The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-12
SATURDAY. MARCH IL, 1910.
TN APOLOGIES TO THE slULB.

Il mere are thousands of people In
sE,mond who never saw street car
xn by mule, and the mule mas
81, described as a freak of nature
aout pride of ancestry or hope OF
serltv. The mule. however. though
gated to the less aristocratic work
raging, is not extinct In the good
days he was called a "hay burner"
A,uss he subsisted on that sort of
re, when he could get 1t, and also /,
lusc he never learned anything
AZ and was content to poke along
slE lust as little as he could and
& caring very much whether any one
Ike to him kindly or not. or spoke
aim at all. There arc resemblances.
H. OF thnm, between US and our
nh friends which cannot speak
4 Language OF the tribe as we Viz
5yS.ans say. when we have nothing
to say.
II here is now in the United states
ate a curious sort of creature from
no who is unwilling to accept the
ats OF the WARP" and whose pray
has caused some discomfort TO the
ceably inclined. ALI. that one has
40 to stir up this particular mule Y
kay Robert Il. Lee" to him. His
le is Hepburn and by some insc :r'l =
) dispensation he Is in the Senate
II all the rights. immunlties and
editaments thereunto belonging
,cr of right o. of usage. One Of our
,emed fellow-countrymen from In
ma. now Twins in Chicago and for
ny years an active ambassador OF
dc In tho Southern territory,
srles silliman Hammond by name.
entity wrote a letter to MIR. Hey.
In protesting, in parliamentar.
M. of course. that Hepburn wa
king an ass OF himself in opposin
az placing of the Lee statue in II
n ridor OF tho Capitol at Washing
In reply to this friendly sugge
IN Mr.. Hepburn wrote to Mr.. Har
nd:
NJ have not been actuated By al
lire to help my cause or myself
n way. ! regret that such a questi'
,uld have been forced upon the a
alton Of Congress. ! am not co
med with the question as to wlct
OR not the name of Lee shall outli
ut OF Hepburn, nor have any pc
aal feeling Of hatred or malice
Isl rnatter.l You evidently have ncv
ought upon this subject nor ha
u any comprehension OF It's re
9pe. The Hall in the Capitol W.
u set aside as u station of honor #
s. but loyal mcp, and when sa
raj mean loyal to the Governme1
the United States. You. perhap
4 imagine something for which II
me of Lee should be honored. but
puld be very much. interested to sc
categorical statenlsnt 81 some {
Engs he did for which.he should /
lnored. Really. I am not intereste
your estimate of me, personally nc
iitically.''
II can very we'll be Imagined tn;
!. Hammond was severely iolted /
at answer. but he may be comforte
the wisdom of Solomon who q,
4red that though thou shonlde.
~ fool in mortar among whe:
TIL a pestle, Yet will not his foolisl
IS depart from him" Old Jim Go
i. of Mississippi. said. in effect, in h
'ewell address to the Senate that lie
IS I +
IN was more of fool than b;
IN. and we are not disposed to que
N the accuracy of his estima,
,thout departins from our custom
ying what sort Of a fool he Is. b
lis also something of a humorist,
pears clearly from his saying til
docs not know whether or not t
me of Lee shall outline that
fyburn"
If Hepburn will read the Centenn
dress of Charles Francis Adams.
Massachusetts,. at the Washington a
e Dniversity in 1907. he Will find
f1cient Categorical statement"
ay Lee is entitled to be held in CIV
stinE remembrance by brave II
erywhere There are plenty of otl
elements to which he might hes
fred for Information upon the S,
IT; but this statement being made
tformer Abolitionist and the co
ander of a negro regiment and s
sr who fought against Lee In
id in Virginia during nearly
nole period OF the war. ought to h
ecial weight with the mule fl
aho. AS to the question OF loys
the United States this Yankee {
lei of a negro regiment declares
was question OF Sovereign,
ate or National. and that every
the eleven States seeding from
1ion had In 1861, whether he w
no, to decide for himself whe
adhere to his State or To the
on.' and that whichever way
lcided, II only he decided hone
hitting self interest behind him
cided right II add" said Col
dams, 'as the result OF much,
ent study and most mature retlec
al under similar conditions I "