The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1898-07-09
WHY THE DESCRIMINATION:

wHYTHE DISCRIMINATION:
The News and Courier calls the at
tention of representatives of tha South
in Congress to what appears ali IN
warranted discrimination against the
volunteers of the South. Not single
regiment or military organization OF
any kind frsm thei South has been
ordered to Cuba, and our contempo-
rary adds point to this by showing
that "two regiments from Pennsyl'
vanis, two from Wisconsin, one from
Ohio, one from Illinois, one from
Massachusetts, and oRe from Rhode
Island, constituting a force Of about
5000 mep, under command of Gen.
Wilson, were On the way from Chicka-
mauga and Camp Alger" to Santiago
to reinforce Gen. Shafer. These
regiments were in Charleston at
the time the article in the News
and Courier appeared. BESIDES,
these regiments, an llllnels
regiment anda a District of Columbia
regiment had already embarked at
Tampa for the front. Our contempo-
rary continuing says: "The lst
South Carolina regiment was left
sbottled up like CerTera's fleet at
Chickanauga without having received
a single gan, or a knife, or fork, or
q canteen, or kaspsack or shirt" to
equip them for service. Besides al
this it was noted, 'Gen. Brooks corps
will soon go to Porto Rico, but the
South Carolina regiment will not be
in that corps either"
If the South Carolina troops were
the only ones G6ghted from the South
the discrimination would not so con-
spicususly reveal the sectional lines,
bat xs the News aad Courier very
correctly says, the same thing is true
of every southern regiment. All OF
the irst eonasads seat to Cuba were
sron the serthern States, and even
this wcula not have excited any con-
ment or surprise, bat now uhsa rein
fereements' are going to the fr1nt,
again not 3 regiment seath Of Ohio Is
sent to the front. Our contemporary
is yery puzzled to know the
reason for this strange conduct of the
~sr, and it makes a seoa point when
it says that 1t can't bs that the South
has not furnished the volunteers. The
South has responded to the call Just
>as prompt as the North.
i'll is hoped that this war will do
much 10 wipe sut sectional lines, but
if he sectional lima is to be drawn IN
the composition of the army of inva-
sien, and the South is not given an
equal chance with the North, the war
will tend to emphasizs sectional lines,
instead Of oeiteratins them.
We do not agree with the News aud
Courier that s'ne adequate explanation
can be offered for it.
The real explanation is that the
Government has not been prompt in
eauipping the regiments. Many OF
the Northern States ksre been making
large appropriations to equip their
quota ofitreops, and before the war
began they supported their State mill
,tsry organizations literally by annual
appropriations, and the South has not
dcne 10. Now when war actually be-
gins, the North is ready, and the South
IS not. inexperienced quartermasters,
with political pail, have been given
positions, and the consequence is that
the Gevsrnmsntsis not eqalppins her
soldiers. The News Csprier's
criticism should be Direct" towards
the tardiness in esuippi1g Gle South
eru regiments, and not because they
have net been sent to the front. The
truth IS they are in no condition to 90
to the front.