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SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts of Interest to War Veterans and Others.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla., Oct.
29.—1 should not mention the condi
tion of my dear suffering wife in these
letters were it not that I am unable
In any other way to answer the many
inquiries from readers of the Morning
News. For the first time since her
terrible accident I have what seems to
be really favorable reports from the
hospital at Monroe, N. C. The severe
coal bruise that It was feared would
necessitate a third amputation has
been controlled by the surgeons and
that danger it is thought is passed, un
less a second severe coal bruise should
develop dangerous symptoms. The
brave and patient sufferer Is still very,
very' weak, but is now slowly improv
ing. * * * There was a serious typo
graphical error in my last letter that
utterly ruined the sense. It was “Gen.
Barlow," not Bartow, that was an
nounced as a “study” for the Children
of the Confederacy at Tennille. and I
sought to correct it to Gen. Bartow,
C. S. A., as Gen. Barlow was a Union
officer. * * * Lieut. Robert M. Elli
cott of the artillery corps at Fort
Screven is spending a sixteen-days’
leave of absence very pleasantly at
Memphis, with friends, and at St.
Louis, taking in the various attractions
of the famous World's Fair.
Maj. Blanton Winship, U. S. A., a
Macon (Ga.) boy, of the judge advocate
general's department has won consider
able credit for the able manner In
which he has discharged his duties as
judge advocate of the Department of
the Lakes, at Chicago. His protest
against over-crowding guard houses
and sentences to close confinement has
created favorable discussion and action
in the direction of a needed reform.
The health even of prisoners is a mat
ter of importance, and in close con
finement, without labor, idleness is en
gendered. He very wisely suggests bet
ter quarters in the guard houses and
some out-door employment part of the
time at le-ast for the military prison
ers. Soldiers should not be returned
to duty in a worse condition, in some
respects, than when they were sent to
the guard house. All punishment
should be humane and reformatory in
order to keep the discipline and dhar
acter of the army in proper condition.
Bach senator and representative In
Congress is allowed two midshipmen
at the United States Naval Academy
in Annapolis, Md., and for the year
1905 there will be over three hundred
vacancies. Senator Clay of Georgia,
has one and Senator Taliaferro of Flor
ida, has one. The Georgia representa
tives, as a body, have eight, Florid’a
has three and South Carolina has f&ur.
Aspirants for these honors will do well
to remember that Prof. T. H. Glgnll
liat, a graduate of the academy, and
•an ex-naval officer, says the naval of
ficers are the real aristocracy of the
country. In some respects this state
ment is true to the fullest extent. No
amount of good character or high
scholarship has ever been able to pass
a colored appointed boy into the acad
emy, although three graduated from
the Military Academy at West Point.
Under Capt. Brownson as superinten
dent the standard at Annapolis has
been raised somewhat, in all depart
ments and the young Middies have no
easy path to future promotion.
The editor who refers to Lieut. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles as “Commander-in
chief," of the army at the present time,
has failed to keep up with the proces
sion, as Gen. Miles was retired on
Aug. 8, 1903, as commanding general,
he never having been commander-in
chief. • i gee that my dear old
friend Maj. Mark Newman, of Sanders
ville, has been visiting his old Savan
nah home, and that he looked In up
on Ordinary McAplin’s office, for which
he had only words of high praise.
Well, when the best Ordinary of Geor
gia. and the one of longest service,
praises a brother Ordinary It means
something more than a mere compli
ment. Maj. Newman was one of the
most efficient adjutants In the Con
federate army, and In civil life he
keeps up the record. •• • i most
heartily commend the very excellent
and forcible address of Col. G. A. Gor
don to the First Regiment in Savan
nah. It has a clear and patriotic ring
to it, and reminds the soldiers under
his command that in these days of la-
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bor riots and lynchings the “pop gun”
soldier is out of place. Nothing but a
firm and determined front on the part
of the military can uphold the civil
authorities in such crises. Col. Gor
don deserves the thanks of the entire
state for his prompt and emphatic ac
tion.
The Army and Navy Register (news
paper) of Washington, D. C., refers
to Maj. Gen. William R. Shafter, U.
