The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-21
Bill Arlp's Letter.

in, he won't retract. If he is to be elect
ed President. / want Miles tot be coupled
with him on the ticket for Vice President.
The champion chainer and the champion
defamer ought to be paired. One to work
on live men and the other on dead ones
And here is a letter from Mrs. Lucy
Harrison Gay Whitfield, of Siddonsville,
Ala, who informs me that William Hen
ry Harrison's mother was Elizabeth Bas-
sett. She is Mrs Whitfelds great great
grandmother and was the wife of Ben
Harrison, who signed the Declaration of
Independence. His mother was Anne
Carter, an aunt of Robert Lee l believe
that supplies all the missing links.
I've been enjoying some rich and racy
reading-the reply of Horace Greedy to
the committee who summoned him to
trial for signing the bail bond OF JEFF
ferson Davis that released him from pris-
on. There were twentyone who signed
it, but Greedy was the first and the only
Republican Abolitionist. He volunteered
to do it and did it willingly, going from
New York to Richmond for that purpose
and it raised a howl all over New York
and New England. The Northern ex-
tremists demanded that Mr.. Davis be
tried and hung for treason, or for the as
sassination of Lincoln, or for something
or anything, so he was hung. Greedy be-
longed to the Union League Club OF New
York, a powerful organization, and they
were outraged and enraged at his signing
that bond and cited him for trial. His
reply is a long one and some parts of il
are most delightful sarcasm.
you say you will give me reasonable
time for reflection. / want none nor shall
7 attend your meeting. 1t is not my
habit to take part in any discussion that
may arise among other gentlemen as to
my fitness to enjoy their society That is
their affair, and to them I leave it. No.
| shall not attend your meeting this even
ing. / have an engagement out of town
and shall keep it. / do not recognize
you as capable of judging ME. You re-
gard me as weak sentinentalist. I ar
raign you as a set of narrow minded
blockheads, who would like to be useful,
hut don't know how. Your attempt to
base an enduring party on hate and wrath
is like planting a colony on an iceberg
that had drifted into tropical sea. The
signing of that bail bond will do more
for freedom and humanity than you all
can do though you live to the age Of
Mathusaleh. / ask nothing of you but
that you proceed in a frank, manly way.
Don't slide off into a cold resolution OF
censure. but make your explosions. Make
it a stand-up fight and record your
Judgment by yeas and nays. / dare you
and I defy you. and I propose to fight
it out on the line I have had ever since
General Lees surrender. give you full
notice that I shall urge the pardon and
Acknowledgement of all those engaged
in the rebellion and those now in exile"
Well, they did not expel him nor GEN.
sure him. They We're afraid. The PAM
phlet to which have heretofore alluded
is now ready. 1t contains Henry R., Jack
sons great speech on the "Wanderer"
and Daniel Webster's speech at Capon
Springs, Va. the last and greatest he ever
made. There is also a brief biography OF
General Jackson by Joe NJ. Brown and
few remarks by myself. There is enough
in this little pamphlet to establish the
faith and stimulate the pride of every
Southern man. According to Jackson the
South was not responsible for slavery,
and according to Webster we were iusti-
fed in seeding. And SO the Northern
saints were in the wrong for violating
the constitution and precipitating that