The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-04-24
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Because IHE LOB has lntlmateu, III
language employed for its force rather
than for its beauty, that the Just
southern claims should be paid. many
papers North and West, papers for years
defending and applauding the reckless
looting of the public treasury by the
pension thieves, throw up their hands,
gasp and yell bloody murder" The
| Lincoln, Nebraska Journal, INDUCES in
this bit of logic:
Colonel AL FAIR aROTHER has broken out
anew with his a peals to the fiery southern
heart and is being quoted at some length 10
the New York papers 1t is generally UNDER
stood that if there had been two or three more
heroes like COLONEL F~AIRBROTHER IN com
mand o. the brave sOuthrOns uuring our late
unpleus n ness, things wOuld have g ne en-
tirely different and the pension commissioner
at Washington wonld have been paying out
the money Of the country TO the men who
wo e the gray.
Tn re are SO many things of this sort that
our southern brethren have reason Il regret
as they look back to the mistakes of 81 TO %.
that perhaps this circumstance has not struck
them with the force it ought to. But as the
C lionel develops mis- genius for war aaud ra-
pine in the columns of the THE DURHAM,
NOR CAROLINA, GLOBE, the cOnfedeI ate
brigadiers will begin to see their most fatal
error in withholding the Of the
southern hosts so long from COLONEL FAIR
BROTHER, late of Nebraska.
And all the papers seem to forget that
the southern Claims-thOse honorable
dues, were presented years ago. And
| with charming candor the republican
congress has always pigeon holed them
all, without inquiry, without one mo,
meut Of investigation and with no de
except to see that the South got non Of
its dues.
There are claims on file which are
fraudulent, no dOubt-yet one the less
fraudulent than a hundred times as many
claims presented and paid with interest
TO the Northern side of what has been
accepted as a common government.
The pension sharks-pUtting to shame
the history Of JONATHAN WILDE in his
palmiest aud most successful days, have
never been checked in their wholesale
raid upon the treasury millions of fraud
ulent claims have been paid to alleged
government cOntractOrs-and the north
ern press had aided and abetted all the
thieves and scOundrels who had the i'm
pudence to present an imaginary bill.
1t is lot a question as to whether
FAIRBROTHER is late of Nebraska or late
of kalamaZoO-it is a question of eternal
Justice and living here where the bum
mers and uniformed highway robbers
held full and u%ndisputed sway; where
burned homes after the war had ended :;
where they bothered men, women and
children as they were returning from the
iendish and brutal march which they
made with SHERMAN to the GIVE hap
pen to know that thousands of men are
entitled to compensation.
1t was no war measure to burn and pill
lage after the war had ended-yet those
sneaking incendiaries did it, and did it
with the sanction of their superior officers
in the field and received applause from
the higher authorities in Washington.
And so THE GLOBE says that now
we have a democratic congress-cOmplete
and solid in both branches that we have
a democratic president and all that is
necessary, the southern gentlemen will
receive even handed justice-though so
long delayed!
And they should!