The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-08
Don't, General wheeler.
To tie Editor of the Dispatch.

4 ~ tfe Eultor OF the Dispatch.
| The people OF the United States who
entertain Sincere admiration for General
Wheeler We're gratifed when. several
weeks back he announced his purpose. af-
ter considering the s,tbjec. thosoughly,
eilhfr to resign his military office or give
up his seat in congress. We bneathed
| easier. We did not wish TO see him jeopar-s
| dlzf tae high reputation for courage and
.ln3elfish patriotism which he Ind SO brave
~ Won. We warn MIN, in ali kindness,
that N he shall finally conclude 10 hold
| povh offices, he will establish Il most per-
| nlcious precedent. II one major general
may hold a seat in congress, so may 100.
! The spectacle would shock the theory OF
| our democratic institutions. 1t would lock
too much like Oliver Cromwell eptsrpng
parliament with his soldiers; or too mucn
| like bayonets in our State legislature at
ter the war-a feature Of reconstruction
which General Wheeler has always de-
plored ANA denounced.
| Don't do it. General Wheeler! You have
not sinceiia friend south OF the Ohio.
| or north of 1t. who would not deaply re-
grst such course on your part. 1t has
been said in a spirit of badinage perhaps
that Lieutenant Hobson Kissed his fame
| away" In few days. Rest assured that
| y you decide to sit. a major general in
| the halls of Congress, your fame Will lose
80 PER cent in public estimation. That
major generals coat will stick TO you
through lie like the shirt of Nessus. 1t
WIZ. right or wrong. seem that. after all,
you accepted your military commission, not
toT glory, but for gain not for patriotism.
but for pelf Let some other major gem
eral set this most nernicous example.
That $500 n year for the shoulder straps.
added 10 the $4,000 as congressman, would
be tempting to men o.-s,nall repute, but
YOU are not abla to anord it. Don't do It,
General Wheeler!
In a speech referring 20 the South. In
the senate ten years ago, Hon. George +.
Hoar said:
II know, too, when ] say these things
that am saying Them OF my countrymen.
They have some qualities which | can not
even presume to claim In an equal degree
or the people among whom / myself dwsll
They havo an aptness for con. mand which
makes the Southern gentleman, wherever
he goes, moi a peer only, but a prince.
They lave Il love Of home, they havfl the
best of them and most OF than, Inherited
from the great race from which theg come
the sense OF duty and the instinct of honor
as no other people on the face OF the earth. |
They are lovers Of home They have not |
the mean traits that grow up somewhere In
places where money making is the chief |
end OF life. They have above all, and |
giving value to all that supreme and su-
peru constancy which, without regard TO |
personal ambition. without yielding to the |
temptation Of wealth, without getting tired
and without getting diverted. can pursue a
great public object In and out, year after |
year and generation after generation. In
the great future which the hundred million
and two hundred mllicn who are to inhabt
ami rule this continent are to enjoy the
greatest and most glorious nart. my broth
rem, is to be acted by YOU
Let not him who comes from the South
be first 10 tarnish the fair name bestowed I
by the marnanimous New England states
man Several Confedorats Veterans,