Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
TN. sequel 10 Sunday story-An Ep'
ISOLDE Of Human Life.
. pead Lave Buried In Tie Gloom,
Days Of Civil War.
Sows Of The Day and Cnrrent Gsssil
AZ tho National Capital.
n, Mail ard T'elssraph,


IN NV mind 10 write 10 you and ask
wbv Won never finished that little love
story Won begnn 10 tell "A month ol
more mo, why don't you let ~
know what became Of your black-eyod
Yankee sweetheart You almost
made me love Hattie
This note from "Annic," reminds
me that did spin a yarn left uniln-
ished, and that promised TO give IT'S
dononopient. ! wns teiIihR, 700,
how the North and South |
mIsconcelved one another aud how |
pnrtisan newspapers and dcclamatory |
Marty leaders md most deectablc Sun.
dav school books and even sO-callcd |
histories separated the North from the
south. Morally, the North Ind ''se-
Cededn long before practical secession,
down south, was contaminated, and
Horace Greeley and Wendell Philips
were chelest Of stcenslonlsis.
was telling, as Annie say, how
this moral treason TO the federal
Union, evolved from Intense negro
phily, postponed The contamination OF
mine and lalile's marital union. |
was telling how ! left her, In the win
ter of ls800l, In her New England
home, and how she wept when bndc
her goodbye | witnessed Lincoln's
lrsl Inauguration, and went South
the next day. OF course was not
seccssionsi, but when the war ragged !
my sympatlles were wholly with ms q
people. ! never had amy faith In IL u
d0ublo.bnrellcd American Union. II y
was too much Oi u good thing, aud I q
didn't very well zee how tWo Unions "
were desirable when one was already u
deemed intoerable. | didn't zee y
clearly how II was rational 10 have |
multiludes Of white men killed about q
die abstract right 10 take an abstract u
negro to an impossible place Kansas q
didn't see why II was not wiser to u
settle differences peacefully before II
than after war, and yet everybody
knew that settlement had To come N
had tho audacity to say in news ~
paper IN May 1861, that secessionisn Ii
and abolltl0nlsn contemplated
the same results, ana
wa arrested for 1t and III
was advised 10 quit the pl
newspaper business by "a nice liltlp NJ
vlgllhnce committee Of the period. hl
which evidently liought | didn't !
know low 10 run n newslhpcr They.
have learned something o. liberty
since those bloody brutal days. i!ut /
wns induced TO Succumb, aud when m
lock moG contemplating sublime fol-
Hes aud rNtlavGgnnces of speech ard
action Of the first months in 1861
however std and pitlfiil were results, spc
they wear most lidicrous Aspects The
most violent and inclpAh 6 and pas. bu
slnnaie became lenders Of the multi tn,
tHdr saw n city, through tho he'll lh,
lowing acclaim Of it, lnighticst nssrn- 1871.
bly Of all ltH people, reused To super. de,
natural fury by awful speeches Of spe
pnrty leaders, seGede from the Union he,
and thea secedc from the stut,, and all
because Tie state WAS u little slow i'm
the stately business OF the l
period Seressionism was ram pr
pant In those days North and ms
south. iiy It's resistless forces ron
was swept away from delight ~
iui faces aud dreams that clustered I'M
about the home OF my New England oa.'
sweetheart. on
-Four hdeous years of blood and des- wa,
uiatlon and vice and crime, went by "a
Hike troubled, dfeary dream. When /
these years had gone away, the people s.
hated them and the painful stories real
hey told, would not read or talk of slcl
.hem, Women shuddered when they gre,
we're mentioned, and The best books hin
written about them were never read. of II
Npt uhlil new generation That had for
lot participated In the conflict came thpi
,p0h 'ie h'"se, Wore listeners luund clan
VI uhoi'.N fdrDWdHid whose husi
eeitals related TO events Of not
hese hateful, hlsod-.aincd years. II frlel
we're vel n they were hlottcd forever I'm d
rom TIE memory Of our race. When
renee came J was required by Andrew -
ehhson, then president to visit this -
Nv Ihis was IA the autumn of 1896. mn
Hence went TO New York and thence rive
@ me New England city ghere last stat
'aw Hattie a NJ
HAlTig's HOME. ~
When | reached the ciy my inlnn. am,
.lence 10 meet Hattie was boundlGss nrnl
hhtfied tfon theh0lel 20 her father's ily
feiidenee, no traces OF war marked
he country. Every indication of
aud unhrol,en peace In II
vested vlllnges and cities with choicest mis-
HARMS The North Ind won an that pro-
sc lost Full of these reflections and ana
Fipt h0nnding eagernoss la SEQ the ih'
.weet face and look into the lustrous up
lreaminl eyes Of Hattie, rung thu aga
'oof'pel' l am sure tho color had
en- my lnce. Through four years. *
heuHh hnd often sent letters, az 4 post
through the lines az mighty ner
ffhlies, had received not one from +.
latlic But had never doubted her Ter
'deiiiy or constancy. mas
'hf "ElstiNt. l''''N
she met me In the doorway. Sh, NC
shs parniysed She grew oolories. su s
hu irenhltd IN every nerve. She held III, III
ny hand aud looked wanderingly. i'm. alsn'
hoflngiy, IN my face. She Ind heard ny \
imagined, That ! WAS dead. Her THE
ace was rnlor'ess She finally snld
y broken ata.nis, hWo Thought VIM "
zero dead, but never did wholly be- the
leye H. always told them YOU wore cong
on,ihg back Then alio was silent natl,
t,u again SHE said, while leading M be h
'itn unsteady steps into tho pnrlor quie
: NH 40 glad TO sec your ! sought thus
relieve her OF evident and ns vent
Thought natural embarraas. natl.
lph,, ana asked about her father ntso
~ mother She nus Nered thal Loni
Ivy Moniu see Mo presently. Then cmv
~ 'aihen ~ Others We had known ons
~ ,oNefl never recurring 10 our Der. cratl
luai relations Or aiverlnu 10 the ono repol
~, ilhuR u and liut and passion Of VIII
y - 9he SEEMED 10 b. ~ lar away cage.
Z - n,e ~ when was SnlohinS
he,is iton SheunaAis guns burs,ln, ~,
: nv nipnll-gilded skies above dnn,n,.J MAN,
'uHii'a Even then had wonler.nI ~
'helher Hattie wns tlftnminv M M, y
was conscious, wien held her hand eer \,
l iief nerves end touch uaya ey, -
p :, 10 thoughts aud onsoiions ~
hhoh iltf tongue fefuaad uifn,a,,,, SDa