Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-16
MAJOR WALTERS F. HALLEC81
Handsome and Well Merited CompIius~'at
to the Women OF the south.
Published by Request.


We reproduce the following witt much
pleasure, and especially so because
Major Halleck was gallant Union SOL
der, who had the courage and chivalry
TO repe an insult to Southern women.
He was so disabled by wounds receiv-
ed during the war that he has been
transferred to the retired list and is now
one of the veterans OF the war. In ad-
ton he is an out and out Democrat,
loyal alike to the country, the constitu-
tion and his party. We hope the next
House Of Representatives will make him
doorkeeper:
A few days ago the Public Good, a
paper published at Sing Sing, \. V,
contained the following editorial para
graph:
The Confederate Brigadiers propose
TO erect memorial TO the women OF
the South, who so vigorously seconded
the war of the rebellion, and are look
ing around for fitting statute where
with to surmount the pedestal. If the
projectors will look through their
heather mythology they will find most
appropriate representative of those
they propose to honor in Ate, the
daughter of Jupiter, who is represented
as ''hovering over the heads of mortal
men, everywhere sowing dissentions,
broils and ruin" II ever there were
fends in the guise of angels they were
the women of the South during the
struggle made by that section to destroy
the Union, and Ate was their goddess.
II that fellow who wrote this thought
that il would be accepted without pro-
test In his own section he was badly
mistaken. Major Walter F. Halleck, a
prison twenty-eight years ago, has
written vigorous reply in the James
town, New York, Sun The Major says:
A man claiming American citizenship
who could write and publish such an
article as above referred TO, rejecting
on the ladies OF that section of the
republic that gave US a Mary and Mar
tina Washington, is both a disgrace to
his country and the honorable profess
| sion of journalism, and is more to be
avoided than frothing cur at this sea-
son of the year.
After paying tribute to the valor
| of the confederate soldiers, the chival-
rio veteran who wore the blue, writes:
But IL there was any one thing more
than another that called forth the ad-
miration OF every true American, yes,
the civilized woodworking the late
war, it was the loyalty, fortitude and
devotion shown by the mothers, wives,
sisters and sweethearts of the men who.
from patriotism, entered the new army to
preserve the union, or, who, from prin-
| ciple. espoused the fortunes of their ma
| tive States and the confederacy. But
| in very few instances were
the women of the North, In ad-
dition to the irreparable loss of loved
ones, brought face to face with the
actual horrors OF the battlefield. Their
fathers, husbands, sons were not shot
down in or near their own door yards;
the torch was not applied to their homes
before their eyes; their homes were not
plllaged, robbed by the enemy. Oh,
the women Of the South knew what war
meant with all its horrors. OF course.
they cannot forget it, yet they forgive,
and il this is not proof they are angels
in the guise OF mortals, where on earth
will you find it?
Remember IL was these same ladies of
the South who. just after the war. were
| the first 10 discover that there were
flowers enough In their section of the
| republic TO decorate the graves OF
union and confederate soldiers alike.
This noble and forgiving act will never