The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-01
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
A NUMBER OF MATTERS TREATED
IN AN INTERESTING MANNER.

IN AN INTERESTING MANNER.
The Evnns-ChandIer Controversy
Commented On-Letters From sn-
vannnh Respecting Gen. Nc
GIashnn-TheN Wrang1e I'm the vir-
sinia Constitutional Convention
Over the Word "God'' - ReU <k0n
of History-Referencc TO One of
Americas Foremost Pulpit Ora
tors-Mrs. NJ. e. RObertsou's Letter
and Some Comments Upon 1t.
other Matters of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa. Maitland, Fla, Aug.
31.-The letter of Veteran Grovenstein,
from the Georgia Confederate Veter-
ans Home. in last Sundays Morning
News, seems to be an Endorsement of
the charges in the Augusta Chronicle,
to which / referred two weeks ago,
and to which President Calhoun made
objection. / try not to be hasty. or
unjust, and it now appears that / was
right, much as / regret the fact.
Gen. Beaureguard and Lieut.. Gep.
Early won an unenviable notoriety as
commissioners for the infamous Louis
lana Lottery. And now it appears that
this concern still exists. with head
quarters in San Francisco, CAL, and
the drawings in Honduras. Gen. w.
l.. Cabell, of Texas, like Beaureguard
and Early. an old West Pointer and
army officer, is now the commissioner
for the drawings. AS he is lieutenant
general for the Trans Mississippi de-
partment of the U. C. ", it is evident
that his employment. like that of his
distinguished predecessors, Is for the
purpose of making the lottery popular
with old Confederate soldiers. This Is
the same lottery that had it's headquar-
ters run out of Port Tampa City, Fla.
l see frequent references to "Mary's
Heights" and "Hill," at Fredericks-
burg, Va. which is an error. 1t
should be "Marye's Heights" not
HILL" Like Monterey, Cal, 1t is a
lovely spot, overlooking a broad ex-
panse of beautiful scenery, and yet
rivers of blood'-the blood of heroes,
have consecrated forever all that land
scape to the memory of sublime strug-
giles for the mastery by those two
grand armies. the Army of the Poto-
mac and the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia. On Marye's Heights, is located
the beautiful National Cemetery,
where thousands of unknown" dead
Union heroes lie buried. . - Cadet
Ulysses S. Grant, Sd, who is a star
member of his class with Cadet Julian
Larcombe Schley of Savannah, at
West Point, is said to greatly resem-
BILE his grandfather, and is very tall"
hn fC col H.. In, kl.ak
resemble his illustrious grandfather,
nor, at his present age. can he resem-
BILE him in other respects. His own
father Brig. Gen. Fred Dent Grant,
U. S. A, did not resemble Gen. u. s.
Grant until after he entered the Span
ish-American war service, when he
rapidly took on many features, etc.,
that made it plain that he was a son
of his father. u. S. Grant, Jr., was
more like his father-years ago-than
Fred.
After ex-Secretary of the Navy Will
liam e. Chandler had referred to Rear
Admiral Robley B. Evans, u. S. N, as
the self confessed and self-recorded
our Greatest War Hero" any further
reprimand from the Navy Department
was superfluous. But Fighting Bob
must learn that w. E, Chandler, the
Republican statesman out of a job, and
w. e. Chandler as Secretary of the
Navy are two separate and distinct
persons and therefore have more re-
spect for his superior officers. Admiral
Evans, Chaplain Jones and Capt
Schley, U. S. A.. should read about
the Monkey and the Parrot" and
learn that silence is golden some
times. Two military gentle
men of Savannah have written me
about Col Peter McGlashan of the
Fiftieth Georgia Infantry, that I have
overlooked him as Confederate briga-
der general No, have not overlooked
him, but I have spent hours and
hours looking over official records to
find when, where and by whom he was
promoted to that rank. 1t is only
about two years since ! first heard him
called a general, and if either of the
writer's will give me a copy of his off,
cial appointment or commission / win
most cheerfully place his name on my
roster of Confederate generals. / have
spent twenty years perfecting It, and
it is the fullest and most reliable ros-
ter extant. President Davis and Sec
rotary of War L. P. Walker assisted
me in its final revision. ! do not init
mate that Col. McGlashan was not
promoted, but simply state that have
never found IL officially recorded. nor
his name on any list, anywhere, OF
Confederate generals.
/ see that the Virginia Constitutional
Convention has had a wrangle over the
word Cod in the proposed new con-
stitution. AS late as March, 1855, Pres
ident Jefferson Davis, in Richmond,
wrote as follows to Senator j. w. C.
Watson, on this same subject and his
views show him to have been a true
believer in Christianity and its under
lying influence in all good government:
1T might have been well that our con-
stitution should not only have recog-
nized a God. as 1t does. but the Savior
of Mankind also; that is, 1t should have
had not merely a religious but Chris
tian basis" And this leads
me to refer to Clara Morris and her
articles on Religion and The Stage"
in last Mondays Morning News.
commend to her Mr.. Davis idea that
religion is not Christianity. She con-
stantly speaks of religion" and yet
her own testimony-and ii cannot be
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that in her daily life
she really discarded religion and prac-
ticed Christianity. There is no writer