The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-04
IT Is; CIIAEI.ATANRY.
The Suggestion That the Ex-Ccnfeder
ate Soldiers BE pcnsicncd

Mr.. Editor: Coming across tie def
milton of the wo.d charlatan'' in late
approved dictionary it is herewith trans
scribed, "a quack,a mountebGnk AN
assuming, emnty rrctender to knoWl-
edge or skill.
Do you or any of yolt rtad rs know
of State notable" bat it especially
fits? Mcthnks | DO. and the question
is put with view to corroboration G.
an individual opinion. A recent item in
the Geographic news columns OF tao
press strengthens nreconceivrd oo1Vlc
tion. The world is there given to under
stand that one of North Cardinals pseudo
Senators. one of the two. ether has or
is about to introduce n bill in the august
body III which lie sits Git is not written
adorns) having in scope Il general pension
law to include ex-Confcderate soldiers,
or as the word has heretofore been used
by the gentleman's political allies and
affiliators. ''old RGbe,s and Traitors
OF all the cheap JOHN ehar,atanry IN
this chartatan age. commend us to tbiS
for brazen impudence and down light ef-
frontery and affrontery, Bad enough
it was as long as he and his kindred
spirits confined their stage ant cs to their
ebony audiences on the ''forty-acre and
Il mule" line Of rEtiocination. That sort
Of pabulum may suffice for negroes. hut
net for pure. UnhastartliZed "Caucas-
ians." Such contemptihl" t1imble rig
tricks are utterly lost on old Confederate
soldiers constituting the noblest and
most intelligent army that has ever h9n-
ored our frail humanity. They are too
old birds 10 be caught iy such enmty
chaff IS .his. It's an insult 10 their
I. I
charlatan. even were Re the aspiring
head Of the fraternity to expect t4cm 20
do 30.
Whilst these immortal heroes were dar-
ing and enduring more for cause and
country, right and homer than mortal
men ever dlu before this f0ga-wearer
was pqosEmptively inllibing from ns.vse's
bottle treason TO their cause. their color
and their coi,ntry. Al al events hi
later ON record in striSins 10 r1t their
necks ard these Of Their children b..
meath the neg o's heel warrants tha in
fercnca He The seif-constitnted cham
pion of such as these.. Good Lo d, de-
liver MS. No. Mr. Pseudo or so called
Senator you shall not insult Us By your
gratuitous assumption Of ricayune pat
ronaae. Everyone who was end Is tru"
to his coioys. white and the gray, se,s
true va,ne On such cheap clap-trap as
this. he final dodge of diving demh-
gogne Thy dasDise the bill az hey
do its Trainer. Meaningless they lnow
ii 10 be. ms one world b. TO sab isb
teleg auhic line to Mars or the moon
We're the compass OF such Il measure
within the rance of possibility, they are
fully persuaded that voa are net The
man to engineer it, They realize that
Your parliamentary influence in shapin%'
great fundamental measures IS precisely
co-extensiye with your individual vote on
roll call: expressed in high Dutch by the
monosylable nit rendered hy fire.
translatirn into good cid En@lish
'.rshaw." "phew" or ''iddlesticli.''
But if you mrst pose as II Pater Con-
scrintus on the pension Inc, pardon II
suggestion Let MS Old boys alcne. DO
not feed us CT elusive hopes Of a hun
dred millions in pensions. which some
would storn 20 take. even were IT al
tainablc ut your bounteous hands whit Ii
no one believes, and turn attention IN
another INSTRUMENTATION instead of
expansion. Restrict your efforts. IN
most muni6cent patron. to IoEping of
few hundred thousand bounty juDners,
sneaFs. skulkers. b,mmers. roost rabb ~
ard the like who already pres on our v
tals and constitute in the aggregate who'r
the most infarnTs and stupendous hand
of legal2cd swindlers that eyer cureod n
country or an aggregation OF counties in
the sele-s.rle epoch unde@ the head "f
Il pension list: aid the old heroes VIII
followed Lee. ind the .IohnstoDs ard
Jackson and Forrest and Hampton ard
Wheeler will rive YOU II cOni0int Grit
claim to all that won nv recover ID
their behalf, as badly rs the neo'l =
w J. G.