The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-30
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT AND THE
OLD BELL.


The old Liberty Bell was received with
great "eclatn at New Orleans. 1t passed
into the Southern metropolis amid salvos of
artillery and the cheers OF the people. Canal
street, the Broadway of the city, was
thronged with citizens and Others OF various
naiionalities. The reception was genuine,
patriotic and creditable. There Is class OF
bloody.shiIt organs in the North which do
not propose to have any good feeling be-
tween the sections 50 long as there is 3 hope
of making any political capital by keeping
up a semblsnce of strife or misrepresenting
Southern position and opinion. Therefore
it was that the proposition to send
the old bell to New Orleans
was received by these bloody-shirt
organs either By covert sheer or downright
opposition. When the Mayor of Philadel-
phia took liberal, broad gagged view of the
proposition, seconded by the masses of the
people and large majority OF the press OF
the North, the thought was suggested that
the old bell might aid in restoring some OF
the old brotherIy feeling. The class of Repub.
licsn Bourbon newspapers referred to ceased
their open opposition at least. Their corre-
spondents, however, in New Orleans have
been charged with the virus of the home
papers, and we look in vain for any descrip-
zion in their columns of the really generous,
patriotic and great-hearted reception that
the old bell met with. From reading an
account, and the first one that came under
notice, the impression made was that the
bell had made its entry into New Orleans
and passed through its streets amid an
awfully bsrbaroas and suggestive silence.
The fact is that the grand old relic has had
a magnificent tripmphal tour. Even at the
heme of JEFF Davis the New Orleans Times
says:
When the train bearing the Liberty Bell drew up
at Beauv0lr, among the large crowd assem- Dled at
the station TO view the yeneraied relic OF the
Revolution and give passing salute, was little
Grand daughter OF Jefferson Davis-Vsrina Davis
HAYES. AS soon as the train stopped one of the
guard Sergeant Edward Malin, to humor the
childs wishes, took her from the arms of her ne
gro nurse and held her up to the bell, which she
kissed, exclaimiDg: God bless the dear old
ben'
The pretty incident was greeted with cheers and
created quite furOre of pleasant excitement.
which bad not entirely subsidized when Mr.. Davis
himself arrived with his escort.
1t made a pretty picture-the old relic, sur.
IN uniform, the surgiag multitude, all eager TO
see, and the beaming face OF the lovely Child as
she threw her arms around the bell she had been
taught to love- and pressed her rosy lips upon its
face of bronze caressingly.
The child then had bsen taught to love-
tie bell, and therefore the childish outburst
Of glee when her eyes beheld it. The bloody
shirt organs might gather lesson here. Let
them teach their readers TO love the entire
Union and not one section Of it. This
Southern iournal-the Times-from which
we quote. concludes its reference to the
Besuyoir incident as follows:
There was no responsive movement on the part
OF "Old independence" but If its cold an mani
mate lips could have been unsealed we may wei
imagine Il would have uttered with joyous itera.
ton: Proclaim liberty and love throughout the
land and unto all the inhabitants thereof"
Nothing could more forcibly illustrate, or elo-
quently voice, the patriotic sentiment OF the en-
tire south than the simple and spontaneous act OF
this little child, whose lessons have been learned
under the roof-tree of Jefferson Davis, the de-
fea'ed, yet dgnifed, noble and illustrious leader
OF the COnfederaey.