Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — HEYBURN SLAPS LOST CAUSE [ARTICLE]

HEYBURN SLAPS LOST CAUSE

Calls Confederacy “Infamous;” Bitter Rebuke by Williams. Washington, July 14.—A characterization of the confederacy as an “infamous cause,” by Senator Heyburn of Idaho, brought from Senator Williams of Mississippi a bitter rebuke in the senate. “But for the parliamentary rules that restrain me,” declared Mr. Williams, “I would have a few words to say about the kind of human being in whose heart such thoughts can exist.” Senator Williams had asked to have “Jim” Jones, the eighty-two year old negro who was Jefferson Davis’ bodyguard, and in whose custody the seal of the confederacy was intrusted, retained on the senate pay roll as a laborer. Senator Heyburn acquiesced in the retention of the negro for his service formerly given to the senate, “but not because of loyalty to the glory of an infamous cause.”