The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-04
ANDREWS AND HIS LECTURE
How Browns President Is Regarded
by Intelligent Ex-COnfederates.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
All over the State of Virginia, and per-
haps all over the South, the papers have
lauded Prof. Andrews, of Brown University
over his eulogy on Gen. r. E. Lee, delivered
in Chicago The Daughters of the Confed-
eracy at their meetings commend Dr. An
drews highly and the Confederate veterans
gloat over the assertion, He die not touch
the cup as did Grant, Hooker or Phil
Sheridan" And they all agree that DR..
Andrews's expression, His cause was not
the lost cause as much as is suspected is
a cautious acknowledgment that the South
had right on her side and that the people
Of the North are beginning to see it, which
may lead to recompense being made for
slaves freed and property destroyed.
Yet while they all applaud Andrews's re-
marks regarding Lees mental and moral
character, thew are very silent regarding
that part of his speech which says: "All
that was good in his cause has been grated
into our laws and our Constitution"
heard an eX-Confederate colonel remark on
this subject
We'll, think that Yankee professor has
stopped over when he asserts that the good
points IN the Confederate cause were adopt
ed into the United States Constitution. His
structor of Rhode Island youth. If he looks
at his Schoolbooks he will find that the
twelfth amendment to the Constitution was
adopted in 1904 and this was the last one
adopted until after the collapse of the Con-
federacy. In December, 1865, the thirteenth
amendment to the Constitution, freeing the
slaves, was declared adopted, and since
then the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments have been adopted, giving the ne
groes the right to vote and securing them
in that right. Now, these are the only
or Cd n m
since the days of the lost cause and DR..
Andrews is casting an unwarranted ret1ec-
ton on General Lee if he asserts that he
was in favor of those amendments, and he
makes a missta tement if he asserts that
there is anything in the laws of the Confed-
crate States or the expressions of the peO-
pie that would favor such amendments. The
South fought for what 1t considered its
rights, one of which was the right of its
in the territories of the United StateS-the
common property of the people. Such men
as Prof: Andrews-who, I'll bet, is red.
hot Abolitionist-were always picking at and
abusing our institution, they called 1T.
If he was old enough at the time of the
'unpleasantness' he was careful enough,
from his State, General Burnside, when he
made his visit to Fredericksburg. The fact
is Andrews is trying to advertise his school,
and is fishing for Southern scholars. But
when he gives US States rights taffy 1t
makes us laugh. If, as he says, the Su-
preme Court has decided that our doctrine
of States rights was correct and constitu-
tional. all 1 have to say is that it is a devil
iSh pity they didn't find it out thlrty-SeVen
years ago; it would have saved the lives OF
many a thousand gallant men. But We are
satisfied with President Clevelands way or
interpreting the States rights doctrine,
when lie sent the military to Quell the riots
in Chicago and open traffic and a Demo-
cratic Congress applauded him for it.. Ac-
cording to Andrews we had the right to Sc
cede but they didn't know it up North
and now that we don't want to secede An
drews says the Supreme Court has found
that we are entitled to that privilege. L
think Andrews could make better headWay
describing a clam-bake than analyZlng the
records of military men, especially or men
who had not a single instinct in common
with men of his class. Do you suppose
there is a professor in any college in V1r-
sinia who in delivering a eulogy on General
Meade in Philadelphia, would be so base as
to reflect on the private habits OF any
Southern generals or cast renecGon on
them? We liked and respected General
Grant and even if we did not, we would
not consider that we were adding to the
laurels of General Lee by uncalled-for as
pensions on the character of his military
antagonist. AS one of my friends said,
State and [ say that It Ill becomes Rhode
Island Yankee to strike at the hand that
saved him. For we all know that If 1t had
not been for Grant and Sherman and Sher-
idan and the Western troops, d1nerent
tale would have been told. For had they all
remained at home like the Andrewses, and
left the New England States to go 1t alone
as fhey had provoked hoStiitieS, Rhode ISL
and would now be hole in the ground.
And these are generally the sentiments
of ex-Confederate officers regarding An
drews and his lecture
WILLIAM e. DOYLE,
Late Adjutant Seventeenth Indiana
StevenSburg, Va, April z.