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THE SEMI-UDEEKLY JOURNAL
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ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MON DRY. OCTOBER 7. 1901. ■.
WHY SINGLE OUT TEXAS?
A writer In The New Orleans Times
Democrat says that Texas is a Croat
cattle country, and that Tom Greene
county atone could produce enough milk
to supply the whole country. And yet
Texas pays out more than tt.OOfi.OM a year
for condensed manufactured in dis
tant state*.
This ta a striking illustration of neglect*
ed reaourcee and unnecessary dependence
upon an outside supply.
But why should Texas be singled out to
point this moral'
Every other southern state, including
our own Georgia, to indictable on similar
grounds.
• Who can tell how many millions of
dollars the south sends to the west every
year for corn and oats and meat whtoh
could be raised in our own region?
The tt «fi«» which Texas pays out an
nually for condensed milk to a small item
compared to what Georgia sends to other
states for canned fruits and vegetables
which she could save by utilising the
variables and fruits that are wasted in
eur own fields every year.
With; her almost unrivalled capacity
for fruit and vegetable production Geor
gia should reap an immense revenue from
canning industries instead of paying out
money for the products of other states.
Happily our people are waking up on
this question During the past summer
more fruits and vegetables were canned
in this state than ever before In one
season Canneries were established in
many Georgia towns and others which
had been in operation before were enlarg
ed.
It has been demonstrated that those
who attend to this buslnes/ properly can
make M profitable. It will grow, but It
will hare to grow a great deal before ft
reaches the proportions it should have
attained tong ago.
Let us not rebuke Texas until we have
done better ourselves.
• WITHOUT A SUBSIDY.
For several years there has been a
clamor for a targe government subsidy
to a company which proposes to construct
a trans-Faetfie cable.
The cry has been 'token up by lobbyists
and newspapers which had a substantial
taterest ta the scheme and who therefore
expatiated eloquently on the great need
of thia cable and the immense benefits it
would cuufer upon our eeimtry.
That such a cable would be very useful
to undoubtedly true and the plea for a
big govern.-nent subsidy to a company
which should build it wa» based upon the
positive assertion that without this assist
ance it would never be constructed.
Mr. John W. Mackay, part owner o? the
Maekay-Bennrtt Atlantic cable, has given
this argument a death-blow by applying
for permission to land the ends of a cable
at San Francisco. Honolulu and Manila.
Mr. Mackay does not asx one eent from
the government, but agrees to build the
cable as soon as possible if only share
rights be given to him. In return for this
conceeston he will guarantee precedence
to government business and the submis
sion of the cable to government control
ta time of war.
Mr. Mackay has the means to construct
the cable, though it wilt coot an im
mense sum of money, and there can be no
question about the sincerity of his offer.
He has put the table subsidy-seekers
out of business and saved the government
from a great expenditure.
It to probable, too. that he will con
struct a better cable than would have
been supplied by a company which de
pended mainly upon a government sub
sidy rather than its own capital and en
terprise.
THE CORN BULLS BEATEN.
The Journal has frequently called atten
tion to the fact that the extreme esti
mate* of the shortage of the corn crop
which have been industriously circulated
were in an probability gross exaggera
tions
As the season advances it becomes more
and more evident that this has been the
case.
The corn crop is undoubtedly away be
low the average, but the attempts of the
bulls to establish a belief that the crop
would be less than a billion bushels, In
stead of more than two billions, as estl
mased on the first of June, was too bold
and has failed. There has oeen a de
cided decline in the price of com during
the last week, and it is now certain that
the crop will be ranch larger than the bulls
have been trying to make us believe it
would be.
Kansas City has been the center of the
corn crop scare and every effort has been
made to keep the prices high In that mar
ket
But the bulla have been unequal to the
task they undertook.
• The market does not accept the reports
of a shortage to anything like the extent
of the bull estimates.
There will be a great deal more corn
than they have been predicting. The west
will have more to sell and the south will
have to pay less for corn than was feared
seme days ago.
THE BUFFALO PLATFORM.
President McKinley s last publie utter
ance was a plea for a tariff revision which
should top off unnecessary duties and re
adjust our antiquated tariff schedules to
present conditions and needs. The pollcy
which he then outlined briefly but with
eufllclent clearness to show that It meant
• far departure from the Dingley tariff.
has been referred to frequently as “the
Buffalo platform." A number of leading
Republican newspapers are urging ft's in
corporation in the next platform of their
party. But the interests which enjoy spe
cial benefits under the present tariff are
not only opposed to any modification of
it but are organising to resist any move
ment in that direction.
