The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-04-25
CLEANING AND COMMENT.

tons and dreams over supposed per-
sonal superiority. After throwing HARD
stones Of reproach and detraction at
your people, your southland once. at
the best and purest of this country
who have illustrated the greatest cour-
age and s%uprenlest manhood and most
heroic virtues known to A~nglo-Saxon
history, it is beautiful and lovely to
be serene and c~alious, and wrapping
about you the robe Of self-conscious-
ness and belief n supreme gifts and
accomplishments for yourself ito lie
down to pleasant Dreams"
II am Sir Oracle
n when I Cpe my lips, let no dog
bark
Can serenity and seIf-exaItation go
beyond that?
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Hon. Carl SchurZ is beyond doubt
the foremost German who has thus far
settled in our country. He writes and
speaks English like a highly educated
native. In Washington the Liberty
League celebrated on the Goth the bat
Tie OIL Lt8lISlOH III Observation-Disclosures
Mr.. Schurz wrote a letter of regret.
In it he referred to the 'barbarities'
in the Philippines, and said all the
world hears with amaZement Of things
which make the Spanish General Wey-
Ter, Whose cruelties in Cub goaded us
into a war, almost appear like an angel
Of mercy He said the whole country
heartily commended the president for
his action in ordering a searching in
quiry to ascertain whether the stories
of those atrocities were really true, and
declared that it is high time for Amer
lean citizens who love their country to
wake up to the fact that the character
of this republic is threatened with the
deepest disgrace"
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Colonel Charles Marshall, a grandson
of the very eminent Chief Justice John
Marshall, and born in Virginia, in $780,,
Is dead in Baltimore, where he has long
resided. He was Gen. Robert E. Lees
secretary and his closest companion
for three years Of the great war. At
Appomattox he was the only confed-
Grated officer present at the surrender.
except Gen. Lee. He was a lawyer of
ability, a gentleman of high character.
and a most woi thy, true southron III.
peace and in war. He was aide to Lee
as we'll as secretary. The ranks OF Off
GERS n soldiers of the Confederaey
are speedily diminishing, and the
brave, faithful men after the RESPONSE
bilities and sufferings of this world are
crossing over the great river and are,
we must hope, finding rest under the
trees'-those trees that bloom forever
in the Paradise of God
Representative 10 Cannon, of Illinois,
is one of the able republican leaders
from the west. He was born in North
Carolina, as many believe Abe Lincoln
was. He told the house lately of the
ship subsidy scheme. that the grants
from the treasury proposed by the bill
are not in sight" Nay verify. It is
certainly a most s~candalous bill ex-
mir from any and every angle. 1t
IS a steal. an outrage. Look at the
bonus proposed for New Englanders,
but omits a grant in kind to the fisher
men Of Chesapeake bay and our own
North Carolina Coast Not only is a
Bounty of 81 a ton given to New En-
gland vessels in the deep sea fisheries
but a 81 a month is added to the wages
Of the crews of the New England yes
-aIe C1-o@- T--,-1 L4 - A.
bill, it will be noted. halls from Maine.