The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1903-01-09
on live men and the other dead ones.

And here is letter from Mrs. Lucy
Harrison Gay Whitfield, of Siddonsville,
Ala, who informs me that William Hen
nv Harrison's mother was Elizabeth
Bassett. She is Mrs. Whitfield's great
great-grandmother and is the wife OF
| Ben Harrison, who signed the Declare
| tion of Independence. Mis- mother was
Anne Carter, an aunt of Robert Lee.
/ believe that supplies all the missing
links.
I've been enjoying some rich and
racy reading-the reply of Horace
Greeley to- the committee who sum
moned him to trial for signing the
bail bond of Jefferson Davis that re-
leased him from prison. There were
81 who signed it, but Greeley was the
first and only republican abolitionist.
He volunteered to do it and did it will
ingly, going from New York to Rich
mond for that purpose, and it raised
howl all over New York and New Eng
land. The northern extremists de-
manded that Mr.. Davis be tried and
hung for treason, or for the assassina-
ton of Lincoln, or for something or
anything, so he was hung Greeley be-
longed to the Union League club, OF
New York, powerful organization,
and they were outraged and enraged
at his signing that bond and cited him
for trial. His reply is long one and
some parts of it are most delightful
sacasm.
"You say you will give me reasona-
BILE time for reflection. / want none,
nor shall | attend your meeting. It
is not my habit to take part in any
discussion that may arise among other
gentlemen as to my fitness to enjoy
their society. That is their affair, and
to them | leave it. No, shall not at
tend your meeting this evening. |
have an engagement out of town and
shall keep it. 1 do not recognize you
as capable of judging me. You regard
me as a(weak sentimentalist. I ar
raign you as set of narrowminded
blockheads, who would like to be USE
full, but don't know how. Your at
tempt to base an enduring party on
hate and wrath is like planting col
ony on an iceberg that had drifted into
a tropical sea. The signing of that
bail bond will do more for freedom
and humanity than you all can do
though you live to the age of Methu-
saleh. I ask nothing of you but that
you proceed in frank, manly way.
Don't slide off into cold resolution of
censure, but make your explosions.
Make it square stand-up fight and
record your judgment by yeas and
nays. dare you and defy you, and
propose to fight it out on the line /
have ever since Gen. Lees surrender.
| give you full notice that I shall |
urge the pardon and reenfranchise-
ment of all those engaged in the re-
be1lion and those now in exile
Well, they did not expel him nor cen
sure him. They were afraid. The |
to which have heretofore
alluded is now ready. 1t contains
Henry r. Jackson's great speech on
The "Wanderer," and Daniel Web
tiers speech at Capon Springs, Va,
he last and greatest he ever made. |
There is also brief biography of Gen.
Jackson by Joe M. Brown and few
by myself. There is enough
n this little pamphlet to establish the
aith and stimulate the pride of every |
southern man. According to Jackson,
he south was not responsible for
lavery, and according to Webster we
we're justified in seeding. And so the
Iorthern saints were in the wrong for
'iolating the constitution and precip-
tating that most unrighteous war.
md ought to make apology and resti-
ution to us. They owe to our people
nillions and billions OF dollars. They
veto me right now 500, 1000 damages,
nd If Roosevelt don't retract and
pologize, l think / will attach his
runks and his bear guns when he
ONES within reach. He did not do the
tealing, but he is an accessory after
he fact, and that is just as bad. Now,
have no interest in the sale of that
but | want every young
ian and woman to have one. The
rice is only rs cents, postpaid. Apply
o my friend Ed Holland, Atlanta, Ca,
are of Franklin Printing company.
But l have book in press-a new
nd handsome book-my last and
est. 1t contains my letters and ru-
iinations from the uncivil war to date
-1s61-1903. Price, postpaid. SIPS.
'rite to c. p, Byrd, Atlanta, Ga.--Bill