The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-09-06
EDITOR snBPARDs INTERVIEW.
Mississippi's Reply to the Editor Of the
New York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express,
Without laying before our readers
the details Of AN interview of Col.
Il. E. Shepard, editor of the New
York Mail and Express, during the
meeting Of the Convention of the
National Editorial Association at
Detroit, Mich, last week, and leav-
ing our readers to imagine for the
present the kind Of language that a
Northern South-hater is capable of
using, we publish the kind of
retaliation used by the Mississippi
delegation, published in the De.
troit Journal of August, 2Sth ult.,
in which the offensive interview
had appeared
We, the undersigned delegates,
representing the Mississippi Press
Association IN the National Edito-
rial Association, wish to state that
the interview from Col. Elliott f.
Shepard published in the Journal
yesterday evening is untrue from
beginning to end in reference to
The South. If Col. Shepard is a
representative ''patriot" then we,
Of Mississippi, wish to say that we
have no Such patriots in our coun-
try. Col. Shepard may not know
in his New York home, as we'll as
we in our Southern homes, that the
war is over. We bear no mallce,
no hatred, no ~ill-feeling for our
Northern friends, who have, from
The time we left our homes, extend
ed to us warm, cordial greetings.
10 them, and all others who have
so generously shown their warm.
true American friendship. we will
carry back to Our homes many
fond recOllectiOns Of our visit TO
the great west. Should we ever be
so fortunate as to visit the east, we
dare say, that our reception (barr-
ing Col. Shepard) would only be
eqnaled by that of Detroit, the me.
tropolis of Michigan. We are sur
prlsed that the Erming Journal
should al this time be a party TO
such an Insult lie the Southern del
egateS. We hesilIed in making
this statement, but in the name Of
our country, our homes and the
great American Republic, we deem
our duty, and with this leave the
Colonel, who gained his title by
never smelling gundowder, in the
hands OF the American people,
who, we trust will bury him as
his ign0mini0us statements will al
low.
=. X. MAYERs, Pascagoula DEMOCRAT
STAR, Scranton, Miss.
j.. H.. DUKE, Kemper Herald, Scooba,
J. G MCGUIRE, Yazoo City Herald,
Yazoo City, Miss.
Col. Shepard takes decided eX-
to some of the statements
attributed TO him in The published
interview. The editor Of the New
York Mail and Express took pains
10 say last night to a Free Press
representative that, during the in
5ervlew, the expression "bloody
was not used.
Gen Sherman did not think and
dld not say, declared Mr.. Shep-
lrd, that he thought that the
southern people are ds traitorous
IS ever, and that there is no pa
riotiSm among them.' What | did
was that Gen. Sherman had
a very witty letter propos- I
ng in substance TO take a hundred {
thousand of Sherman's bummers
md capture Augusta with them, if !
he Augustans had not been al
captured to their hearts con. S
ent.' Gen. Sherman is hopeful of |
The South grow more and I
nore patriotic and loyal, and any
Their sentiment might die out en- q
rely. S
81 did not say that the people of q
lie South will never become pa. {
nor anything that could be l
OnSlrued To that effect |