The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-17
Fool Daughters Of Confederacy
James Anderson Vigorously Arragns Them For Their
Monument to Wirz.

his confederates and was hanged
when he had the opportunity to escape
that fate If he would tell There was
something admirable in Davis, but n
Wirz only detestable.
was in San Antonio, Texas, at the
carnival of flowers AS part r the
celebration was parade to which
General Myers in command Of the
United States troops there contributed
battery of artillery and four com,
panies of cavalry, There was an In
vitatiol given to the Grand Army OF
the Republic post to participate.
Some old Union soldiers took part In
the parade. At the point where the
Daughters OF the Confederacy were
witnessing the parade when the Unit
i ed States soldiers passed they were
as silent as the grave, as they were
when the. Union veterans passed.
When the confederate veterans pass
ed, some afoot and some mounted, the
air was filled with cheers and the
shouting was taken UP by the men
along the line. The honor thus shown
| the rebels. the traitors to the land,
the men who tried to destroy the best
government that ever existed on earth,
! showed the germ Of treason was not
dead-that the Union people had been
too lenient in treating the traitorous
element.
A short time since some Indiana
| Union soldiers who during the war
had captured some Alabama regi-
mental battle flags, in their own In
| itiatiye, resolved to return the flags to
! the Alabamians from whence they
were captured, and actually sent the
flags with delegation from Indiana
to return them to the men from whom
they were taken. Had such flags
been in possession of the Daughters
of the Confederacy they would have
burned them instead of giving then
back to the union soldiers from whom
they were taken.
The people OF the South are glad tt
have northern people with money
enterprise and vigor go there tt
make the land blossom as rose ant
become prosperous. but to be confront
ed by spirit such as is shown b,
the fool Daughters of the Confederacy
participated in slight degree by som,
men, will do more to retard tn,
| growth and development OF the coun
try than all the advantages which cal
be offered.
have worn in my coat, both a
San Antonio and at Dallas, Texas, tn
Grand Army button, the past white
and the winter before and have beel
i frequently accosted by old confederat
soldiers. Those who were in the arm
4 were always friendly. One old so
i der with a wooden leg one day touch
ing my button said: zone of you fel
lows shot my leg off at Gettysburg.
4 said, You had no business to be a
4 Gettysburg. He said: That's so; i
4 was a mistake to go into Pennsylvan
4 la, but it hurried the end. was gla,
j when it was over and am glad /
ended today" Another old confed
4 crate captain OF the Scotch caviar
Of Louisiana said to me one day
THE most terrible thing that eve
], happened the South was the assassins
ton Of Mr. Lincoln He was the onl
i man in the United States the victor
ious union men would have listened t
in their victory. He would have il
sisted that the war was at an en-
and peace would have been restore
long before it was actually. Their
would have been no carpetbagism
i and supremacy Of the negroes in tn
i South IS there was
4 The soldiers of the confederacy ar
good American citizens. The foe
Daughters of the Confederacy an
Sons of Confederate veterans ar
snakes in the, grass, with p dispos
ton to sting or bite If they could.
JAMES H. ANDERSON.