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repoi; in effect
Whitn Hou«e with a view to
its pa.'sag* by discriminating
i if South through "a provisio
chong*?s th* law in regard to
labor, which will keep out t
dribble of • Immigrants who h r
; which
•ontract
v- little
e start-
Another Week
of Thaw Trial
By JAMES H. MOORE.
0. R. PENDLETON, President
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
Tho Tolograph can b* found on oalo
ot tho Kimball Houoo and tho Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
Mr. Lodge
ly to ascertti
structl to b<
change.
-Doe- It m
cannot so i
migration?"
'It moans
the
dispa
questioned clc s-
= : what he cor.-
effect o! the
NEGRO IN JAPANESE WOODPILE.
Thera appears to be much reason in
Senator Tillman’s declaration In dis
missing the conference report on the
Immigration hill that "If the man at
Che White House had not taken It upon
ftlmsrlf to meddle with everything In
*he United States we would not have
thin Issue here."
The broad Issue to which Senator
•Tillman referred teas the question
•whether the contract labor laws ahould
®e so amended as to exclude the im
portation of coolie* with a view to con-
Htatlng California on the Japanese
guestlon. Tho pernicious activity of
fhe President In stirring up the State's
right question of California to manage
her own schools has entailed, It appears,
certniis consequences to the Immi
gration interests of the South,
a misfortune which the trend of events
seem to menace the placing on the
The Southern Senators do not
object fo the exclusion of the coolie?
but In the conference report on the Im
migration bill amendments have been
Inserted intended to further restrict
immigration in a way to put an end to
the promising movement recently in-
tfcat a State agent
d and secure lin
'd Mr. Tillman.
:• he cannot u-e other
funds for that pur-
vered Mr. Lodge.
Senator Carter, of Montana, came to
i the support of the Southern Senator'
by* an emphatic objection on the score
of White House legislation. "While it
might be extremely Important to enact
the desired clause regarding passports,
he said, he deemed It of vitally more
importance that the procedure of the
Senate in enacting the laws of the
country should be preserved. To do
otherwise would be to establish a pre
cedent which would be extremely dan
gerous In the future. If a vote for
the conference report Involved the ap-
The secorfri week of the actual Thaw
: trh.i has dragged. No perceptible
| advance has been made in the produc-
‘ tion of evidence bearing directly on the
: issue of murder. About the only thing
( that has been in evidence and made
1 progress is the "unwritten law" which
the court does not recognize and which
the defense has repudiated. Nothing
really has been shown to substantiate
either of the two inconsistent pleas of
i the defense, whether that of insanity.
which Implies lack of reason and in-
; dividual responsibility, or self-defense.
: which involves premeditation and re
sponsibility. in shooting White Harry
| Thaw broke his pistol and held it up
I to reassure the’ spectators and prevent
a panic, thus showing that he had pos
session of his * reasoning faculties at
the moment. This is shown by the de
fense itself and will outweigh in the
argument a whole volume of hypo
thetical opinions of experts on In
sanity.
A great deal of gossip, usually ruled
out as hearsay evidence, has been ,
ed this line of questioning, wherein
the objections of Mr. Jerome served his
purpos almost equally well as answers
from the witness, he politely recog
nized the ruling of the court and
turnpd to the production of expert tes
timony to lay the insanity foundation.
Expert testimony In murder cases
is a comparatively new and unknown
department of criminal jurisprudence
and it is "caviare to the general." It is
the luxury of the rich. Experts on in
sanity. in especial, come high. Only
rich defendants charged with murder
can employ these high-priced profes
sionals to watch them and note down
their idiosyncrasies in- order to con
struct the theory of insanity out of
their "brain storms." "mental explo
sions ' r thbir “peculiar glare" of the eye.
