The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-06-17
THE CONFEDERATES NOT
GUILTY OF SANDER.

A distinguished citizen of the State, a
man of affairs who was a brave Confed-
crate soldier. sends the editor the fol-
lowing temperate criticism of President
Roosevelt's speech at Arlington. for
which space is made in these columns.
1t is as follows:
President Roosevelt is quoted as say
ing in his Arlington address:
There were abuses and to spare in
the civil war. Your false friends then
called Grant a butcher and spoke of
you who are listening to me as merce-
n~aries, as. 'LincOln's hirelings. Your
open foes-as in the resolution passed
by the Confederate Congress. in October,
1S62-accused you, at great length, and
with much particularly, of 'contemptu-
Gus disregard of the usages of civilized
war; of subiecting women and children
to Punishment, imprisonment and DEATH
Of murder of trapinc,' of 'outrages on
| women of .lawlesS cruelty, of 'perpe-
trating atrocities which would be dis
| graceful to savages;' and Abraham Lin
coin was singled out for especial attack
because of his spirit Of barbarous fero-
city Verify, these men who thus foulfy
slandered you have their heirs today in
those who traduce our armies in the
Philippines, who fix their eye on individ-
ual deeds of wrong so keenly that at
last they become blind to the great work
of peace and freedom that has already
been accomplished
This part of the Presidents address
has led to certain structures upon him.
For our part, it does not seem unnatural
that he should have made this appeal
for a lenient judgment as to the out
RACES COMMITTEE in the Philippine Is
lands.
Publicity being given to those outrages.
the officers there justified them under the
recent republication by the War Depart
ment Of General Order No. 100, issued by
President Lincoln during our war here
at home.
And naturally enough, in order to sus-
tain his administration Roosevelt Tugs
in Lincoln, taking the view that the
American people will generally sustain
whatever Lincoln did, and whatever was
lone On the Federal side during that
war. General Order No. 100 was right;
Buffers order at New Orleans was right,
Pope's order in Virginia was right; Sher-
mans burning, plundcring and murder
ing was right; the devastation of the
valley was right, etc, etc. Everything
on that side was right; and so every
thing in the Philippines is right. You
can't condemn one-is the suggestion OF
the President-without c~ondemning the
other; and who will be found to- hurl q
stone at Lincoln!
1t is not material what the facts are
1t is true the Confederate Congress with
great particularly set forth certain mat
ters which they protested were contrary
40 %Jo VOC ~ nfriI;ya1 I,t
without stopping to enquire whether
those matters were correctly stated OF
not, they 'foully slandered IS" So says
Roosevelt.
Oh, well, we may expect them to
souirm.
NO rogue ere felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law"
1t were more manly to confess anC
avoid. 1t is ignoblc to souirm whe1
squirming involves evasion or pcryarica.
ton.
The excuses Of war are bad enough, blu
for a succeeding generation to ignobl,
seek to evade the odium of bad conduc
{ in war is still worse.
5 We did not 'tfoully SANDER GU
+ friends. the enemy.
One can cordially assent to the sug
gestion that individual cases of wron;
doing ought not to involve the goo
, fame of an army; but where c~ivilize'
usage is violated under General Orders
0 and the violation has the sanction 0
. authority, then the service, the flag, tn
government and the whole country be
{ come involved in the shame.
S Southern gentlemen contended that tn
North was not conducting the war o
the plane Of civilized warfare. If pos
terity shall choose to enquire into tn
matter, they will pay no attention what
+ ever to President Roosevelt's assertio
that it was a foul SANDER OF tn
e verdict, there can be no doubt; and tn
Southern people need not feel annoye
at any little squirming row.
This is all | wished to say; but bcin
l. now in 1.-The lean and slippered panta
# loon and becoming garrulous, l will ad
Il Renaissance that will tend t
illustrate how a vorY fierce man of wa
can sometimes wear a pleasant countc
nance.
When Pope took cOmmand of the Fee
eral army in Virginia near Washington
:, he issued such stringent orders concern
~ ing the Confederate people living in tina
- region as to call for a proclamatio
to against him by President Davis. AS OF
q army drove his advanced divisions bacl
the women and children with great d.
monstration of Joy and Happiness
III brought water in buckets to our soldier
i and we were elated at being engaged