The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-11-05
BILL ARP WANTS NO WAR.
Knows When He Has Had Enough
The People r So Different from
Old Times.

When He Has Had Enough
The People are So Different from
Old Times.
All is peace and harmony about
Atlanta now, buG / haven't forgotten
when Sherman was throwing his un-
feeling shells over the city. Such q
panic, ouch a stampede, such helpless
terror among women and children [
never witnessed. | had gotten my
wife and little children away, but [
Ead to stay, and the scei.s was as aw-
fui as the picture OF death on q pale
horse. Everybody and every thing that
could Owe was moving. Shells are
not so terribly destructive, but as Big
John said that day, they are the most
~perilyzing thing in the world. ] met
him on Decatur street, making tracks
toward Stone mountain, carrying his ,
three hundred pounds of lesh-mOst of
were On his forehead and he was a
rying his wig in n hand and an old
carpet bag In the other. "Where
now, my friend 2" said L. Anywhere
in this direction," said he, with u dis
tressing smile. 81 am bound to keep
ahead of 'em, the Internal devils.
They don't travel fast, thank the
Lord" Where is your cart and
steer 2" said L. sold 'em- sold 'eln
to @ free niger for two hundred dol
lars Confederate money. about enough
to keep me in vittles and whiskey for
u week. 3" And then what?" said l.
"Jine the conscript camp at Decatur"
said he. and he mOpped the sweat off
his head and face with his big pan
dana handkerchief. Another shell
sang through the air and Big John
moved on with alacrity, never ever
said goOdby, but hallooed back, "Pray
for me Bill" The next week 1
got him o place in the ordinance de-
partment at Macon under General
Howell Cobb and left him sitting on a
box full of guns. He placed two boxes
close together for u bed and said he
should sleep IN his arms.
The shells kept coming on making
their parabolas and singing and siz-
ling in the circumambient air. | had
sorter gotten used to- shells in old Vir-
ginia and 5 o ventured to walk down
half a mile on Walton street 10 see
what had become vi an old uncle and
his family who lived there. His four
boys were all in the war, but nv uncle
and aunt and their only daughter
lived there. | found them huddled up'
in h basement, for u shell had ul-
ready torn part OF the roof away and
they had moved-moved lower down,
and were waiting, waiting, he said, to
see what the Lord or the devil would
do. They escaped unframed. One of
their absent boys was killed and an.
other was trimmed up, but that was
the common lou. But now everybody
is happy except some-everyhody ex-
cept the very rich and the very poor.
That is why old Augur didn't want to
do either. just the expression of the
people you meet-meet on the trains
or at the depots or the fair grounds or
on the streets or in the churches. How
much more pleasant it is than a few
months ago. How happy are the wo-
inen and children. How cordial the
greetings between the North and the
South-the blue and the gray. The
fact is, when our Northern brethren
come down here mt eat our barbe-
cued meat and receive our hospitality
and look at u beautiful women they
are nearly ready to apologize for
everything they have lone TO us or
said about us. I've been waiting for
them to apologize for twenty-five
years, but they say they can't do it
consistently until they begin to pen
sion our soldiers and our widows and
orphans. | believe they will pass q
pension law for our soldiers about the
time they are all dead, for it is a fact
that unpensioned soldiers do die.
Thine cuts down all,
Both great and small,
Except a pensioned soldier"
AN insurance man told me that a
man who was drawing a pension could
get his life insured for half price.
1t is curious how short sighted are
the wisest M the greatest men. Cal
houn and Davis and Stephens and
Henry Clay and John Randolph all
said that no races OF people could ever
live together in peace unless n was
in s.bjectiOn and under the civil do
mlnion OF the other. That has proved
a mistake. We are living together
now on terms of civil equality and get
ting along fairly we'll. Giddings and
phillips and all the abolition leaders
said that just as soon as a war broke
out the negroes would rise up and kill
and burn n destroy all owe the
south. They did nothing of the kind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne said II am
for the war, but | don't understand
what we are fighting about or what
good results a come FROM it. | re-
J0ice that the 0l6 union is smashed.
we never were one people and never
VIII be. If we pummel tho South
ever so hard they will love us none the
better"
But the union Is not smashed, t. il
stronger than ever and Dana says the
nation will shave to look to the South
for Its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES from
anarchy and isms that seem to breed
and tester and flourish in the North.
ANA Chauncey Depew says the South
ls fuller than ever Of the old spirit
the old flag and the old desire for an
appropriation. Yes, confound him, /
like Chauncey, but why didn't he men.
lion that the North got % per cent. of
all the appropriations, all the money
That Is spent on the army and navy
m public printing and supplies of
every kind, while all we get is a little
custom house and pOstotiice here and
there and for those we have to take a
Northern architect and build it with
Northern stone or brick and fill it with
Northern furniture. Confound 'em. |
dogon. They throw a sop to. us once IN
a while, just like throwing q Done to a
dog. Never mind. IF they do get up
u war with some foreign country thev |
will want us to do the lighting and we
expect to have it to do, bat they will
have to apologize and heal up the old
sore first. Now mark my prediction.
III a war does become imminent be-
tween this country and any one of the
great powers, some fellow from Massa-
or Tom Reed from Maine will
introduce o bill to give pensions and
Dach pay to the Southern soldiers. /
Up TO date there has been paid So, OOO,-
ouO,UOO In pensions since the war and
the Grand Army Is bowling for more
n MIR. Cleveland and Carlisl. have,
TO keep Issuing bonds to keep up with