The age-herald., 1902-01-23
Evidences of Wrongs of Civil War are Cons tantIy Arising.


 idence, and by their conduct the officers commanding approved the crime.
 On January 10. 1866. twenty-one days only after his property was destroyed. Rhodes filed petition under oath with the United States officer at Mobile, com manding the then Military District of the Gulf, setting forth the facts concerning the burning of his property and praying for a fair compensation; his statement being supported by the affidavits of reputable and disinterested witnesses. No attention seems to have been paid to Rhodes petition.
 Colonel Bankhead's new bill Is For the relief of the personal representatives of James Rhodes, deceased" the victim of the Bladon Springs outrage being many years dead It Is identical with bills previously introduced by other Congress- men before Hale county, in which Rhodes representatives reside. was at tached to Colonel Bankhead's district, and it carried an appropriation of $1750O. The House committee on claims In the
  vorably, but it failed of enactment. There is hope of better luck this time, though the present Congress is Repub- lican, and the Fifty-third Congress was Democratic.
 How unrighteous 1t is that politics should affect justice in such a case-how mournful a conditionl
 The present representatives of James Rhodes are of a family that is prominent and highly honored in Alabama, namely, the Garber family of Hale of which Hon. Alex Garber, the distinguished lawyer of Talladega and candidate for Attorney General, is member.
 
 When the Federal troops were swarm ing in the Tennessee valley in Alabama, in 1S64 a citizen of Morgan county who was inside the Federal lines was com pelled by commanding officer to go to a certain farm and secure a number of mules and horses which were branded as United States property. Subsequently the owner of the farm appeared before the officer and swore that one of his own horses, valued at $175, had been taken with the other animals. The farmer being a Union man, the officer forced the unwilling drover whom he had sent to the farm to pay the sum claimed. Now, after thirty-seven years, there Is bill in Congress, introduced by Judge Richard son, to refund to the citizen the money so arbitrarily taken from him.
 There are numerous claims such as these from Alabama and all over the South which are supported by bills in Congress, not one in ten of which has any chance of being passed into law.
 An unconscionable deal of rubbish is being printed daily in the newspapers relative to the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to this country, various "ex-at- taches" and "ex-diplomats." who ap- parently have never been nearer Europe than the pages of the Almanack de Gotha and Burl1e's Peerage, setting forth what they don't know about old-world customs of and courtesy to royalty.
 Some of these ignorant persons go so far wrong as to refer to our coming visitor as Prince Henry "of Germany"  Emperor of Germany. to say nothing of a prince of that empire. William II is King of Prussia and German Emperor-a distinction with a very considerable dif- ference, and his sons, including the crown prince, are princes of Prussia, one of the fifty-seven states of the German empire. These states voluntarily united tha o% peror. Therefore the King of Prussia, by divine right so-called, Is German Elm peror by the grace of the German states | One "ex-attache" writes the utterly nonsensical statement that if the Presi- dent should receive Prince Henry at the railroad depot" meaning the passenger station, he would conform to the ''estab- lished custom of European rulers. Rot! A European ruler receives no visitor at a railway station except other rulers and immediate heirs to thrones.
 There are six lives between Prince Henry and the throne, and therefore he is not an heir at all. But if the Presi- dent should see fit to receive the prince at the passenger station in Washington he would do a gracious and graceful act of courtesy-one without precedent in the serious business of the worlds govern ment. LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER. .>~>~>-<%>~<%%>< future It means the rapid march of the South to position of prosperity unsur- passed and more blood from the North and West will drift thitherward and the uhola will he more or less leavened bv the ultimate infusion of desirable foreign blood. The entire mass, when fully amalgamated and working together. will then make the South not only great az ricultural section, but also a wonderful leader in the domain of industrialism and an unrivalled section in which to live.
 Perfection.