St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-07-18

ARP ON THE REUNION
Says Rebel Yell Burst Every Tele'
graph Wire il Southland.
sorry for Poor Lunatic Veteran Wha
was Not Allowed 70 Go TO New
Orleans-Deplores AississipDfs
Invitation to RoOseveH.
II am Jesus Christ, the carpenter
SON. nv mission is to save sinners. !
fought in the civil war from Dalton 70
,Jonesboro. Twice Ishaye been Presl-
dent Of these United States since the
surrender and have attended aNthe re-
unions up to date, but now they have
got me penned up here as tennessee
lunatic and won't let me go to New
Orleans. 4 can't get q. passport pc
cause / am Jesus Christ. Can't yon do
something for me? / want to 60 and
rejoice with those who rejoice anu
weep with those who y eep.
: That poor fellow has my symPa thy.
Maybe if they had let him go with tho
veterans it would have e stored his rea-
son know it frightened up our boys
and now they can't talk about any
thing else. Was there ever such glow
ing, growing patriotism? Itlooks nke
the number increases ct every reunion
and that with out pensions. The Grand
Army Of the Republic has reunions,
but it is mainly to keep up the pension
grab, the thing that Tom Benton called
s.the sbottomless gulf Of charities ana
xratuities."
/ saw it stated the other day that 20
per cent. Of the federaIarmy were for
eigners or foreign-born and were fight
ing only for bounty or booty q bun
comb, and they got it all and the PEN
sions thrown in. Oh, that was q grand
gathering at New Orleans. Itseems to
me that if I was northern man l
would say: Look here, boys, we cant
do anything with those rebels down
south, and move we quit trying.
We've been working on 'em for nearly
10 years and have never converted one
YETI As they marched through New
Orleans 900 strong you could hear
the same old rebel yell from st. Charles
to Vicksburg. Old Father Mountcastle
told me it bursted every telegraph wire
south OF Mason and Dixon's line and
away up in Pennsylvania the Western
Union had to cut down their poles for
D hundred miles.
But Pm distressed about Mississippi.
Who is Gov. Longino, anyhow? His
name is not in any biography that I've
rot. / reckon It wasn't worth putting
in: reckon he is . foreigner or he
wouldn't have invited Roosevelt, the
down to jackson to help lay
the corner stone Of the capitol. Roose-
velt said that JET Davis was the arch
repudiator and while governor vetoed
The bill that made provision to pay the
debt, and he has never re-
tracted nor apologized for that lie. I
II Longino knows that Gov.
the author Of repudia ton
md gave as his reason that the money
vas borrowed from Baron Rothschild,
10 whose veins flowed the blood Of
Judas and Shylock, and whose mort
yages would confiscate our cotton
ields' and make serfs Of our children.
That's what he said in his message.
,ut the legislature wouldn't vote for
t, and it took five years to get the bill
through. All this time Mr.. Davis was
lighting for his country in Mexico and
rot desperately wounded at Buena
Vista and had to use crutches for six
rears. He never was in the legislature
Tor was he ever governor, and yet
Roosevelt the slanderer, let's the lie
;tand and Longfno invites him down to
~ the corner stone. Oh, my countryl
When will all this toadyism and hypoc-
isy cease? Oh, Mississippi How are
he mighty fallen!
Now these utterances are my own
leither the editor nor any paper is re-
ponsible for them. Ny feelings and
motions are Ill my own. honor the
memory Of Mr.. Davis and have pro-
ound respect for his widow. and there
) no limit to my contempt for the
'rute who put manacles on him or the
onceited historian who slandered him.
t is comfort to despise them both.
And now, three cheers for Indiana,
he champion state for lynching me-
'roes when they commit outrages on
heir women. Not week passes but
here is fresh case and the people
urn out and scour the country for
he brute. And now they are driv-
ng all the negroes out Of county
rhere an outrage was committed. You
&c they have no chain gangs up there
nd but few negroes. Lynching has
lmost stopped in Georgia, because pun
Ihment 10 more speedy and there is
chain gang in sight in almost every
ounty, but let 1 sure-enough case
one up and a sure-enough lynching
vill swiftly follow. There are more
han 1000 men in our state who have
ot bowed the knee to Baal-and. Rev,
Jewell Dwight Hills shouldn't sleep
. bed in my house unless he wassicR
INTO death.
But enough of all this. It sound.
Ike am mad with somebody, but am
OF. We are all happy at my house
o-night, for our PARKWAY boy is on
is way home. We have just had .
.legram from him and he will be here
o-night. He lives in Mexico City and
as been three long years since we
ave seen him. This is Carl, the