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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. The Dixie Business College THE SCHOOL FOR THOROUGHNESS Only Thorons* Course In Office Boutin* and Touch T.»p* writing off-red in the South* astern Bta e*. Mo t Comornhensive uo-fn-date Book keeping. Shorthand. Typewriting, Banking and Pen<n*m ip < ounea in Atlanta. Writ* for cat alog and Special Bummer Batea. H. L. BRIDGES & BERNARD C. ANSTED, Proprietors. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. 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