Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-09

the governor found a bitter. briery and cactus
hedge refuge there Immediately after the
scheme for great slave-holding republic had
been defeated.
ish IN order to pick up a living. When I
turned my back on the United States was in
an unutterable condition Of disgust and de-
spair. 1 was determined not 20 STAY and be
dictated 70 by the conqaeror. While there is
life there is hope but ali was darkness ahead
IL was beginning life anew and didn & care who
led, for held neither ace, face nor trump"
At this point two other Senators arrived for
some sort Of conference
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO 90.
recently heard Senator Davis Of Minnesota
tell of that time at n soldiers reunion here
"Our Wisconsin regiment had swooped down
on Mobile and occupied it," he said, land we
thought the war was over and were preparing
10 60 home when astonishing orders came to
march to Mexico, This = damper for the
regiment Was very little inclined to chase Dick
Taylor, Kirby Smith and Harris down there and
fight Macmillan besides.
"One company-my old company-reyol.ed
and the men stacked arms and swore they
wouldn I go on any such wild-goose chase Lieut.
Pearron. n mechanic, earnest good fellow
and gallant soldier but not an orator was IN
command. and he went down and appoaled 20
their patriotism and all that They were OBJ
durate.
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enlist to tight for the gressers. and We amt
s-going to. We have put the war clear down
and nov we are going 20 trot home 20 the folks
We don't like the blamed chapparel nor the
dod-binged cremated Mexicans and the French
have always been our friends
Pearson got Up in q wagon and addressed
them. Go where your bleeding country callsr
he excitedly shouted. DO not abandon the
Goddess of Liberty in her distress, Strike TIL
the last armed foe expires. strike for the green
graves of your sires, strike for your affairs and
Your fresi Why. IL YOU will go ahead without
baking. you ID ignorant --. in
three weeks you will be reveling in the halls OF
the Montezumasr
Nobody knows what the end would have
been If the order had not been speedily coun-
fernandez and the regiment sent home
LAST TALK WITH JOE JOHNSTON.
What Senator Harris saws about Johnston re-
minds me that he got the appointment Of rail-
road commissioner for that confederate veteran
under Cleveland's administration. went into
his room in the pension Office one afternoon
carelessly and woke the old gentleman. tried
to apologize and escape from railroad head
quarters by comphmenting Gen. Johnston on
bis good health.
YES" he said; 81 am tough. Ny father was
in the revolutionary war"
"Your father" repeated; ''you must mean
your grandfather"
mo, no, my father" he persisted; my
grandfather was then too old for the service"
What, ITO years ago, general2' asked.
Yes, he said; my grandfather was fifty
two when he married. aud my father fifty
when L was born, so that there was q century
between my grandfather's birth and mine, and
we three seem likely 10 span almost two CEN
turies. When was a mere child wanted 20
be a soldier. NV father had run away from
college to join Light horse Harry and fought
through the revolution, and my Oldest brother
was in the war Of 1872, half q century before
the war for the Union
GLAD THAT THE UNION rs PRESERVED.
The turn Of this last phrase suggested to me
the question: "How about the net result Of that
war for the Union, general? How about the
preservation of the Union2 Is the south glad
or sorry?"
''Giad!' he exclaimed Then he rose from
his comfortable chair, walked to the window
and looked out on the green grass and rainbow
mounds of coleas ''Gladr' He repeated,
turning toward me: mot only that the Union
is preserved. but that slavery is abolished.
That's where we made our fatal mistake. We
really thought that the existence of slavery
was necessary to our civilization. We did.
We all thought so. And how much it cost TO
correct that delusioni am glad that nv last
official act in the confederacy was to urge Mr..
Davis, retreating through North Carolina, to
stop the war" W. A CRoFFUT.