The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-18
the rule of the old Puritan spirit of

the rule of the old Puritan spirit Of
religious intolerance. That spirit il
Its worst days never resulted in sucl
an exhibition as has been witnessed
on the floor of the senate today. The
old doctrine Of imputed righteousness:
and imputed iniquity which visited
upon the children and grandchildren
the sins of the parents, the Puritans
never reversed in it's operation and Wis
tied upon the grandparents the sins OF
the children. regret that the senator
from Maine should have been so dis
turbed by some recent historic judg
ments of the people of Massachusetts
that he should require their ancestors
not only to bear the burden of thcil
own sins, but those of their descend
ants. Like Aeneas in the Aenid-
"Attolleus humero famnque ct
fata nepotum."
1t would be quite appropriate for
Maine to send Edward Preblc her
greatest sailor. to accompany her first
governor in Nalhalla. but | make no
doubt she will choose james G. Blaine
The Ingalls, statue that was accept
ed the other day is the best likeness
in the hall-in form. in feature, in
pose it is strkingly like the man as
he looked during the Is years he was
in the senate. Whom will Kansas
send to keep him company in that his
toric place? She ought to send John
Brown of OSSawatomie He. more
than any other man, is representative
of the Kansas that came of the mar
riage of revolution and murder Jim
Lane might do very we'll. but not near
ly SO we'll as Brown. 1t is true that
millions of our people believe Brown
was a miscrcant of all colorS, but he
was "KanSas incarnatc''-the Kansas
incarlmte Kansas of Il later period. If
millions believe Brown to have been IL
murderer and Il traitor, more millions
look on him as Il victim, a martyr and
a saint. BY all means let Kansas send
John Brown.
Tennessee ought to send Forrest, the
greatest cavaryman of the greatest
var, and Faragut, the greatest sailor
of the war; Jackson is here already
and SO is Lincoln. and so Illinois should
send Douglas to be beside Shields
Virginia should send Patrick Henry
and Robert T.. Lee.
When Kentucky is represented. John
G. Breckenridge will probably he enc
of her worthiest in that hall, though Il
state that refused to repair the monll-
ment OF Henry Clay, while voting thou
sands to a statue of William Goebel,
is liable to do anything. and there is
no denying that Gocbcl better repro
sents that Kentucky of the present
time and the past decade than either
Clay or Brccllinridge would represent
it. But there was Il Kentucky that
led the political and patriotic thought
of the Union. The Kentucky that
forced the Louisiana purchase and
held the Union together for 40 years
by compromise, the Kentucky of the
Clays, the AIarshHlls and the BrecEin-
ridges, and that Kentucky would rest
quieter in history if represented in our
Valhalla by Henry Clay and John c.
Breckenridge. her bestowed son, her
two greatest men. However. it has
been suggested that kentucky send
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
both born within her limits. and that
is not an unpatriOtic nor an unpront-
able thought and ought to be pom
dered.
But unless Kentucky sends Jetfcr-
son Davis, Mississippi will send him
and the Image of no kn yhtlicr and no
purer man will he there. He earned
the place. His work at Monterey and
Buena Vista made him fit conlratlc
for heroes. and he was the peer of the
greatest when our senate was at the
zenith of it's golden age. Call him
traitor if you please, but he is repre-
sentative of Mississippi ana his name
is sacred to Il brave people.