The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1895-10-12
FROM WASHINGTON
Comes Another Truly Interest
ing and Spicy Letter From
Mr.. Percy l.. Moore.
Items, Personal and Otherwise
Grouped Together in Good Style.
Senator f. c. Walthall's Chickamauga
Speech Highly EuIogized in
Washington.
The Writer Wants to Know What IL to
Become of the "Pops" in Mississippi.

WASHINGTON, D. c. Oct. 8. 1895.
Editors Grenada Sentinel:-The first
icy touch OF autumn crowds the absent
countryman's mind with thoughts Of
home. The din and noise of the me
tropolis, the constant rolling Of car
wheels and clatter of horses feet on
paved streets, the great chimes
and church bells, towering steeples.
Washington monuments and capitol
domes have no attraction for the coun-
tryman in the city when he knows that
persimons are falling and 'possums are
walking at home. There is absolute
ly nothing that furnishes such de
lightful food for thought as the recol-
lectons of the Pleasures of the good
old plain, unpretentious country home.
Having visited some of the great
cities of our land and rubbed up
against some of our greatest states
man, philosophers and scholars, we
have often contrasted their great lives
with those of some of our own dear
Southern countrymen-farmers, law
yers, merchants. editors-and except
ing the editors, the countrymen have
far the advantage of the comparison.
About the only difference is, the states
man piles upon himself cares, troubles.
responsibilities honors, glories and
sins. lies down and dies, and gives
some poor printer a job setting the
type of his glorious biography; while
in the case OF the countryman, he dies
a modest, unpretentious death, is
buried, soon forgotten, and leaves the
poor printer to still look to the dead
statesman for a living. But When
they all meet in the beautiful beyond
there is no difference in the brillancy
of their crowns-including the poor
printers. Speaking Of the dead re-
minds US Of the Populist party in Mis-
sissippi. Guess the Democrats will
give it decent burial and pack its
old clothes away with lock Of Frank
Burkitt's hair in layers Of camphor.
One thought brings up others. Gen.
William Malone, perhaps one Of the
hest known public men in America, is
lying at the point Of death in this city,
and ere this reaches you may have
crossed over the river TO rest under
the shade Of the trees. Despite Gen.
Mahone's varied politics, there still
fingers in the breast Of every true
Southerner a feeling Of great respect
for the man, because he was once a
brave and gallant Confederate soldier.
That fact alone covers a multitude OF
sins Poor Gen. Malone, he will ride
no more negroes up to Salt Peters
gate. hitch them on the outside and
walk himself in.
"On fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac Of the dead"
The ceremonies at Chlckamauga has
been the subject OF much favorable
comment in Washington, and none OF
the great speeches there received
more praise and compliment than the
one OF our own bloved. brave and
chivalrous statesman, soldier and citl-
zen. Senator Edward c. Walthall:
They all praise it for its honesty and
it's candor. They say that while he is
willing for the ''past to bury its dead, :"
and heartily unites with all in cement
ing the Union. he upholds the honor
and the manhood Of his comrades-at-
arms. by telling the world that they
were right. and while accepting the
new conditions. he reverenced and re-
snecteG the "lost cause" and the he
roic efforts of his fellow-countrymen to
save IL.
Just as the North and South were be
ginning to feel good over the conserva
tism of both sides exhibited at Chicka-
maupa, the historic old Liberty Bell,
bought principally with the blood Of
Southern soldiers, was on its way to
the Atlanta Exposition. and while the
car stopped at Petersburg, Va. en-
route, where the citizens had assem-
bled to receive and pay respect to the
old proclaimer of American independ-
euce. a member of the Philadelphia eS-