The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-27
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prise by publishing the fac simile Of
orders issued by General Weaver at
Pulaski, Tenn., in 1863. Gen. Weaver
was only a Colonel, and if he did any
thing Objectionable to the citizens
there it was merely carrying out
orders of superior officers. Tt is evil
dent that the citizens at Pulaski, who
are so ready to wear to things, are
fair samples of the partisan hotheads
found in various parts of the country.
Tt is a hotbed of partisan and sectional
copperheads who strike like the blind
adder. If Gen. Weaver was a military
tyrant, why is it that something is not
heard from him at other points, He
was in the war from first to last. After
he left Pulaski he became a General,
promoted for bravery. It looks like
he would have been more tyrannical
then than when a subordinate officer.
He must have been on Southern soil at
least a year of the war. Why didn't
he exhibit his tyranny " at other
points9 If he was a tyrant, why does
it not crop out in his private life9 In
stead of that you always find him on
the side of the weak against the OPP
preston of the strong.
Gen. Weaver was a thorough Union
man. He opposed Southern secession.
He left his business, his freside and
fought us like a man four long years.
Even after they whipped u boys,
Gen. Weaver may have said some hard
things about us. He does not deny it.
When two men fall out it generally
takes the best of them more than a few
minutes to get over the quarrel. Gen.
Weaver had been mad four years. He
had left his family, exposed his life,
encountered all kinds of hardships. 1t
would be too much to expect of a mere
human to go home after all that and
say: ooh, it's all right. I fought them
four years, but I was wrong, they were
right I'll hire somebody to kick me. F."
He didn't feel that way. No other
Northern man did. No Southern
man did. It was not the best
people of the South that caused Gen.
Weaver to say hard things about us in
a political speech. 1t was the vapor-
ings of the skunks who didn't go to
the war, but who began to fight just
as soon as the surrender was an.
nounced, and have kept it up ever
since. Doubtless he read their anarch-
istic threats, and read of their BULLDOG
ing and bitter expressions. It was they
who e~xasperated him and made him
use language that now sounds so harsh.
Let us contrast records. Ex-Confed-
crate soldiers, your attention please.
When compared to the records of Har-
rison and Cleveland either as soldiers
or citizens, Viewers record shines like
a diamond placed beside a sandstone.
Wesee Weaver leave his happy home
at the first sound of the tocsin of war,
he put on his uniform and steps in the
front ranks to fight for the preserva-
ton of the Union. He felt that it was
his duty. Not until the last man sur
rendered did he return home. Where
was Cleveland9 Skulking in New
York. Call after call was made, but
no Cleveland volunteered. Finally
there is a crisis. Cleveland does not
answer the country's call, but he does
hire a measly, lousy foreigner and
sends him as a substitute to shoot into
the ranks of our brave Southern boys.
After his election to the Presidency he
was so cool toward the South as to de-
serve the charges that he vas only
President of New England. 1t was
only because the South thought he
could be elected the second time that
they voted for him. His third nomi-
nation was forced on the South. Con-
trast his financial views with those of
Gen. Weaver. Do you suppose that
EGen. Weaver will declare THAT we
have the best financial system in the
world" and threaten to veto ''any bill
to change it" if he is elected President
(and he will be)2 Hasn't he acted just
the opposite at all times3
President Harrison has some kind of
a war record. He was made a General
because he was a grandson of President
Harrison. But you rarely see anything
about his "brave defense of his u
try" But since he has been President
he has tried to get up a war with three
different foreign nations. He is a
Fighter from away back" now. Dur
ing his administration the country has
been the scene of much internal strife.
Within the past three months there
hos hoan civil war at Homestead. Buff