The Springfield Republican, speaking of
the specious pleas for temporary delay
from those who are really striving to pre
vent tariff revision at any time, says:
“Already we are hearing that 'the time
Is not ripe’ for touching the Dingley tar
iff; and to the Washington Post's ques
tion* 'Why postpone the inevitable?’ the
New York Commercial, having reference
also to President McKinley's parting
counsel, replies: *ff the matter were to be
precipitated in congress next December,
the result, would be. in our opinion, that
an acrimonious debate would be stretched
over the entire session, with no settlement
of the question at the end, but a most de
plorable unaettling of business for the
better part of a year.’ Congress is ac
cordingly urged to postpone any action on
the tariff question until the party can be
heard from through the platforms and
votes of the congressional elections next,
year.
“But if the consideration of a moderate
revision of the tariff in the congress about
to meet would unsettle business, what
must be the effect of throwing the ques
tion into a heated congressional canvass?
Moreover, if the congress soon to assem
ble for its first and long sessions puts the
matter aside, the opportunity for acting
on th* counsel of the lamented president
will no; again arise for two years, and a
failure meantime to act might cause the
loss of the house to the Republicans next
year.
“There is the platform, however—the
new platform, ’the Buffalo platform. ’ as
Mr. Hanna says; and the question now
seems to be whether the party is to accept
it as a creed to go oy and not simply to
talk about. It is a situation calculated
to interest the whole country.” z
In the opinion of nu ny wise Republicans
It would be good party policy to make
concessions to the inevitable at an early
day, to adopt the policy advocated by
Macaulay tn the great English reform
bill debate and “open the gates to that
force which will otherwise enter through
the breach."
We may expect to see the tariff a very
live issue at the next session of congress
to say nothing of the next congressional
campaign.
HAWLEY NOT AT HOME.,
It must be that Senator Hawley Is*
wandering or lingering somewhere. When
he is at home he usually writes the edi
torials that appear in the Hartford fou
rs nt, of which he ta the principal owner.
Those who know Senator Hawley will
refuse to believe that he is the author
of an editorial that appeared in the Cou
rant of last Tuesday in which these words
appear:
"The slaughter of the greater part of
company C, Ninth United States infantry,
will grieve patriotic Americans and de
light the anti-imperialists.”
This is an utterance so contemptible
that it would disgrace any newspaper
with claims to respectability. The
Springfield Republican very properly
rakes the Hartford Courant for publish
ing such a libel and exclaims:
“Let it for very shame’s sake take
back its lying words. Men who have
questioned both the wisdom and Ameri
canism of 'a policy of conquest for the
United States, who believe that the true
glory of a republic lies in brotherly peace
and helpfulness in advancing self-gov
erning republicanism everywhere by dis
tinctly pledging this government to such
a policy—such men are neither responsi
ble for the slaughter of the soldiers of
the United States, nor are they anything
but deeply by such an event.
It is deplorable from any point of view.
If it shall have any effect in fanning into
new life the flames of war in the Philip
pines so much the more is it to be de
plored. Ths American who can "delight”
in this does not live within the borders
of the republic, and iast of all to be so
accused should be those whose consistent
record absolves them first of all. Noth
ing could be more melancholy than this
happening in a locality where Spain was
held at bay and where it would seem as
If our soldiers should have been more on
their guard In a hostile country.”
We insist again that Senator Hawley,
who is also Editor Hawley In addition to
being General Hawley also, was not about
the Courant office last Monday. If there
ta not a shake-up in that establishment
when he returns this triply titled cltisen
is not the man we have taken him to be.
MARKETS NEAR HOME.
Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, a suc
cessful eetton manufacturer and one who
has done much to attract attention to the
great resources and advantages of the
south, is convinced "that the opportunity
In the West Indies and South America for
cotton mill products is even better than in
China, though at present our share in
their trade ta trifling.”
Chile, for example, imported cotton
goods to the value of $4,213,380 last year,
but bought only $210,038, or about 5 per
cent, of them in the United States. Our
proportion of such exports to Brasil is
even smaller, being only about 4.6 per
cent, or |6,887.tt2 out of a total of $12,021,-
449. We sell Argentine only 1 per cent of
her Imported cotton goods. A still more
striking instance of neglected markets at
our very doors is shown by the West In
dies, where our cotton goods trade does
not amount to 2 per cent of the total.
