The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-14

and Jessie" and that Of Buck and
Brock" There were campaign songs
and verses in those early days, and
some of them We're neither refined nor
polite. one of them called Fremont
the Gray Mustang" with a "du-da,
du-da, day But my father being a
great friend of Hon. Edward Kent, I
took a fancy to the forcible verse of
a son:
Names gone hell-bent.
For Governor Kent,
And Tippecanoe and Tyler, too"
Whatever may be said of the late
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of
Pennsylvania. as a politician, his rec
ord as a soldier in the Civil War was
heroic. He was colonel of a regiment
in the battle of Antietam, but soon aft
er was stricken with typhoid fever.
When he reiOined his command just
before the battle of Fredericksburg, the
surgeon pronounced him unfit physical
ly for active service and he resigned.
But the battle came on before he got
away, and he became a volunteer aide
to Gen. Tyler, and so conspicuous was
his galantry that he was awarded a
congressional medal ot honor" When
the surgeon told him he was a fool
TO think of going into that battle, he
simply replied: II had rather die
fool than live a coward" His whole
life was in one sense. a warfare, and
yet he never quailed before the stout
est enemies. The American Boy
Monthly of Detroit. Mich, has organ
lied the boys of America. and under
Editor William c. Sprague, had a big
American Boy Day" celebration at
The Worlds Fair. Letters were read
from Governors of all the states, and
This is what Gov. Terrill of Georgia
aid; The boys of America should
understand that they have had be
lueathed to them through blood and
sacrifice, an unsullied patriotism, a
'icher legacy than was ever left to
outh by all the powers of monarchy
nd titled classes. in the history of
utilization; the heritage of sovereign
v. They should be educated in that
readth of patriotism which is not
Ound by sectional lines, and which is
ever to be crushed by sectional AFRO
ance and oppression. A patriotism
nat flows dnimpeded from the foun-
ain of the Preside, to purify. ennoble
nd make strong the broad unstemmed
eean of American liberty"
Col. John Witherspoon DuBose of
Alabama, has written two elaborate ar
icles on the Diplomatic History of
southern Confederacy." Discussing
he shortage of ordnance stores in 1861,
he says. "Citizens and prudent sol
lierS thought Gen. Beauregard, with
1 competent staff, must have had
more serViceable officer, to have sent
abroad on so vital a responsibility"
This refers to Lieut.. Caleb Huse, who
was born in and entered West Point
from Massachusetts and graduated No.
in the class of 1851. He was assigned
10 the First Artillery and served a year
at Key West, Fla, then was assistant
professor of chemistry, etc, at West
Point from 1852 to 1859 After that he
spent two years in Europe, resigning
as a first lieutenant, Feb 25, 1861. Du-
Bose says he was drill master and
commandaut at the University of Ala
bama when appointed purchasing agent
In Europe for the Confederacy Now, if
this record be correct Huse was "off
with the old love and on with the new"
in double quick time. But my purpose
is simply to call attention to the re-
markable fact not often referred to,
that the Confederacy passed by emil
nently qualified Southern officers and
appointed Northern born officers to
highly responsible positions. Cooper of
New York was made ranking full gen.
erel, and Lieut.. Huse of Massachusetts
purchasing agent in Europe. Then
came Pemberton, Ruggles, Whiting,
French. GOrgas. Frost Shoup, Ripley,
Trimble, Maclay, Gardner, Stevens,
Oracle, Duncan, Smith, Leadbetter,
Blanchard and other Northern officers,
to be made general officers in the Con-
federate States Army Whenever the
Southern soldiers or civilians objected
to them on account of their Northern