The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-08-27
BILL ARP.
How Time is Destroying Sectional Animos'
tiles.
atlanta Consultation.

atlanta Constitution.
It was good to be there. Twenty years
ago reunion of the soldier boys wss 8
lively gathering. They greeted one
another with loud hilarity. They stepped
around with double quick and joked
and laughed and cheered immensely
Most of the boys were then between thir'
ty and forty, but now they are nearing
sixty, and these twenty years make diff.
ference. Rolling years will change q
man. Ammo Domini will tell. The years
are all coming this way, and every one
gives us lick somewhere. [ used to
think that General Young vas the finest
looking man in the State, and was getting
the beat of the fight with old Father
Time, but noticed him at this reunion.
and he carried cane and limped. Old
Ammo Domini struck him on the hip.
they say. Most all OF the veterans look
ed older than usual-a little stooped-a
little sitter in the joints. As they sat to-
gether in front of the speakers stand
they made goodly picture, and the pic
ture should have been taken. How solid,
how thoughtful, how serene they looked.
a consciousness of duty done was set in
every feature-no shame, no repentance,
no fear, no boasting they went through
the fires and were refined. You can tell
veteran when you meet him in the
road. It is said that Jerry Simpson, the
sockless statesman, looked upon gath.
ering of Georgia farmers and said: "My
friends, this is the first time in my life
that I ever stood up before q native
American audience" Where he came
from more than half the people are for,
eigners. If the institution of slavery did
our region no other good it did that. II
kept the foreigners away and is doing it
yet. We are all one people-the descen.
dants of revolutionary sires. Senator
Ingalls, has been down here and profess
ed conversion. he ought to have been
baptized just as soon as he finished that
speech 80 as to make his conversion stick
It was such sudden conversion that our
people are dubious. If q northern man
will come down here and live awhile be
always get converted. never knew but
one exception, and that was William q.
Seward. He taught school in Putnam
County when he was young man, and
the old settlers told me that he courted q
pretty girl, and her plantation and mig
gers, too, and because she wouldent have
him he gave up his school and went back
and began to write us down as barbarians.
Because he couldent get the niggers be
dident want anybody to have them.
But all the other yankee school
teachers that I ever knew became good.
warm. hearted southern men. DR.. Alonzo
| Church, the time.honored president Of
| our State college, and Hiram Warner. the
chiefjustice of our supreme Court, were
two of them. I have before me now the
News Democrat, of Canton, o., which
has marked letter written by citizen
of that town and State, who says he came
to Georgia in 1889, and taught school in
Danielsville, Madison County, for two
years, and then studied medicine, and in
few years his personal advantage called
him back to Ohio, where he is now prac'
ticing medicine. But even the two years
in DanieIsville implanted love for those
people, and his letter is tender and kind
concerning the South, and this last
spring on his return from Florida he
went to Athens and rode horseback from
there to Danielsville, eighteen miles, just
to see the old place that had lived in bis
memory for fifty years, and to inquire al.
ter his pupils. What devotion, what af.
fection is that to come from a stranger, q
northern man who came south with pre-
judices and went back without them.
Strange to say, he did not find man.
woman or child iu the village who lived
there when he did. He heard of four oi
his pupils who still live, only four. Sad
and lonely he walked about and repeated
to himself the old song:
feel like one who treads alone, etc.
He says he visited the same old court
house, where he used to see Garnett An
drews presiding aud where he heard
Toombs and Stephens and Howell Cobb
and Bill Yancey speak. he attended the
old time barbecue and heard the band
play Old Dan Tucker. He went coon
hunting with the young men and helped
to hold the dogs while the darkies cut
down the tree. He defends our people
from the ISLANDERS that have so long been
heaped upon them and says, "My rela.
tions to the school and its patrons and
the outside public we're most pleasant and
agreeable. There is quality of southern
blood whether derived from Hugenot or
Cavalier which gives them hospitality
unknown in the north-a cordial well
come and a sociality to which ne are
strangers"
In speaking of slavery he says, II have
seen them sold on the block and at ad-
miuistrators' sales for division, but ]
never witnessed any such scenes as are
depicted in Uncle Toms Cabin and kin
dred works of fiction. The internal sug.
gestions Of humanity and self interest
were as rife in slave as in free territory"
x x Z
While this happy re union was going
on it occurred to me that it had been
about two hundred and forty years since
Milton said, "Peace hath her victories nc
less renowned than war" It has been
over one hundred years since Ben Frank.
lin said, "There never was a good war OF
q bad peace" This seems to be the