The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-09-29
JEFFERSON DAVIS
4 JUST TRIBUTE r.AID HIM BY 4
NORTHERN PAPER.
Comment on the New Haven Regis
ter's Generous Reply to The News
and Couricr's Challenge.

ter's Generous Reply TO The News
and Couricr's Challenge.
a short time ago il was announc-
&c tha, the State OF Mississippi! vas
preparing 10 present statute OF Jef-
:erson Davis 10 the Stataa-y Hall in
Washington as one OF the great Mis-
>issippians entitled TO place n tha;
Tempt. OF Fame. says the New Or
leans States. Some Of the news
pa pe-s o. the South. however. ex-
pressed the opinion that this step
should come from Kentucky. the
native State of both Jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln. which. It WAS said.
contemplated presenting together
the statutes o! her two most illus
s.ious sons IN commenting on the
o-otec: 20 give the President OF the
Southern Confederacy place in Stat
,.a.y Hall. The Charleston News and
Courier took occasion 10 express sur
prise a, the silence Of the Rochester.
Y. Y. Democrat and Chronicle and
also the fact that il had failed 70
say something very ugly about the
| matter.
The remarks OF The News and
| Courier were IN the nature Of cha!-
! ,enge. which has been accepted BY
the New Haven Register with the
| declaration that there is something
% say about Jefferson Davis and his
admission 10 the Eat!oGal Temple
os Fame. and 1t should De said. !;
| is high slime. the Register asserts
rha: the mist which sc- half a CO..
.ury has distorted the Sorth's vie"
OF this son Of tie South should De
cared away" and that the man who
IN his day suffered more than IN,
othe. Southerner for the cause il
which he believed. should cease tc
he reckoned coward and traitor
and esteemed for what he was--a
brave. true Southern gentleman.
To this statement the New Haven
Register adds the following eiocren:
tribute 10 NJ. Davis:
But .ae South W.T.! nere: ceaae
70 admire and honor the man OF
iron nerve. Of daunt!ess courage. o.
~easeless loyalty. Of unsul!.ed honor
nf cireless energy. OF peerless ch!v'
airy. who suffered and dared aac
all bu. died for the cause be loved
and lost. OF that host Ct s.ue mer
who gave their best and their al
FOR the Confederacy because in thei'
deepest hearts they believed the!
were doing right. Zone were more
sincere than ne. OF that multitude
whc lined up foT the struggle aGata<'
| their brothers OF the So-tl a, .;
was Drawer and none was G~ole.
His sacrifice was as extreme as Il
vas sincere. and his treatment D!
the victors after the crash came va:
sore medicine for heart that va:
breaking.
'I. IS a century and year since
Jefferson Davis was born. L Is
near TO bali a century since his Gauss
vas lost. II Is t@eoty years since
ais death What bette. time coule
there be to signify. by tie placing
OF his statute IN the Nations Capitol
that in the blood Of brothers shee
tho Union is forever cemented OF
a foundation that standeth sure
There let his p-esentment stand
erect. oot'e. commanding. !mpres'
sive. as be stood IN the days wher
| ne vas mas.er OF the desttnies o.
bali nation. Let It there remind
the South that It was mistaken and
the North that it misunderstood. lie.
I Il picture a martyr 10 cause tha;
though lost. was not wholly in vain
siace II taugh, brothers 70 appreci.
ate relationship they we're in dang
er OF forgetting.
Twenty-Five years ago II would
have been dangerous for Ne"
England newspaper 10 pay such a
tribute 70 the memory OF the great
martyr Of the Lost Cause. aad II
indicates Whist tremendous strides
have been taken toward complete
| ~ reunited country in little more
+; than a couple OF decades. We are
IL perfect agreement with the state
] nent Of The News and Courier that
| nothing finer than shat has been
done on ei,he. side OF the old line
OF sec.iona! feeling and sect!onsl dis
trust It will te vastly pleasing 70
the people OF the South. because /:
was so unexpected and so magnifi-
Gently generous and patriotic. But
there IS a lesson to be learned from
the tribute. and that IS the honest
hearted people Of New England are
today app-ecia,!ng the noble cha!a:-
ter and great worth o. Jefferson DE-
ws. and they have the manly cou!.
age TO DO him the justice which hss
been SO Yong den!ed him by those
who possess neither the sense Of riga
40. the sense os Justice.
MACON MERCHANT MURDERED.