and su< !i Hi s, whit h are summed up
as paranoia Jtt exper’ language, mean
ing. iii plain English, mental derange
ment. In the poor defendant who can
not employ, expert- these must pltss
simply ns eymptorr? of felorlous mal
ice, batted or jealousy indulged until
a mania for murder Is superinduced,
hut not excused because, for the mo
ment. the murderer was mentally de
ranged and did not net as a reasonable
being - or as he would have acted In n
normal state. Of course the expensive
stuff of experts e:n;it-jcd to prove the
defendant in-ane must be offset by the
employment of an equally expensive lot
of experts l\v the Slate to contradict
Caught on |
the- Wing t
' 1-1-1 ■! 1 I-t-1 I I 1 1 l "H 1 > 11+4
•H-
found these on our trip through Geor-
ultimate if not speedy freedom, to what
in all probability is to come. It is not
conceivable that Jerome will not And
some method by which to impeach the
truth of Evelyn's story. He is forti
fied with a full history.of her relations
with White and of the contest covering
years between Thaw and White to ob
tain and keep possession of her. Her
story was too artistic and unsophisti
cated to - withstand the probe of even a
inild cross-examination. If she Is ever
put to that ordeal she will go from the ; t ne enemy upp**vu ' ' -r-v.p j could get a quorum
. , . , jvAvrtriirofi iustiflcatlon, excuse ory x^ason. • ' Hn-fngc?, and tlien tho regular pro-
stand a broken and utterly discredited j J “ st M ^ was 5n (dotation of ail | ® f d , L r “ officer was absent and T. I.,
woiyan. It is to be feared that Harry r ~ Iee of war and contrary to the j (:urrrv was elected temporary presi-
Thaw’s alleged love for her will not j () ‘ ktatc . s ‘ of humanity and conscience. I dent. Governor Brown
survive it. Her own brother, it is said, ; The records show that under the in
stands ready to give the lie to much . fluenee of a nigh
of her story. Her own mother, who
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET.
Today is the forty-second (4-’nd) an
niversary of the burning of Columbia.
On February IT. 1865, Sherman s arms
tered the city and reduced fcouth
Coincident with tho burning of the
capita! "f South Carolina, Macon was
made the capital of Georgia remporari-
]v. The Legislature of the State con
vened here at this time, forty-two
years ago, by order of Governor Joseph
E Brown that august body having ad
journed at Milledgeville on November
15 iS6*k iipon thr approach of Sncr-
man's arnn- on his march through
Georgia, from Atlanta to the sea. The
ex-ci time set by Governor Brown for
the meeting of the Legislature was
on,erea me tu. . * a <,h e s. I February 15. 1S65, but it was not until
Carolina s beautiful ?aP ito l - February IT, this date, that the Senate
The enemy applied the torch tu . ]d a quorum for the transaction
»t— Avmum nr reason. lae i , . ,v.-'vrt rpartilar nrc-
spread rapidly, end . .. -
- - ■*•—>• and twenty-four
j proval of the principle Involved, Mr. worked in by the politic and persistent
i Carter concluded that he was perfectly primus on the ground of its alleged
free to say he would vote against it." tendency to drive Thaw crazy and as
Senator Carter further said <be hkd being competent in contributing to ; tbe oihe „ alld r . veap equally as posl-
j consulted with many of his colleagues 1 s-ibstantiate that plea, bin the effect of j tKvJy and „ o doubt as hjnpstl y that the
prisoner was sane. It therefore counts
for little or nothing what the defense’s
experts swear to since their testimony
will be b.lanked by the opinions of an
| equal number of experts who stand
i ready and eager to testify to the con
trary. The sum of the observations
: of Dr. Britton D. Evans, the most ex
it so far lias been chiefly to confuse
the public mind and possibly the minds
j of the jurors as to the real Issues and
j legal principles involved.
Under the influence of these sto
ries. which may or may not be true;
the truth or falsity of which is not j
even in issue; which have no relevancy
and had reached the conclusion that
vote upon this question will result in
the defeat of the conference report.”
The Senate unanimously agreed to
vote on the question before adjourn
ment Saturday. The result of the vote
was not accessible up to the time this
article was put in type. The solution j
of the question is one of much import- 1 to the act of killing except as affecting . pert of tft# defen?£ , s expert wItnesse
ance to the South at this particular : the insanity plea: it is but simple’
juncture and it is to be hoped that the ; truth to say that the personality of
has been placed in the most infamous
light of all the characters in the in
famous story, may insist on unsaying
some things to rescue her own charac
ter at the risk of giving oven Harry
wind, the flames
eighty-four (84)
the one hundred
(124) blocks of the city containing
over five hundred (500) buildings and
embracing the entire business quarter,
were burned. The old State .louse
containing the legislative library of
twenty-five thousand (-5 000) volumes,
five churches, the Ursulme convei .
^jm 'e const “
Derry';
liis-
Thaw some little discomfort. The re- and t.te railroad ^ et V '.
