The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-27

as was said. the wandering sisters b.. the
removal OF all 3 d1sa billtles as 10 =ol1!Ge
holding and service in the Union 45COn-8
gress. armies and .navies by he equality
claimed and given in agricultural scnools'
experimental stations. Apr preparations. 70
rivers and sharbors and ss1nait iacAlties,3
etc The Federal Z Government. mas thus
become god-mother to- the heroic sons OF
Virginia and other Southern States and
should do for them just what the Con-
federate Government would nave zone, OF
what the individual States, II able ana
willing to remain separate, would have
done. The reuniting and reconclliatlon
can never become complete until there.
is no Yestige of difference IN the parls o.
contributes her full proportion to the
common revenues of the common coun-7
try and her heroic sons VINO fought tor
country and with rare exceptions for.
country alone, as earnestly and as con-
scientiously as any soldiers from any
of the other States for nearly ali OF the
Union army was enlisted IN and fur,
nished upon call by the Individual States}
fail to receive an equal proportion out OF
the common fund for similar services,
sach one having done what IL he thought
and accord between the sections. Our
taxes still largely go from us to help
citizens Gold soldiers) of other, States.
sim and a fraud. We did not ask to re-
main in the Union; we fought (not ito
destroy the Union" or Sin the rebellion"
as Mr.. Richardson OF Tennessee, says,
butt to be separate; we did not ask to be
reunited; we were forced to remain and
to come back as States. conini1 back
as States, we have demanded. as self
respect and honor required, the full
rights Of States, the right of all to vote
disabilities, and this includes the right
for those who served their States in war
to share equally with others in soldiers
homes etc
Another wrong. which we of the South
suffer. which has not yet been righted. is
that the Federal Government threw into
the political franchise in the South a
mass Of ignorance and deprayity, and has
left the South all these years. while inn
poverished by this great loss Of property,
to need to slight her own sons in order
to educate this alien mass of ignorance
and quondam barbarism. In all justice
the funds for the education of the negro
race. not to speak Of paying for their
freedom, should come from the resources
Of all the States alike. Your biz Involves
I wish 1t had come voluntarily from the
North 1t is simply asking another part
Of our rights still denied us. 1t is only
mot now Of the Confederacv. which was
destroyed. butt of Virginia and the
Southern States. which have been reunited
with the other States of the Union. Here
hv REPRESENTATIVES. Suodgrass. Sims and
Richardson. That the heroic sons of
Virginia disabled in the service which
she demanded Of them, should share
equally with the heroic sons Of New York
disabled in the service which she de-
manded of them, out of the funds Of the
godmother, the common funds Of the
reunited common country. if indeed the
States are now equal the one to the 9TH
err Or, can it be that. after thirty-seven
wears Of hardshins and trials, the old
disabled men Of Virginia who hardened
to the call Of duty to their State are still
to suffer punishment from the reunited
country for having obeyed this supreme
call? That it was q. supreme call is EVIL
danced by the fact that Chics Justice
Chase and all others in authority even
while passion was ramnant saw the a
tlity Of bringing. Jeff. Davis to trial for
treason. an admission In itself that the
States were individually sovereign. /
hope all Southerners and all who-wish a
perfect Union and comDIete harmony be-
tween the sections, will press your bill
to it's passage.
Had I not seen it in the Congressional
Record. would not have believed that
the leader Of Democracy in the House
and a Soutllerner. who fought in the Con-
federate army, Mr.. Richardson, of Ten
nessee would have vilified his own sec
ton and people by using the expression
those who fought in the rebellion" a
word the South wishes to erase from
her history as untrue.
Most trulv etc.
JOHN W. c. DAVIS.
Adj. Westmorelard Camp, c. ".
Hague, Va. April 49, 1902.