The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-04-10

ana the RepuDilCdH party HdQ mdue.
From his point of view the Carpet
Dagger element, as it was called
the Northern politicians who had re-
NAMED in the South after the Union
army had been withdrawn and were
at that time in control of the local
governments of all the Southern
States-were invaders of the South,
but he was convinced that their Pc
riod of domination would be brief and
that the property owners who had
been born and bred in that section
would ultimately find means to re-
cover and retain control of affairs.
He said that the death of Presi-
dent Lincoln was the greatest calam-
ity that could have happened to the
South. because. he believed, had Lin
coin been spared, his reconstruction
plan would have been entirely differ
ent from that adopted by President
Johnson under the advice OF Ben1a-
min F. Butler, Thaddeus Stevens
and other Northern radicals. He
believed that Lincoln would have rec
ognized the property-holders and tax
payers of the south as the safest
men to reorganize the local govern
ments and would have intrusted the
duty of reconstruction to them rather
than to aliens who did not under
stand conditions or the temperament
Of the people and had nothing at
stake except their own personal am
bitions
After the death of Mr.. Davis his
widow and daughter made Beauvoir
winter home until the death of
Winnie Davis, when the estate was
sold to Mississippi for a soldiers
home. Since then thirty cottages and
barracks have been erected for the
accommodation of the veterans They
are very simple and primitive, by no
means as luxurious as those provided
for Union veterans in the soldiers
homes of the North Most of the in
mates wear the beloved gray, and
some of their suits are stained and
frayed and patched. They are all
old men, most of@them with patriar-
chal boards, and the monotony of
life is relieved by frequent excur-
sionists, who can reach Beauvoir by
trolley car every twenty minutes.
The Episcopal Church of the Re-
deemer, which was erected at BIZ
loxi by the late Charles F. Howard,
the lottery king of New Orleans, in
memory of Rev. DR.. Hinsdale, former
ly president of Hobert College, con-
tains several fine stained glass mem
orial windows for the Davis family.
That dedicated to Jefferson Davis,
bears an inscription to the effect
that he was prosecuted for right
eousness sake There are windows
in memory of Mrs. Davis, Miss Win
rie Davis and for several grandchil-
dren of the Confederate president.
The latter was erected by his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Hayes, wife of a banker OF
Cclola ado Springs.
There is also a window in memory
of Mr. Howard, and one in memory
of DR.. Hins c, who came down here
for his health after his retirement
from the presidency at Hobart, and
who for several years, ,officiated at the
little Episcopal chapel which still re-
mains in the rear of the churchyard.
It was in that chapel that Mr.. Davis
and his family worshiped. The pres
ent beautiful structure was erected
by Mr. Howard some time after the
death of Mr.. Davis. Mrs. Hinsdale
still makes Biloxi her home, and is
doing some admirable literary work.
The lottery king has a beautiful
residence here, perhaps the most
costly in Biloxi, and his sons, Frank
and Harry Howard, have also made
Pi1Oyi tboir winter home.