China buys $47,000,000 worth of cotton
goods a year, of which we supply about
one-flfth. There Is good reason to believe
the statement of Mr. Tompkins that with
proper effort we could extend our trade
much more easily in the West Indies
and South America than in China, though
he does not discount our opportunities
there. -'I
Charleston is fortunate in having Mr.
Tompkins as manager of the textile de-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1901.
i partinent of her big exposition. He will
thus be given an opportunity to impress
upon the cotton manufacturers of the
south the immensity of their opportuni
ties in this hemisphere, some of which lie
almost within sight of our shores.,
Bradstreet s agrees with the estimate
of these possibilities given by Mr. Tomp
kins, but says that these markets which
are properly ours “cannot be won with
out some determined and concerted effort
on the part of our cotton manufacturers.”
To bring about such an effort is one of
the main objects of the Charleston exposi
tion and there is every prospect that It
will accomplish a great deal in that direc
tion.
OUR COUSINS OVER THE SEA.
The assassination of President MoKln
ley brought forth many evidences of
strong sympathetic feeling in England.
The leading British newspapers were
moved to expressions that indicated deep
feeling for this country in its affliction
and a warm sense of kinship. * ’
Some of the London newspapers ap
peared on the day after the' president's
death with a mourning border.
The Spectator among many communi
cations on the subject published this one:
“To the Editor of The Spectator:
“Sir: Before the last sad news could be
known here, the first words of an ac
quaintance a-ere. '1 fear we shall lose Ui*.
president.’ Surely the ‘we’ and the ‘th®<
will go straight to the heart of your
American readers. I am, sir, etc.,
“F. E. B."
There is a volume in the two little words
“we" and “the” in this brief card.
MEXICAN “8A88.”
The Mexican Herald no doubt thought
it was very smart when it welcomed the
Pan-American congress with the follow
ing outburst:
"We almost blush for shame that we
shall not be able to show the Pan-Amer
ican delegates a city hall whose corri
dors and lobbies are crowded with tobac
co-chewing loafers, potent ward leaders,
plundering contractors, brutal plug-uglies,
the proper and necessary adjuncts to an
advanced municipal government. Nor has
the city a boss who has behind him a po
litical society blindly obeying his single
will and electing men of scandalous fame
to the board of aidermen. Surely the
Pan-American* will say that the City of
Mexico is sadly ‘backward.’ Something is
lacking to the city’s full political per
fection."
This shot is clearly aimed at the United
States, and there has been much in the
government of some of our cities the char
acter of the bosses and their understrap
pers whom the people have permitted to
lord It over them to justify much of this
satire.
But Mexico is not an ideal dwelling
place or a full-blown pink of civilization.
In its capital the Pan-American dedegates
will find many pleasing conditions, mudh
wealth and refinement, nearly all of
which is imported. But Mexico City Is
not Mexican. To find out what that
country is the delegates will have to go
out into the rural regions and the
wretched little hamlets where the aver
age citizen is a striking Illustration of
poverty, stupidity anrf laziness. He re
ceives a few <;ents for a work, but
poor as is his pay it Is usually as much
as he is worth.
The Mexican of the masses rarely as
pires to elevate himself materially, mor
ally or intellectually. If he can get
enough to eat and drink (he doesn’t care
about his clothes and wears as few of
them as possible); if he is permitted to
snooze in the sunshine a good part of his
time he is as happy as he ever dreams
of being.
He is about as tough material to work
up Into a specimen of civilization as
statesman, priest or school teacher or
policeman ever* tackled.
The Herald's allusion to, municipal
bosses in this country reminds us that
all Mexico has a boas of the bossiest sort
and it is a precious good thing that she
has. Without such a strong hand to di
rect her affairs Mexico would have gone
to the bow-wows long ago.
President Diaz knows the character or
rather the Mexican lack of character of
the average Mexican from "a" to “ez
zard” and acts accordingly. He lets him
call himself the free citizen of a free
government, but lets him have just as
much liberty as is good for him and net
a whit more. Nor does he consult the
incompetent about the proportions of his
dose. President Diaz has done his best
for Mexico by acting quite as much the
part of dictator as that of a president
representing the popular will. It is the
highest tribute that De has had any effect
upon such a people.' hi time either he or
some worthy successor may succeed in
elevating the Mexicans considerably, but
it will require a long time.
