Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-05-05
The Last Battle Field.

Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, i'll NeY Orleans, stopped at I.yoch
burg, Va, and, in writing to the Raleigh
alusion to Appomattox Court House, in Vir-
ginia:
eve have passed to-day, through locali-
ty of undying memories. Appon .ttox Court
House will be remembered when Petersburg
and Raleigh are forgotten. The whole coun.
try shows, most impressively, that the storm
of war has passed over it, Tue debris Of
ruined army of heroic men brings sadness to
the soul. Over all this field of the death
struggle, the farmers are poughing. new fences
have been erected, and the budding vegeta-
tion is just now awaling to the wooing of
spring, but these signs of life, generally 50
welcome, seem discordant here. 1t seems to
the sad soul and the fearful eye that these old
shoes. these broken guys, these fragments Of
wagons, wrecks of cars, pieces Of old hats,
bleaching bones of horses, and nameless graves
of many Southern boy, ought to be in a
desert.
" AS we look upon the forsaken batteries
and immense hospitals of Farnville, or the
stricken fields of Appomattox, we feel that
the plough ought not to turn this soil, that
the trees ought to die, and that no bird ought
ever to sing here again. No Union man,
however true and loyal to the United States,
II he as q nan, could walk over this desperate
field unmovcd and untouched: Hero atb,e,vc
! army surrendered, gave up it's arms, and laid
| its banners i'll the dust. Here lie the remains
Of sou and brother, for whom mother
mourns and sister wecps, and there is none
! to comfort them. Here lie the half-uncovcred
bones of father, whose little children still
| ask, when will father come homer 1t is
now night, it is raining gently, all is still, and
| feel a lonely sadness that makes the heart
ache"
A SENSIBLE MAN-Wc arc told at Enter
prise, the other day, that negro doctor had
located there, boug ght real estate, aud would
engage in the practice of medicine. IIc is
represented as a man of intelligence and some
| cultivation, dccorous in his conduct and re-
spectful to white people. lie made an address
on Saturday night to his colcred friends, which
some of them lacked the god sense to apprc-
ciatc. lie told them it was useless 10 expect
equality with the white race. He had tray.
eled much over the North and Europe, and
nowhere was the negro on all equality. in
the city Of New York, he was not permitted to
ride in the street cars with white people. lie
told them furthermore, that it was n mistake
to believe the Northern people were any bet
ter friends to the negro race than the Southern
people. The Southern man, he said. would
prove to be their best friend This black cd
ucatod man is native of Kentucky, and in
! his boyhood was in the family of one of the
| Brecknrdges, who assisted and encouraged
him to acquire an education.
Meridian. 4Ncsscngcr.
| AN IDEA-TRUE AND BEAUTlTUL-T can
not believe that the earth is mans abiding
place. 1t cannot, be that our life is cast up by
the ocean of eternity to float upon its waves
and sink into nothingness. Else, why is it
that the glorious aspirations which leap like
angels from the temple Of our hearts, are for
ever wandering about unsatisfed Why is
it that the rainbow and the clouds come over
us With beauty that is not of the earth, and pass
oft and leave us to muse on their faded love
linessY Wbyi is it that the stars who hold fes-
tival around the midnight throne are set above
the grasp Of our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with their runaprroachable glory ?
And finally, why is it that the bright forms
ot.human beauty are presented to our view and
then taken from us, leaving the thousand
streams OF our affections to flow back in AL
pine torrents? We are born for "a higher
i destiny than that of earth-therc is realu,
where rainbows never fade, where the stars
will be out before us, like islets that slumber
OH the ocean, and where the beings that pass
before us like shadows will stay in our posses
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