Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1920 — Confederates in the Senate. [ARTICLE]

Confederates in the Senate.

Immediately following the Cffvil war nearly every prominent southern senator was a former Confederate soldier. South Carolina sent Hampton and Butler; North Carolina, Matt Ransom; Georgia. Gordon and Colquitt; Mississippi, Walthall and George; Louisiana, Gibson and Eustis; Texas, Coke; Arkansas, Berry; Tennessee, Bate and Harris; Missouri, Cockrell; Kentucky, Blackburn; Virginia, Mahone (a Republican) and Daniel; Florida, Pasco; West Virginia, Kenna and Faulkner. It was a collection of eminent men, strong in debate, winning in manners and character, completely representative of their section. With them sat Vest, once a senator in the Confederate congress; Reagan, postmaster general of the Confederacy, and Vance, the war governor of North Carolina. The senate In that period felt and used Its power more conscientiously than it does today. And its average in quality was higher, for the North, too, was represented by a group of leaders equally competent and distinguished.— New York Tribune.