The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-03-20

growing sense, and / have read an,
reread them with comfort. One o
these is from an old Mexican vet
eran who says that of the 100000
soldiers who fought against us
100000 were from the east fightin;
to free the negroes, Grants included
One million from the west fightin.
for the union and the other zoe. 0O'
were the riff-raff and scum, the fiot
sam and jetsam of all nations wht
joined the army for bounty ant
booty and beauty, and they were tn,
element that Sherman employed t,
make war hell. He speaks of tn,
war as unholy, unrighteous and un
just. Another letter is from Port
land, Ore, and says the writer re
Gently got hold of one of my letters
which said that Gen. Grant was q
slave holder and hired out his ne
groes up to the close of the wal
and lived off of their hire. He says:
II didn't believe it, but was induced
to examine his biography and found
it was So" He sa0S that nobody il
that country ever heard of it and i,
is amazing and astonishing that Lin
coin would appoint a stakeholder to
be the head of the army. The writer
of this letter was brought up to be-
lieve that the south brought all the
negroes from Africa. Another letter
is from New Hampshire man. vet
eran, who says that he and seven
others from his town joined COM
pany 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 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:
1--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
bers of congress, including John
Sherman. Appleton says that 10000
copies were sold in three months and
it precipitated the raid of John
Brown, at whose execution all the
church bells of New England tolled
a requiem. And so 1 have found
three northerners who have this
growing sense and / have heard of
one more who is a suspect. / am
keeping tally sheet and as soon as
l hear of any more growing sense :
will record it. My Oregon friend.
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-
ty, and if when your book is out
you will let me advertise and sell
it in my own way, l will sell 100000
copies north of the line. This man
is a big advertiser with headquar-
ters in 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 baubee about me
or Grant or his niggers. They re
mind me of two fellers who went off
to camp meeting, and as they were
by tree one of the breth-
rem came up and invited them 90
go up to the altar and jine 'em in
yittin' religion. The men seemed
somewhat indignant and replied:
You must excuse us, sir, we don't
live in the county,"
But / did find a rift in the clouds
that gave much comfort. In the
twelfth volume of John Lords "Bea-
con Lights of History" L find a
sketch of Robert Z. Lee by DIR. E
Benjamin Andrews that is a loving
tribute to that great soldier. Such
a glowing tribute was hardly to be
expected from a northern source.
from one born in New
educated at Brown uni
Fersity and who joined the army
while Is years old and who lost an
eye at Petersburg. As an educator
ne rose rapidly in his profession and
became president of his alma mater.
Next he was called to Chico to
take charge of her public schools and
later on was chosen as chancellor
Of the University of Nebraska, where
he now is. Since the war he has
championed the cause OF
the south and became unpopular witt.
our malignant enemies. Of course
as he Joined the army so young ant
lost au eye, we must let him keep