, , .... I read on the page.- o
sources of the — —
the nature of
public, and
Mr. Jerome might , . —
the subject of this scandal further, it j tiort.” During that 5,*L srl '^® 0
’pare of Columbia was outnea. 1 •*“
remains to be seen what course he I c j tv u . as f U u 0 f helpless women and
ubmltted
lengthy message in which he
; severely attacked President Jefferson
’ Davis and opposed his policies. He
combatted the proposition favored by
i ti■,"i — and Lee. of arming the slaves in
defense of the South. The Governor
urced the cal! of a. convention of the
,,f the Bouth. and while I have
never read the exhaustive message of
Governor Brown. T understand that one
.of the proposed purposes of tho saM
-convention Was to depose Mi. Dasis
from the Presidency of the Confederacy
and antagonize some of his fixed peii-
xhe eves of the country was
upon Macon ar the seat of the Legisla
ture, and was watching to see how
would treat the suggestions
of the Governor.
and views
what
would take if brought to bay
desperate effort to combat the tri
umphant progress of--the "unwritten
law" not only over the minds of the
jurors in this case, but over the public
mind and over even those moulders of
public opinion, the newspapers, which
are supposed to possess the virtue atjd
intelligence to discriminate between
in the ; children and invalids, many.
• were driven from their dwellings, to
i which the torch was applied. An ef-
: fort was made by Sherman to shift
! the blame upon Hampton by declaring
i that bv that general’s orders the, cot-
! ton in the citv was fired, and the burn
ing cotton was the cause of the enn-
! (lagration. But Gen. Hampton denied
I most positively that any cotton was
i fired by his orders. He also denied
! that citizens set fire to bales ot cot
ton, and also that any cotton was on
General Robert Toombs. General
Howell Cobb, Benjamin H. Hill and I..
Q. C. Lamar came to Macon and ad
dressed the members of the Legislature
and the people in defense of President
Davis They took issue with Governor
Brown, and paid high tribute to the
patriotism, honor and fidelity of Presi
dent Davis. They opposed the calling
of the < 'invention and deprecated any
suggestion of a lack of confidence on
the part of the Governor In Mr. Davis.
The speech of Howell Cobb is said
have been especially able, .eloquent and
and take sides with the law and tho • fp.‘e\vhen the Federnis'entered the city. 1 -patriotic. It was deliverodjjt Rafatqn s
statutes against the giving a,cose to j t£ Se ot'Columbia, both white and: : Hal m ^
black, have borne abundant testimonj on in. pan m m*
^ faet t j, at Columbia was burned I oration wa
the doctrine of the vendetta and every
man becoming a law unto himself.
the conference committee.
igurated to Induce immigrants to j b m wi)1 not go through as reported by the defendant In the prisoner’s dock
has been shifted from Thaw to White.
It is the slain that is being tried and
not the slayer. White committed" his
crimes and he paid the penalty of
them, perhaps justly, though outside of
the law. But the law selects its own
process and its own executioners.
When another takes the law in his
bands and executes the alleged male
factor without judge or jury, even
though that other be clothed with the
garment of a pure life and vested with
a conscience void of offense, the law
still holds it to be murder. Having
been executed without a hearing. Stan- ’
ford White Is now being tried without
the privilege of reply. True, his dumb
lips can offer nothing in extenuation, I
but we are told that the -very facts
that rise up to give the He to the hor
ror that is told of him will not be al
lowed to speak; tpe woman who paints
him as an ogre will not be allowed to
be asked why she trusted him as a
friend; all the alleged misdeeds of his
life are to be spread out in unmiti
gated colors. The evil he did is to
be made the most of; the good is in
terred with his bones. A. brilliant arch-
i.f- to the Booth. This. It would np-
fcnr. was done In the conference with
rle. ign pr'sumably In the Interest of
New England, and- it was proposed to
i-i«h the conference report through
without giving the Senators time even
to read the report. The point is made
that tills feature of the report is new
:o»iicr which should not have been in
troduce,! in the conference on the bill.
Bcnators Bacon, of Georgia, and TIH-
lneii, of South Carolina, were quick to
detect the blow aimed at their section
of the country and raised a vigorous
objection to the legislation being ‘‘rail
roaded" through without giving Sbn-
stors an opportunity to learn what
they were voting on. Both Senators
Baron and Tillman declared they were
uni opposed to the Japanese provision,
but they were opposed to using pres-
uie lo put through Congress otli-
. i- matter materially changing the
immigration laws and which they felt
might he inimical to the Southern sec-
lion of the country. They agreed that
the restriction of immigration, pro
vided in what is familiarly known as
lae "Japanese coolie clause," is of
great Importance.
"Senator Bacon then began a speech
that promised to go on without end,”
says the Washington Post. Continu
ing, the Post says:
As a time-consuming device, the
speech of tho senator from Georgia
was wholly admirable. He spoke
slowly, carefully measuring his sen
tences which were often long—
and entirely unmindful of the un
easiness with which Mr. Lodge and
Mr. Dillingham viewed the pro
ceedings.