S. A., retired, as a “brigadier gen
eral.” And such is fame in a semi
official organ. • • • The Society of the
Army of Santiago de Cuba has elected
Maj. Gen. John C. Bates, U. S. A.,
as president for 1904, and Brig. Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, Sr., U. S. A., re
tired, as first vice president. ** * A
high-born Japanese has just been en
tered as a midshipman at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. His name is
Kltagaki, and he is the successor of
Midshipman Tamura, who graduated in
1900. He is only about 18 years old
and is in charge of Prof. Wiimer to
improve himself in the English lan
guage before he enters the academy.
So far the Japanese Middies have not
only made good records at Annapolis,
but have left behind many warm per
sonal friends in and out of the acad
emy. *• * Capt. Cornells DeW
Wilicox, of the Coast Artillery, who is
acting as quartermaster at Fort De-
Soto, near Tampa, Fla., has been put
In charge of the construction of the
new buildings at that fort. He Is a
son of the late Prof. Wilicox of Athens,
Ga., and is an officer of superior merit.
The American Boy of Detroit, for
November, contains the third of a se
ries of valuable articles on “My Four
Years at West Point,” by a graduate.
This third article covers nearly two
large pages and is Illustrated by scenes
from real life at the academy. To
ambitious young men desirous to fill
the soon to be vacancies in that insti
tution, these articles are of great value.
They cover every phase of cadet life,
from entrance to exit at the academy,
and clearly show how minute a thing
will bring a demerit mark to the Ig
norant or careless cadet. In all the
world there Is not a place. If we ex
cept the United States Naval Acad
emy at Annapolis, Md., where such
strict discipline exists. It is no won
der that hundreds of fine young men
have failed to get through the acad
emy. In all the professions, strange
as it mav seem, can be found brilliant
and eminent men, who failed to grad
uate at West Point. The causes of
these failures are varied, and they
show that wealth, family influence,
previous good conduct and high schol
arship, and even color of the skin, are
not considered in the matter of demer
its and deficiencies. All cadets are
on the same level.
In last Sunday’s Morning News, in
her article on the Hopkins family, the
writer —Eleanor Lexington—eays: “The
Hopkinses have always been famous
sailors. They take to the sea as docks
to water. The first commander of the
American navy was Esek Hopkins,
born in Rhode Island in 1718. At the
beginning of the Revolution he was
commissioned commander-ln-chief of
the navy. His brother, Stephen, was
Governor of Rhode Island, a member
of the Continental Congress and a
‘signer’ of the Declaration of Inde
pendence.” Now there was no “Esek”
Hopkins in the navy, tout there was an
Ezekiel Hopkins who was appointed a
captain and commander on Dec. 22,
1775. In 1876 there was also a Capt.
John B. Hopkins of the Warren. There
have been some thirty officers named
Hopkins in the United States navy.
In December, 1775, a small squadron
was placed in command of Commodore
Ezekiel Hopkins, ranking officer, but
he failed to discharge his duties prop
erly and Congress passed a vote of
censure, and later on his name was
omitted from the list arranging the
rank of the various officers of the
navy. His offense consisted in not go
ing from Rhode Island to the south
ern coast, to ‘'annoy the enemy’s
ships." His explanation for not going
was not satisfactory, hence the cen
sure, but not removal, from com
mand.
In a recent letter. In speaking of the
monuments to Gen. Hugh Mercer and
Gen. Enoch Poor of the Revolution I
staked that I thought Gen. Mercer fell
In battle near Princeton, N. J. Gen.
Poof, whose monument has Just been
unveiled at Hackensack, N. J., died
of fever and was buried there during
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1904.
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Charcoal sweetens the breath after
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Charcoal effectually clears and im
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teeth and further acts as a natural
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It absorbs the injurious gases which
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All druggists sell charcoal In one
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The daily use of these lozenges will
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the war, aged only 44 years, but Gen.
Mercer was mortally wounded near
Princeton. As far back as 1777 Con
gress voted tx> ereot a monument to
Gen. Mercer at Fredericksburg. Va.,
but it was not until 1902 that the prop
er appropriation for the same was
made, the sum being $25,000. To this
amount other sums -have been added
by the friends of Gen. Mercer, and the
monument is now being prepared. The
following Is the inscription prescribed
by Congress for the monument:
I
’ Sacred to the Memory of
i
' HUGH MERCER,
* Brigadier General in the Army of
* the United States.
