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The President Davis—Pins IX Confederate Episode. (Continued from Page One.) we desire no evil to our euemies, nor do we covet , ot their ,, . , but . only , struggling anj to the end possessors, that thej shall we are cease to devastate our land and inflict useless and cruel slaughter upon our people, and that be permitted to live at peace with all man kind, under our own laws and institutions which protect eveiv mail in the enjoyment not onlv ot Ins temporal rights, but or the treedoni of worshipping God according to his own fantli. “1 therefore pray your Holiness to accept from me and from the people of these Confed¬ erate States this assurance of our sincere thanks for your effort to aid the cause of peace, and our earnest wishes that your may be prolonged and that God may have you in his holy keeping. JEFFERSON DAMS, President of the Confederate States of North America.” , 4 Then an account or report, in letter from Mr. Mann, of his special visit to the Pope, un¬ der bis special commission. His appointment as such was as follows: Jefferson T „ Ita\is, 1 resident ol the Confederate ,... „ , , States o America, to A. Dudley Mann, Greeting: “Reposing special irust and confidence m your prudence, integrity, and ability, I do ap point >ou, the said A. ILidlex Mann. Special Envoy of the Confederate States of America to proceed to the Holy See and to deliver to its Most \ eneralble Chief, Hope I. ms IN Soy ereign I on.iTl ot the Roman ( atliohc ( 1 inrch, a communication winch 1 have addressed to His Holiness under the date of the twenty third of this month. Given under my hand and the Seal of the Confederate States of America, at the City of Richmond, this ”4th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight’ hundred and sixty three. JEFFERSON DAVIS. (SEAL.) Bv the President: J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of State. Mr. A. Dudley Mann proceeded to the Holy See, with his credentials, and was grant ed a personal interview and-audience with the p 0 p e , aI) ,[ j]D report is a document of some length, in which lie tells how he was received by the Secretary of State, G. Cardinal Ante nolli, and how he was ceremoniously admitted to the sanctum sanctorum, and how he dis cussed with the Holy Pope Pius IX the situ a tioh in America, and how he presented to’the people Wed of Europe, not to emigrate to the States, to be slain in the war, etc. Mr. Mann’s recital of what passed between him and the Pope, in that special interview, is interesting, but t6o long to copy in this communication on the subject of mistakes of American 'Catholics. It only is presented as matter for consideration of events in the him tory of the Confederacy. He relates how His Holiness said that lie would “write a letter to President Davis of such a character that it may be published for general perusal.” Then Mr. Man'll goes on to sav of the Pope, thus: “He then extended his hand, as a signal for the end of the audience, and [ retired. Tims terminated one among the most remarkable conferences that ever a foreign representative had with a potentate of the earth. And such a potentate! A potentate who wields the consciences of 175 , 000,000 of the civilized race, and who is adored by that im mense number as the vice regent of Almighty God in his sublunary sphere.” This matter of conferring with Pope IX, was, as you must understand, for the pur pose of gaining recognition of the European governments for the Confederate States, and as most of them were of Catholic faith, the Pope was first flattered, and importuned to exercise his influence on his Catholic people in Europe. Mr. Mann, in his letter or report to Mr. Benjamin, after describing the holy attitude of the Pope, says: “The soul of infi¬ delity, if indeed, infidelity have a soul,—would have melted in view of so sacred a spectacle. The emotion occasioned by the translation wa? succeeded by a silence. At length His Holiness asked whether President Davis were a Catho¬ lic. I answered in the negative. He then asked if I were one. I assured him that I was not.” Then goes to tell what His Holiness stated about “Lincoln and Company,” (using his language.) This Special Envoy writes of the “States of the Church,” and how “majestic the con¬ duct of the Government of the Pontifical State in its bearing toward me when contrasted with the sneaking subterfuges,” of some of the Governments of Western Europe. It appears that Mr. Mann was very much elated with his conference with the Pope, and it, appears that lie imagined that he had captured the Pope, in the idea of a recognition of the Confederacy, as he says—“The Cardinal, Secretary of State Antonelli, officially transmitted to me yester¬ day the answer of the Pope to the President. In the very direction of this communication there is positive recognition of our Govern (Continued on Pago Four.) THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. Watson's “Story of France” and A Little Man Named Sutlive. (Continued from Page One.) cans travelling in that country, have bought both Watson’s “France” and “Napoleon” f rom p ar js bookdealers, who advertised 1 lie <‘Napoleon’’ as the best one-volume biography of the Mau 0 f Destiny. Senator Tom Heflin recite8 lhe facts in his eloquent memorial ad dress on the life and public services of Thomas K Wats011 . For Sutlive’s benefit, 1 rcj.ro duoe Senator Heflin’s reference to the inci . “Ills heart was full of human love and human sympathy. He wanted to labor in the field where he could serve the most people and do the most good. He was wonderfully well equipped for public service. This great; student was fa¬ miliar with the story of every important political problem of the past'. lie was in Innately acquainted with the history of every government on the globe. Time and again he called to the attention of his countrymen the causes iliaf brought politi cal oppression and the loss of human liber tv to other nations, as he urged his own countrymen to profit by their example. To the day of his death he stood with tiam ( n g sword on preaching the dividing line twixt church and State, the gospel of single allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, and ho , din aMt thp banner of wholehearted Americanism. He was a great admirer of Thomas Jef t'erson and a strong believer in Ids doc trine, and no man with whom 1 have ever se rved in Congress could quote more free [ v< more aceuratelv, and more appropriatelv from his writings than could this brilliant and distinguishedof Georgia. He was himself a fascinating writer—a master of beautiful and trenchant English. His Life of Jefferson and his Life of . Jackson called-“Bethany” and his story of thp 01d South in a book are all wonder-." fully interesting. He probably achieved a larger measure of fame as an author in his Life of Napoleon and his History of the French People than in anything else that he has written. A few year ; ago Con gressman John L. Burnett, of Alabama, was 011 aH inmiigr-ui eomnns-iou touring the Old YvOild, an»; , - pent -on.' 1 tnuo m 1’aris. He went into the Pu die Library tlieic anil asked !m a 1 1 1 .oi - ol i ue 1 :etjch people and of Napoleon, saying Hup he <bb ut |t have long to slay, and he wanted * K ’^ work they lui-i. and the iiliruriau . h ndcd a lun ) of Ameru-u, on Na poloon, . . and lie Histon ot the Frcncl, t P eo P le -” “ ■ Senator Watson’s colleagues on the Re publican side of the United States Senate gave the Georgian credit Eminent for his to French literature. editors, lege professors, foreign diplomats, have the “Storv of France” and the and trained eritTs have reviewed fiiS tho-e appSr and he Sutlive slur wa« the to print since the author released the books to the English reading world. Watson’s ] repeat, again,' that no Sutlive can hurt reputation. Sutlive makes an ass 0 f himself trying to do so. | W] not heard the statement that son’s “Storv of France” was taught in schools, until 1 saw Sutlive’s asinine stab at the dead Georgian, i do not believe that But live ever heard such a report. The French educational system is Romanized from top bottom, and no intelligent person '.xpects French Catholics to teach in their schools histories written bv Protestants. The blacklisted Watson’s books in 1912, when “Roman Catholic Hierarchy” first 1 mention this for Sutlive’s information, “You can’t keep J. J. Brown’s depart ment of agriculture out of the limelight, Old Man J. J veins to run a literary bu reau as He well either as a department of agricul ture.. can write pretty good him self or he has somebody on his staff that can. The representative from Thomas county has been the latest to find this out. He made the discovery yesterday after¬ noon when J. J. issued a circular dealing almost exclusively with him. The repre¬ sentative from Thomas, Mr. Banister, a few days ago introduced a, resolution in the House calling for some soft of inves¬ tigation of Brown’s department. The res¬ olution handled the old man and his crowd quite tartly. It alleged every thing but graft and came near alleging that. It said the Federal government had ceased to function with the State Department of Agriculture. Mr. Brown called in a couple of stenographers and got busy. He issued his reply to the resolution Friday after¬ noon. It started off with saying the reso¬ lution was in the first place merely an e x pression of opinion and in the second that it didn’t stick to the truth. And then it proceeded