The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-10-04
sulogized John Brown and praised his

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work.
The following is from the. authenti
copy of the speech published by Col
Roosevelt in the Outlook Sept. l, 1910
John Brown stands to -us now as rep
resenting the men and the generation
who rendered the greatest service eve
rendered to this counery. He stood TO
heroic valor, grim energy, fierce fidelity
to high ideals A great debt is owec
to John Brown, because he is one OF the
most striking figures in the mighty
struggle which was to keep us forever q
free and united nation, which was tc
secure the continuance of the most tre-
mendous Democratic experiment ever
tried. He did much in his life, and
more in his DEATH he embodied inspi-
ration of the men of his generation;
his fate furnished the theme of the
song which most stirred the hearts of
the soldiers. John Browns work was
brought to completion and made perfect
by the men who bore aloft the banner
of the Union during the four terrible
years that interviewed between Sumpter
and Appomattox.
Of that generation of men to whom
we owe so much, the man to whom we
owe most is, of course, Lincoln. Nalor,
energy, disinteredness, idealism, were
all his. In meeting the problems of
to-day let us profit by and welcome and
cooperate with the John Browns; but
let us also remember that the problems
can really be solved onlylf we approach
them in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln.
This excerpt from Col. Roosevelt's
speech was sent to the Banner by an
Confederate soldier, who is also a
minister of the gospel and one of the
most respected, cultivated and intelli-
gent citizens of Nashville. In a letter
accompanying the article he said:
l feel that when Mr.. Roosevelt asks
Southern votes these sentiments of his
should be made known. Next to my
religion is my love of the Southland
with all my soul believe that she was
right in resisting to the utmost the most
brutal, savage and uniustitiable invasion
that was ever undertaken. The senti-
ments expressen by Mr.. Roosevelt are
fiendish. He glorifes man who tried
to stir up the slaves to massacre the
white people of the South He iustifes
the utterly lawless attempt of John
Brown to carry out his plans, and he
declares that the spirit of the North in
the war was truly represented by the
old cut-throat. When Secretary of War
Root, in McKinley's Cabinet, had the
bodies of Browns companions, who had
been hung by Virginia, disinterred and
buried with the honors of war; when
Mckinley stood with uncovered head
and fearful eyes, while New York dedi-
Gated John Browns home as a shrine
of patriotism, l felt it was the height
of insult to the South; but this of
Roosevelt goes beyond in deliberate
malignity. 1t shows that he would not
hesitate to trample all law under his
feet to carry out his plans; as he stole
Panama, as he has never hesitated to
violate law and try to lie out of it. l
can't see how any Southerner could
vote for him.
The Banner is requested to withhold
The name of the writer because, as a
he doesn't wish to be known
n politics, though he adds he always
1otes his conscientious convictions. Ger
ainly his views in this respect are those
If his contemporaries among the men
If the South who remember the days
prior to 1861. If there has been any
,hange of sentiment on the part of the
Younger Southland there can be no
hadow of doubt cast on the loyalty of
he South of to-day-the present gen.
ration is no more prepared than that
# 1861 to accept John Brown as type
# heroic valor," or to vote for man
Who now eulogizes him and commends
no u6Guo. Liz OOuGl Gall uuuGTSUduu
nd admire Lincoln, but it will never
ccept the canonization of John Brown,
be butcher.
Col. Roosevelt in this Osawatomie
peech spoke of the song Browns fate
"and his inspiration. This
ecalls his twice-uttered rhythmical dec
aration at Chicago, 1--WE stand at
Armageddon, and we battle for the
ord. " That was paraphase of Mrs.
ulia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of
be Republic" that the Colonel, while
urged should be adopted as
he national anthem, and it is sung to
be tune John Browns Body" Evil
emily the Colonel wished to make the
Id tune, with all of its hateful associ-
ton, the inspiration of his present
but surely no suggestion of
ohm Brown sentiment works any inspi-
alton in the South. Nashville Banner.
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