I
* He died on the 12th of January,
* 1777, of the wounds he received on
* the 3rd of the same month, near
* Princeton, in New Jersey, brave
‘ly defending the liberties of
* America. The Congress of the
* United States, in testimony of his
* virtues, and their gratitude, have
* caused this monument to be erect
► ed.
It Is not usual for army officers to
desert, and yet too or three cases are
now before the War Department.
Lieut. Victor C. Lewis, of the artil
lery corps, a New Yorker by birth,
and a Spanish war soldier, abandon
ed his wife and child in California,
and eloped with a Miss Elizabeth
Berryman, a trained nurse, and of a
good family, and they are now liv
ing in Colina, Mexico. Another case
is that of Lieut. Francis M. Boon of
the Nineteenth Infantry, who resigned
and disappeared under charges that
prohibited the acceptance of his
resignation, and caused him to be a
deserter. He was born in Texas and
promoted from the ranks in 1899, but
had proved unworthy of the honor.
He is reported to be of Indian descent,
which, if true, makes him the third
Indian to hold a oommission in the
United States army. Lieut. David
Monlac of Ala., and Brevet Brig. Gen.
Ely S. Parker, of New York, are the
other two. Montao graduated at West
Point in 1822 and resigned from the
army the same year. He was however,
a major of Mounted Creek volunteers
in the Seminole wars In Florida, and
w'as killed, Nov. 21, 1836, while leading
his command In the battle of Wahoo
swamp, aged thirty-four years. He was
a son of the noted Sam Monlac, a warm
friend of the white people. Parker was
a New York Seneca chief of the
famous Parker family, and was mili
tary secretary to Gen. Grant, and
prepared surrender papers for him at
Appomattox for Gen. Lee.
The marriage of charming Miss
Miriam Grant, eldest daughter of Mr.
Ulysses S. Grant, 2d, of San Diego,
Cal., to Lieut Ulysses S. Macy, United
States navy, will Interest her many
Florida friends. The family spent a
winter at Altamonte Springs, near
Maitland, and Miriam and Julia
Dent were great favorites. Although
Lieut. Macy Is U. S., It is not Ulysses
Simpson, like Mr. Grant, but Ulysses
Bamuel Macy, *a native of Missouri.
• • • The marriage of Miss Margurent
Hubbell In the chapel at Governor’s Is
land, N. Y. t where she whs christened
years ago, to Capt. J’as. A. Wood
ruff. United States engineers, at West
Point, N. Y., will interest some Geor
gia readers, as Miss H., is a niece of
the wife of Maj. Joseph B. Cummlng,
of Auguste, and daughter of Col. H.
W. Hubbell, of the Artillery Corps, in
command at Pensacola, Bla. •• *
The army and navy register has an
editorial on "The Race Question,” In
which It refers to the attempt to in
troduce the race question Into the army
as pernicious. Well, tWat editor is a
"back number,” as the race question
has been In the army for many years.
The case of the hospital soldier Is not
an ordinary race question affair, but
one as to whether or not miscegena
tion shall be allowed In the army, which
Is a very different and more serious
question. This editor favors the im
mediate discharge of the soldier who
married a negro woman, who had nurs
ed him In sickness. No other course
can avert serious trouble In the hos
pital corps.
Sidney Herbert.
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HITCH ARRAIGNS
GOVERNOR TERRELL
Continued from Page Twenty.
swer was so complete as to compel
an acquittal on that specification.
Failnre Without Fault.
"I was convicted only of ‘errors of
judgment.’ It seems. Errors of judg
ment tested In what light? Should a
man’s conduct under such circum
stances be judged in the light of after
events, from a ‘hindsight’ standpoint,
or in the light of the facts as they
were made to appear to him at the
time? Since when has failure without
fault come to constitute a crime?
"If lack of judgment is to be classed
hereafter as a criminal offense, our
prisons will need to be considerably en
larged. Since when has defeat through
betrayal by a man’s allies come to be
classed as a public offense? If failure
without fault is a crime, then the en
tire Russian army, now operating in
the Far East, could be convicted by
a court-martial, and in like manner
the Japanese, who have so gallantly
but unsuccessfully assailed Port Ar
thur, could be condemned.