to give J. J.’g side., The result is that before the House meets again on Monday everybody will be prepared to de¬ fend J. J. and a lot of them will do it. This is the v the wily commissioner got ahead of Governor Hardwick. He found out what the Governor was going to say about him and answered it before his ox ' celleney presented it to the Genera! Assem¬ bly. It may be possible that J, J. sleeps (.sometime, but it is generally believed that the always has at least one eve open.” . Sutlive is an applicant for the Savannah Oil Inspectorship and a report has leaked on! from Brown’s office that this greasy job will go to Sutlivb, this year. Tt may interest you to learn Air. Satin ' reasons for pouring Brown’s propaganda the i^ews columns of The Savannah Press. Briefly, 1 state the facts, as follows: When Thomas W. Hardwick made his fiix-t race for the I’uited States Senate, Sut¬ live fired the woods for Tom Billv. Yes, Sutlive worked overtime for Hardwick, and wlien Senator Hardwick refused to demand of Jim Price, then Commissioner of Agriculture. G. an oil inspectorship for William Sutlive. ’£hc, Savannah Press turned its guns on for Hardwick and called hint pro-Herman, et eVI. ,1 When the Hon. Josephine Brown Savannah, last year, loose-footing his wav Wii to the hearts of Homan Catholic voters. Bam G. Sutlive—brother-in-law of tli > Heart Church—-informed the said that an oil inspectorship would turn the trick. Rectorship The trick was turned, and that Oil In stalks in front of Sutlive, just ns a, bundle of oats tied to the end of a pole leads a mule Oianv a mile, mam a time. Tf Representative Sutlive delivers the goods to the House of Josephine at this ses sion of the Legislature, Brown may redeem ' i ' . • " i The following is dipped from the July 7th Sutlive news-letter to The Savannuah Press: Wn'othi-p. ... Woman Has Her ,, I ,, Hoi ay ix the se. ■ I nday another woman had her day in .he Louse Umrsday the house had the , pleasure of entertaining Mrs. Ie ton, the woman Sena,or. o,lay somebody intro duccd a resolution that the tree.loin of the • -House be extended to Mrs. Alice Louise : Lytle, editor of the Columbia Sentinel, . -This was the Torn Watson paper and Mrs. Lytle was Tom Watson’s right bower while he lived. Tlnm somebody suggested Hint sun be brought m and escorted to a seat beside the speaker. I here was no objection to ilus and a special committee "of tlng>e-—neither of the women of the Mouse living on if—was appointed to escort her to a scat beside the speaker. Mrs. Ly Ale came in and seemed duly impressed with her importance and reception She to«Jk her seat, but didn’t make a speech. Ss son conies up next week there is no telling "' lia t will happen. He is the associate edi lor 01 liie Sentinel, „ F f()in teen Mr8 T tl vod flV ', y ™ vs ’ ’ “. n *l 0 . i 8 coniidenee—a testimonial no ! Q Give ever obtained—and it. was a beautiful thl “ ^oorgia Legislature t, do when bat J )od >; ^tended floor pnviicges to the a *° . Senator s co-worker and mend, ' \ v 'liy didn't Representative Sutlive object: e kn e "j tliat lu s colleagues m the House would not , have , tolerated . .at conduct, ) Vl,llain sent !iIS vituperative comment to !? lr Snr ! ‘ ah Pn s ']' lor t h e lH ‘ nel,t ut llis Koma f t .. nd ] aild J , , hlU0 . Browu ,adl .i us ^ ? " s «P l ' sau< U n U !? L J ty Mr Buthve .mtuuates : ,■ , between , the .. .. lines - t,iat . i “ ,y appearance on he floor ot the House at Representatives would probably start tlie fir e-works and grove into an honest-to-g-oui ness bouse warmill S "Hair. Bo mote it be, Billy G. Representative Sutlive is, by no means, a widely knowri character. I fear that, his col leagues in the Legislature do not; appreciate our legislators to study tins Cnatham county product. 1’irst sight, they may take W. G. S. lor an unfrocked Roiuamte Priest, but a close PP reveal the little man in his true eo ors "T?* applicant for a Savannah Oil Inspector ship- 1 believe that’s all 1 have to say just now about Billy Goat Sutlive. [he Wise Man nnd lhe Silly King. ! , By Thos. E. Watson. (Continued from Page One.) treasures. He wanted to he talked about as the richest man in the world—as the man who was happier, better and greater than any er man. What did Croesus intend to do with all this treasure? He did not know. He had never given a thought to that. His purpose was to keep on gettii it—more, more, more, and ever more until he had the greatest fortune in the world, Then what? Go on getting more and more and more. There never was a definite plan or pur pose in bis head beyond the getting of money, What to do with it, after he got it. was a mere 3 irrelevant question, not to be considered or for a moment Drive on and on and on: get more and more