The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-03-01
Southern Regard for National Inter-
eStS.
To the Editor of The Republican.


Ny apology for again trespassing
on your valuable space is that we
have now had practically one year
of the benefits of Democratic ad-
ministration and the result is that
business is 50 completely democrat
lied that there is little else left for
me to do.
My business is less than half
what it was. and what sales | make
is at a reduction equal to about 12g
per cent, off of former prices.
| presume that when the Rebels
and Democrats have succeeded in
their determined effort to destroy
the industries Of the Nation they
will be almost as well satisfied as If
they had destroyed the Union it.
self.
1t seems utterly absurd to see the
very same men, who few years ago
were moving heaven and earth to
overthrow the Govern ment, now sit
ting in authority complacently en-
acting laws for the very purpose of
destroying the business of the coun-
try and in that way seemingly hop
ing to accomplish the ruin they left
unfinished in 1865
will give an example or two:
In December, 1862, when Gen
eral Bragg, at the head of the Rebel
army, was lying at Murfrees boro
just before the battle of Stone
River there was a gay time at head
quarters. 1t was the occasion of
the marriage of the famous raider
and guerilla chief John Morgan. |
quote from reliable history:
jeff Davis (who was on a visit
to Bragg was at the wedding.
Most of the principal army officers
were present. The ceremony was
performed by General Polk who put
on the cossack for the occasion; and
the merry party found a means of
increasing their enjoyment by dane
ing on floor carpeted with Amer
lean flags
JEFF Davis was there with the
principal officers Of Bragg's army.
They gratified their intense hatred
Of this Government by dancing on
the emblem Of our nationality.
The chances are that some Of
these very men are in Congress to-
day urging the passage of this spoil
alton bill which is to complete the
wreck of our industries. | don't
believe they are true to the country
now any more than they were when
they danced on the flag.
Again: The Rebel authorities
had some 10000 Union prisoners
whom the chances of war had plac-
ed in their hands. They were
penned up in a stockade at Ander-
sonvlle and kept there naked,
starving, without shelter, with no
water except a dirty creek that con-
tanned the filth Of a Rebel camp
above the prison. They were com
PEELED to burrow in the ground like
rats in order to secure some protec-
ton from the clements. Some
$4,000 OF these brave defenders
were carted out and buried, having
been deliberately starved to death
by the Rebel authorities.
Four members of the company to
which | belonged were captured and
sent to Anders0nville in 1864, but
only one ont of the four ever re-
turned-the other three were starved
to death
Now, ! say, | don't feel happy
when | see the red handed traitors
who perpetrated this horrible out
rage on civilization sitting in the
halls Of Congress legislating to
make hewers Of wood and drawers
of water for the English manufac-
turers out Of the citizens of this re-
public.
On the 31st day of March, 1865,
advancing from Dinwiddic Court
House to Five Forks, our soldiers
marched, skirmishing all the way,
over ground which had been fought
over the day before when our caval-
ry had been driven back, | saw a
number of our soldiers who had
been slam in the previous days bat
tie, and in every instance their
bodies had been stripped of their
clothing and left stark naked in
the woods to rot or to be devoured
by hogs or other animals. This l
saw, and the day following | saw a
number of Confederate slain lying
along a road and in the woods, and
out of respect for the dead, and as
atfording some protection from the
elements their blankets had been
spread oyer them to screen their
CHASTITY faces.
What a contrast! On the one
side humanity; on the other, rank
fiendishness and barbarsm.
1t was these things which inspir-
ed the breasts of the traitors that