The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-10
HEPBURN AND SOUTH
ERN WINDJANINIING


Senator Hepburn of Irado made a
sharp speech yesterday, in the Ma
uonal Senate opposing the loaning OF
tents and other public property for
use at a Confederate Veterans reunion
He objected to men wearing the rebel
uniform and waving the rebel flag
while in possession of the public
property. He also objected to the
statue of Lee m the National
hall of fame at Washington as one of
the two statues from Virginia. Hey
burn made some pretty cutting re-
marks and they have some justifica-
tion. 1t is time to lag that old rebel
flag away where 1t will not be disturb
ing element. The following paragraph
shows how pointed were his remarks
when referring to Lees statue in the
National capitol:
"I ask you in the interest of loyal
fy and harmony to say to the people
who have sent this image to come
and take IL away; it may be dear to
you, but IL Is not dear to us. Take it
and worship it. If you please, but do
not intrude Ii upon the people who
do not want IT, Take him home
place him in the sacred spot; give him
the dearest place in your local
temples But, for Gods sake, don't
again start this spirit out of which
the terrible troubles OF the past
arose"
The writer has attended one OF these
reunions and knows with what ardor
the ex-Confedorates celebrate their de-
feat They decorate the town with
lao han
the rebel Gray and make heavy,
windy speeches arguing that they
whipped the north but wore them
selves out at the Job. They declare
they had the right principles but the
northern people had the greater num-
bers. Their exercises are made up OF
a lot of vainglorlous ana unwarranted
assumptions and they do themselves
no good as they lend themselves to in
Huences which weaken patriotism and
bduddle the minds of their people.
t~While Hepburn stood alone yet we
bslieve II Is a good thing to have
gone man stand up occasionally and
speak the truth TO our Southern breth-
rem. There is nothing very grand for
an ex-rebel to celebrate. His two chief
cantentions, State sovereignty and
slavery, were wrong in theory and i'm
practical and uneconomic doctrines
When subjected to experience in the
the light OF modern civilization. As
Tor the way they succeeded the van
quished and frazzled out armies of
LEE and Johnston were significant IL
Illustrations
OF course we agree that "the war is
over" but nobody fights the war
again so hard as some of these ex-
rebel orators with their mouths. 1t
is a Common thing for them to declare
they "are not reconstructed and never
expect to be-" Moreover they are
teaching their children that the South
was right and the North was wrong.
We have frequently taken up their
pretensions while, living among them
and had some scrappy old times with
them. 1t has never been very clear,
why the people VINO stood by the old
Union should keep~etill when ex-Con-
feds were spouting their sophistry
and foollshnessr sssa casually a few
good heavy bombs burst among them
start them TO coyer. The best point
we ever got on those fellows was the
statement from the book published
by Senator Foote. OF Mississippi, it
being his photographed reflections
In which he demonstrates that JEFF
ferson Davis and his, Cabinet did not
really believe in State sovereignty.
When the war came in earnest and
the Southern country began to suffer
from it's fearful ravnges many of the
people OF Misslssippl became aware OF
tho fact that they. had made mis-
tiJSe. by seeding from the Union and
wanted, under the doctrine of State
Sovereignty, TO vote on the question
of seceding from the Confederacy and
coming back into the Union. They
reasoned perfectly logically that II a
State is sovereign 1t would have the
same right TO seceds from the Con-
federacy that II had to secede from
tfR American Union and go unto the
Confederacy. but the request was re-
fused by the Confederate President
W. have several times fired that pro-
pobition at them out 80 far no ex-
yobeJ has ever answered It, Any one