The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27

uy OTuSSlSlS, OF sent prepaid on re-
ceipt of price. Humphreys Medicine
Co., corner William and John streets,
New York.
ut is true that the gentleman who
now happens to sit in the presidential
chair at Washington has written of
President Davis: Before Jefferson
Davis took his place among arch trait
ors, etc, it was not unnatural that to
dishonesty he should add treachery to
the public. The moral difference be-
tween Benedict Arnold on the one hand,
and Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis
on the other. is the difference between
politician who sells his vote for
money and one who supports bad
measure TO get a high political posi-
tion.'
"a Fellow Named Miles"
when Mr.. Davis was living, and a
prisoner, a fellow named Miles placed
shackles on him in prison, though there
was no necessity for it, and no one but
a brute would have done it. But 1
have never heard that Miles, after Mr..
Davis death brutally maligned his
character-that species of envenomed
malice was reserved for the recreant
son of a Southern woman-the Rough
Rider of Republican politics, the acct
dency of 1902-the lightning change ar
fist of the White House, who can hob
mob with the Kaiser's brother, and sit
cheek by jowl with an Alabama negro;
who can indulge in meaningless plati-
tudes while South, on the bravery and
common heritage of Southern heroes,
and denounce them before the grand
army as anarchists; who can profess a
broad American spirit, which brands
q aY-i,, -
loyalty of our veterans of 1876, to
the constitution and reunited country,
while the damning evidence of his own
written word shows that he compared
the noblest Roman of them ALL" JEFF
ferson Davis. to a Benedict Arnold.
Jefferson Davis was a states
man, soldier, and a man
OF high character, senator, cabi-
net officer, president, not put in Of
flee by a bullet, but by ballot.
Theodore Roosevelt's title to i'm
mortal fame will rest on shooting
beasts, and profiting by the murder
Gus act of q reprobate who shot a
man.
For Her Acknowledged Rights.
For her acknowledged rights under
the constitution, the South withdrew
from the Union. The die was cast and
the sword has decided the question
against us. But of the justice of the
cause; of the right of the South, there
was no doubt in our minds in 1861
there is none to-day.
THE revolutionary, unconstitutional
and subversive tendencies of the Abo-
lition or Republican party are as evil
dent to-day as they were forty-odd
years ago. Their snivelling and Peck
sniff1an hypocrisy with regard to Cuba
which they intend to annex; is only
surpassed by their atrocious treatment
of the Philippines on whom they are
forcing a system which the people do
not desire.
They have sought to degrade us by
placing our former slaves on a political
level with US, and foisting such on us
as federal officeholders. The present
occupant of the chair of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson-aye, and
Cleveland, is Familiarity and with pro-
priety known by the soubriquet. The
Rough Rider His only claim to future
fame or notoriety will be, l sincerely
trust, that he broke up the Republican
party.
The South's Position.
1.-THE South is once more In the
Union. We are trying, and thank God,
with measure of success, to restore our
wasted places and build up our loved
land Our loyalty to the constitution
of our country is indisputable. 1t is
true that from time to time some vail
ant knight errant, who sent a substi-
tute to the front during the war, will
in excess of patriotic impulse refer
grandiloquently to Rebel Brigadiers in
Congress; we are becoming used to
sandfiies and mosquitoes, and have con-
soled ourselves with the thought that
for lack of proper institutions in their
limits some of the Northern and West
ern states send their feeble-minded to
Congress.
But, on the war and it's issues, we
do not wish to be misunderstood. We
have nothing to retract; nothing to
apologize for. We are bearing our
share of the burdens of our county
without murmur. We have not profit
ed, fear me much, by the
lessons taught us by the yearly in
creasing legions of patriots in blue,
who thirty-seven years after the war
yet manage to drag their weary bodies
to the pension Office and draw $140 000,-
600 from the treasury. Our ideas of
patriotism do not seem to be of the
same order. But we have set apart q
day to recall the memories of the past
and drop a tear over the graves of our
heroes. From our poverty we have
raised modest shafts in village and
city all over the South, which tell in
language better than e'er fell from hui
man lips how we treasure the memory
and honor the brave deeds of our own.
To-day we have scattered flowers on
their graves. Tomorrow the flowers
will be wlthered and dead, but death
less and fresh and bright will remain
in our hearts and the hearts of those
who pOToA after lis. a deep and aDiQ-
ing gratitude to them. To no one else
will we commit the sacred trust. They
are ours. For us they fought; for us
they died, and ours it is to care for
their last resting place, as we vindi-
cate their memories and justify their
motives.