The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
6)eekIv Constitutions Zig 1kree


/ /<Y AM Jesus ChllSl, VIC
SON MY mission is TO save Sii'
nels | fought in the civil wa.
! from Dalton to Jonesboro l"lCe nc
| been president of these ohi'eu 80 81
si,co tho surrender and have attendeu on
the reunions up to date, but no" ~
have cot me penile1 up here as ie.i
nessee hlnatic and won't let me 20 :.
Now orleans. can't get passpo,'
bacausa 7 am Jesus Christ. Can you uo
j something for me? | want to so anu -
| ,oica Win these who rejoice ana "eop
with those who weep .,v
| Jsnat poor fellow has my syI.p'ts
! Maybe if they had let him go WIN
veterans it would have restored mo .,s
J son. | know it frightened up oui t,
.,d NOW they can't talk about any .hi'7
else Was there ever such glo"ins'
ire patrtoism: 1t looks IKE Iiie
Increases at every reunion ana til"0
! out pensions. The Grand Army
Republic has reunions, put IL 40 .,-t
to keen I'D the pension grab, inc inns
! that Tom Benton called tine potto"'
Gulf of charities and gratnities.
saw 1t stated the other day thae ~
ner cent of the federal army were loi
eieners or foreign-born and were HAi''
inc only for bounty or booty or buncp"io'
ana they got it all and the pensions
! 4lrown IN. Oh, that was grand S"tiie'
| ing at New Orleans. 1t seems 10 '''
that if [ was a northern man Wou5O
say: "Look here, boys, We can ~
| ANYTHING with those rebels down S3u'h'
and I move we quit trying we We Deel
working on EN- for nearly forty se"i'
and have never converted one yet ~
they marched through New orleans wv
COO strong you could hear that same olu
.,,Inc tn
4 CID Father Mountcastle told me 1t DuiSt-
ed every telegraph wire south OF Mason
and Dixon's line and away up III Penn
s,lvauia the western Union had TO cut
down their poles for a hundred miieS'
Bnt I'm distressed about Mississippi
VINO is Governor Longno, anyhow Ills
name is not in any biography that l W
cot. reckon it wasent worth putting H.
+ reckon he is a foreigner or he WouloeH'
have invited Roosevelt, the sIanueIet'
down to Jackson to help lay the corner
stone OF the capitol Roosevelt sad iual
Jeff Davis was the arch repudiator ana
V hlle governor vetoed the bill that m'iu1
provision to pay the repudiated dept' d''r
he has never retracted nor apologlzed
for that lie. wonder if Lonsino knows
that Governor McNut was lhe auliioI
or reputation and gave as his reason
that the money WAS borrowed from bar
on Rothschild in whose veins noWed III
blood Of Judas and Shylock, and whose
MORTGAGES would confscate our cotton
fields and make serfs of our chlidreH'
Thai,s what he said in his message, but
~ LEGISLATURE youldent vote for it, ard
Il took five wears to set the bill through.
All This time Ny Davis was fighting LOT
his country in Mexico and got despcr-
atelv wounded at Buen2 vista anu ia"
10 use crutches for six years lie never
was in the legislature nor was he ever
oovernor. and yet Roosevelt, the SIAN
darer lets the lie stand and LonSlho
invites him down to lay the cOrner stone
~, NV co,,ntrvt when will all this
toaayisn ana hypocrisy cease on MIS-
efssfppil How are the mighty iaHch'
Now these utteranccs are my OWL
neither the editor nor any paper Is
sponsible for them. My feelings @uu oi'..
lions are all my own. | honor the nlciH-
o~v of Mr.. Davis and have profound re-
ennet for his widow and there IS no llnie
to NV contempt for the brute who put
manaclos on him or the conceited MS
toriaI who slanGered him. 1t IS com
fort 10 despise them both.
Ana now. three cheers for Indiana the
champion state for lynchng negroes "heh
thev commit outrages on their women
vot \ week passes but there is 1resh
ease and the people turn out and scoor
the country for the brute. And no"
tbev are driving all the negroes out Of a
county where an outrage was committed
You see they have no chain gangs up
there and but few negroes. LynchlhS HAS
almost stopped in Georgia because pun
,shrnont is more speedy and there Is a
chain gang in sight in almost every coun-
T., 1,,,+ lot a surp-enOugh case come up
and a sure-enough lynching will swiftly
falIo,, There are more than 1000 men
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