“As you have apparently never read
the facts in this case, consider with me
for a moment the circumstances which
environed me about the hour the pris
oners were taken by the mob on Aug.
15. My commander-in-chief had aban
doned his post and gone to an exposi
tion in a distant state. The Adjutant
General had left his office and gone to
Carrollton, or elsewhere out of the city.
His two assistants were out of the of
fice, and nowhere to be found for
more than an hour, while Lt. Col.
Grayson was seeking by telephone au
thority to bring to my assistance the
reinforcements which I had requested
by telegraph.
“Not Even a Porter There.”
"Not even a porter could be found
In that office. The judge presiding at
the trial had left without my knowl
edge while the riot was in progress,
and gone to the hotel. The represen
tative of the railroad, acting, so it is
said, under threats of the mob. re
fused me the special train I had or
dered to take the prisoners back to
Savannah.
“Two of .the court bailiffs In the
prisoners’ room were begging the sol
diers in there with them to be allowed
to throw the prisoners out of the sec
ond-story window to the mob. An
other court bailiff, coming up to me as
a friend and ally where I stood on the
front stairway encouraging the troops,
who were holding back the mob at the
point of the bayonet, unexpectedly as
saulted me, and threw me down the
stairway into the hands of the mob.
“From the top of the stairs the
sheriff watched the developments. As
the crowd rushed up the steps through
the opening thus made on the stair
way, he walked across the court room,
caused the door of the prisoners’ room
to be unlocked toy his bailiff inside,
ordered the guards In the prisoners'
room to stand aside and let him have
his prisoners, who were then imme
diately seized bv the mob.
“I Alone Ain Sacrificed.”
“These are the facts. Yet I alone
am declared at fault! No one save
myself, from the commander-in-chlef
all the -way down to the court bailiff
who assaulted me. is guilty of a suffi
ciently serious error of judgment or
dereliction of duty to deserve dismis
sal from office! No member of the mob
is to be even indicted! I alone am to
be sacrificed! If lt were not so se
rious lt would all be superbly ridicu
lous.
“The feelings which I entertain
against the members of the court that
fixed the findings and the sentence
against me, are far from those of re
sentment. Many of them were young
men of unripe years and experience.
They were my equals or superiors in
rank, lt Is true, but this will mean but
little to those who understand how
rank in the state militia Is attained.
For the minority on that court, who
ever they may be, I have no word of
criticism. The majority who fixed the
findings and the sentence have not
harmed me, though they have done me
a grievous wrong.
“My own self-respect has been un
touched by their action; the respect
and esteem in which I am held by my
friends throughout the state has been
unaffected; I have not been dishonored
in the least, but on the contrary, am
now honored by thousands of patriotic
Georgians who have never known me
before. Thetr action was only a
manifestation of an Inherent weak
ness in human nature. They went
with the current—what they errone
ously supposed w r as the current of
public opinion, and now that same
public opinion has spanked them for
their pains.
••Pitiable Wrakneia in Oonrt.”
“Instead of standing up like men
and rendering the verdict of complete
exoneration, which the facts, the law
and every principle of justice demand
ed, they weakly surrendered to the
mob. They capitulated to the clamor
ous oritics whose outcry would have
turned in the opposite direction had
they known the facts as the majority
was made to know them by the sworn
testimony, if there was error of judg
ment at Statesboro, there was pitiable
weakness In the majority of the court
at Savannah.
“But the findings of that court, un
der the law, had to be submitted to
you for your approval before the sen
tence oould become effective. If you
read the evidence before affixing your
approval, your aotlon is all the more
deserving of condemnation, for your
legal training must have compelled you
to see, and to know, that the findings
and sentence were grossly unjust and
wholly unwarranted by the evidence.
If, however, the public press has cor
rectly stated It, you affixed your ap
proval to those findings immediately
upon the filing of the report In your
office without reading a word of the
testimony.
"The nature of the findings and sen
tence had been rumored abroad. Surely
you must have had a premonition that
you could not approve them if you first
read the testimony before taking ac
tion, and, therefore, in order to carry
out your preconceived plan and pur
pose to sacrifice another In order to
shield yourself, you shut your eyes to
the record, and blindly affixed your sig
nature to the order of approval. How
could you, under your oath of office
and under your duty as a reviewing
authority, approve or disapprove with
out first ascertaining the facts? Oould
there he any real actual approval In
any legal sense without your know
ing wh&t you approved?