TURKEY IN TROUBLE*AGAIN.
The sultan of Turkey seems to be con
tinually in trouble. He had hardly settled
with our government for the American
outrages before be had aroused the
wrath of France and had his minister or
dered out of the French capital. He has
temporized France out of her anger, but
is now In what will probably prove a
fuller peck of trouble.
There ta a city and a valuable harbor
at the head of the Persian gulf called
Koweyt. The place is ruled by a sheikh, a
semi-independent sovereign under British
protection. Koweyt is important to British
interests because it is on the gulf which
penetrates Asia from the Indian ocean. It
is made more important at this juncture
by the fact, that a railroad is now being
built from Constantinople through Bag
dad to the gulf with Koweyt as its pros
pective terminus. Recently the sultan
construed some act of the sheikh of
Koweyt as a defiance of authority which
he claims over that port.
The enraged sultan Immediately dis
patched a corvette and a considerable
force to Koweyt to subdue the insolent
sheikh, but they found the city under the
protection of British men-of-war which
prevented the Turkish troops from land
ing.
It is said that the sultan has put on a
warlike front and massed 30.000 troops
near Koweyt, but nobody believes he is
such a fool as to attack England. He
understands, of course, the meaning of
the British war vessels at Koweyt and
will not vent his wrath in any more prac-
IAN OLD VETERAN’S HEARTFELT TRIBUTE
FOR HIMSELF AND OTHER HOME INMATES
———————
£ BY CAPT. T. J. COX,
Brevet-Colonel in Command 39th Alabama Regiment. Wounded When Fighting Around Atlanta. Since That Time a Resident of Georgia.
During the War Col. Cox Was the Famous War Correspondent of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. He Has Been An Inmate of the Sol
•< di er s’ Home Since it Opened.
Editor The Atlanta Journal:
Being an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home, I desire to thank you in a public
manner for your prompt and generous action in securing a temporary notne for
me veterans who were rendered shelterless by Che pitiless flames which de
voured our beautiful home on the 30th u>t.;.and also for your m a K nan imlty in
using your columns for subscriptions to the fund for rebuilding the home. And
the gratitude that I cherish for your noble deeds, individually, is shared by
every inmate of the home, and doubtless by every Confederate veteran and
their wives, sons and daughters, not only in Georgia, but throughout the south-
And. when we remember that your public-spirited Journal but recently
took the initiative in advocating the erection of a monument to the memory of
the noble and lamented McKlnley-the erstwhile Confederate ■oMlm’*’ enemy
converted to a friend—these combined acts emphasize t'he fact that The journal
is conducted by patriotic and liberal heads and hearts; and that-as is the
case with all true Confederate soiu.ers-while you do not relinquish one jut or
tittle of your loyalty to the cause of the sout'h in 1861-4, yet as it is true thXt
"peace has its victories, no less renowned than war," your patriotism can af
ford to rise above petty past differences —and the states being now reunited that
you and Confederate soldiers can and will hereafter battle for “Old Glory,’ if need
be—just as our Lee, Wheeler. Hobson and others have done.
En passant 1 wish as one who was devoted to his country and bared nls
breast to the death-dealing missiles of the enemy from Pensacola In .1861 to the
battle around Atlanta on the 22d of July. 1864. to Interpose an Inveterate protest
to the continuance of that false and abominable appellation—“.Bost Cause;’’ for
of all the stupendous and gigantic misnomers that ever existed, the “lost
cause" stands at the head of the list in flagrante delicto.
There was only one aspect, possibly, that lends plausibility to the thought
that our “cause" might have been “lost,” and that is that it might have been best
for us to have fought in the union instead of seceding, as a matter of policy and
expediency mainly: for most southerners, like Alexander H. Stephens, believed
that the states were tn themselves sovereign and independent, and only entered in
to a compact for their mutual and reciprocal benefit, dissoluble when the terms of
the compact were violated. It Is a fact that the constitution was framed for
the most psTt by southern statesmanship and therefore the union belonged
more to the south than to the north; and after the war between the states
closed and the southern army had taught the citizens as the United States
to respect, obey and revere the constitution, ex-Confederate soldiers could
and can with patriotic consistency “pitch in and thrash out” any enemy who
dares to make war on “Old Glory,” as they did during the Spanish war. The
southern "cause" never was and never will be "lost. Our principles-which
tical form than bluster. The Sultan s fre
quent quarrels with the powers, however,
are accumulating against him a store
of impatience that will finally result in
something very practical and. very un
pleasant to that autocratic and Irritating
ruler.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S PISTOL LAW.
