The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-20
IN satirioal Strain Of That
Growing Sense Of Justice"
HOWEVER HE ISSTILL VERY HOPEFUL
Many Prominent Northern Men are
Cited % condemnlna the Folly
Of Civil War-BllI Finds
Rlft IN the Clouds.


putting negro officials over southern
communities The The New York
Herald has opened a rift in the clouds
by rebulllng the president etc. We
hope so, but now that Roosevelt has
appointed a Boston coon to a high Of
Ace. The Herald may change front and
say he Is consistent That growing
sense Of justice is a chameleon ofmany
colors. It was quite visible a little
while after Grady made his charming
speeches in New York and Boston. but
the preachers wlthered 1t and Mcnin-
.ey made more appointments and kept
making them as long as he lived. This
growing sense does not seem to aour-
ash In many places. The fact is, we
have almost despalred of ever seeing
justice grow at the north. Lately l
nave received three letters from up
there that indicate the growing sense,
and l have read and re-read them with
comfort One of these Is from an old
Mexican veteran who says that Of the
~, 100000 soldiers who fought against
1 ~, one million were from the east
lighting to free the negroes, Grants
included. One million from the west
lighting for the union and the oLner
100000 were the riff-raff and scum. the
notsam and jetsam of all nations who
Joined the army for bounty and booty
and beauty, and they were the element
Mat Sherman employed to make war
lell. He speaks Of the war as unholy,
lnrighteous and unjust. Another let
Ser Is from Portland, Greg, and says
Ithe writer recently got hold of one of
Amy letters which said that General
fGrant was a slave holder and hired
out his negroes up to the close of the
war and lived off of their hire He
says: Il didn't believe it, but was in
duced to examine his biography and
found It was So" He says that nobody
in that country ever heard of it and it
, Is amazing and astonishing that Lin
cOu would appoint a STAKEHOLDER to be
the mead Of the army. The writer of
ms letter was brought up to believe
that the south brought all the negroes
drom Africa. Another letter is from a
New Hampshire man. a veteran, who
says that he and seven others from
his town joined company in 1862, and
Only one besides himselfgot back Ever
since Zen he has been reviewing his
folly the folly of the war and is
ashamed of his people and says that I
do mot score them in myletters as hard
asi they deserve. He has Hinton Row.
an 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
yoHEphomes."
This book Is Endorsed by sixty-seven
members Of congress, including John
Sherman Appleton says that $4,000
copies were sold in three monuns and
1t precipitated the raid of John Brown,
lat whose execution all the church bells
of New England tolled a requiem. And
so hatve found three northerners who
have tAis growing sense and l have
heard of one more who is a suspect.
I am keeping tally sheet and as soon
as I hear Of any more growing sense
] will record 1t. My Oregon friends
generation came up since the war and
never had time to bother themselves
about the history o. the war or slavery.
The south was outside of their con-
Germ aad JEFF Davis was the area trait
or that Roosevelt told about in his his
tory. That is all he cared to know.
But he says your late letters have ex-
cited our curiosity and if when your
book is out, you will let me advertise
and sell it in my own way will sell
100000 copies north Of the line This
man is big advertiser with head
quarters "a Chicago and sent to me
big lot Of his cards and literature
Well, Mr. Byrd will see about that,
but to my opinion his northern Gus
toners don't care a baubee about me
or GrantyoE his niggers. They remind
me of tvEQ felers who went off to
camp mefgbog, and as they were stand
ing by a e one Of the brethren came
up and INVITED them to go up to the al
tar and jine EN- in glttin religion.
The men seemed somewhat indignant
and replied: you must excuse us,
sir, we don't live in the county"
taut I did find a rift in the clouds
gaf 5nuch comfort. In the
18th Mldihe of John Lords Beacon