The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-20
CONFEDS in CONGRESS
SENT TO lEGlSlATE AGAINST
THE NORTH.
they Control the Democratic Majority
Vote and All Congressional Action-The
Democratic PartJ as "a Record-Breaker-
To Manipulate Co ming Elections.
"Colonels" I'm Control.


Mr.. Charles Edgeworth Jones, OF
Augusta. Ca, writes an interesting
letter to Senator Walshs newspaper,
the Augusta Chronicle, on the rapid
disappearance of prominent Confeder-
ate officers from the arena of national
politics. Mr.. Jono is the historian of
the Confederate Survivors Associa-
tion. In commenting upon Mr.. Jones
list the Augusta Chronicle remarks:
They are passing away. The charge f.
so frequently made by the Republican
press. or that portion OF It which likes u
stir up prejudice and discord, that present
legislation Is ruled by Confederate briga-
diers, that the facts set forth In Mr. Jones'
article are timely and interesting Our
Republican friends are shut up TO one or
two conclusions. Either they are wlllfully
misre presenting facts. or else IL takes a
very few sou hern brigadiers to control
the action of Congress
The twelve names mentioned by Mr..
Jones do not make mplete list of
those "who distingui he'd themselves
in the military aid civil annals of the
COME 1eracy" and who remain In ma
tional halls upholding in the present
as they strove to do in the past, the
rights and interests OF the section Of
which they are the honored represen-
tatives.
Confederate soldiers distinguished
themselves in lower grades of military
rank than that of Brigadier General.
In Mr.. Jones' list we find no mention
of Senator George, who was Briga-
der General of Mississippi troops; of
Senator Daniel, Adlutant General Of
Jubal Early's stat; of Senator Roger
.. Mills, for merly Colonel of the Tenth
Texas; of Senator Berry, OF Arkan as,
who got to be a Second Lieutenant,
and lost leg at Corinth; of Senators
Jones of Arkansas, Blackburn and
Lindsay of Kentucky, and Pasco of
Florida, all OF whom distinguished
themselves on the Southern side dur
ing the war.
Nor does the historian of Confede-
rate survivors take account OF the fifty
three Confederate veterans besides
Gen Wheeler, of Alabama, who are
members of the House of Representa-
tives in the Fl ty-third Congress, in
Guiding eight Colonels and Lieutenant
Colonels.
The fact is that from the thirteen
States of Alabama, Arkansas, FL rida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Vir-
ginia, not less than seveuty-six OF the
present Senators and representatives
served on the Confederate side during
the war of the rebellion.
The total representation Of these
States is only l42, 50 that considerably
more than half of the whole number
are Confederate veterans, survivors Of
actual service in the field against the
Union. When we con ider that aim st
thirty years have elapsed since the
end OF the war, and that many South
ern States and districts are now repre-
sented by men who were babies when
the sighting was on, the pr portion Of
Southern military ard naval heroism
yet in Congress is charitable. 1t con-
tr Is the 81 utnern Democratic vote,
the Southern Democratic vote controls
the majority party, and the majority
cont { Is legislati on.-New York Sun.