Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-27
Mr.. CAVES GRAFTON.
Views of q Correspondent Who Is No
Apologize

Views of q Correspondent Who Is No
Apologize.
To the Editor OF the Dispatch:
1 do not propose to rehash the many
things that have been said about States
rights" southern sentiment. etc, but will
say in the beginning that Mr.. Caves
Grafton was timely and. under the cir
cumstances. Just the thing that should
have been said on the occasion, not so
much in view OF ante-belum sentiment
and practice but In the light Of subsequent
events. The war has been over nearly
thirty years, since the close Of which we
have acted the part OF the conquered In
a most submissive way. We have been
attending TO our own business, saying
comparatively nothing about what has
been said about US. When our orators
have spoken, they have begged the ques-
ton, offered apologies. as II they hoped
that an apology would be taken for a
justification.
IN ITS TRUE LIGHT.
Not single southern historian has pre-
scented our cause in its true light Even
Mr. Stephens wrote more in a spirit of
apology than OF justification. and We have
sat supinely by and waited for an Eng
lishman to. in part, vindicate US. For this
lack OF self-assertion It has been said
that we were justified by reason of the
conciliatory spirit OF the North towards
us. both in sentiment and practice. and
particularly the latter. Has this been the
case?
WHO MADE THE PROFITS.
1t has been urged that the northern
people have come amongst us and. In
part, built up our waste places Grant
this ~ rh0nQa Who baya bean "a
recipients Of the gains? Our Lands have
been sold In many instances for $50 per
acre that are now worth $500 per acre.
Who gets the money! IN almost all in
stances the principal Office is In some
northern city. The principal officers. who
get the profits Of these investments. live
in northern cities and thus these profits.
derived from the so-called building up
of waste places" do us no good. Our
lands have been doomed" by northern
people. and the land companies, who were
always on the ground floor, held their
principal office In northern cities. They
have bought our lands at wholesale, sold
them TO US at retail, and the profits have
gone north. Thus, we have had the
Palace-Car Brigade superseding the Car
pet-Baggers. or course, there have been
honorable exceptions, but these have been
the rules. Up TO the first Inauguration
w ~'i's tiN'ciohd uOl IL DuDlC OlnCt IN the
government OF any prominence was given
to the South. with, perhaps, few ex-
ceptions. Our ministers to foreign courts
were all taken from the North, and thus
foreign sentiment was manufactured
against US, and the tide OF immigration
and capital turned from our doors.
THE FIRST TO RECOGNIZE US.
With all that has been said about Presi-
dent Hayes. his was the first inaugural
ADDRESS after the war that did not Willy
the South. He was the first President
after the war 10 recognize the South and
this only In n limited way. And for even
this he was ostracized by his former ad-
mirers and almost utterly ignored and
forgotten by them. i do not hold with
those who believe that he was ostracized
by reason Of his having been the recipient
OF stolen presidency. do not believe
that those who committed the theft 40
far repented or their action as 10 have
ignored MIR. Hayes because ne accepted
the result OF their action; but il was be-
cause they could not use him as q tool
as they had former presidents, and as
they have subsequently. Down to 1892.
twenty-seven years after the war. we
md that out OF nearly one hundred Off
GERS In and attached to Mr. Harrison's
cabinet, with salaries ranging from 1900
70 %Wo. one was from Mississippi, two
from Missouri, and the remainder from
the North.
TRADUCE US.
Northern histories have been published
and distributed In all parts OF the world.
In which We have been portrayed as
traitors guilty OF treason, "rebels," and
murderers." AT every meeting Of the
Grand Army this Is repeated; at every
unVeiiing the same II true, and even In
decorating the graves of the dead with
flowers, the emblems of innocence and
purity, they. with the pretended hand
OF purity and pity, strew the flowers,
and with slanderous tongue traduce US.
Their press in daily concert heap upon
US slanderous vituperations Commensurate
with the mental power Of the writer to
express; and In all this we have ac-
guessed for thirty years.
RETALIATION.
do not hold to retaliation as a rule.
and certainly do not at the sacrifice OF
any principle; but when retaliation Is
the only means OF vindicating a correct
principle. then I say. retaiiate.
Thirty years OF acquiescence has proved
fruitless. and we have implicitly admitted.
by acquiescence at least. In the time that
our fathers were traitors, guilty Of
treason: were rebels" and that we now
are 'murderers." How long Is this thing
to last? so, viewing Mr.. Caves grafton
merely az an experiment, II cannot hurt
anything. have heard great deal about
the recuperative power Of the South, de-
rived from northern assistance. rejoice In
this. but what Is all this worth II II Is to
be received at the sacrifice Of those prsn-
cipfes which 30 TO make men and ma
tions great?
GROUNDWORK OF SENTIMENT.
would abhor that condition that would
even give me dollwP with its hand and
SANDER me with its tongue. 30. let II be
understood that unless they let " alone