He frequently quoted from long
and dreary reports, and was pos-
-•■sseil of enough ammunition to
k> ep him going Indefinitely. After
this sort of thing had gone on for
-ome time, Mr. Lodge suggested
that the remarks of the Senator
from Georgia were dilatory. This
may have been a correct observ
ation. but It had no effect on Mr.
Kacon, who proceeded calmly. In
the oven tenor of hi? chosen way,
-peaking, if anything, n trifle more
slowly, and resiling from docu
ment? in an exasperating and
CENTRALIZATION AND PATER
NALISM.
One of the Lincoln day orators, ex-
Ambassador Joseph H. Choate, quoted
the following from Lincoln's first in
augural:
"To maintain Inviolate the rights
of the States to order and control
under the Constitution their own
affairs by their own judgment ex
clusively. Is essential for the pre
servation of that balance of power
on which our institutions rest.”
This is rendered none tne less true
as a principle by the fact that Lincoln
; himself departed from it In the midst
| of war and revolution. No doubt it ,
would have been his policy under or- I
, dinary conditions in time of peace, and !
; we are glad the utterance has been j
: brought to light and submitted to the j
: consideration x>f the Roosevelts, the
‘ Roots, and the other apostles pf c-en- j
! traUzatton.
The • centralization fad has reached 1
I the ridiculous climax of a proposition 1
I for a "national automobile law.” The )
! "yellow rich." as Mr. Owen W is ter !
would say, who go lionk-honking over i
1 the country accompanied by. a great j
clatter and leaving behind a very bad ;
smell, would like to ride their machines !
j over Btate laws as well ns over State I
i lines. Even a Republican member from !
Massachusetts, Mr. McCall, feels :
moved to remark that "our citizens 1
may be trusted to learn how to spell 1
and to regulate their diets and their
so far introduced, would not, however,
appear to call for serious consideration
by any one but an expert witness. It
was soon after the killing of White
that Dr. Evans began to take his ob
servations. He noted "a glaring of the
eye” in his subject. Thaw “watched” the
doctor, who was watching him, “sus
piciously.” He exhibited an “exagger
ated ego:’’ he was marked by an "air
of self-importance:” ”he was more dis
posed to tell me what to do than to
submit to me as an- examiner;” and
finally and conclusively to the expert.
Dr. Evans found “a depression” in the
back of Thaw’s head and a “large pro
tuberance below it.” the like of which
he "had never met with before” and
which he confesses stumps even him.
(Probably the murder bump, never be
fore located by phrenology).
•A great deal of testimony—supposed
ly evidence—has been put in by
the defense. prASumbaly- to show'
that Thaw was insane, but nothing
that cannot be readily overthrown or
laughed out of court. On the self-
defense plea literally nothing has been
offered. On the insanity plea nothing
that is tangible has been offered be
cause the defense has undertaken to
l surely
Mr. ID
itllC
lted i
lutwhathe re-
xnrded as the grave danger of the
proposition announced by Mr.
T.odgc that the onlj limitation to a
conference committee was that it
confined itself to ihc general sub
ject when each house had passed
different bills.
At thlr point evidences nf ,i mild
filibuster were Indicated by the de
mand of a quorum by Mr. Culber
son. This necessitated a roll call,
■ftcr which Mr. Bacon indl, ate.I
that he should later read to the
Senate the entire lengthy' confer
ence report, as he was not permit
ted time to read it elsewhere.
There were provisions in the pro
posed legislation, he said, w!|eh
were of vital, even life and death.
Importance to the industries of his
State and other States in hi- seo-
tloS) of ihe country.
There is." he declared, an at
tempt to destroy the possibility of
securing any immigrants."
"We all know," he continued
“what has brought this report to
the Senate. We know that a ,,.n-
dilion of affairs which in no man
ner relates to the Injustices to
which I am referring, has attract
ed the attention of tin whole coun
try. and that there Is an acute sit
uation. which It is proposed to re
lieve by bringing in this report.
\nd if the report were limited to
that, so far as I am concerned 1
would have nothing to s.iv.
"In order to meet this case of
emergency on the Pacific .east a
report is brought in which does
not simply relate to that matter,
but covers the entire field, and op
portunity is taken to ,,-nact a dras
tic rule, which wifi do great injus
tice to certain parts of this coun
try. and to make this acute situa
tion the means or inducing Sena
tors to vote for a report contain
ing this injustice."
, itect and respected citizen a perfect construct and cross to safety on a sort
I Dr. Jekyll before the world—he was of bridge of Mahomet. They are as
| not only a libertine but he was an in- industriously concerned in disproving
: carnate fiend a veritable Mr. Hyde thaw’s insanity as in establishing it.