The pistol habit has provoked South
Carolina to a very strenuous z effort to
suppress it.
A law was enacted at the last session of
the legislature which provides that after
July 1. 1902. the sale of pistols of ordinary
size shall be prohibited in that state.
All pistols sold, or offered for sale, in
South Carolina after the date named must
be at least 20 Inches long and not weigh
less than three pounds.
It would be airpost impossible to con
ceal a twenty-inch pistol on the person
and the average man would very soon tire
of lugging about a three pound weapon.
The weak point of this law is that it
does not forbid the sale of cartridges that
will flt pistols of ordinary size, and they
will probably continue to be sold In large
quantities.
Besides, the ImtJbrtatlon of pistols into
South Carolina cannot be forbidden by a
state law. and they will contiue to come
in-
The object of the South Carolina pistol
law Is commendable, but it will hardly
prove effective to any appreciable extent.
A much better cure of the “pistol-toting"
evil would be so? judges and juries to en
force rigidly the law against carrying con
cealed weapons.
We have in Georgia some judges who
have made striking examples of those
who insist upon walking around With pis
tols in their pockets and the heavy pun
ishment of all such persons in every coun
ty in the state would be a great public
benefit.
Aguinaldo seems determined to make us
repent his capture by contributing regu
larly to the magazines.
Perhaps it is just as well, after all, to
postpone the gubernatorial race until
Bibb county gets through electing her
sheriff.
The labor leaders could learn another
valuable lesson from the trust magnates
—and that Is that it is unwise to fight
each other,
England may be able to beat us racing
horses if she succeeds in her evident pur
pose to rule ail American jockeys off of
English tracks. “ - «
■; , ■
Now that the London Times manifests
a disposition to withdraw its opposition,
there is no reason why we snould not go
ahead and build that Isthmian canal.
Lord Kitchener to getting onto the situ
ation at last. After considerable expe
rience he now declares that the South
African war would be over but for the
burghers.
Senator Hanna has discovered that
President Roosevelt Is a nice man qf great
promise, .but still it is doubtful if the new
president is altogether as promisng as
the Ohio senator would like.
It is believed that when China agreed to
pay that Indemnity she didn't take into
consideration the hotel bills of her Ger
man envoys, else she might have Insisted
on ft still further reduction.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News. , ,
Cail a man a*donkey and he is apt to kick.
Ix>ve and a sliver dollar are tested by the
ring. x-
Keep in the straight and narrow path and
avoid the crowd.
Most women who angle for compliments de
pend upon their curves.
If the good didn’t die young no one knows
how bad they might be.
Many a man falls all over himself in striv
ing to get ahead of others.
Unless a man has an occasional inning he
is unable to enjoy an outing.
Every time a wise man encounters an obsta
cle he makes a stepping stone of it.
A girl gives up a lot of ice cream and theater
tickets in exchange for a husband.
Only a woman's first marriage is made in
heaven; she arranges the second herself.
The world has seven wonders, but the aver
age woman can wonder more than that in seven
minutes.
What will eventually become of the tramp, if.
as reported, his Satanical majesty finds work
for idle hands to do?
A girl may not think a certain young man.
Is good enough for her, but she always con
siders him too good for any other girl.
Persecution of Lord Cochrane
Comparable to Schley Inquiry
Admiral Schley is not the first naval of
ficer in the history of English-speaking
people wbo has had to face serious criti
cism. amounting, as many of his country
men think, to persecution, after having
won a brilliant victory over his nation’s
enemies. No great commander ever es
capes criticism. Envy is too conspicuous
a trait in humanity to permit of the ele
vation of one man in public esteem while
others, who rank themselves as deserv
ing, are passed by unnoticed. There are
few instances, however, in which an of
ficer has been dealt with as severely by
his associates and as strenuously upheld
by the people as has Admiral Winfield S.
Schley. But the history of the English
navy furnishes at least one case that ex
i ceeds in malignity and persistency any
thing that has thus far befallen the hero
of the naval fight off Santiago, says the
Chicago Tribune.
