The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-12


sDeec,1 at Charleston and another IN
! New York. in which he says concerning
| the right of state to seeede: II we
accept the judgment of modern students
and Investigators it would seem as If
the weight of argument falls into the
Confederate side The issue was settled
by might and not by right. Then why
don't they pension our soldiers and pay
us for the property they destroyed
and ask Our pardon besides. Four gen
erationsi Old John Adams, John GUM
cv Adams, his son Charles Francis Ad-
ans, and now Charles Francis, his son,
and he is 70 years old and has been
forty years finding out that we had the
light TO secede and they had no right to
free our negroes without paying for
them. Besides all that this Adams took
charge of a whole regiment OF Our rum
away negroes. to fight lis with. Lew
Wallace did the same thing Yes he did
worse He was president of the court
that tried Wirz and convicted him and
hung him on perlufed evidence The
longer live the more | am convinced
that as a general rule the smartest men
are the meanest-especlally the polit1-
Clans Think of Henry Ward Beecher
preaching from his pulpit that Sharp's
rifles were better than Bibles to convert
the slave owners Of the South, and so
his people bought the rifles and the am
| ,nunition and told old John Brown to
go ahead But the niggers were loyal to
their masters and wouldn't burn nor kill
nor destroy, And hence Lew Wallace
and Adams and many others armed all
they could muster up and joined the
grand army and marched them down
upon our helpless women an children.
| At that time there were 10000 runaways
Up Nortll-fugitive slaves-the rneanest
of the race and nobody but an unprin-
cipled dog Of man would have led
them against us Down further south
the negroes mixed with gentlemen and
were true and faithful during the war,
land as General Henry R. Jackson said,
they ought to have monument built
to their loyalty as high as the stars.
But, pshaw What's the use of
scratching the old sores? Let them scab
lover. Are we not all brethren since the
Spanish war; Did not we all fight and
lblesd and die together in Cuba Don't
Ithe editors and orators tell us that fra
ternal peace prevails between the sec
tions am still sick, and have been out
Iof the house but twice in three months,
land maybe that is why I brood and
lrun1inafe over the wrongs we have suf-
I fered. When the spring comes and the
birds begin to sing and the flowers to
IbIoom may be / will write more loving
Iietters and if Teddy will retract and
/ apologize for the lies he told on Mr..
/ Dayis / will let him alone, considering
/ that his cerebellun1 is limited by the
nleelulla oblongata and the sinciput.
T never read the modern novel. They
come and they go and are forgotten );
j but Miss Pettus of Alabama sent me
i the Princess of Glendale and / reluc-
4 ta1tly took a glance at the first page and
4 GOT caught. / turned the leaf and read
i on and had devoared one hundred pages
i before breakfast and all Of it during the
i day. It is a faithful and charming re-
1 cital Of Southern home life on big
q plantation before the war. Then the war
8 comes, with its .distresses, the Forrest
!. with three hundred men prrsues Stract
I with fifteen hundred and captures him,
and Miss Emma Samson figures as a
i heroine in guiding Forrest across the
! river. and then comes the sad story OF
!, Sam Davis, the typical Southern hero
Z Interest never flags in the beautiful
J story. and it will be landmark for our
: children and our children's children, for
) it is faithful TO the truth of Confederate
history. BILL ARP.
: P. S.-The Constitution is mistaken
Williams, who made that beautiful
: speech in New York, was not Northern
5 Williams. bit Southern Williams. He i.
81 from Missouri. and said 1--WE of tht
8 South, Not a Northern man except
Il Charles Francis Adams said a kine
! word for us and he left out Mr.. Davis
+ lIf he had said what Watterson said ol
what Southern Williams said he coule
!. not have gone back TO Boston B. 4.