A Callenae to the Governor.
"Was lt not the grossest dereliction
of duty on your part to attempt to sign
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away by formal order the reputations
of your fellow countrymen vfthout
carefully reading and considering the
evidence? And even now I challenge
you to read that record and say under
your oath, that the findings and sen
tence are not an outrage and a mon
strous injustice, and I defy you to
print that record and let the people of
Georgia, say, with all the facts before
them, whether you or I should be con
demned.
"It is claimed that I was inefficient,
even incompetent as a military officer.
If the charge were true, it would seem
indeed strange in view of the oppor
tunities I have had to become proficient.
For nearly ten years I have been in the
military service of the state, giving
largely of my time and energies to
properly acquaint myself with my du
ties. In that length of time I have at
tended numerous state encampments.
I have risen through every successive
grade in the military service from pri
vate to captain. Twice before the
Statesboro riot I had served on riot
duty, once at Savannah in 1895, and
once at Tampa, Fla., in 1898.
"At the outbreak of the Spanish-
American war I was among the very
first to sign the first enlistment roll that
reached Savannah, and for five months
served as a volunteer private and ser
geant in a Georgia regiment of infan
try. Surely this amount of actual serv
ice and experience ought to have made
a man of the most mediocre natural
ability reasonably proficient as captain
of a military company.
Is InefHency It Crime?
“But assuming for the sake of argu
ment, that the charge is true, has it
ever before been heard of that it was
a crime to be inefficient, a felony to
be incompetent? This is indeed anew
doctrine which you have engrafted on
the military law. It has usually been
considered that a retiring board, and
not a court-martial, afforded the prop
er means of proceeding in cases of in
efficiency and incompetency.
“In what respect was I considered
inefficient? In not being familiar with
the manual of riot duty? When has
ever such a manual been issued for
the guidance and instruction of the
officers of the state troops? I have
never yet seen or heard of any manual,
pamphlet, general order, special order
or circular from your headquarters,
specifying and outlining the duty of
an officer performing riot duty. Such
a manual is now being prepared by the
field officers of the First Infantry.
“It is the only kind of active service
that the state troops are ever called
upon to perform, and is about the only
kind of duty concerning which no spe
cific instructions have ever been is
sued from your Adjutant General’s of
fice. It is a matter left wide open to
the discretion and judgment of the of
ficer in command at the time. When
he exercises his best judgment and
takes such action as the circumstances
seem to him to require, it is the duty
of his commander-in-chief to uphold
him and support him, and the troops
under his command, instead of joining
in the hue and cry and condemning
him without kowing the facts.
Ignorance of Officials.
"And since inefficiency and inootn
petency have been suggested, what
should be said of the efficiency and
competency of a commander-in-chief
and his adjutant general who were so
unfamiliar with the military law as
not to know that a sentence of dis
missal carried with it a disqualifica
tion forever from holding civil or mil
itary office?
"You signed the order of dismissal
without either you or your adjutant
general knowing the full legal effect
of your action. In your ignorance you
were about to debar me from ever
holding elective or appointive office
under state, county or municipal gov
ernments, and render doubtful even
•the right to practice my profession as
a lawyer. It Is charity to the mem
bers of the court to assume that they,
too, acted through ignorance in not
removing the disqualification when
fixing sentence, else their action would
be too intolerable for patient consid
eration.
"Every one knows that I was un
done at Statesboro by those whom I
was sent there to assist, and 'but tor
that fact there is no room for doubt
that my mission would have been en
tirely successful without the firing of
a gun. Will any one stand up and
say before the people of Georgia that
the time for firing bad ever arrived
up to the moment when I was unex
pectedly assaulted by the court bailiff
and thrown down the stairway into
the hands of the mob? The court of
Inquiry would not say so, the charges
and specifications preferred before the
court-martial did not say so, the judge
advocate in his argument would not
claim it, neither will you say it now.
With Brand of Murder.
"I challenge you to come out and
declare before the people of Georgia
that I should have fired on those peo
ple at any time prior to the moment
when I was put out of the fight.
Should I, or should I not? If so, be
a man and say so.
