New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-14


We regret - observe that "Thc Charleston
News and Courier" instead Of aiming TO con
serve those things which make for peace and
concord between North and South. insists now
and then upon waving the bloody shirt. We
are happy to be able 10 state that il does not
engage in this unnecessary and unwholcsomc
exercise often these days. But why do il at
all? Why should not this excellent journal
devote its energies to the great and good wor,
of developing Charleston, ;. c., and the rest
Of the New South II ought Ia be aware that
every time it turns aside to wave the shirt, cx-
alt the lost cause and 10 maintain the PROPOSE
ton that the men who took up arms against
the Union were not traitors, it il striking a
blow at Southern progress. Companies have
been organized in the South of late which have
for their object to induce those who are pros
pecting for a home or for a field for invest
ment to consider what that section has to offer
1t has much to offer. 1t can hold ont many
tempting inducements to cntcrprisng men.
But we ask 1.-THE News and Courier if il
imagines that Young men of the North are
going to take kindly 10 the invitation AGO
South - so long rs they are given to under
stand that they must expect 10 submit to having
the bloody shirt waved in their faces period
ically in case they accept the invitation?
The special occasion for these remarks is
the article which "The News and Courier pub
lisked a few days ago on Stonewall Jackson.
1t is not an article which is calculated to foster
the Union sentiment, nor is there any reason
why it should be- But it is an article which
most decidedly is calculated to keep alive the
dangerous and unpatriotic spirit that had its
outcome in rebellion against the National au-
thOrity The young men and women Of
Charleston who read this cuIogy on Jackson
and accept it at its face value must believe that
the lost cause was the cause which ought 10
have won and that consequently the assault
upon the American flag, the conspiracy to
wreck the Republic in which Jackson was a
leader, were righteous enterprises. Here is an
extract from this cuogy:
And a. this Memorial Day best stirs the hearts Of
those who once In battle smoke well knew the power
Of great Jackson's name. and while they nger on this
side the river shall ne'er forget 1t. also /, It be-.
TO teach and grand sons TO reply with con
scious pride to those who would scom Us as rebels:
Rebellion. foul dlshonorIng word,
Whose wrongful blight oft has stained
The noblest cause that tongue or sword
OF mortal ever lost gained
fOr no man neeu DHls1 Indt MS ancestor was
soldier Of the Confcderacy for which Jackson died
That Is a patent Of nobility granted by history
No one man need boast his deeds. the Who'll,
army. from commander-in-chicf to private was sanc-
fed by glow OF patriotic ardor that made Of each
paladn, and when the army was crushed at last Ap
pomattox became more famous than Thermopvlae or
Marathon. Let the rising generation ss IL
gaxes the living bronze that embodies the memories
OF the Lost Canse, be impressed with the lesson which
can never be too strongly enforced-that n a. b.to- IN
be right and fail then 10 be wrong and succeed
Time softens asperities Jackson was a GAL
LIANT and accomplished soldier, and there is
general disposition the country over on the
part Of loyal men to remember only that fact
and not to dwell upon the part which he PLAYED
in the great struggle. Why does not "The
News and Courier" adopt the same conciIiatory
policy? The majority of the people of this
country regard Jackson as a rebel and traitor.
But they would consent to lay those terms upon