The career of Thomas Cochrane, tenth
Earl of Dundonald, is a story that might
be considered unworthy of belief were it
not written in the records of the English
navy. He entered the service on June 27,
1793, as a midshipman, aboard his uncle's
ship, the Hind. Though but 17 years of
age, he soon learned all the details of sea
manship and became thoroughly versed tn
the theory of naval warfare. England
was then at war with France and Spain,
and for a time he was employed harassing
the enemy’s commerce. He soort became
a lieutenant and developed such fertility
of resource in action, such excellent sea
manship and achieved such marked suc
cess that jealousy was excited and in
fluences set In motion that operated
against him until the day of his death.
The trouble probably arose from the
natural conflict between the interests of
the seagoing and the non-seagolng portion
of the navy. It is the jealousy, it is said,
between these interests that has caused
the present inquiry at Washington. Be
this as it may, it is certain that Lord Coch
rane became early In his career a persona
non grata at the admiralty office. He
knew what he wanted and he was never
slow to ask for it. He was a stormy
petrel and when in service never rested.
Forced to promote him to a captaincy,
the admiralt gave him the Speedy, a boat
whlcn he described as “little more than a
burlesque on a vessel of war.” even for
those times. It was 158 tons burden and
was crowded, rather than manned, he
said, with a crew of 84 men and six offi
cers. Its armament consisted of 14 4-
pounders, and, knowing the inefficiency of
such guns, he asked for heavier ones.
The admiralty gave him two 12-pounders,
which he desired to mount as bow and
stern chasers, but found there was not
room enough to manipulate them. The
weight of a broadside from his ship was
28 pounds, and, to show how insignificant
it was, he once put an entire broadside of
shot in his coat pockets and walked his
quarter deck with it.
GOOD RECORD WITH BAD BOAT.
Knowing he had received all he was like
ly to get. he sailed away, and during a
cruise of about fourteen months cap
tured more than fifty vessels, with 122
guns and 534 prisoners. One of these cap
tures was the Spanish frigate Gamo, 32
guns and 319 men, which was taken in
May. 1801, off Barcelona. The fight was a
terrific one. By reason of putting men
aboard prize vessels, Speedy’s crew was
reduced to 54 men, but they took their lit
tle craft alongside their big opponent,
filled her hull with shot from their "pop
gun four-pounders,” as the captain called
them, and finally boarded and Captured
the ship. The Spanish commander, the
boatswain and thirteen seamen were kill
ed in the action, and 41 were wounded.
Speedy lost three seamen killed and one
officer and seventeen seamen wbundefl.
To take Into port a vessel with 263 unhurt
prisoners was no light task, but the cap
tain of the Speedy was equal to it. He
drove the prisoners into the hold, trained
the guns down the hatchways and kept
men standing over them with lighted
matches. In this way he reached Port
Mahon and delivered up his prize. As a
reward for this service he was sent with
his little toy skip to intimidate the Dey of
Algiers. He had a keen sense of the ridic
ulousness of the situation and said of It:
“The mission was a singular one to be en
trusted to the captain of one of the small
est and worst armed vessels in the British
service. Remonstrance, to be effectual
with a piratical government, ought to
have been committed to an officer armed
with a sufficient force at least to Induce
respect.” However, he performed the mis
sion without any great satisfaction to him
self or his government, and on his way
back lost the Speedy in a conflict with
three French llne-of-battle ships. He
fought his little vessel four hours, and
when he struck his colors and tendered his
sword to the French commander that
worthy declined to accept it, saying he
“would not accept the sword of an officer
who had for so many hours struggled
against impossibility.”
CAUSE OF HIS BLACKLISTING.
Captain Cochrane was soon released on
parole, and shortly afterwards exchanged
for a French officer. The government,
however, had refused to purchase the
Gamo and put Captain Cochrane in com
mand of it, as was usual, but had sold
the vessel to Algeria for a trifle. It like
wise refused to promote him to the rank
of post captain, under the rules of the
navy, despite the pressure brought to
bear in his behalf. He was, in lieu of pro
motion, sent to convoy an old tub of a
mail ship to Gibraltar, his orders requir
ing him to take the mail bag aboard his
wag the “cause"—are as eternal as time and as immortal as the souls of those
who fought to establish them!
