The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-16
VAIL OF 4 COW ARD.
Says Roosevelt ls Sectional,
Favcrirg the South.
oEMoUNcES soUGHsRNERa
As TraiGcrs, and Thinks that fne
Prs sidens Should Not BE-
Proud OF H;s Confsds
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TIE Baltimore Sun Of Monday pub
li.hes the following special from Man
chester, N. r.:
Ao editorial in the Baltimore Sun Of
October l, depIoring the attacks on
President Roosevelt st the Mckinley
memorial service Of Louis Bell Post,
Grand Army Of the Republic, this city,
on September 81, together with a
Washington dispatch IN tbs same issue
Of the Sun in which President Rocse-
velt was quoted as assuring ''Private"
J. NJ. Da!zsll Of Ohio Of his impartisl
Ioyslty to both North and South, has
brought out another public attack on
she President and the Saush from Cspt.
Frank & Challis, former commander
Of the New England division, Sons Of
Veterns.
1t was Capt. Cballis who first criti
cised President Rooseveltfo for his friend
illness toward the South, as the meeting
Of Louis Bell Post.
Marked clippings from the Sun Of the
two articles mentioned were received
by Japt. Chsllis in 81 envelope bsar-
ing the name Of J. NJ. Dslzell The
captain, taking it for granted that
Private Dalzall had sent them in reply
to his anti. Roosevelt speesh, promptly
aprang to the attack. In an opaa let
ter to Private Dalsell. coIy Of which
he has forwarded, be not only repeats
his attack on the President and the
South with increased bitterness, but
also assails the Rough Riders as con.
glomeration Of cowboy rufisns and
Broadway rounders," and intimates
that the Presidents Confederate uncles
would have been hanged if they had re-
csived their deserts.
Capt. Challis' letter is, in part, as
follows:
II had no idea that my words would
attract the attention they have done,
and l fear that they were only too much
deserved, for it is the struck bird that
autters, generally spesking or, to use
a more expressive phrase, the CALLED
jade winces.'
You were, believe, soldier Of
the civil war and, I assume went into
it imp PEELED By SONS patriotic principle
snd not because Of big bounty or Law
ish promises. If you believed in the
cause I would like to knaw your feel
ings when you read the following elleg-
ed letter Of Theodore Roosevelt, if you
ever did read it, which quote from
she Hartford Times, in Ehioa I resd it:
(This letter, the paper sisted, vss writ
ten to gentleman in Atlanta, Ca, un-
der date Of June 10, 1907:
81 am extremely proud Of the fast
that one Of my uoclss vas an admiral
in the Confederate navy and that an
oehcr fired the las gun aboard the Ala,
bsms. I think ths tins has now GONE
when we can all BE- proud CT tie valor
shewn on both sides o. tbs eivil war,
II my regiment I hsd more men whose
fathers fought in the Confederate army
than ! had men chose fathers fought
for the Union.'"
"Iha fact thst the President felt
called upon to attempt 10 answer the
40 called criticism and that you feltit
necessary 70 attempt to squsre things
IS evidence enough to me that there
wss justice in the mild criticism thst /
made, the whole Of which was con-
taicsd in the statement Shst [ had
'Inisgi7ings' ss to tho future conduct
Ct ns2 Who could write sush letter.
II ail ny rsmsrSs did not cover ten
minutes, and it was far from my &C.
sire to achieve Dotcciety OF mar the
harmony Of the meeting By expressing
ultra sentiments.
''As for myseif, I have 10 occasion
Sor extreme pride in the fact that any
Of ny unclss were traitors either in the
civil var CT st any other time. And
while ! msy respect Southern soldier
as such, and would rot DO anything to
hurt his feelings, I would still believe,
e, you do yourself, Private Dslzell,
hat in bearing arms agsinstsbe United
.s:es be was traitor whether his
ANA was Robert E. Lse OF John
wilkes Booth, and If he was like souo
Of those named in the Suns editorial
one who violated his oath as 8 West
Pointer-then he was doubly damned
traitor. No amount Of soft soldier
sbout the vslor Of the Southern soldier
will change the rock ribbed facts Of lis
tory.
president Roosevelt was not called
upon to apologize for his unole1 who
were rebels las they Eere), and on the
contrsy he was not required to say he
was extremity proud Of the fact that if
they had received their deserts they
wculd have been hung, which is the
due and appropriate punishment to
such as they. Still less was he bound
to say that his conglomerstion Of COW
boy 1uHians and Broadway FOUNDERS
contained more sons of rebels than sons