! behind the scenes, if Evelyn Thaw’s The object is to save him at once from
j story is true. Robert Louis Steven- ; the electric chair and from the insane
j son’s grewsomely unreal story must be : aS yi U m. Dr. Evans by tests after-
j adjddged within the bounds of proba- ’ wards made assumes to give a chro-
j klMy if all that she says is accepted I nological history of the origin and at-
: as true - If it "'as all true it did not . tack of instantaneous insanity which
I ^hirflnt Harry Th«i\\ ( in tlic sys of ths j (jotvaii Thmv fit tiif* mnmBTif Tip firpri
baths without too much Governmental 1, . • .* ™ / , J seizea mau at tne moment ne nred
;i:n\. constituting himself hite s exe- the three determined shots into
' cutioner. Indeed, it did not need fojr
1 him to play that role. If White did
j what Evelyn Thaw in the witness
j chair says he did she heeded but to
tell it to a court and jury to send
: White to the electric chair. Why
should Harry Thaw subject himself to
I this peri 1 when by merely appealing to
i the public prosecutor and repeating to
In meeting and he not onlv ga%'.-
him the story that Evelyn had told
him. White himself would have sat In
the dock charged with a capital of
fense?
assistance from Washington.”
Mr. Roosevelt's support of a "na
tional automobile law" may be confi
dently relied on. because it fits his
principle? and because no subject is too
small or too “various" for his notice.
The other day the President of the
New York Mothers' Assembly begged
him for a .subject for motherly discus-
• one but discussed it himself. He pro-
1 posed "The Place of the Father in the
Home” and very severely arraigned
i those fathers who are weak and foolish
and not tip to standard generally. It
would appear that If the regulation of
the American home should puss into
the hands of our paternal "ruler" at
Washington it will no longer be said
that ‘everybody works hut father,' but
rather that father shall do the work.
If the other members of the family,
however, indulge the fond hope that
no chalked line will be prepared for
When Evelyn Thaw was put on the
stand to tell her all-important story
there was not a shred of evidence be
fore the court going to show that Thaw
was not clothed in his right mind when
he killed White. Dr. Wiley had stated
that in his opinion because on some
irrelevant occasion Harry Thaw got on
a street car. threw up a window, threw
it down, glared
White’s body and the steady and sure
! convalescence of the slayer from that
| point up to his present mental sound-
| ness. And now the defense announces
\ the remainder of its program leaving
! out the introduction of any more ex
perts on the subject of insanity. They
: will rest on Dr. Evans* flipisy and un-
substantial showing. Why? Because
: they are not interested in the insanity
| plea further ihan as they may use it
: to bring the story of Evelyn Thaw to
! bear on the jury for Its effect on that
■ body under the “unwritten law” the-
! cries. Delmas’ whole plan of defense
| is built upon the effect of that story
on the jury. Aside from this it has no
consistency or system that cannot be
easily riddled.
The Baltimore Sun, in Illustration
of Abraham Lincoln's "boundless hu
manity and benevolence," tells this
touching story: "After the battle of
Antletam President Lincoln visited the
field. As ho was driving with Gen.
McClellan ove rthe scene of the battle
the conductor and hope of successfully f overthrowing the j j a e President’s party passed a house
This. too. explains the method in Je
rome's apparent madness. He has little
MASSACHUSETTS KICKS OUT OF
HARNESS.
A petition has come down' from the
rock-ribbed Republican State of Mas
sachusetts addressed to President
Roosevelt, and to Congress, signed by
Governor Guild, the President of the
Massachusetts Senate, the Speaker of
the House, and by 232 of the 280 mem
bers of the Legislature of that State,
urging an immediate revision of the
tariff.
A curious fact about this petition
from Massachusetts is that it is -not
the work of consumers. "The con
sumers," remarks the New York Times,
“never made any headway in fighting
high duties, and the protectionists d'o
not care a snap of their fingers for
them. They have never been organ
ized, they have always been easily
fooled, their ideas were vague, and
their convictions not very firm. Mas
sachusetts wants tariff reform, be
cause Its manufacturers demand free
raw materials, and free coal from the
maritime provinces. Manufacturers
differ from the rabble of consumers in
this, that they know with great precis-'
ion tfhat they want, and they are able
by organization to make trouble. Mas
sachusetts tariff reformers have al
ready made trouble for Senator Lodge,
who may be expected, not suddenly but
easily, gradually but none the less no
tably, to change his attitude -of re
sistance to the wiil of his constituents.”
The “stand-patters” cannot pretend
that they were not forewarned. They
have observed the growing symptoms
of this midsummer madness in Massa
chusetts for several years. They have
heard her complain before that pro
tection does'nbt protect, and they have
urged that she prayerfully consider the
fact that her needs are less important
than those of the country at large, (or
rather, the stand-patters at large),
whereat the proud old Bay State was
very wroth. And now she evidently
means to fight for her own interests
and let the Interests of the stand-pat
ters go hang.
