The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-10-27
TKINLEY'S CHIEF ORGAN, N. Y.
SUN, ATTACKS AND WAN
TONLY ISLANDERS
The Character of the South's
Chieftain-The New Or
leans Daily States Dwells
Editorially on the Subject
in Strong and Unmistak-
able Terms.

The New York Sun has assum-
ed the Office of scavenger of the
Republican party--and it appears
to,be fully qualified for its dirty
work. The meanest and vilest
and dirtiest thing that any news
paper in America has been guilty
of was the late attack by the Sun
of the character of Gen. Robert
Il. Lee.
The most intolerable insult one
can offer people is to seek TO de-
fame and degrade their high
ideals---those whom they have
cause to regard as exemplars of all
that is noble, grand, heroic and
vlrtuous in manhood-and the
people Of the South Of all parties,
not even excepting those Repu-
blicans who are not sunk 40 deep
in bitter partisanism that their
pride is quelched, will re-
sent this insult; and Southern
children will henceforth be taught
to loathe the name of McKinley's
chief organ in the North the New
York Sun.
We are frequently told that
there have been a reconciliation,
sincere and cordial, between the
South and the North, and we be-
lieve that outside of the Republi.
can party that is pretty nearly the
truth. But the party that came
into the world skrieking "the
Constitution is q league with the
devil and covenant with hell"
and which was lulled on the black
breast of its prostitute mother
with the hymn referring to the
American flag, "Tear down that
Haunting liel" will never rid its
bosom of hatred of everything
that is Southern or that is honor
ed and revered by the South.
The party that for ten years
scourged, plundered and devastat-
ed South through the reconstruc-
tion legislation and that is now
planning the curtailment of the
representation of the South IN
Congress, so as to weaken the
power of the South and thus bet
ter enable the Republican party
to work its will on the section
that made under Davis and Lee
so noble fight for the Constitu-
tion which the progenitors of the
Republican party denounced as
"a league with the devil and
covenant with HE'LL" will never
regard the South with other than
an evil eye and a spirit of venge-
ance.
We do not hesitate to declare
that Robert e. Lee was the grand
est man in the history of the hui
man race. Caesar and Napoleon
were no doubt greater generals
than Lee and there were no doubt
greater statesmen. But when we
consider the military career Of Lee
and his high wisdom and add to
those that other essential to great
ness, the moral element, humani-
ty, gentleness, Christian virtue
Lee shines forth as the grandest
character in history. The illus
trious Southern chicftain indeed
stands forth like radiant star in
the armament only less splendid
than He whose glory floods all the
centuries and all the world, and
if Christ died on the Cross and
yet conquered the world, the
character of Lee, which is honor
ed by every true and yirtuous man
and Christian gentlemen, can
easily bear the aspersions of a
journalistic scavenger like the
New York Sun.
If the young men of Louisiana,
too many of whom alas arc en-
poisonend with the virus of COM
mercialism and are disposed to be
led easily by such bosh as the
beauties of protection, the full
dinner pail, and to lend a willing