The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-19


when tho dogs OF war were again IN
leash. though hate hlled the heart OF
the North, though preJurice Suioed the
hand OF justice. though bitterness
clouded the eye Of Federal authority
a well-known effort to try Jefferson
DAVIS for mis- lite on charge OF urea
son was abandoned. because IL coul"
and would be proven that ne out io4-
lowed the faith learned at IN" h"th-
or knee OF the country In her training
school al West Point Thus old the
Constitution viDdh ate the S"ot"el"
neople and their leaders Of the charge
az being rebels or traitors and show
ed them justihabie in maintaining
states rights when arrayed against
the Union OF states.
Understand. Daughters ~ the on
federacy. the reasons for the p"hcy
Of the south in the sixties. and you
will understand why southern states
men have ever been defenders OF Inc
Constitution. watch dogs of the treas
IVY. bulwarks Of political integrity OF
the United states. You Will D. aoie
Ia explain why the blatant lah5 dass
OF Theodore Roosevelt whether inltse-
ing some new members into ms ana
Mas club. berating race SUICIDE, aofo-
eating womau's suffrage, o. Inc use u
VoIopuk or claiming kinshlp win us
because his mother was d southern
woman. cannot obtain for him appre-
cfable respect or following Ia the
south. he has proclaimed Jefferson
Davis A traitor, and repudistOr % state
hands when Governor Of Mississippi IN
both Of these charges he shows himself
To be either grossly ignorant OF consul
;utional history or violator OF ths
comma ndmeut, Thou shalt not bear
false witness against thy heisnDo'
Jefferson Davis learned at West POINT
Military Academy that state sovereign
~ was an fnalienable right and sought
TO maintain il. II that be treason
make the most Of it. Jefferson DAVIS
was never Governor of MISSISSIPPI.
therefore he could not have repudisteu
her state bonds These are the facts-
which Is the dishonorable man Al
though the mental. moral and physicsi
antics of the wild man from Oyster
BAY are sometimes amusing sno
cause his visits South 10 be tolerated,
we must not forget as Daughters OF
the Confederacy that he has shameo
his Southern ancestry by unWarrantea
attacks upon our great chieftain whien
he refused 10 retract, and as daughters
Of the republic il is our duty 70 sho"
him in his true iigh. bull moose IN
the china shop Of history
Turning from this unpleasing pic
tur.. let Us look with clear vision ana
broad hUmanitarian ism upon some men
of whom We have believed the least
known Of them the better kHdeauon
must not be one-sided- WISDOM y
hroad Justice is even. moderation adj
visable in all things. Mr. James Cal
laway An the Macon Telegraph Of re-
TGl
man from Grant. which clearly alb
solves sherman from devising MS de-
structive march through Georgia anu
places the baneful conception upon the
limited states government anc the
comma ucer-in-c chief Of armies. whose
willing instrument Sherman TOO readily
became Some mite Of iufamy IS thus
lifted even from sherman the destroy
or and vet the cruelties OF this order
from Grant are in some measure
atoned for BY him later on When
General Grant was ordered by Presi-
dent oIhnson and Secretary stanton
to punish traitors and MAKE treason
odious' BY putting TO death all Con
federate officers through iue rank OF
cnIonsl he looked them straight in
the ewes and said: You Will have 10
whip me and my army before one hair
tured and to whom ] promised pro-
tation shall perish Hon. Hillary A
Herbert in his most valuable book.
The Abolition Crusade and Its CON
secuences.' has this 10 say concerning
Abraham Lincoln: Although he was
the subject Of much abuse. especially
1t the hands OF southern people. who
then totally misunderstood him, h VAS
animated always by the philosophy Of
mis- own famous words. with malice
towards none and charity 20 all New
or for one moment did he forget.
amidst the bittercst Of his trials. tnat
the Confederates then in arms against
him were as he regarded them. his
misguided fellow citizens. and the su-
preme purpose of his life vas to bring
them back into the Union. not as con
ouered foes. but as happy. contented
citizens Of the republic. Had Mr.
Lincoln Iived. the smirch Of recon-
struciion would not have disgrsced the
paGes OF American history. and the day
would have sooner come that Senator
Hoar. Of Massachusetts,. proclaimed a
few years ago. The North and south
can now sit down together in quiet
and friendly spirit. without recrimina-
ton and without heat. each under
standing the other as men who are
bearing a common burden and look
ing forward with common hope In
his Twenty Years in Congress James
q. Blaine says. Throughout the long
period ~ their domination tho South
ern leaders guarded the Treasury with
rigid and increasing vigilance against
every form % corruption
OF Grant We have thought with
out any paiiisting knowledge. 81 IN
coin We have thought chiefly - the
cr,ancipator. maintaining his theory at
cost % lives and property. 81 Blaine
We have thought as whitening under
the scathing and merited sarcasm OF
Ben HuI. when that doughty states
man showed Blaine and the world. By
figures and facts clothed In BURNING
cloqucncc. how the North was rsspon-
siblc for the mortality and suffering AZ
Aude rSonviilc. and not the south.
These few items remind rs that
there are some facts about s0snc
Northern leaders that We like TO 70
more.
Wow. then. a. C. the Federal gov
eminent Itself over the sorrowfHi
DAYS Of reconstruction We viii poss