People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-15

luS VI one VI Ihe mosG uaElng, Drn-
liant, and unselfsh patriots that ever
lived.
In the annals OF 9eroism whose
name stands higher than Sergeant
Jasper's?
Here is the way Mr.. Stephens
speaks of him in the History of the
United States:
"The brave Sergeant Jasper, the
hero Of Fort Moultrie, was also NOR
tally wounded in the intrepid assault
upon Spring Hill redoubt. He re-
ceived his death wound while fasten-
ing to the parapet the battlefront
standard which had been presented
to his regiment by Mrs. Elliot. Never
relaxing his grasp, he bore the colors
to a place of safety before dea h pal
sled as heroic an arm as ever fought
beneath a plume. His last words
were; Tell Mrs. Elliott | lost my
life supporting the colors she pre-
scented to our regiment. "
How grand and touching is this!
So truly historical is the entire
episode, so grandly creative of the
ardor Of patriotism in future genera.
tons, that the historian of the Re
public gives us every woodland not
word could be spared from the i'm
mortal lines.
But the historian of Georgia, the
State where this humble hero conse-
Grated the soil with his blood, the State
in whose behalf be gave his noble
life,-how does the historian of Geor-
gia tell the story?
Most coldly, most briefly, most i'm
perfectly, thus:
"Seeing that shot had cut down
the flag he had planted, Jasper seiz-
ed 1T and again planted the flag on
the same spot. AT this battle he was
MORALLY wounded"
That is all.
Nothing of his tender devotion to
the colors a woman's hand had
worked Nothing Of a death stricken
hero bearing his flag away from the
reach of the enemies of his country
Nothing of the last PROUD words
swhlag SAID ''LeJ death now come
but ! saved the flag my country
women trusted to my keeping tell
Mrs. Elliott so z"
To write history in such a slovenly
fashion is, / protest, almost a crime
Yet Major Smith, having no space
for details of Jasper's daring, no
space for Jasper's last words, does
have space for the pert answer OF
Spanish governor to General Ogle-
thorpe.
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A most STEERING chapter in our
early history is that of the Yazoo
Fraud
Maj. Smith gives no account of
the great litigation which ensued,
and the decision of the United States
Supreme Court unfolding the Fraud.
Nor does he relate that dramatic
incident of Governor James jackson,
surrounded by the Georgia Legisla-
ture, burning the Yazoo Act with
sun-glass in the public square at
Louisville, Ga.
And yet all this is Georgia his
tory-important and interesting.
Major Smith says the Zazoo bust
ness was settled by Congress, causing
the State to cede the lands, now
Alabama and Mississippi.
The lands were coded, Major, but
The Supreme Court decision was the
settler,
A typical historic figure in Georgia
was General VIM. Mcintosh.
He was, in every respect, leader
and an important man.
His life, his negotiation of Indian
Treaties with the Whites, his tragic
death on the Chattahoochee river,
make a chapter of thrilling interest.
Yet, if his name, is so much as
mentioned in this "history," l have
been unable to find 1t, either in the
text or in the index.
In telling the children how we got
our lands from the Indians, we can
not imagine how the author could
pass over Mcintosh and his ces-
sions-cessions which cost him his
life at the hands of the Infatuated In
dams.
TO the Stat sman is there a more
interesting period in our annals than
that which witnessed the angry con
test between Governor Troup and
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