The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-06-06
Barlow Man is Hot in Collar Over
Remarks Of Roosevelt.
SAYS PRESIDENT MUST APOLOGIZE
Declares Chief Executive Could be
Prosecuted for 5landering Jeffer-
son Davia, and Government
Made 70 Foot the Bill.

Irlends-once more" / would be |
to know about what time President
Roosevelt Is going to retract what he |
wrote about President Davis. It has
now been proven by the official rec
ords at Jackson, Miss, that Mr.. Davis !
was never governor, nor was he ever
a member of the legislature OF that !
State, and In a public address made
after the act of reputation, he de-
clared that he was opposed to it and
the debt ought to be paid and this am
ateur historian denounces him In his
'boo6 as an arch traitor AID repudla.
tor Mr. Davis fought in Mexico for
the honor Of the flag; won the victory
at Buena Vista; was desperately
wounded, and for five years walked
with crutches married General Tay-
lors daughter for his first wife and
didn't run away with her either; was
secretary of war under Franklin
Pierce, remodeled the curriculum at
West Point and it stands to-day as he
framed it; was a member of the
United States senate when his state
seeded and, like General Lee, he went
with his people He did not seek the
presidency Of the confederacy and in
sisted that another be chosen Now
all this has long since been estab-
lished and if Mr.. Roosevelt did not
know it, he could have known it. He
certainly knows it now, and if he is a
gentleman he will retract it and apol-
ogize to Mrs Davis and the family
and to the sainted shade of Miss Win
nile and to the people of the south.
He called him an arch traitor and
compared him to Benedict Arnold and
the slanderous libel is in print in a
book Of so-called history and has poi
soned the minds Of all the fools, ia
natics and idiots who have read it.
When is he going to retract?
The International Cyclopedia, edit
ed by distinguished professors Of Co
lumbia University and Dartmouth Col.
lege, says of Mr.. Davis: "He was
ripe scholar, a vigorous writer, a
splendid orator brave soldier, a true
gentleman. an accomplished states
man, a sturdy champion, proud true
patriot, a lover Of liberty, a Christian
hero-this is the Jefferson Davis that
history will cherish" General Lee
was his bosom friend and confdant,
aId yet this so-called historian, this
rough rider and bear hunter, praises
Lee while he defames his friend, a
man infinitely his superior in every
moral attribute and every noble emo
ton But maybe he will retract and
apologize, though Tom Moore says:
But faith, fanatic faith, once welded
fast
To some dear falsehood hugs it to the
last"
He had better retract, for some Of
our old soldiers are very mad about
it. They are talking about suing
him for SANDER and garnisheeing the
government for his salary. Killing
bears in the wilderness won't save him
nor will that little brush we had in
Cuba. That is perhaps the biggest
little war we have ever had and every
small politician and stump orator who
wants an Office jumps up and says
we are all brothers now. We fit and
we fout and bled together at San Juan
and Santiago and then we crossed the
wide ocean to whip out some niggers
and we will soon all be on the pension
roll An old veteran said to me, THAT
little Spanish war reminds me Of the
fellow who was drowned at Johns
town, and when he knocked at the
gate st. Peter didn't recognize him
and refused to let him in. Why, my
dear sir, said he I am one Of the
.Johnstown sufferers. was drowned
in that flood. SO the good saint re
Tented and let him in He wandered
about heaven, looking at the beautiful
things and after while came across
an old man and said, Good morning
old gentleman; glad to see you. Been
here long time, l reckon? The old
man said nothing. I am one of the
.Johnstown sufferers 1 was drowned
in that great food The old man did
not reply. but turned and walked slow
" away. So the fellow went to st
Peter and asked who that old man
was. He would not speak to me- said
he though / told MIN l was in the
great flood a Jamestown. And st
Peter replied, That old man, sir, IS
hrnnh and he had q flood of his Owl