The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-28
A Paner With a nsisston.

The Mail and Express, edited and
owned by Col Elliott Shepard, has a mis-
sion. IL is to stir up bad feeling between
the north and the south. Nearly all the
other republican papers, in dealing with
matters relating TO the south, have
some regard for the truth. The Mail and
Express ignores the truth aud publishes
Misrepresentation and even downright
falsehoods. 1t seems 10 be controlled by
the spirit Of evil, for it misses no oppor-
tunity to stir up strife, and yet each day it
publishes at the head Of its editorial col
umns text from the Bible. This pretense
of being good while doing evil is tie mean
est kind Of hypocrisy.
The account Of the ceremonies at the I'M
| yelling of the Grady statue in Atlanta
which the Mail and Express published was
not only false, but was evidently intended
to create an impression uufavorable to the
south. 1t was a poisonous article and was
clearly dictated by a bitter hatred Of the
southern people. How an editor who pre-
tends to be an honorable man, and who is
permitted to associate with self-respecting
and honorable people, could have admitted
such an article to his columns is something
that fair-minded men cannot understand.
In our dispatches yesterday there was
report of a meeting Of the Northern Society
at Atlanta, together with the resolutions
adopted. The members are all northern
men who are now residing in the south
Many Of them are grand army men. In
their resolutions they say:
THE Northern Society of Georgia de-
| nounce in unmeasured terms the practice
| of certain ultra publications sending IN
| scrupulous representatives 10 this state for
the purpose of originating such articles as
fanatics and uncompromising partisans de-
mand to satisfy an abnormal appetite for
food suited to make them strong in their
| efforts to scatter frebrands of sectional
hate. This action of the Northern Society
of Georgia has particular reference to the
reports associated with the unwilling Of the
Grady monument recently published in the
New York Mail and Express, which re-
ports we denounce as fake in details,
| worthy to rank only as the efforts of a Der
| son devoid of principle and honor"
Sentiments like the foregoing, coming
| from northern men, republicans as we'll as
democrats, would make almost any man,
however hardened, feel that he could not
look honorable men in the face until he had
repaired the wrong he had done, but they
will have no effect upon Col. Shepard. 1t
is not improbable that he enjoys having
aroused so much indignation. The dishon-
| orable means by which he aroused it do not
trouble his conscience in the least.
Nothing apparently gives him so much
satisfaction as publishing falsehoods about
| the southern people-falsehoods which tend
| TO injure the material interests of their
| section. He thinks it is the mission Of his
paper to carry on the war which ended
more than quarter of century ago. And
| il Is a cowardly kind of a war which he
conducts, because the only weapon he uses
is falsehood. He does the south some dam
age because reiterated falsehoods will find
believers. There is some satisfaction in the
knowledge, however, that the country IS
getting pretty well acquainted with him.
and is beginning to rate him at his true
worth.
As a matter of fact there was no exhibit
ton of ex-confederate sentiment at the un-
yelling ceremonies. One little draped con
federate flag carried by a confederate
Vebsrans' association Of which Mr.. Grady
was member was the only reminder of the
"lest cause" that was visible. And the
reasons for the presence of that flag were so
satisfactory that no one except the editor of
the Mail and Cypress objected to it. The
southern people, however, conscious of the
integrity of their purposes, can suffer no
permanent harm from willful misrspresen-
tation and falsehood.