The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-01-27

ties. That the New York Herald has
opened a rift in the clouds ~ rchuk.ng
the President. etc. Nc hopc SO. hut now
that Roosevelt has appointed a Boston
coon TO 4 high office. the Herald may
change front and say he is consistent
That growing sense Of Justice i z cham
pion OF many colors. II WAS quite visible
a little while after Grady made his
charming speeches in New York and
Boston. but the preachers wtthcrcd It
ana Mckinley made more appointments
and kept making them as long rs he
lived. This growing sense does not seem
to flourish in many places. The fact IS,
we have almost despaircd of ever seeing
justice grow at the North. Lately 1
have received three letters from up
! there that indicate the growing sense.
and l have read and re-rcad them with
comfort. one Of these is from an old
Mexican veteran who says that Of the
.. 200, coo soldiers who fought against US.
one million were from the cast fighting
to free the negroes, Grants included
One million from the west fighting for the
union and the other 700. 900 were the riff
raft and scum. the ffotsam and jetsam Of
all nations who Joined the army for
bounty and booty and beauty, and they
were tho element that sherman employed
to make war hell. He speaks Of the war
as unholy. u~nrightcous and unjust.
Another letter is from Portland, Greg,
and says the writer recently got hold
! Of one of my letters which said that
General Grant was a slave holder and
hired out his negroes up to the close OF
the war ana lived off of their hire. lie
says: Il didn't believe il, but was in
! duced to examine his biography and |
found it was o." He says that nobody in
that country ever heard Of il and it is
amaziDg and astonishing that Lincoln
would appoint a STAKEHOLDER TO re tho
head Of the army. Tho writer Of this
letter w2s brought up to believe that
the North brought all the negroes from
Africa. Another letter is from a New
Hampshire man. a veteran, who says
that he and seven others from his town
joined a company in 1882. 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 l do not
score them in my letters as hard as they
deserve. He has Hinton Rowan Helpers
famous campaign book, in which he
says:
I'VE 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 indorsed by sixty-scvcn
members Of Congress. including John
Sherman. Appleton says that 1G7, 600
copies were sold in three months and it
Drcccpitated the raid of John Brown, at
whose execution all the church bells Of
New England tolled a requiem. And SO
I have found thrco Northerners who
have this growing sense and | have heard
Of one more who is q suspect. / am
keeping a tally sheet and as soon as l.
hear Of any more growing sense I will
record it. My Oregon friends generation
came up since the war and never had
time to bother themselves about the his
tory Of the war or slavery. The South
was outside of their concern and Jeff
Davis was the arch traitor that RoCsc-
welt told about in his history. That is
all he cared to know. But he says your
late letters have excited our curiosity
and if when your book is out. you viii
let me advertise and sell it in my own
way. ! will sell 100, 900 copies north or
the line. This man is q big advertiser
with headquarters in Chicago and sent
to me a big lot of his cards and litera-
turc.
Well. Mr.. Byrd will see about that. but
to my opinion his Northern customers
uOH | care at DGuDtt dDCuL lie OF LTaIft#
or his niggers. They remind ne Of two
fellers who vent off to camp meeting,
ard as they were standing by a tree one
of the brethren came up and invited them
to go up to the altar and jine 'em in
gittin' relation. The men seemed some
what indignant and replied: You must
Xcuse Us, sir. VIC don't live in the coun-
ty.'
But I did find a rift in the clouds that
gave much comfort to the twelfth volume
Of John Lords Beacon Lights Of His
tory" | find q sketch Of Robert e. Lee
by Dr.. r. Benjamin Andrews. that is a
loving tribute to the great soldier. Such
q growing tribute was hardly to be OK
pected from . Northern source. Espe-
claliy from one born in New Hampshire.
educated at Brown University aud who
Joined the army while u years old and
who lost an eye at Petersburg. As an
educator he rose rapidly in his profess
sion and became president of his alma
mater Next he was called to Chicago
to take charge of her public schools and
later on was chosen as chancellor of the
University of Nebraska, where h now
~ Since the war he has frequently
chanfploned the cause Of the South and
became unpopular with our malignant
enemies. OF course as he ioined tho
army 50 young and lost an cyc We must
yet MIN keep his convictions, but he is
q bighearted, brainy man or he would not
have dared to have written that tribute
| wonder how it happened that such
men as Andrews and away back, such
men as Webster and Hawthorne and
Emerson and Story and Choate. could
grow u and mature among tho noxiops
woods Of New England. ] still recall
with much pleasure a good speech
heard in 1874. a. Amherst College,
commencement grafton by Rufus Choate.
VINO was regarded as the most brilliant
eloquent and impassioned orator Of
america. l had a schoolmate there, and
my boston uncle said he would go with
me, for he had to look after Mr.. Choate
for he va In