The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-07-31
ARP ON THE REUNION
Saws Rebel Yell Burst Every Tele.
graph Wire in Southland.
s.,-rx for Poor Lunntic Veteran Who
wa. Not Allowed to Go to New
Orlenn.-DeplOres Mississippfs
Invitation to Roosevelt.

son. My mission is to save sinners.
fought in the civil war from Dalton to
Jonesboro. Twice | have been presi-
dent of these United States since the
surrender and have attended all the re-
unions up to date, but now they have
got me penned up here as i Tennessee
innate and won't let me go to New
Orleans. l can't get a, passport. be-
cause | am Jesus Christ. Can't you do
something for me? i want to go and
rejoice with those VINO rejoice and
weep with those who weep.
That poor fellow has my sympathy.
Maybe if they had let him go with the
veterans it would have restored his rea-
son. know it Frightened up our boys
and now they can't talk about any
thing else. Was there ever such glow
ing, growing patriotism? 1t looks like
the number increases at every reunion
and that without pensions The Grand
Army of the Republic has reunions,
but il is mainly to keep up the pension
rrab. the thing that Tom Benton called
.the bottomless gulf of charities and
gratuities.
saw it stated the other day that 10
per cent. of the federal army were for
eigners or foreign-born and were hight
ing only for bounty or booty or bun
comb, and they got it all and the pen
sions thrown in. Oh. that was grand
gathering at New Orleans. ltseemsto
me that if i was northern man
would say: Look here, boys we cant
do anything with those rebels down
south. and l move we quit trying.
We've been working on 'em for nearly
40 years and have never converted one
vet" As they marched through New
Orleans 10O,0 900 strong you could hear
the same old rebel yell from ST. Charles
to Vicksburg. Old Father Mountcastle
told me it bursted every telegraph wire
south of Mason and Dixon's line and
away up in Pennsylvania the Western
Union had to cut down their poles for
| a hundred miles.
But I'm distressed about Mississippi.
| Who is Gov Longino, anyhow? His
name is not in any biography that I've
| got. l reckon it wasn't worth putting
I in. l reckon he Is foreigner or be
wouldn't have invited Roosevelt, ths
| slanderer, down TO Jackson to help lay
the corner stone of the capitol. Roose-
| yelt said that jeff Davis was the arch
repudiator and while governor vetoed
the bill that made provision to pay the
| repudiated debt, and he has never re-
tracted nor apologized for that lie.
wonder if Longino knows that Gos.
| McNut was the author of reputation
and gave as his reason that the money
| was borrowed from Baron Rothschild,
in whose veins flowed the blood OF
Judas and Shylock, and whose mort
cages would confiscate our cotton
fields and make serfs of our children
That's what he said in his message,
but the legislature wouldn't vote lof
it, and it took five years to get the DILL
through. All this time Mr.. Davis was
fighting for his country in Mexico and
got desperately wounded at Buena
Vista and had to use crutches for SIX
years. He never was in the Legislature
nor was he ever governor, and yer
Roosevelt the slanderer, let's the he
stand and Longino invites him down 10
lay the corner stone. Oh. my country!
When will all this toadyism and hypoe-
risy cease? Oh. Mississippi. Howare
the mighty fallen.
Now these utterances are my OWL
neither the editor nor any paper IS re.
sponsible for them. My feelings anu
emotions are all my own. honor inc
memory of Mr.. Davis and have pre-
found respect for his widow, and there
is no limit to my contempt for the
brute who put manacles on him or tne
conceited historian who slandered NM
1t is comfort to despise them botn.
And now, three cheers for Indiana
the champion state for lynching ne
. groes when they commit outrages %
their women. Not a week passes pus
there is fresh case and the peeps
, turn out and scour the country iof
the brute. And now they are dris'
ing all the negroes out OF county
where an outrage was committed. Yen
, see they have no chain gangs up tner'
. and but few negroes. Lynching mas
almost stopped in Georgia because pun
ishment is more speedy and there :
chain gang in sight in almost ever!
. county, but let sure-enough eas'
come up and sure-enough lynehins
will swiftly follow. There are mon
, than 1000 men in our state who nav
not bowed the knee to Baal-and nv
Newell Dwight Hills shouldn't siee.
, in bed in my house unless he wassN'
. unto death. :.
But enough of all this. 1t SCUM.
like am mad with somebody, but a.
: not. We are all happy at my nous -
tonight, for our far-away boy Is =.
his way home. We have just nao
telegram from him and he will be he',
y tonight. He lives in Mexico City a.,
, has been three long years SINCE ~. =,
} have seen him. This is Carl, ~
, youngest boy-the pet of his mother
= the one she loves the best and pra!
d the longest for every night. he VIZ
r stay with US few days and then 3