And away—forever away—with the expression, “when we were whipped,'’ •
or “after we were whipped;" for we never were “whipped," but as General
Toombs expressed it, "we wore ourselves out whipping the enemy.” Jhe prin
ciples that precipitated the “rebellion.” as the Yankees choose to term it, /
and often denominated the “lost cause" by our own people, is fast proving
in the mutations of our governmental affairs and the events as they are trans
piring—to have been a “rebellion” against constitutional encroachments; and
we may al! live to see a verification of the immortal sentiment expressed by
that grand old "rebel." Father Ryan in the lines:
"Th> graves of the dead with the grass overgrown
May yet prove the footstool of liberty’s throne
And each single wreck in the war-path of might
Shall yet form a rock in the temple of right.”
Begging your Indulgence for digressions, I will conclude this hasty note by
expressing the opinion that the Confederate Soldiers’ Home—as it was before
the Are. and soon will be again—is the grandest of all the grand institutions in
and around Atlanta. Taking care of the old veterans, is in itself a patriotic and
noble w’ork; but this is not all—the consummation of its grandieur exists in the
love of “country, God and truth”—of the cultivation and perpetuation of the in
spiration of the genius of magnanimity, generosity and patriotism—of the “es
prit du corps" that constitutes the warp and woof of perfect manhood and wo
manhood—of true manliness and womanliness, and without which, men and wo
men would possess characteristic instincts not superior to the brute creation.
I consdienciously concur in the sentiment expressed by a comrade a few days
ago. when he said, “We have competent men at the helm of our ship, and I feri .
perfectly safe as a passenger.” Well may Inmates of Georgia's Confederate
home be contented and happy, when such men as Amos Fox. W. L. Calhoun and
Capt. Tip Harrison are its trustees—one its treasurer, one its president and thd
other its secretary. Each of this noble trio, has a heart as "big" as any moun
tain in Georgia; and it can be said of each of thtm. as Byron said of Sheridan:
“God made but one such man, then broke the mould that cast him!"
If Captain Wilson, the superintendent of the home, has any fault, it is that
he is too kind and Indulgent. And as to our soldiers’ mothers, wives, daughters
and sweethearts—a part of the salt of the earth and the sugar also—of th*
unconquered and unconquerable heroines!
"They are good, as they are fair,
None, none on earth above them.
As pure in heart as Angels are.
To know them, is to love them."
vessel until they arrived in sight of Gi
braltar, and then to place it aboard the
mall ship and return to England without
landing. Later he was sent to guard
fisheries north of the Orkney Islands,
where no British fishermen were to be
found. In his autobiography he naively
gives one of the reasons for the black
listing he received at the hands of the
admiralty. He had been persistent in his
efforts to secure his own promotion as
post captain after the Gamo affair, and
had succeeded. Then he undertook to
• secure a captaincy for his first lieuten
ant. who boarded the Gamo. and was ter-
1 ribly wounded at the time. St. Vincent,
the first lord of the admiralty, had finally
• replied to him that “it was unusual to
[ promote two’officers for such a service—
i besides which, the small number of men
. killed aboard the Speedy did not warrant
; the application.”
! Says Captain Cochrane of this incident:
i “It was impossible not to feel nettled at a
reply so unexpected—that because few
1 men had been killed aboard the Speedy
' its first lieutenant was considered un
worthy’ of promotion, thouglf terribly cut
up. To argue with a first lord is. no
doubt, an imprudent thing for a naval
officer to attempt, and my remonstrance
in this instance had such an effect as to
get my name placed on the blacklist of
the admiralty, again to be erased.
BECAME MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT.
Though a post captain. Ix>rd Cochrane
was without a ship, and he was refused
further employment for many months,
which time he spent attending the college
of Edinburg. When he was again placed in
service he continued to exhibit the same
energy which had marked his preceding
career, and the success tnat crowned his
efforts attracted the attention of the peo
ple who elected him member of parlia
ment for Honiton. In his capacity as a
representative of the people he continu
ally assailed abuses in the navy. and.
though he did not succeed in effecting all
the reforms he contemplated, he directed
attention to them and set the people to
thinking. Subsequently he was elected to
represent the borough of Westminster,
and in that capacity proved himself a
most efficient public servant.