Really, this l’ooks like an opportunity
for Mr. Roosevelt to return to his for
mer enthusiasm for tariff revision.
With the backing of Massachusetts
and Iowa, and the possible support of
the wavering crowd, would he not be
sufficiently safe in defying the stand-
pat crowd?
_ musket —
the other, is not a pleasant visitor to
have about the house on a (kirk, win-
•lv night." Sherman *n his memoirs
says: "The army having totally ruined
Columbia, moved on toward Wlnns-
boro.”
forty-two years
Legislature refus-
to'
Gov
ernor
itago-
bril-
liant, patriotic and fiery editorial
writer. Harry Flash, and Editor .T.
1 Tonly Siritli. of Atlanta, came near
having pistols and coffee for two, in
consequence of a hot controversy.
Sherman said: "War is hell." And
in burning Columbia lie suited his ac
tion to his words. The FederaJs de
A member of this notable Legislature
was Lemuel Aired. Representative
from Pickens County. He was the cen:
tral figure in an incident
thdt .aroused
Yestorda.v I was conversing with a
prominent lady of Macon who, with
her sister, also a well-known resident
of this city, were eye witnesses of tile
burning of Columbia, and sufferers too
from this terrible act. She furnished
me with evidence of the process by
which the Union was restored, in the
shape of a copy of a letter which was
found In the streets or Columbia imme
diately after the army of Sherman had
left the ruined and plundered city. The
lady informs me that the original is
still preserved and can be shown and
substantiated, if anybody desires. Til
panv of Torie.s and was owning alleg
iance to the flag of the North rather
than to the banner of the Confederacy.
Representative Aired was put in jail,
but was released upon a writ of habeas
corpus Issued by Judge O. A. Lochran-'.
of the Bibb Superior Court. About six
years later, when ex-Governor Brown
resigned the position of Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Gov
ernor Bullock appointed Judge Looh-
rane in Brown’s place. Lochrane had
been originally appointed by Governor
Brown as judge of the Macon Circuit.
Among some of his noted decisions was
declaring the conscript law uncon-
S LI US Lrt illldlCU, it aiij WUU,) It’ qi ■ ' o. • . , tv- Tn
name signed to the letter was that | stitutlonal. T.t? cGnfi.mati i Jud 0
° . , *Vio AT-* ...ii lormr ( nV
of a lieutenant in Sherman’s army., and
was addressed to his wife at Boston.
Mass. I am indebted to the Macon
lady for the following copy of the let
ter which was handed to me with the
request that it be published on this,
the forty-second anniversary of the
destruction of the fair and beautiful
Columbia. I can add nothing in the
way of comment on such a document.
It speaks for Itself:
“Camp Near Camden. S. C..
“February 2fi, 1865.
“My Dear Wife: I have no time
for particulars. We have had a glori
ous time in this State. Unresisted
license to burn and plunder was the
order of the day. The chivalry have
been stripped of most of their val
uables. Gold watches, silver pitchers,
cups, spoons, forks, etc., etc., arc as
common in camp as blackberries. The
terms of plunder are as follows: The
valuable procured are estimated by
companies. Each company is required
to exhibit the results of its operations
of tho Macon Superior Court . Tiy .ap
pointment of Governor Brown, was
pending in the Senate when he released
Representative Aired upon habeas
corpus, and thus lie might have imper
iled his chances of confirmation.
The Legislature adjourned on March
11, 1865. and passed into history cele
brated ns the last that ever convened
in Georgia under the Confederate Gov
ernment, and Macon has the distinjtion
of being the place where the final ses
sion was held.
Equal Rights Convention.
Editor of The Telegraph:
To an old Georgian it seems we have
had enough of this free and equal doc
trine dealt out. by fanatics to last at
least one century. The sense in which
Thomas Jefferson meant that all men
wore born free and equal was by no
means a literal one. The facts are. wo
. are neither born free nor equal. Every
a.t any given place one-fhth and first child born in this country is subject (o
the servitude of its parents. This serv-
their feet also, the
a rude awakening.
are like
y tr
effect of Evelyn's story on the jury.
