Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-04-10
ANOTHER WAR RELIC.

Liz plIuSlpdl, IL uOb Ouly ODl6C-
ton, urged by a number of southern
journals against Chicago when the
question of locating the proposed
worlds fair was yet to be decided,
was that the Windy City was too
sectional; that its people did not rep
resent broad and national spirit,
and that Southern people would not
feel at home or receive due recogni-
ton, or be received with that frater-
nal spirit which should characterize
the different sections of the union.
But, as, unfortunately, the managers
of the citizens committee in st.
Louis in trying to secure the hold
ing of the fair in the Mound City
committed the mistake of issuing a
sectional appeal to southern mem
bers of congress, southern boards of
trade, southern chambers of COM
MERGE and southern municipal coun-
ellis to favor st. Louis, a great many
southerners were induced to favor
Chicago in order to avoid the charge
of being influenced by this sectional
appeal. There can be no doubt,
however, that it would have been
much better for this section if either
st. Louis or New York had been
chosen. It would then be an expo
sition Of the entire strength, feeling
and impulse of the nations energy
before the other peoples and ma
tons of the earth. But as it is, a
Southerner will hardly feel welcome
in Chicago. In the first place, if
the people of Chicago were not rab
idly and narrowly sectional, such
miserable bloody-shirt sheets as the
Tribune and Inter-Ocean newspa-
pers would find it a precarious living
there. And, now, that Chicago has
secured the worlds fair the Chicago
people propose to get up a little
chamber of Horrors" annex to it.
1t was announced more than year
ago that they had purchased the old
Libby Prison at Richmond, Va, and
moved it there as a war museum.
They have just purchased the old
engine house at Harper's Ferry,
which the crazy assassin and horse
thief, old John Brown, used as head
quarters when he went on his raids
into Virginia trying to incite slaves
to get up at midnight and butcher
the wives and children of their
white masters. With this and Libby
Prison and other war relics the Chi
cagoans expect to have quite an in
terest1ng collection at the worlds
fair. The Chicago Herald strongly
condemns the movement, but sug
gests that if there is to be a ''Cham-
Der of Horrors" in connection with
the fair it should be made as COM
plete as possible by procuring
piece of the rope with which Ben
Butler hanged Mumford, the one
which throttled John Brown and
the one which shut off the wind of
Guiteau; also the pistol which killed
Lincoln and the one that finished
Garfield. ''The bloody-shirt,'; says
the Herald, 'would be an opposite
and harmonious feature. The bas-
tile in Washington ought not to be
omitted, and should be reproduced
in line with Libby and Anderson
vile, and in it should be placed
Stewards little hell and a list of
those who died in this loyal prison.
A bone from the skeleton of some
bountyjumper, the jawbone of some
one of the stay at-home patriots who
urged the "boys" to go forward,
should not be omitted from the col
lection. A piece of the hole in
which the bodies of the rebel pris-
oners at Camp Douglas were
dumped as they died would be in
keeping with the remainder and the
general scope of the accumulation,
and would add to it in agreeable va