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PLEA FOR MR. ROOSEVELT
FROM COL. J. B. BROWNLOW.
Says Hereditary Influences May Ac
count for His “ Vindictive Acts' *
At An Executive.
The New York Sun publishes a
card from CoL John B. Brownlow,
of this city, under the caption, “A
Plea for Mr. Roosevelt. ’ ’ As is
well known here, Col. Brownlow’b
pen has produced some scathing
opinions of the man in the white
house, and this “plea” is none the
less interesting and characteristic.
CoL Brownlow writes the Sun as fol
lows:
To the Editor of The Sun —Sir : In
his recent speech at Provincetown,
President Roosevelt said that “his
acts in the prosecution of trusts
would not be guided by vindictive
ness.” I have no doubt that in this
particular instance Mr. Roosevelt
spoke sincerely. He believes that all
his acts are free from vindictive and
all other unworthy motives. His ego
tism is such that he thinks he is the
embodiment of all the virtues of the
greatest and best men who ever lived,
and that he is not possessed of any
of the frailties that characterize or
dinary mortals.
But if it could be shown that the
president had been guided by “vin
dictiveness” in any act of his life,
I think he should be pardoned there
for because of heredity. One of his
uncles by the name of Bulloch who
was in the Confederate serv ice de
clared when the war ended in 1865
that he “so hated the government of
the United States that he would nev
er again live under it.” He expa
triated himself, going to London,
where he died after many years of
residence. His exoatriation was en
tirely voluntary and unnecessary, as
he was of too little consequence to
be molested by the United States au
thorities after the war. His sole in
spiration was his “vindictiveness”
toward all who had differed with him.
There was justification for Sena
tor Robert Toombs, of Georgia, ex-
Vice-President John C. Breckenridge
of Kentucky, Governor Isham G. Har
ris, of Tennessee, and other leaders
of the Confederacy when they fled to
Europe on the surrender of Lee, be
cause they had reason to believe that
they would be arrested and impris
oned if they remained in the states.
It is to the credit of all those seces
sion leaders that after they had lived
in Europe about one year and the an
gry passions of the conflict had sub
sided they felt that they could safe
ly return to their native land. One
of them, Senator Harris, who as gov
ernor of Tennessee in 18G1 forced
his state out of the Union, and whom
Albert Sidney Johnston described as
“the South’s most efficient war gov
ernor,” said to me once: “The gov
ernment of the United States is so
far superior to that of any other
country that I would rather live ui
der it, even when you d republi-
cans control it.”
In his speeches on his tour of the
southern states a few years ago the
president addressing himself to the
men who had fought under Forrest,
and other leaders, boasted that his un
cle (another Bulloch) had fought un
der Semmes on the Alabama, and
that “he fired the last two shots from
that vessel as she went down.” Now,
everybody who had read the history
of our civil war knew that after the
sinking Alabama had run up the
whits flag of surrender and Commo
dore Winslow of the Kearsarse
ordered his seamen to cease firing
and sent boats to the relief of the
enemy’s seamen, two treacherous vin
dictive shots were fired at the Amer
ican warship; but until President
Roosevelt disclosed his identity the
world was ignorant of the name of the
“vindictive” barbarian who fired
those “last two shots” in violation
of the usages of civilized warfare.
Commodore Winslow was so indig
nant that he ordered another broad
side to be fired. It is due to the
truth of history to say that nobody
antagonistic to the Confederate cause
regarded such a manifestation of
“vindictiveness” as more reprehen
sible than did the brave and honor
able men who supported that cause.
When we consider the strength of
hereditary influence, should we no*
throw the mantle of charity over ev
ery act of apparent vindictivenps
that Mr. Roosevelt displays? He is
not responsible nor justly censurab 1
for his heredity.
JOHN B. BROWNLOW.
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 26.
CROP MOVEMENT.
Joined with other causes making
for a stringency in the money market
is the approach of the crop-moving
season. But the outlook is not bad.
It is, indeed, far from discouraging
or disquieting. As the Wall Street
Journal, by the way, one of the san
est and most conservative papers in
the country, pointed out the other
day, the available resources of the
United States treasury, which may be
employed in case of necessity, to aid
the money market during the crop
movement, are really larger than
they appear from current reports of
the available cash balance. The state
ment of July 6, shows cash in the
general fund $189,294,567, and this
exclusive of the reserve fund of
$150,000,000 in gold and of the gold
coin and silver dollars held in the
treasury for the redemption of gold
and silver certificates and treasury
notes of 1890.
Subtracting from the $189,294,507
cash in the treasury, the total of
$115,889,868, so-called current liabil
ities, actually more than the required
working balance, there remains for
use in assisting the money market
nearly $75,000,000.
The Wall Street Journal concludes:
“Granting for the sake of concession
to prejudice due to the manner in
which the treasury department has
heretofore been made up, that $23,-
000,000 should be reserved for a
working balance in addition to the
so-called current liabilities, it thus
appears that the secretary of ths
treasury will be able to deposit $50,-
000,000 in national banks during the
coming crop movement, if so mush
money should be needed to prevent
stringency in the money market.”—
Age-Herald.
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