He can request the judge and the lat
ter can so charge that nothing that
has been said of White is to be con
sidered by them as having any effect
to excuse the deed of Thaw In killing
him. but is to be considered only as to
any effect it may have had on him to
. Then why did Jerome deprive hint of his reason. This sort
rhaw to tell h
in which was a number of wounded
Confederates. By request of the Presi
dent the party stopped and entered the
building. Mr. Lincoln told the wounded
men that he would be pleased to take
them by the hand. He sajd: 'The
solemn obligations which we owe to
our country and posterity compel the
1 | prosecution of this war. and it follows
r story of legal syllogism, as a rule proves too i lbal ma ny are enemies through uncon-
howlng much of a refinement for the popularly j troIlabIc circumstances.' and he said he
constituted jury. And Jerome knows i bore titom , no maHce aild co „id take
experience. Tho proof positive j them by |he hand wJth synlpat hy and
good feeling. After a short silence the
it by
that Harry
Thaw is insane
things may be seen by th,
long enough.
us .va iris
here Mas*
Wonderful
who wait
The
If you are not well and want to be,
I take exercise on all-fours. Or so
I teaches Health Culture, which de, lares (
i that "Nebuchadnezzar was a better i
i man morally after he had been turned j
enator was guing into details I out to pasture for a time and assuredly
concerning industrial conditions In the
South when Mr. Dillingham, in charge
of the conference report, capitulated
and the report was allowed to go over
for the night In order to allow it to
be examined.
Judging from the warmth of Friday’s
debate the Southern Senators discov-
a better man physically." since "there \
is r.o exercise that uses so many mus- j
cles and stimulates the Jungs, liver j
and heart as does the all-fours exer
cise." That may toe. hut those who
wish to experiment would be wise to
do so behind closed doors as well as
considerate of their friends.
quarreled with him. therefore the said
Many Thaw was insane when he killed
White. The manner in which Jerome
I proceeded to. pulverize Dr. Wiley is a
| part of the history of the case. If
| there was. any foundation laid for the
plea of insanity there was not a ves
tige of it left when Jerome finished
with the <
allow Ev
Without objection before the
was made to render it competent? Did
he lose his head In consequence of his
l initial success or was he more deep
and designing than has vet appeared in ■ hailed by him as a welcome escape,
giving Evelyn plenty of rope? He
' could have stopped her at the first. He
j <iid stop her Monday when Delmas at-
! tempted to have her resume her story.
Justice Fitzgerald promptly sustained
j his objection and ruled the story in-
I competent until the foundation for the
insanity plea was laid. Notwithstand
ing the court ? ruling, however. Delmas
was allowed to go on asking the wo
man questions, elaborately framed for
the effect to be produced on the jury,
concerning all the escapades with
which rumor connected Stanford
choice falls to the share of the com
mander-in-chief and staff, one-fifth to
the corps commander and staff, one-
fifth to the field officers of the regi
ments. and two-fiftlis to fhe company.
“Officers are not allowed to join these
expeditions without disguising them
selves as privates. One of our corps
commanders borrowed a suit of rough
clothes from one of my men. and was
successful in this place. He got a large
quantity of silver (among other things
an old-time silver milk pitcher), rtnd a
very fine gold watch, from a Mr. De
Saussure at this place. De Saussure
is one of the F. F. V.'s of South Caro
lina, and was made to fork over liber
ally. Officers over the rank of captain
are not made to put their plunder in
the estimate for general distribution.
This is very unfair, and for that reas
on. in order to protect themselves,
subordinate officer? and privates keep
back everything that they can carry
about their person, such as rings, ear
rings, breasl-pins. etc., of which if I
ever live to get heme. I have about a
quart. I am not Joking. I have at least
a quart of jewelry for you and all the
girls—and some No. 1 diamond rings
and pins among them. Gen. Sherman
itude is limited to 21 years and is sanc
tioned by law, human and divine. Nor
are we born equal, either physically,
mentally, socially, financially, vertically
or horizontally.
All that Jefferson meant to claim
was that no families were born by na
ture to inherit office, as was conceded
to the kings and lords of England.
Our fathers endorsed this construc
tion of the declaration of independence
and were willing to be called rebels in
defence.
This equality fad Is not only false,
but its-diseussion by unbalanced heads
has brought trouble in the past and
gives no promise of good in the fu- ]
ture. The five varieties of the human '
race are not equal. They differ physi
cally, mentally and in taste. We may
go further and say that the two sexes
of the same race differ in the sam«
way. Man is physically stronger than
woman, and his tastes are different.
His tastes lead him to the hunting
ground, to the battle field, or to the
forests. Woman prefers the pleasures
of home, the society of children and
artistic decorations. No harm comes
from discussing differences or peculiar-
has silver and gold enough to start a ; itles. but when the races are to he
would be
It
bank. His share in gold watches and
chains alone at Columbia, was two
hundred and seventy-five (275).