It was while serving as member of par
liament that he was next called into active
service in the navy. The admiralty de
sired to attempt the destruction of the
French fleet lying in the Basque Roads,
on the west coast of France, by the use
of a number of fire ships. Lord Gambler
was in charge of the fleet, and he had
declined to undertake the task. Various
other commanders, to whom the post was
offered, refused it, and the admiralty
sent for Capfain Cochrane. He was averse
to accepting the commission, suspecting
that he would be but poorly, supported,
and that if he succeeded, the existing jeal
ousy against him would be greatly aug
mented’. The anxiety of the admiralty to
secure the destruction of the French fleet
finally led him to overcome his scruples.
snd he accepted the commission. To the
fire ships he added some vessels loaded
with explosives, and when he had arrived
off the French coast with his destructive
vessels he prepared for an attack. Lord
Gambier refused to permit the attack at
the time the captain desired to make it,
and the French became aware of the in
tent of tfte enemy by this delay.
After nightfall of the next day, April
11, 1809. the attack was made, the explo
sive vessels going ahead. Captain Coch
rane in charge of the first one. The scheme
was not wholly successful. The explosive
vessels did some damage to the French
vessels, but the fire ships, by reason of
their having been ignited too soon, drifted
away and proved abortive.
- On his arrival in England Captain Coch
rane was created a Knight Commander of
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Worm—"We suspect foul play.”
the Bath by the King, and resumed his
seat in Parliament. An effort was made
at this time to secure a vote of thanks in
Parliament for Lord Gambler on account
of the Basque Roads affair, and Captain
Cochrane announced that he would op
pose such action. He resisted every effort
to change his determination, being con
vinced that Lord Gambier had signally
failed In his duty and the result was a
courtmartiai for Lord Gambier, which re
sulted in his being honorably acquitted
and ultimately thanked by Parliament for
his part in the affair.
SENTENCED TO THE PILLORY.
The animosities which these actions of
Captain Cochrane engendered resulted in
his becoming involved in the most trying
episodes in his life. An attempt was
made to defraud the Stock Exchange by
means of a false report concerning the
death of Napoleon. Captain Cochrane was
accused of being a,participant in the af
fair. and upon trial was convicted and
sentenced to twelve months' imprison
ment. to pay a tine of £I.OOO. and to
stand in the nihory. Sir Francis Bur
dette declared that if the latter part of
the sentence was carried out he would
stand in the pillory with Captain Coch
rane .and toe government refrained from
thus degrading its distinguished servant.
I 7ne people believed so little in the guilt
I of. the brave officer that they not only
paid his line but re-elected him to parlla
i ment for Westminster. It is now gener
ally admitted that Captain Coehrane was
entirely blameless in this matter, but ho
was nevertheless compelled to serve his
sentence in prison.a new trial being denied
him by Lord Eilenborough. because oth
ers indicted with him did not appear.in
court and ask such favor. He was like
wise deprived of his rank of knighthood.
When he had completed hia sentence,
feeling that he could be .of no further
service to his country in the existing
state of affairs, he accepted command of
the fleet of the republic of Chile, then at
war with Spain. He reached Valparaiso
in November, 1818. and assumed command
of the navy. It was a weak organization
compared to that of Spain, but Lord
Cochrane was soon repeating his earlier
work, and before long had disorganized
the Spanish fleet. One of his rnott re
markable feats was the cutting otlt of
the frigate Esmeralda from the harbor of
Callao. This was in November. 1820. The
frigate lay in the harbor, one of the
strongest in the world, fixed to chain
moorings, and protected by twenty-seven
gunboats and 300 guns in the batteries.
By night he ran into the harbor, and after
a sharp fight of a quarter of an hour,
during which he was severely wounded,
succeeded in getting away with the fri
gate.
FOUGHT FOR CHILE AND BRAZIL.
Jealousies and intrigues in the Chilean
government then began, and Lord Coch
rane’s position was rendered unpleasant.
The withholding of prize money and even
of pay for the seamen almost caused a
mutiny in the fleet, and as a result he
withdrew from the service after forcing
payment of a portion of what was due
hiAi. In 1822 Brazil, being then at war
with Portugal, offered him command of
her fleet, which he accepted* and served
under that flag effectively.
Upon his return to England he found
himself still popular with the people, but
as he was unable to secure redress of
the wrongs he had suffered at the hands
of the government he accepted command
of the Grecian fleet. Owing to the poor
discipline of the men. he was unable dur
ing his short connection with the service
to achieve much. After the powers had
secured the recognition of the indepen
dence of Greece he returned to England,
and slowly his honors came back to him.
He was restored to his rank in the na
vy, but the new trial he had so long de
manded was denied him. Instead, he was
forced to accept a pardon under the great
seal.
“Heaven and hell are very real, but
they are states of mind." —The Symphony
of Life.
