San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-07
DOG OR LION.

| Inc Houston Post, pesslmlstIc 81
usual, remarks:
1t was given out some weeks age
that the Confederate flags captured
! in the war, now stored in the wal
department, were to be placed on eX
hibition in the National museum
This causes the Helena (MOntana)
Journal, Russell p. Harrison g
paper, TO remark: THAT is where
they belong, and citizens of every sec.
ton of the country would be glad to
view these historic relics" Why,
| certainly; the cOnfederates "wOuld
be glad to view them" as old friends
and EN- blems of a great principle,
while perhaps only the FOrakers of
the other section would be afraid TO
view the dead liOn.'
The allusion to dead lIonn may be
allowed to the under dog in the fight,
but it comes with a mighty poor grace
does this allusion to the government
of the country as Giving dog" If
loyalty to national government and
devotion to country, not a section of
l., .yLstitutes a man cur, then the
Post is welcome to it's defini-
ton There may be immOr-
tai honor in the vain endeavof 70 de-
stroy the best government of the ages,
but history will not so record it. The
Bellville Standard man, who did his
duty as brave confederate soldier
during the war, and who is com Pc
tent to teach the Post from the wis
dom gained by experience, writes ina
very different strain from the Post,
and many have had that paper in
mind when he penned the following:
Ever since the late war there has
been in Texas a large numb Der of the
fireeating class, aided and ahetted
by our 25-cent politicians, who when.
ever Hon. John Hancock was men
toned for official promotion would cry
out, down with him, 10 HI with him,
he was a traitor, etc. The fact that
time proved that ne was right and
they were all wrong seems to
have only sharpened their animosity
toward him. This sort of redheaded
non sense makes the editor of this
paper weary; oh. so weary. Brave
aud true men ought to thank God
that there lived in Texas in 1860 at
least one man who could not be driven
into what he thought was a great
wrong, though all Texas hOwled
death and destruction at his heels"
The Standard states the case III a
nutshell. Time has proved that the
unionists were right and the seces
sionists were wrong, and that Is all
there is about it. You will search
the columns of northern journals in
vain for any examples of such con-
temptious reference to southern SOL
diers. The north has forgotten the
war and buried its anomOsity If it
ever had any long years ago, hut the
Post has neither the large minded
ness to appreciate this msgnanimity
of feeling, nor the decency to respect
its silence. Like hedgehog rolled up
the wrong way, tOrmentlng itself
with its priCkles, it snaps and snarls
in it's i'll humOr when ever the remot-
est reference to the stupendOus blum
der of the south is made. 1t acts
exactly like rattlesnake sounding
its rattIes on every possible and i'm
possible occasion while lying in the
SIN of that prosperity which only the
de feat of its lost cause has made pos
siole. The LIGHT does not expect the
Post to profit by its suggestions or by
those of the "Standard," above re-
terred to, for if the logic of events has
taught it nothing, the voice of reproof
will be barren OF results; but, the
LIGHT does desire to emphasize lis
opinion of mimi 80 lost to all consld-
eratiOns Oe propriety, not to say de-
cency, that it continually strikes at
the hand which has redeemed it from
irretrievsble ruin and saved it from
the consequences OF its own purblind