The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-08

speech at Charleston and another in
! New York. IN which he says concerning
the right of state to secede: If 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
erations! Old John Adams, John Quin-
cy Adams, his son Charles Francis Ad-
ans. and now Charles Francis. his son.
and he is 20 years old and has been
forty years finding ont that we had the
right 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 r:1ll-
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 periured evidence The
longer | live the moro am CONVINCED
that as a general rule the Smartest men
are the neanest-especially the politi-
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 50
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 or helpless women an children
At that time there were 10000 runaways
up North fugitive slaves-the meanest
of the race and nobody but an unprin-
cipled dog of a man would have led
them against tbs. Down further south
the negroes mixed with gentlemen and
were true and faithful during the war,
and as General Henry R. Jackson said,
they ought to have monument built
to their loyalty as high as the stars.
But, psliaw What's the use of
scratching the old sores? Let them scab
over Are We not all brethren since the
Spanish war? Did not we all fight and
bleed and die together in Cubas Don't
the editors and orators tell us that fra
ternai peace prevails between the sec
tionss | aim still sick, and have been ont
of the house blit twice in three months,
and inasfks that is why I brood and
rufninate over the wrongs we have suf-
fered. When the spring comes and the
birds begin to sing and the flowers to
bloom may be ] will write more loving
letters: and if Teddy will retract and
apologize for the lies he told on Mr. |
Davis | will let him alone. considering
that his cerebellum is limited by the
lncdulla oblongata and the sinciput.
] never read the modern novel They
come and they go and are forgotten
but Miss Pettus OF Alabama sent me
the Princess of Glendale" and | reluc-
tantly took a glance at the first page and
got caught. I turned the leaf and read
on and had devoured one hundred pages
before breakfast and all of it during the !
day. 1t is a faithful and charming re-
cital of Southern home life on a big
plantation before the war. Then the war
comes with its distresses, the Forrest
with three hundred men pursues Stract
with fifteen hundred and captures him,
and Miss Emma Samson figures as a |
heroine in guiding Forrest across the
river, and then comes the sad story of |
Sam Davis, the typical Southern hero.
Interest never flags in the beautiful
story, and it will be landmark for our
children and Our childrer'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
but Southern Williams. He is
from Missouri. and said 1--WE of the
South" Not a Northern man except
Charles Francis Adams said kind |
word for us and he left out Mr.. Davis.
IF he had said what Watterson said or
what Southern Williams said he could
not have gone back to Boston. B. A.