Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-04
TBE gLoRlFicArnoN OF

shareholders rebellion and dastardly
vituperation Of the men who risked life
and fortune that the nation might live.
The audacity of this class of unregen-
Grated champions Of treason is strik-
ingly illustrated by the bold and brazen
outbreak Of Bishop Kelley of the Cath
Ollie diocese of Savannah at the confed-
crate memorial exercises held in Savan.
nah a week ago.
While discussing the motives that ami
mated the people of the south and the
justice of their cause, Bishop Kelley
went out of his way to assail and insult
President Roosevelt and General Miles,
the recreant son of q southern woman,
the rough rider of republican politics.
the ~accidence Of 1902, the lightning
change artist of the White House, who
can sit with the kaiser's brother and
sit cheek by jowl with an Alabama
negro, who can indulge in meaningless
platitudes while south on the bravery
and common heritage of southern
heroes and denounce them before the
Grand Army as anarchists, and com
pared the noblest Roman of them all,
Jefferson Davis, to a Benedict Arnold"
Jefferson Davis" declared the embat-
tied bishop, twas a statesman, a soldier
and a man of high character, a senator,
a cabinet officer, a president not put in
Office by a bullet, but by a ballot"
" ~ $500 A..,NL DNrhAa LrAIIAvv
spoke of General Miles as follows:
when MI. Davis was living and a
prisoner a fellow named Miles placed
shackles on him in prison, although
there was no necessity for 1t, and no
one but a brute would have done it."
Bishop Kelley's high estimate of the
chivalry, humanity and craftsmanship
of Jefferson Davis has doubtless been
derived from hearsay, but the character
and career of Jefferson Davis on the
pages Of American history, gagged by
the record, will scarcely warrant his
glorlhcation either as a soldier or as q
man. The most graphic word picture of
Jefferson Davis was drawn by that stall
wait AhiCAlSdh PUAAON -
on the floor of the United States senate
on the night Of March 2, 1870, when a
bill was proposed to place the name OF
Davis on the pension roll Of Mexican
war veterans. For the benefit of those
who might be misled by fulsome eulogy
of the Kelley brand we invite them to
ponder over the arraignment Of the
reasonable career Of Jefferson Davis
which reads as follows:
Mr.. acknowledgements years ago to
morrow, in the old hall of the senate, nov
occupied by the supreme court OF thu
United States, /, In company with Mr.
jefferson Davis, stood up and swore before
Almighty God that 1 would support the
constitution OF the United States. Mr.. JEFF
ferson Davis came from the cabi'
net of franklin Pierce into the
senate Of the United States ant
took the oath with me to be faithful
to this government. During four years
sat in this body with Mr.. Jefferson Davis and
saw the preparations going on from da,
to day for the overthrow of this govern
ment. With treason in his heart and per
Jury upon his lips he took the oath to sus
tain the government that he meant t
overthrow.
Sir, there was method in that madness
He, in cooperation with other men from
his section and In the cabinet with MI
Buchanan, made careful preparation 10
the event that was to follow. Your armie
we're scattered all over this broad Ian
where they could not be used in an emer
I gency; your fleets were scattered whereve
the wind blew and water was found t
float them, where they could not be use
y to put dow rebellion; your treasury wa
. depleted until your bonds bearing 6 pc
cent, principal and interest, payable IL
coin, were sold for 8S cents on the dolla
for current expenses and no buyers. Prepa
g rations were carefully made. Your arm
were sold under an apparently innocen
: clause in an army bill providing that tn
secretary OF war might, at his discretion
sell such arms as he deemed 1t for tn
interest Of the government to sell.
Sir, eighteen years ago last month, ga
. in these halls and listened to Jeferso
sSHDavis delivering his farewell address, in
e forming us what our constitutional dutie
e to this government were, and then he lei
and entered into the rebellion to over
n throw the government that he had swor
n to support. l remained here, sir, durin
the whole Of that terrible rebellion. ! ga
our brave soldiers by thousands and hur
dreds Of thousands, aye, 1 might say mi
lions, pass through TO the theater OF wa
e and saw their shattered ranks return
l saw steamboat after steamboat and raj
= road train after railroad train arrive wit
the MANNED and wounded; I was with m
II friend from Rhode Island (Mr. Burnside
" when he commanded the Army OF the Pr
y tomae, and saw piles OF legs and arms thu
made humanity shudder; l saw the wido
and the orphan in their homes. and hear
the weeping and wailing Of those who hs
q lost their dearest and their best. NJ
T. President, / little thought at that tin
that / should live to hear in the senal
OF the United States ~eulogies on JeffersC
Davis, living-a living rebel eulogized {
III the floor OF the senate of the United State
le Sir, l am amazed to hear It; and / can te
ID the gentlemen on the other side that the
little know the spirit of the north whit
. they come here at this day and with bravat
on their lips utter eulOgies upon a ms
whom every man. woman and child in Il
north believes to have been a doubleday,
" traitor to his government.
Zach Chambers patriotic and sou
n stirring denunciation of the arch-coI
IS spirator was by no mems oyerdraw1