The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-04-17

sage he told them that certain
past sources of public revenue
were no longer available, and that
the Legislature could not indulge
in the previous magnificent rate
of expenditure of public money
without financial disasterl
In the teeth Of this solemn
warning, more than once reiterat-
ed; we have a series of appropria-
tions unequalled for uselessness
and extravaganee in the history of
our State. Gentlemen of the
press If we must have Female
Industrial Colleges, and half a
dozen, more or less" "Uniyersities,r
and Railroad Commissions and
Immigration Commissions, aud
Worlds Exposition Commissions,
and other such expensive orna-
ments and evidences Of progress,
with large P, we must expect
to pay for them. Let us pay up
promptly our two or three per
cent. aud not suffer our exultati, n
to degenerate into lugubrious
wall over the cost of so much
"Progress.n Above all, don't let
us go to abusing "Lowry" and
"Lowryismp about it. Governor
Lowry did his duty in warning the
representatives of the people in
advance. If they, fresh from the
people, thought it proper to go
ahead into debt in the interest of
Progress the Governor was not
responsible. But they say he ought
to have interposed his constitu.
tional power of veto. Which bill,
| gentlemenf We can imagine the
roar of execration that would have
followed a gubernatorial veto OF
any one Of these pet measures OF
extravaganza! Name your bill,
gentlemen, that the Governor
should have vetoed!
l am neither toady enough mol
unjust enough to Governor Lowry
to say that he has been faultless
that he has made no mistake. TC
} say so would be gross flattery
which no man on earth ever dc
served. But in every instance il
which any accusation more def
mite than "Lowryism' has beer
made against him he has beel
most triumphantly vindicated.
Poor TAX PAYER.
, Editor Woodville Republican:
7 l find the following letters in tn
/. Clarion of the 31st, and ask you I
!. republish them because they wi
be particularly interesting to tn
few survivors of the 3Sth Missil
r sippi Regiment in this county an
b State.
For over 20 years we have a
blamed Gen. S. ID. Lee for the fea
full loss my regiment and brigad
sustained in the fight atHarrisburI
and il seems that we have bee
wrong all this time. Gen. lie
: perhaps did not fully appreciat
: the intense feeling entertained b
. the survivors of Mabry's Brigad
because of that fearful blunder, {
= he would not have been silent s
a long. Nevertheless his condu'
y has been that of brave man an
=" true gentleman in thus beAir
y an odium he did not deserve rat
: er than expose the fault of frien
: To properly appreciate the inten'
. feeling of indignation for the Ha
u risburg blunder that animates Il
= survivors, 1t is only necessary
= state few facts. The 3Sth Rel
> ment made the charge that di
e with about three hundred me
: rank and file; forty.four escape
% unwounded. Every field or lii
u officer was killed or wounded. Q
= cept Capt. Jasper Green, now
70 Baptist Minister in Rankin count
The little remnant of survivo
rallied around him In a thicket n
II oyer fifty yards from the entrenc
e. ed line, and a four gun battery
N the enemy.
Q. Col. Mabry ordered him to I
y new the charge. The reply "
IN this, as told to me afterward
g. "Colonel we haye exhausted eve
Is round of ammunition but If y,
o. say so, we will try it with emp
ic guns,r nothing could be mo
H. Spartan like than this. They we
of ordered back and retired in go'
in order.
te We all lost relatives and frient
pi Before | was shot down l saw ty
little brothers, boy soldiers, f
s. with their faces to the front, al
e. they never rose again.
d. 1t is not therefore to be VIC
IT, dered at that we felt bitterly
er wards the author of this awful s:
to rifice; and when l returned
ye service it was the common repC
in in camp that Gen. Lee had caus
n. it against Gen. Forests earns
lit protest.