"If not, you should revoke the order
of dismissal and publicly confess the
outrage which in a moment of weak
ness you perpetrated on an officer who
has ungrudgingly given ten years of
service to his state and country. You
know, I know, everybody knows, that
had one shot been fired during those
two hours while I was on that Court
House stairway, holding back those
frenzied people at the point of the bay
onet, pending the arrival of Col.
Grayson with his reinforcements, who
I assumed was on the way, the Indis
criminate slaughter which would have
ensued would have caused me to be
branded as a murderer and a monster
from one end of the land to the other.
"You know, as well as I, that I would
have been indicted, tried and convicted
in the civil courts for murder. Hun
dreds would have' sworn—and truly,
too—that firing was wholly unneces
sary, that not a single deadly weapon
had been brandished by the mob, that
not a shot had been fired nor missile
thrown, that not a single soldier had
been seriously injured, and that those
narrow and winding stairways, nat
urally the strongest of defensive posi
tions. could have been held Indefinite
ly with the bayonet alone by the troops
under my command. And all of it
would have been true.
Would Mot Have Granted Pardon.
"And down In your heart you know,
end all Georgia knows, that had I
been tried and convicted of murder un
der such a state of facts, you would
not have had the courage to grant a
pardon in the face of a maddened and
outraged people clamoring for my exe
cution, but with that same spinal in
firmity which causes you to always
seek to drift with the supposed cur
rents of popular feeling, you would In
that case have signed my death war
rant as In this you have signed my
Sunday, Oct. 30, J 904.
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SAVANNAH BUGGY GO.,
320 Broughton, West.
order of dismissal —without even read
ing the evidence. What protection,
pray tell me, has an officer or enlisted
man, for either his life or his reputa
tion, in performing active duty under
such a commander-in-chief?
“And when should an officer dealing
with a mob give his men the command
to fire? Common sense, law, military
practice and precedent all answer not
until it appears that less rigorous
measures will no longer suffice. It is
purely a tactical question for him to
decide. In the Chicago riots girowing
out of the Debs strikes in 1895, the reg
ular troops were on duty there for
days and days. They were stoned, shot
at occasionally and treated to all man
ner of indignities. They were fighting
almost continually, using the butts of
their pieoes and sometimes their bay
onets, but they seldom, if ever, fired.
I affirm and will always affirm, that
firing had never become necessary at
any time while I was still in charge
of the situation at Statesboro.
Georgians Gove Fair Play*
"The people of Georgia love fair deal
ing and fair play. They are pj-ompt to
hpprove the right, and are quick to
denounce and condemn injustice. With
the power and the agencies of govern
ment which the white people of the
state placed in your hands to be used
for just purposes, and which under your
oath of office you have sworn to so use,
you sought to dishonor me in the eyes
of my own people in order to exhon
erate and shield yourself, and because
you thought my sacrifice would secure
for you the popular approval.
"The result has been just the contrtiry.
If the telegrams and letters which I
have received, and the personal ex
pressions which I have heard on all
sides, and from all sections, are any
indication, I am now honored by the
white people of Georgia more than ever
before, while your name is b. by-word
among thousands who were formerly
your friends and supporters.
"Your first attempt at militarism has,
I fear, been fraught with disaster.
Some good lessons, however, may al
ways be drawn from the most unhappy
(experjienoes. Stop calling out your
soldiers on every trivial occasion of
apprehended riot. Order the sheriff
to summon his posse comitatus as he
has done under the English and the
American law for hundreds of years.
Swear in Men of County.
"Have him call to his aid and swear
in for service the able-bodied and law
abiding men of his county, and public
order can be and will be maintained.
Teach the people local self-government
let them practice it, and once more
we will get in sight of our ancient
moorings from which of late we have
been so rapidly drifting.
“I stated to the court of Inquiry, X
declared f>efore the court-martial, and
I now repeat, that in my judgment I
discharged my full duty as a soldier
at Statesboro, as well as my duty as
a man. It was a hard duty, to per
form, such as has never before con
fronted an officer of the state troops.
"I did my duty as I saw it, and each
passing day has convinced me more
and more that I saw It aright. I have
no apologies to make. My conscience
is clear, my confidence In the correct
ness of my course unshaken, and I am
content. You, I am sure, cannot say
as much. Very respectfully, your obe
dient servant.
Robert M. Hitch.
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