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Show ' CiKS. FOItftKS r BKKOIIE THE KU ! KLl'X COMMITTEE. It is certainly a matter of congratulation congratu-lation for all who delight in seeing the traces of the bloody past swept into the gulf of oblivion, und the hatred and ibtrile engendered by the late civil war ideciy, that the Confederate General i N. B. Forrest has been summoned be-fore be-fore a committee composed of members of the national legislature, treated a& courteously and as gentlemanly as any other American citizen would have been, and bis testimony recorded as legal evidence in a great national question ques-tion ; and that, too, when the interests of himself and tho people with whom he is a:lied arc immediately affected. During the war no one was more bitter, bit-ter, more earnest, more courageous, and, we may add, more destructive, than was Forres. Wherever danger the most strongly menaced the South, there waa this utern, relentless man, sword in band, leading bis handful of reckless reck-less comrades, marking the trail through which be swept with flume, blood and devastation. The foes of the South were his foes, and, like a sleuth hound, he bunted them day and night, showing little sympathy when ever they were found. The colored people, in particular, were the objects of bis especial vengeance, and whenever when-ever caught in their Federal uniform, their doom was certain and speedy. Never' heles.-, he was a true man, because be-cause faithful to the cause be espoused and determined in what he considered to be right; and when the cause of the Uonfederaoy was lost, his sword was sheathed and not a word of further warfare or disturbance escaped hi hp.. He has accepted the situation in ifood faith and turned his attention to the cairn and peaceful pursuits of legitimate legi-timate business. Still, Fort Pillow yet rankles in the minds of many, and when the author of that terrible tragedy trage-dy can be invited to contributo to tia tional Icgi.-iuiion and nqain lako a place as the equal of bis countrymeu. why bar iho doors of amnesty ugainst anyone who participated in the internecine inter-necine strile Amnety, general and unqualified, must, by the force of progressive ideas hi id more enlarged civilization, be ; merely a que.-iion of time. A great ! proportion of those who at first opposed it are now its warmest udvoCJffS. it is gradually but surely forcing itself among the developemcnts of the day, and the longer the ultimatum is withheld with-held the more disastrous will it be for ; the party which causes the detention. Parti an ends may cause a handful of legislators to postpone or gradually yield to tho measures; but the victory which they may thereby eaiu will beat the best but ephemeral, and liberal ideas will triumph in the end. Henki Eifle. |