The Tupelo journal., 1902-11-28

colonel kept hid in the gin house UNI
der the cotton for nearly a month and
then dared to return for the officers
had departed. ! never see this fine old
Virginia gentleman but what / think
of that ride and the narrow escape
his brother made. Verify reconstruc-
ton was worse~than war. But it is all
over now, thank the good Lord, and
we can hold our reunions and carry
our battle-worn banners and build
II monuments and lay the corner
stone for Winnie Davis and lynch the
daughters and as Gov. Oates said to
our defamers in congress-: What are
you going to do about it?" And as for
lynching, | repeat what / have said be-
fore: Let the good work go on.
Lynch 'em! Hang 'em. Shoot 'em!
Burn EN-" Israel Putnam went into
a cave with a torch to shoot the wolf
that had devoured the lambs of his
flock, and just so l would lynch the
brutes who outrage u women. He
is moi a human. He is a brute, a beast,
and all these demonstrations by gov
errors and judges and sheriffs are
hypocritical and perfunctory. In their
breasts they rejoice in the lynching.
AND there is another set of hypo-
critics who infect our southern land.
| mean those who for the sake of filthy
lucre and nothing else invite Roose-
welt to visit their city and they prom
Use him an ovation. He comes nearer
being a fgurehead of a president than
any VIZ have eyer had. He is a COZ
firmed %slanderer of a great and good
man, and he knows he slandered him
and will not retract or apologize. Our
women have just laid a corner stone
for a monument to his lamented daugh-
ter and veterans and members Of
the legislature approved it by their
presence, and yet some of the same
creatures would invite Roosevelt to Sa-
vannah and Macon and Augusta. l
wouldn't invite any man to my town
whom | wouldn't invite to my house,
and nc mar who fought for the lost
cause or respects Mr.. Davis would do
that. There is more patriotism to-day
among our women than among our
men. A friend wrote me from Atlanta
that he was going to have 5000 copies
Of Gen. Jackson's great speech on the
"Wanderer' printed in pamphlet form
for distribution at a small cost among
our people. | have promised to help
him advertise it, but / had no idea that
he could sell or hardly give away a
thousand copies, for our old men and
cultured men and patriots were near
ly all dead, and this generation does
not care whether Gen. jackson made
a speech or not. | asked a college
seemed surprised and asked who was
Gen. jackson. Our people who have
grown up since the war have fallen
into northern lines and are for money.
Money is their ambition, their Idol.
Morgan and Rockefeller have done
more to corrupt the young men of this
country than all other causes COM
bined. Those who are smart are look
ing for some short cut to fortune
some scheme, some tricky way to shear
the lambs and get somebody's money
for nothing. This is sad, but it is the
truth.
Well, the election is over and we are
just where we were. We didn't expect
anything else. Senator Morgan can
take comfort, for he said long ago
that it was best to let the republicans
have the house so long as they had
the senate. Give them rope, all the
rope, and let the country see where
they will run to, and by the next pres
idential election the people will be
alarmed and turn the rascals out. So
mote it be.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution.