The National tribune., 1910-09-08

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
of reconstruction, when you endeavored
TO overthrow the civilization of the
South and place the Anglo-Saxon race
under the dominion of African slaves.
That one thing will blast the North for
ever in the eyes of discriminating ana
impartial world. All thru the long Sc
ries of Northern Republican Admins
'trationS you have played high hand.
each of those Administrations catering
to the hordes of G. A. Il. voters and
feeding them millions of the public
money in Illegal pensions, until even the
Northern papers cried out against the
scandal of it all: but now you are in
partial eclipse, and soon your reign viii
be at an end. No amount of prOtesta-
tions of how you saved the Nation. no
frenZicd waving of the bloody shirt. no
yelps of traitor, no more the cXtolling
of yourselves nor the Gefaming of your
betterS can do more than create n rip
pie on the surface of public attention,
and when that ripple is caused by such
an outburst as you and your other chi
cago G. A r. companions were recently
guilty of, then the ripple itself is one of
amusement, contemptuous amusement.
You are joke. Yours truly-Arthur
II. Jennings.
Himpan. Hidalgo. Mexico. Jan. 70, 1910.
Col. Jasper T. Darling, Chicago, Z. 5.
A.. or Elsewhere.
Dear Sir: The attached statement by
You is just before me. .
The immortal Gen. Robert f. Lee in
all that makes the true man towers
above anything born north of Mason
and DiXon'S land, past or present. as
Mount Washington towers above
mole hill, and needs no defense. How
ever, for your information, L present
the following:
On one occasion q Kentucky General,
noted for his bravery, while seated at
his desk, received a challenge to fight
q duel The General read the miSsive,
then quickly stuck it in the pigeOnhOle
of his desk The messenger, receiving
no reply. departed. Finally the author
of the challenge appeared before the
General. saying to the General: Are
you not going to accept that challenge ~
The General remarked: Il am occu-
pied,' Then" said the author of the
challenge. Il will publish you as a pal
troOn and a coward Don't do it."
said the General For your own sake,
don't do it. Because there are a whole
lot of people who know me, and you
would be branded as the most depraved
ter Lee Austin, NJ. D., of Virginia, U.
S. A.
Lynchburg, Va, Feb. 10.
]. T. Darling, Esq.
Dear Sir: / desire to thank you for
your courtesy in mailing me copies of
two of your speeches, one -assailing Lee,
the other attacking the Daughters Of
the Confederacy. / am constrained to
no hnt iC tan a nrn of
which you show in these screeds such
remarkable mass as to make a letter
to you seem "a hopeless task, but that,
rather, some of that old woman batting
spirit that animated the ignoble horde
that swept with Sherman to the sea"
thru the defenseless stretches of our
Southland, preying upon women and
children and laying waste a land whose
defenders were away, still survives in
the martial ranks of the G. A. r. And,
further. it is the same sort of spirit
that murdered Mrs. Surratt, a defense
less as well as innocent woman; that
likewise murdered WirZ, which would
now seek to defame those who in pity
at his cruel fate would seek in erecting
monument to his memory to let some
ray of truth into the black mass of cal
umny and SANDER that has so long been
hcaped upon his name and memory.
Your attacks upon Gen. Lee. as well
as upon other worthy soldiers of the
South, are of no moment. No person
of intelligence, fairness or information
would give them serious attention, SO
long ago have all these threadbare SLAM
derS and Misrepresentation been ex-
posed and torn to shreds; but the fact
that you can find anyone to listen to
such deliVerance is not only a com
mentary upon your audiences, but
shows how far apart this country is yet
in all its ideals, affections, traditions
and future plans. The constitutional
right of the South to secede from asso-
citation unworthy of her and distasteful
to her, the allegiance of the sons Of
Virginia to their mother and independ-
ent Commonwealth long before there
was any Nation, the right of Virginia to
resist coercion and invasions, all these
things have long ago been recognized
and conceded by people OF intelligence
everywhere.
Your speeches are remarkable in the
showing of the astonishing ignorance
that prevails in your Northland about
the war, the causes of the war and the
leaders in it; for if there was not this
prevailing ignorance you could not find
an audience willing to listen to the dis
semination of such remarkable hallu-
cinations as you possess, or claim to
possess, upon those subjects. For my
self, l do not believe that there will
ever be a cordial feeling between two
such entirely different classes of people
as inhabit the North and South respec-
lively; sprung from such Numerically
opposed natures as distinguished the
Roundhead Puritan of your Northland,
with his bigotries and narrow views a
hypocrite and a meddler, unattractive
in person and pedigree, and the cava-
lier of Virginia and the South, of gentle
birth and breeding, a gentleman and q
man of honor, feeling the same con-
tempt for the austere Puritan as his
descendants do now for bigotries that
even now prevail in Puritan land: sure
ly, between such classes no harmony
can prevail. But rest assured that long
after the last dollar of pension has been
paid to the most improbable @. A r.
claimant (Which will be many years
yet. | fear). that the fame of Lee, the
purity of his motives, the nobleness of
his nature, the justice of the Southern
cause in all of its aspects, will stand
clear and bright. as living. witness to
the fact that truth crushed to earth
shall rise again in spite of all efforts to
suppress it. Yours truly-Arthur H.
Jennings.
GEN. CHAMBERLAIN.
The Grand Old Hero Entcrtains His
Veteran Friends.