The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-12
LET US THANK GOD THAT
T NO PRECEDENT FOR MUIR
DER WITHOUT CIVIL
TRIAL OF THE IRISH
PATRIOTS IS AMERICAN
(By Albertus Vogt.)

because OF our being citizens OF tnls
life enobling humanizing republic.
OF our history, our perpetually grow
ing and far reaching civilization our
magnanimity, our past and present
ability and practice of saying to our
enemies, our own erring sons, 20
ain no more" In the infancy of our
republic when we had conquered ana
captured CORVALLIS, what crime
it would have been to have IN colo
blood stood him UP in front OF mr.
ing squad. Think of the howl thaa
would righteously have gone up even
from our own colonists had the
father of our country been so in
human and revengeful and uncivii-
lied as to have executed any one
of the captured English officers, saw
ing only the lamented by all Ameri-
cans, Major Andre, i'll fated and mis-
led by the traitorous Arnold.
And in the sixties at Appomatox
and at the apture Of Jefferson Davis
witnessed the splendid Americanism
of Grant and of the Federal Govern
ment. Let us teach our children to
be doubly bravely proudly glad OF
our Americanism.
| And when Cuba and the far away
Filipinos were in worse than Anar-
chistic slavery, think Of how we res
cued them and of our treatment OF
Jinaries and Cervera and of that des-
perate Captain Gen. Weyler and OF
Aguinaldo and our recent treatment
of Huerta and of Felix Diaz, both Of
whom found safe asylums from thelr
own troublous countries in our own
free America and of Huerta"s land
ing and travelling from New YorH
to Texas unmolested and passing hl'
last expatriated hours tenderly caree
for in our country under the human
izing and protecting and peace loving
flag that he in his ingate heart nevel
did salute.
Think of that only one British
bravely noble soul of Sir Lambtol
Lorraine close up under the guns o
the Moro at Havana in the hour o
the numbering of the Spanish
our own Semmes and Of Fathe
Father Rion and OF their Cespede
and Jesus del Sol. That brave Eng
fish Admiral acting by and with nj
; own initiative sent word to tn
Spanish Captain General at Havan
: .stop now" "If you shoot
single one more of your prisoner
I'll knock down your fortress" an
the murderers stopped.
r At Appomattox General Graz
: handed to General Lee his surren'
d cred sword, saying, to him, mo, Gel
: eral, l am not worthy to receive II
d Let your brave soldiers take the
= horses and camp eqmppage and T
s. turn peacefully to their homes,
Al their families and their farms" !
l. more noble utterance, nor more IL
" mortalizing speech than this
ID Grants to Lee was ever uttered
this earth, not even excepting I
Sermon on the Mount. History W
contrast this with the sudden m,
at dering of the Irish patriots.
he General Lee stayed in the Virgin
" that we, so many Of us, love so VIZ
ce for 1t Is the mother OF my o
an mothers forbears and of so many
m the people in even this, our O
~ loved and lovely dakenand and
became the President Of one Of
greatest of all of our American u
- yersities and died justly reckol
and righteously too, one OF AmeriS
!. greatest products-soldier, scho
statesman, gentleman and frien'
loving and beloved by our entire
- public, and universally a hero. 4
" Jefferson Davis, after a short ser'
in custody, returned to his belo
Mississippi and to his beauvoir
A tate and to the peaceful life o
country gentleman and historian v
400 none to modest or make him ara
And Christopher Gustavus M
- minger, born in Wutemburg'
n many, in 1903, immigrant to Char
ANo ton, South Carolina, placed in an
Vi phanage and adopted by wea
'nu planter, educated in a South Y
"a. lima college, graduated in lS2O'
N yer. member of the legislature
~ Secretary of the Confederate st'
De Treasury, resigned in 1854 die'
an 1888, expatriated. Returned at
ms at the end of the war to 81
Carolina where he reared and
he Gated a most excellent family OF
age who, in this hour, are among
mar -. ,,sof,, and progressive citii
we What a crime were it for the FED
be Government to have executed
nese one of these officials of a countr
he rebellion against the stars
cam stripes.
res And nv countrymen, when
a of compare these related humans
able Christian truths, with the recent
rom nen,ne in brave, heroic ireland
| he the fates of her would-be libera
man rrn naed not at all remember