The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-06-07

al soldiers rest under southern
skies, in a southern country, many
in unknown graves. And when,
on memorial day in the South, the
graves of our dead are decorated,
confederate veterans,
and noble, devoted women strew
flowers over the graves OF the federal
soldiers. If the humane, generous
action Of the people Of this city in
doing honor to the memory of their
old antagonists is denounced as
it would seem to follow
that the decoration of federal
graves by "rebel" hands should be
open to the same criticism, but no
denunciation of southern people for
daring to honor the memory of men
who were once their enemies has
met my eyes. Such unnatural and
bigoted feelings as would prompt
the discordant note on an occasion
of this sort are rarely found among
true men and brave soldiers, and l
have often thought that if the two
great captains who were engaged in
that death grapple in Virginia, had
been left to settle the terms of
peace, each supported by his faith
ful followers, the country would
have had peace, indeed one
honorable alike to victor and van
quished, and which would, l be-
lieve, have prevented the evils
brought about by the politicians.
GAS it is, the South recognizes
and honors the magnanimity of
Gen. Grant toward our great chief,
Gen. Lee, and deplores as an un-
mitigated misfortune the assassina-
tion Of Lincoln. | repeat that the
untimely death Of President Lincoln
was regarded by all thoughtful men
of the South as one of the most Sc
Irious evils which had befallen our
section, and | venture to say that
my southern associates here pres
lent will sustain my assertion. We
know that during the war he de-
Y voted every energy of mind and
e body for restoration of the union,
and that result accomplished, we
, felt that his big brain and his kind
heart would prompt him to deal
kindly and leniently with his fel-
low citizens of the South, for his
highest, if not sole aim, was to see
the union restored, and it was a
flcruel fate that deprived him Of what
he hoped would be the reward OF
lhis labors, and the South of one
who would have been one of her
| strong protectors in her sorest hour
/, Iof need.
r "Some of our northern fellow
/, Icitizens seem to paraphrase the bib
lical question, Can anything good
come out of Nazareth? by applying
!, lit to the South; but, my friends,
we really are not all evil. Put your
self in our place and Judge us from
that standpoint. In the convention
!, which formed the constitution there
were two parties, which held oppo-
,lsite positions-one urging the for
| Imation Of strong central govern
ment, and the other advocating the
doctrine Of state rights. 1t was at
tempted to reconcile these antago-
nistic views by a compromise, by
which it was declared that all pow
ers not delegated to the general gov
,lernment were annexed to the states:
: but, like all compromises, it left
this vital question unsettled, and
from 1887 until 1851 the proper
! construction to be placed on the
; Iclause Of the constitution Just re-
|, ,ferred to has led to constant and
: often angry discussion. This un-
fortunate condition Of affairs was
f|further complicated by the injection
# the question Of slavery into it,
3 and we all know what had been the
r result Of these unhappy differences.
Lancaster, Pa, is enjoying an
: epidemic Of typhoid fever, there be-
cling over one hundred cases under
e|treatment. The conceded source
: of the disease is the city water.
1t is supplied to the reservoirs from
e Concstoga creek, large stream
which gets all the pollution COM
I mon to stream flowing through a
! well populated region. There is
p also on one Of the branches OF the
y creek a glue factory that extends
facilities for the develop
? ment Of bacilli. Slowly but surely
! this country is being educated to
? the folly of taking a city's water
= supply from an open stream with
elout liberation. Ind. Sentinel.
: Anderson Tomason, colored, Of
4 Rockport, died May 18th, aged los
years. OF his twelve children but
i one lived to see him buried.