."But I said I would not go into par
ticulars. All the general officers, and
many beside, had valuables of even-
description down to embroidered ladies
pocket handkerchiefs. (I have my
share of them too.) We took gold and
silver, enough from the d d rebels
to have redeemed their internal cur
rency twice over. This (the currency)
whenever we came across it, we burn
ed. as we considered it utterlv worth
less.
“I wish all the jewelry this army has
could be carried to the 'Old Bay State.’
It would deck her out in glorious style,
but alas! it will be scattered all over
the North and Middle States. The d—d
niggers, as a general rule, prefer to
stay at home—particularly after they
found out that we only wanted the
able-bodied men. (and. to tell the truth
forced into the same mold and then
compared or made to sit together, the
trouble comes. The rule that-follow*
nature nearest generally succeeds bcVr.
Acting on this line we say let woman,
Lucrecia like, be found at home, while
man goes to the forests, to the hust
ings, to legislative halls, if need be, to
the field of battle.
Let the races of men not be forced
in touch with one another. Let them
worship as they prefer with their own
kind: let them have separate schools
and separate cars for travel: not be
cause they arc equal or unequal, it is
j not a question of equality at all. It is /
; a question of difference in taste that -A
; conduces to the pleasure and safety of
both.
A healthier question for discussion
is. which has filled best the place
where Providence has placed each ol
us. From 1861 till 1865 three classes
acted well their parts, viz: The men.
the youngest and best looking women.) \ the women and the serv
Confederates came forward, and each ,
Sometimes we took off whole families
« for this reason that he has given the i „ . | and Plantations of niggers, by way of
- tor in a tea. pi t. i. . . gut,, tne , silently, but fervently, shook, the hand ! repaying the secessionist. But the use-
of the President. Mr. Lincoln and Gen. i ! ess part °f. these w « s00 " managed to
, . lose—sometimes in crossing rivers—
McClellan tnen walked forward by the
side of those who
defense so much rope. But the defen
Is not to be led into th'e trap. They
buck at their own line of operation?
and Jerome simultaneously shows' his
hand to the public since the defense is
on to it. He is willing to accept the
insanity plea and refer the whole mat
ter to a commission in lunacy, but this
would be to "queer" the defense's en
tire plan and purpose.
White, down to the famous dinner
given lo some of the "smart set,”
whereat e girl in the plumage of a
bird emerged from a big pie set before
the guests. When Delmas had exhaust-
If Harry Thaw and his counsel stiil
could consider the welfare and future
of the poor girl they have so far sacri
ficed to save Thaw from any conse
quence of his deed they would gladly
accept this course as promising the
temporary incarceration of Thaw, with
those who are too severely
wounded to be able to arise and bade
litem be of good cheer, assuring them
that every possible care should be
taken of them to ameliorate their con
dition. It was a moving scene, and
there was not a dry eye among the
Unionists or Confederates.”
"It is estimated that eighteen thous
and lawyers are practicing in New
York." says the Savannah Press. They
may have out their shingles but Del
mas. from California, is doing the bulk
of the practice just now.
sometimes by other ways
"I shall write to you agein from Wil
mington, Goldsboro, or some place in
North Carolina. The order to march
has arrived, and I must close hurried
ly. Love to grandmother and Aunt
Charlotte. Take care of yourself and
the children. “Don’t show this letter
out of the family.
“Your affectionate husband.
"THOMAS J. MYERS.
"Lieutenant, Etc.
"P. S.—I will send this by the first
flag of truce to be mailed, unless I
have an opportunity of sending it to
Hilton Head. Tell Sallie I am saving a
pearl bracelet and ear rings for her.
But Lambert got the necklace and
breast pin of the same set. I am try
ing to trade him out of them These
were taken from the Misses Jamison?,
daughters of the president of South
Carolina secession convention. We
part was
reply.
acted best?
Which
We pause for
R. T. A.
THE SAME ROAD.
From tho Houston Post.
You little bits o' fellers startin’ out along
tho way
That we started on our ownselves on a
long gone yesterday.
Yon will find your road the same
As the one down which we came.
Some stretches mean hard pluggln’ an’
some parts arc only play.
You must gather op too sunshine | n each
pleasant stretch you meet
To take with you and twill smooth Qjc
rocky stretches for your feet.
And the wild bird's morning song
You must eateli and take alone.
For the days when birds ain't, ringin’ for
to make your m-'rnin's sweet.
.v
If you feel you've done your duty whet)
your "lay mo” has been said.
You will find that you arc comfy In most
any kind of bed.
And when at the mornin's dawn.
When you stretch and turn and yawn.
And you scan Il'e's mad. you'll find it
•tretchln' smoother out ahead.