The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-10-19
MALICE TOWARD NONE,
AND CHARITY TO ALL

Roswell, Oct. is. 1909.
TO the Editor of The Record:
| have read with deep interest the
able and thoughtful letter of Mr..
Dunn, which appears in The Record
OF today.
For a supposedly peace-loviag.
democratic people We have assuredly
been liberal in our rewards to war
riors. OF twenty six Presidents. Wash
ington. Jackson. Harrison G'Old Tip
pecanoe"). Taylor Grant, Hayes. Gar
field, Harrison CBenjanin), McKi1-
ley and Roosevelt have been war
riors. and their civic honors were due
to their military records. General
Winfield Scott vas nominated by the
Wings and defeated at the polls.
President Taft came to the Presidency
through the Office of Secretary of
War. William j. Bryan was a colonel
during the war with Spain. The A
merican people nearly lost heir
sense over Admiral Dewey. We may
as a people have been foolish and
shortsighted, but the pages of his
tory can not ibe blotted out.
Whilst lincoln was, nominally, in
supreme command on one side. and
Davis on the other, Lee n Grant
are the supreme characters In the
great war, with Stonewall Jackson.
AlcOlclidu, f1ObhtT, JED oiudfl, anu
Meade large and luminous stars about
the greater lights.
l. may be we'll again to refer to the
fact that jefferson Davis was chosen
President of the Southern Confedera-
CIV largely because of his services in
the war with Mexico, where mis- bril-
liant cavalry tactics at Buena Vista
saved our army from disastrous rout.
His first wife was the daughter of his
a 49, ILL., D-.;-
was a West Pointer and was Secre-
tary of War under President Pierce.
Lincoln plainly was no warrior;
his appointment OF Burnside proves
this c~onclusively. Davis kne enough
to leave Lee and Jackson to their
own devices.
What | now say / hope may give
offense to none. Mr.. Dunn blasnes
Lincoln for not. with ais overwhelm-
ing forces, crushing the Southern re
|bellion in less than four years. The
Southern army was shoeless, hungry,
and almost at times naked. but it
was led by sue spirits as Lee. Jack
son and Stuart. 1t formed an irresist-
BILE force. Think of the Antietan!
II Stonewall Jackson had been in
command of the Army of the Poto-
mac the battle of the Antietam would
have been fought on the 10th of Sep
TENDER. and the war ended there ana
then. MOI Harper's Ferry would never
rave been captured, Lee army
would have died amongst the passes
of South Mountain and the little
creek called the Antietam would
be unknown to history.
What is now known as the State of
Kentucky was once Fincastle Coun-
ty, Virginia. Lee was a Virgilian.
Lincoln's blood was Virginian. He
was born in Kentucky. Kentucky fuTn
ished more fighting men to both arm
les than any other spot on earth. in
proportion TO her population. My
father vas a STAKEHOLDER and a bit
ter rebel; my mother was a daughter
of a urgeo in h Union Army, and
my paternal grandfather was a Henry
Clay Wing and abolitionist, who once
said to me. "Your father is a good
man. but never believe anything that
he SAYS abou politics."
for the old flag of Washington, lack
son and Lincoln; for the South, be
aus it is ny birthplace. Tor the
whole great country above and be-
yond any part OF 1t. Because / keep a
photograph of Stonewall Jackson at
he head OF my bed is no reason why
! shoul not reverence the memory of
with malice toward none and char
ity for ALL"
HOWARD CRUTCHER.