and more: that was the purpose of (!ro sus And it came to pass that. Solon in the of hi 'travel-, reached Sardis, and he was received as an honored guest at the court of the king for Scion's renown as a ruler sage had gone abroad into many foreign lands. hi the midst of that br'lilant court, in the ■ palace of the king, Solon was the same man that he had been at home, unabashed, clear- 1, :■ 'iisihic, courageous, strong in his glo rious manhood. His eve s were not dazzled by glitter of gem . bis spirit was not over by the display of power, his intelligence was not imposed upon by the pompous display 0 l 1 1 , m'.' A n' . .it i ;'. *■ . t , fi ‘ Y * 11 A f! , ,mv i] f court piesented .o p the Gieek , the kn!; f askl ' 1 '. Ilini ; ° ver seeu a ba T' u1 mau ‘ l,! " ,uxst j With llie givaieC composure and impolite¬ ness, Solon answered. It was a man nan 1 I’ , a plain, substantial citizen of Y". • who begot; valuable children, support j ( . fa tm'\ in comfort by honest toil, and died gloriously hi the defense < f his country.” fjow tllis impolite reply to the king’s ques¬ tion mu . 1 have scandalized the courtiers and sboek , , " d , im! kni , . - , hut .... to . the .. p Greek , ™ 8U * give one 1111,11 , A 1 .. 1 '!," m S h /. Cl '" . e11 ^ r 1 e1 ^; havo , V(m ever , known ’ a happier . man than I j ,^° 0I \- f eom £f ed and ^polite as ever, (. !eobis and }**: .Won, 1 famous bcre were for the two affection brothers, m which they held each other, and for their lov¬ ing and dutiful behavior toward their mother. \ One day when-she was ready to go to the tem¬ ple to worship, ‘the oxen were not ready to be ( yoked to the cart, and these devoted sons put f j iewii; „ !v , N | iarn ,. Ss ;!U< ] (J rew their mother, j an q,j lhe af After , l au .atious tin 0 i the jieople, to Juno’s sneritice, thev drank a )d ■ with friends, ... lhl! tIl( ,j . and then laid jdu n, to rest. They rose no more-having ex durill g tie night, without sorrow or pain, I in-ihe midF of tlieii dop ” Cro’sus was displeased, sorely displeased, j j Plain sj.cccii delights not the car of silly kings, or silly eonrt.ers, or silly subjects. But Crce ' '■ 1 •, 1 v 1 one lv-ourcc left ; he would show Solon - jins treasuie. would Then, he Mattel : then he would fawn; thr.H h° would , c what a mistake he had made in not declaring Croesus to be the happiest of men. So they led Solon into the treasure cham¬ ber, and showed him the vast accumulation of gold, silver, and precious stones—wealth lying there .idle; wealth which had come from all parts ,‘ f the world; wealth which had one© been the possession of thousands of others; wealth which denied Hie comfort of life to the many, in order that the one should have more than could ever need. Very coolv Solon looked upon the heaps of in no wise overcome, his clear eyes seeing all things in their true relation as before— is the thing we call Wisdom. To the proud and silly king, he said, “If one comes against you who has better iron than you, this gold will soon be his.” "When Solon departed from Sardys, he probably left, behind him the worst name that silly king and the silly courtiers knew how to give to one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece-—to one of the noblest men who ever worked for the betterment of the condition of his fellow-men. What was the meaning of Solon T By iron, he meant, weapons of war; and, of course, the best men best, wield the weapons of war. Solon meant that mere wealth did not make a king or a nation great and strong, happy or truly prosperous. He had already said to his own people of Athens - ’ tate „ ' onqneua Solon’s rushing prophecy came true in both cases. Cyrus, down from the highlands of Media,and Persia, followed by hardy moun¬ taineers, having better iron than Croesns, scat¬ tered the feeble troops of the feeble king, and took his gold. And Athens, having become a slave to her Strength, sinking into the same wealth-loving decadence which prepared for Cyrus his conquest over Croesus. ki our own country we are making the same fatal mistake about gold, about money, about wealth. We are nursing the insane delusion that, because and of our fortunes, individual, corporate national, are the hi _,vsfc ever known, we the strongest, greatest people in the world, AVhat madness, what folly! The deadliest weakness of our system, our nation, is this same gold, this same wealth. For the man is blind, blind, blind, who does not see that, as you take from the com raon stock, the unequal shares which million aires gat, you increase the numbers of the im¬ equal shares which the worker gets. Show me a Rockefeller fortune, and I will show you—as its logical, inevitable offset, a million men who have never a surplus dollar to lay by. ' . . ..
