St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-03-07
lIFTS IN THE CLOUDS

'A arp Despairs of Any Justice
from the North.
eceires Three Letters from
ION Veterans That Seem to
1Oint to n ChanEe-Rufus
Choate's EloQuence.
ne Constitution says there is a
sense of justice in the north
Will hereafter be heard from in
negro officials over southern
s|ss munlties. That the New York
ld has opened a rift in the
oads by rebuking the president,
we hope SO, but now that
osevelt has appointed a Boston
70 high Office, the Herald may
nge front and say he is consist
Ihat growing sense of justice
chameleon of many colors. It
quite visible little while after
made his charming speeches in
#gfsSW York and Boston, but the
sachers withered it and Mckinley
oe more appointments and kept
-. klng them as long as he lived.
n1s growing sense does not seem to
in many places. The fact
I'D we have almost despaired of ever
ssung justice grow at the north.
icy ! have received three letters
tom up there that indicate the
rowing sense, and have read and
AAeread them with comfort. One of
1ese is from an old Mexican vet
who says that of the 2,7oo,ooO
d. N aolers who fought against us,
IN III 900 were from the east fighting
sSS 1ree the negroes, Grants included.
million from the west fighting
ser the union and the other 7oo,oou
gre the ritf-raff and scum, the flot-
lm and jetsam of all nations who
q med the army for bounty and
z ooty and beauty, and they were the
Sement that Sherman employed to
II Axe war hell. He speaks of the
rs unholy, unrighteous and un-
q 49, Another letter is from Port
md, Ore, and says the writer re-
nifty got hold of one of my letters
y MICH said that Gen. Grant was
holder and hired out his ne
roes up to the close of the war
Ind lived of of their hire. He says:
didn't believe it, but was induced
w examine his biography and l found
III was So" He says that nobody in
nat country ever heard of it and it
~ amazing and astonishing that Lin
|Spoin would appoint a STAKEHOLDER to
~ the head of the army. The writer
Ho1 thls letter was brought up to be-
leve that the south brought all the
negroes from Africa. Another letter
H. fromsa New Hampshire man, vet
aeran, who says that he and seven
others from his town joined COM
spany in 1862, and only one besides
himself got back. Ever since then he
has been reviewing his folly and the
folly OF the war and is ashamed of
his people and says that do not
score them in my letters as hard as
they deserve. He has Hinton Rowan
Helpers' famous campaign book, in
which he says:
We are going to free your slaves
and arm them with pixies and torches
and butcher your families and burn
up your homes
This book is Endorsed by 81 mem
sbers OF congress, including John
Sherman. Appleton says that 10000
copies were sold in three months and
III precipitated the raid of John
Brown, at whose execution all the
church bells of New England tolled
q requiem. And SO l have found
three northerners who have this |
growing sense and I have heard Of
one more who is q suspect. I am
Keeping tally sheet and as soon as
j hear of any more growing sense
viii record it. Ny. Oregon friends
generation. came up since the war
and never had time to bother them
selves about the history OF the war
or slavery. The south was outside |
of their concern and jeff Davis was !
the arch traitor that Roosevelt told |
about in his history. That is all he |
cared to know. But he says your
late letters have excited our curiosi
u. and if when your, book is out
.you will let me advertise and sell
II II my own way, I will sell 100000
eopies north of the line. This man
II big advertiser with sheadquar-
ten in Chicago and sent to me q
bie lot Of his cards and literature.
Well, Mr.. Byrd will see about that,
but 10 my opinion his northern Gus
toners don't care a baubee about me
Or Grant or his niggers. They re-
mind me of two fellers who went Oft
to camp meeting, and as they were
standing by tree one of the breth-
~ came up and invited them TO
Is up to the altar and jlne 'em in
a;ttin' religion. The men seemed
somewhat indignant and replied:
.sYou must excuse us, sir, we don't
i've fl the county" N MAS
But I Gid find rift in the clouds
that gave much comfort. In the
twelfth volume of John Lords "Bea-
con Lights Of History" I find a
sketch of Robert E. Lee by Dr. E.
BENJAMIN Andrews, that is loving
tribute to that great soldier. Such
! slowing tribute was hardly to be
INJECTED from northern source.
from one born in New
HAMPSHIRE, educated at Brown uni
yersity and who joined the army
vhilc' is years old and who lost an
" al Petersburg. AS an educator
~ rose rapidly in his profession and
d. me president of his alma mater.