The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-07-10
Quotes a Tennessee Lunatic
and Draws a Lesson.
illl Wants to Know What Mannnr cf
Man is Governor Longlno, Of
IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cham.
pion State for
Lynchings.

9od' MY mission IS TO save sinners.
fought in the civil war from Dalton
to ID 1sboro. Twice have been pres
idont1of these United States since tho
surrender and have attended all the
reunions up to date, but now they
have got me penned up here as a Ten
nessee lunatic and won't let me go to
New Orleans I can't get q passport
because l am Jesus Christ Can't you
do something for me? want to 90
and rgiolce with those who rejoice and
wc,1swith those who weep"
That poor fellow has my sympathy.
Maybe If they mad let him 60 with
the veterans it would have restored
his reason. l know 1t frightened up
our boys and now they can't talk about
anything else. Was there ever such
glowing, growing patriotism? It looks
like the number increases at every re-
union and that without pensions. The
Grand Army Of the Republic has re-
uniens, but it is mainly to keep Up the
pen on grab, the thing that Tom Ben
tom called the "bottomless gulf of
charities and gratuities'
saw it stated the other day that
70 per cent Of the federal army were
foreigners or foreign-born and were
fighting only for bounty or booty or
buncomb, and they got II all and the
pensions thrown in. Oh, that was
grand gathering at New Orleans 1t
seems to me that if | was northern
ma | would say: Look here, boys,
we(cant do anything with those reb-
els down south, and move we quit try
ing. We have been working on 'em
for nearly forty years and have never
converted one yet" AS they marched
through New Orleans 100000 strong
you could hear that same old rebel
!. yell from ST. Charles to VicksburG.
I'D Father Mountcastle told me it
Fsted every telegraph wire south Of
ason and Dlxons line and away up
annsylvania the Western Union
, cut down their poles for hun
-SgH miles.
But I'm distressed about Mississip-
pi. Who is Governor LOngino, any
how? His name is not in any biogra-
ply that I've got. reckon 1t wasn't
worth putting in. reckon he is a
foreigner or he wouldn't have invited
Rooss pit, the slanderer, down to
Jacksoa to help lay the corner stone
of the capitol. Roosevelt said that
JEFF Davis was the arch repudiatoF and
while governor vetoed the bill that
made provision to pay the repudiated
debt. and he has never retracted nor
apologized for that lie. wonder II
Longino knows that Governor McNut
I'd the author Of reputation and
as his reason that the money
E7borrowed from Baron Rothschild,
in whose veins flowed the blood Of
Judas and Shylock, and whose mort
cages would confscate our cotton
fields and make serfs Of our children.
That's what he said in his message,
but the legislature wouldn't vote for
It, andEit took five years TO get the bill
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 was never in the legisla-
ture nor was he ever governor, and yet
Roosevelt, the slanderer, lets the lie
stand and Longino invites him down TO
lay the corner stone. Oh, my country!
ven will all this toadyism and n.y.
n cease? Oh, Mississippi! How
mighty fallen!
these utterances are In my own
2heither the editor nor any paper Is
responsible for them. My feelings
and emotions are all my own. I honor
the DRY of Mr.. Davis and have pro
fo{ Expect for his widow, and there
is Joteallfsrnit to my contempt for the
brine who put manacles on him Or the
conceited historian who slandered him
IT 10 a comfort to despise them both.
know, three cheers for Indiana,
pion state for lynching ne
&C. len they commit outrages on
~ men. Not week passes but
sa fresh case and the people
%T and scour the country for the
And now they are driving all
+be negroes out of a count ywhere an
outrage was committed. You see
they have no chain gangs up there ana
INT - negroes. Lynching has almost
st in Georgia because punish
rs more speedy and there IS q