Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-05-19
Treason Not Dead.


A great deal has been written and said
about reunited country; if the senti-
mental statements of certain orators and
newspaper writer's are to be believed there
is no longer any north, any south, but one
reunited country the blue and the gray
have clasped hands in fraternal greeting.
However much such state may be
desired, we fear that its consummation is
is not yet A copy of the Enquirer
Sum-" published in Columbus, Ca, Sun
day May 2, contains report of what is
styled an eloquent memorial address"
giving ''the full text of the splendid effort
Of Mr.. Robert Howard" given in the
opera house in that city on the annual
confederate memorial day This address
shows at least two things: first that the
much talked of ''fraternal spirit does not
ABIDE in the breast of every confederate !;
and second that actual treason is not dead,
for when any man who lives under the pro-
lection of the Stars and Stripes, eulogizps
in warmest terms the emblem of the s.lost
cause" there is still treason in the heart.
We give few specimen paragraphs
from this remarkable deliyerance.
s.In lifting the veil from the past, that
you may gaze upon its dark and bloody
pages, l do so in no spirit of hostility to
| the general government of which we are
now part, let it be understood from
necessity, however, and not from choice.
l would reopen no partially healed wounds
to have them bleed afresh and thus bleed
ing again, become more painful, but that
this generation may hear from an active
participant in that gigantic struggle,
truths that they have never as yet learned
from the partial and utterly false histories
as have been published from northern
standpoint and taught in our schools"
According to Yankee parlance, l am
an unreconstructed rebel. / trust may
some day be resurrected and that in the
beautiful beyond, can say all is we'll,
but should live until | am reconstructed
as understood and enunciated by the
masses Of the north, and the little two for
five demagogues and time serving sy-
cophantic politicians OF the south, seeking
office and notoriety at the sacrifice of man
hood by licking the hand that smites them,
under the mock plea of policy, l will
never die. thank them for the appella-
| ton, unreconstructed rebel! IT'S sweet
music to my ear"
Ever and anon we hear of some little
scalawag Uriah Heap, under the inspira-
ton OF mellow wine, prostituting manhood
Some one else's however, for he has none
of his own, by pandering to northern senti-
ment and tanaticism, actually humbling him.
self the dust, saying to the north Oh !!
we are SO glad you whipped us; makes
himself hoarse singing the praises and glo-
ries OF the restored union, loves the beauty
and grandeur OF the stars and stripes that
+, float 'o'er the land of the free and the
home OF the demagogue and office-seeker,
and says to odd Glory: Oh! just let me
touch your hem and l shall be saved--from
hard work. and get fat job from the gov
ernment. All is not gold that glitters,
nor is everything that wears breeches a
man."
Grand old flag; do love it? Does the
young mother love her blue-eyed babe !?
Does the smile from its dimpled cheek, the
first word, mama, from its cherry lips
arouse within her emotions which she can
not express So does the sight of
this flag stir my heart to its very depths !;
its life though brief was brilliant and i'm
perishable fame will linger around its spot
less folds as long as true manhood and no
BILE womanhood shall dignity life. Full
many time mid bayonets thrust and saber
strokes with countless mimic balls singing
high alto to the death making bass of the
booming cannon have seen it carried to
victory. As we fuIled it in honor thirty.
two years ago, SO we again to-day fold it,
stained only by the blood of its martyrs
who di d to defend it."
Does any sane reader believe for a min
ute that in this mans opinion at least there
is not still north and a south? No one
who has studied the situation or travelled
or lived in the south doubts that this Rober
Howard has large following, and that ,
great deal of the "no north, no south
talk is pure sentiment with but little foun
dation in truth.