The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-03

BILL ARP.
Answers to Arp's Appeal for Money to
Fix Up tho Graves of tho Dead Sol
diers.
atlanta Constitution.

Fix Up tho Graves of tho Dead SOL
diers.
atlanta Consultation.
1t is most astonishing how much good
man or a good woman is worth. The
appeal that was made a week ago for
little money to re mark the graves of our
confederate dead at Fredericksburg has
not been responded to as re hoped, but
the letters that came from those who did
respond, are full of comfort and give us
confidence in our humanity.
Ten good men would have saved Sodom
and Gomorrah, and 30 I believe that the
good.people of this land do actually save
it from destruction. lido believe that. I
believe that those who love God and love
their fellow-men, keep the world alive,
and restrain the wrath of Almighty God.
They are the salt of the earth and have
saved it for the centuries that have pass.
ed. I do not believe that being in the
church is an insurance, but it is better to
be in it than out of it. The best people
are in there. The best people in the
world are those who have suffered. Suf-
fered in mind, body or estate. I wa5 ru,
minating about this as I opened and read
the letters that came every day with.a
dollar inclosed for the soldiers graves at
Fredericksburg. Nearly all Of them came
from soldiers or their widows or their
children. They have suffered, and suffer-
ing makes US kind and sympathetic.
One says: IT followed the conquered
banner until lost q leg at Chickamauga.
I am going up to Chattanooga to meet
with the blue and the gray on the 18th
and try and inaugurate measures that
will bury the bloody shirt" Another
says: "Put ME down to take care of a
comrades grave. He was only private.
and was killed by my side at the battle Of
Fredericksburg. His name is Green Reed,
Company A, Ninth Louisiana regiment.
We buried him in the night, and I got a
piece of plank and cut his name upon ii,
and put it at the head of his grave. That
night ! will never forget. My right arm
is buried at Spottsylyania, @. H., but that
needs no mark. hope the good people
of Georgia will attend TO the graves of
their dead" Another writes 81 was
child when secession came, but autici-
pate the emile Of APPROPRIATION I shall re-
ceive on the ether shore from a soldier
boy brother who sleeps among bis kindred
but fell in defense of those,he loved so
we'll. hope you will receive thrice as
much as you have asked for" And
another: ~ send two dollars in memory
of two brothers who, but for some means
that kind Providence had given them
would now be resting in Fredericksburg
and their graves be marked by the charity
you have invoked" A lady from Mari
eta writes: Occasionally 7 visit the
lovely place where the federals are buried
here, and then look from my window at
the grass. covered hillside of our confed-
crate dead-not even mound to indicate
that a hero's bones repose beneath the
sod. The wooden headboards have long
crumbled into dust, and our dead patriots
lie here unlettered, unhonored and un-
sung" A gentleman writes: 1T will be
shame if the Southern people fail to
respond to this unsel6sh and patriotic
appeal from the noble women of the old
dominion" And "young Georgian"
who does not give his name, sends FIVE
dollars and says: "As native of Geor.
gia am proud of the record our soldiers
made on every field, and feel it a priv
lege to aid in perpetuating their valor
and fortitude. To posterity no richer
heritage can be given"
But still the money does not come
only enough to feel that there is life in
the old land yet. The generous are not
at all dead. Thousands are too poor to
spare even dollar, but thousands are
not. Out of a hundred aud fifty thousand
white voters in Georgia it does look like
two hundred and forty of these could
spare dollar for 80 righteous cause.
Sam Jones took up a collection at our
tabernacle meeting and when he counted
all that was in the hat he smiled and
said, "Pretty good, pretty good There
are six thousand people here and they
have given to this cause exactly sixty
dollarsAjust cent apiece. Pretty
good for this crowd Oh, my, my, my~
Judge Underwood said to me one day,
Just after be had given FIVE dollars to help
build country church: "Major, I always
give them little if I have got it. In
the first place, begging fur money is
about the most unpleasant business in
the world, and l feel SO sorry for the poor
fellow who is going around with the sub
scription that l. give something out o
pity for him. Then again, feel that the
object or purpose is good one or they
wouldn't beg for it. I have got little
stock in at least hundred churches from
Rabun Gap TO Tallapoosa, and that
money is better than stock in bank. 1t
is drawing big interest, even though do
not get it it in dollars aud cents. The
charity that 1 have given is a comfort to
me whenever I think of it, and when I
am weighed in the balances maybe the
grace of God will turn the scale in my
favor, for you know that the good book
says charity will hide multitude of
sins.'"
But Sam. Jones did not stop with that
sixty dollars. 1t made him mad, and the