lincoln, Grant
and all who opposed slavery extension
and TODD by the Union in the war.
Does The HERALD endorse themS
Ooss THE HERALD really think they
ntitla Mr.. DAVIS to hOnors from the
american people7 Davis still en-
lorses his book and all its
nisstatements. There was class
fmen in the North who chetred for
Davis in tho war times; that class il
now and ever will be ready TO give
him great honor, as much or oven
more than has been given 70 Grant,
but the great mass of the men who
stood by Lincoln aud Grant will not
until no recalls his ISLANDERS upon
them.
ANOTHER VINO WonE THE BIITE