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R1LLARP WANTS APOLOGY
Roosevelt's Remarks About Jefferson Davis
Were Wrong
IAtlaata Constitution.

to know about what time President
Roosevelt is going to retract what he
wrote about President Davis. 1t has
now been proved by the Official
records at Jackson, Miss, that Mr.
Davis never was Governor, nor was
he ever member of the Legislature
of that State, and in public address
made after the act of repudiatioD, he
declared he was opposed to it and
the debt ought to be paid, and this
amateur historian denounces him IN
his book as an arch traitor and repu'
diator. Mr.. Davis fonght in Mexico
for the honor of the flag; won the
victory at Buena Vista; was desper-
ately wounded and for five ysars
walked with crutches; married Ger
eral Taylor's daughter for his first
wife and didn't run away either; was
secretary of war under Franklin
Pierce, remodeled the curriculum at
West Point and it stands to day as
he framed it; was 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 Confed-
eraey and insisted that another be
chosen. Now all this has long since
been established, and if Mr.. Reese
7elt did not know it he could have
known it. He certainly knows t
now, and if he is a gentleman be
will retract it and apologize to Mrs.
Davis and the family and to the
sanity shade of Miss Winnie and to
to the people of the South. He
called him an arch~traitor and arch
repudiator, and compared him to
Benedict Arnold, and that slanderous
! libel Is in print in book Of so called
history and has poisoned the minds of
all the fools, fanatics and idiots who
have read it. When is he going to
retrsctS
The international Cyclopedia, ed
tied by distinguished professors of
Columbia University and Dartmouth
College, says Of Mr.. Davis: "He was
ripe scholar, q vigorous writer, a
splendid orator, a brave soldier, q
true gentleman, an accomplished
statesman, a strudy champion, a
proud and truepatriot, a lover Of fliber-
ty, Christian hero-this is the Jefer
son Davis that history will cherish"
General Lee was his bosom freud and
confdant and yet this so c. He'd his
torian, this rough rider and bear
hunter, praises Lee while he defames
his friend, man infinitely his supe
rior in every moral attribute and
every noble emotion. But maybe ne
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
the old soldiers are very mad about it.
They are talking about suing him for
slander and gsrnisheeing the govern.
ment for his salary. Killing bears
in the wilderness wont 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
saws we sre all brethren now. We
fit and fout and bled together at
San Juan and Santiago, and then we
crossed the wide ocean to whip out
some niggers aud 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 ct Johns
town, and when he knocked at the
gate St. Peter didn't recognize him
and refused to let him in. 'Nby,
nv dear SIR said, 4 am one Of the
Johnstown suffers. was drowned
in that food So the good saint re-
Tented aud let him in. He wandered
about heaven, looking at the beautl-
ful things and after while cam"
across an man and said, Good murn-
ing old gentleman; glad to see you.
Been here a long time, reckon?"
The old man said nothing. I an