The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-11-09
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
WILLIAM IsAyERsE TO ANOTHER
sANGU1NARY CONFLICT.
The World to Elm Seems Row Cen
tented and Happy.

tented and Happy.
All IL peace and harmony about Atlanta now,
| but I haven't forgotten when Sherman vas
! throwing his unfeelinx shells all over ne cisy'
! Such panic, such a stampede, sacA helpless
! terror among women and children never VII
! messed. had gotten my wife and httls chill
: 6rnn aHae, but I had to stay. and the scene
vas aa awful as tho picture Of death on the pale
! hcrse Everybody and everything that conta !
! move "as moving Shells are not 50 terribly
! destructive, but as Big John said that day, they
are the most rer!lyz!ag thing" IN the %orio'
! l met hin, on Decatur street, making tracks TO-
ward 9sonc Mountain, carrying his three h5a-
| dred pounds Of aesh-mo5t Of il IN front, blS
beads Ct psrspiratlon were on his forehead ano
he was carrying bis wig in ore hand ana an org org
| Garnet bag in the other. where now, my
fricnd?" SAID I. 'Anywhere in this direction, T" y
said lie, with a distressing sniIe: Il an 5ouaa
to keep she'd CT EN-, the Internal de7!ie;
| Th.y don't trs7el fast, thank the Lord: !.
! "Nhe1e Is your csrt and steer7' aaid /: "So!a
'cm-scld en- to free niggeg for TWO auaareo
! dollars confederate money, about enough to
keep me in rittles and whisky fox FeeE. .
And then TLa!?" said l. ';Jin: tie conser"p:
camp at Decatur" said he ard he moppei the
sweat Of his head and face with his big ban-
4
through tho air and Big John moved on With
alacrity, never even said goodbye, bus haI!oed
back. t'Pray for me. Bill" The next week
! GOT him place in the ordnance department. 81
Macon under General Howell Cob and lefs
him sitting on box full Of guns. he pacSd
! two boxes close together for r. bed ana eala ne
should sleep on bis arma.
Tie shells kept coming on making the!r
paraholas and singing and sizzng IN the CIR
cllman,bient al. I had sor:er gotten used to
shells in old Virginia and so yentured TO walk
down half mile on Walton street to see what
ha.! become of an Old uncle and his family who
lived there His four boys were all in the war,
bit my uncle and aunt and their only daughter
lived there I found them huddled up IN the
basement. for a shell ha,i already torn part OF
the roof away and they had n.o7sd-n1oved
lower down and were waiting, TaiIn2, he saIo,
10 see what the Lord or thu devil would do.
They escaped unharmed. One Of their absent
hoys was killed and another was trimmed up,
hnt that was the common lot. But 10" every
body is happy except scme-eTerypooy except
the very rich and tho very Door. Tina: ls why
old Augur dident want tc dc either. Jus: the
expression Of the people YOU meet-n1eet on
the trains Or 1T the dcpots or the fair gtounds
or on the streets or in the churches. How
much more pleasant it is than few months
ago. How happy are the women and chlldren.
How cordial the greetings between tho norm
and the scuth-thc blue and the gray, The
fact is, when our northern brethren come down
here and eat our b }ecued meat and receive
onr hospitality aDttrook at cur beautiful Wcrnen
they are nearly ready to apologize for every
thing they hare done to us or said about Us,
I've been waiting for them TO- apolos,ze tor
twenty-five years, but they say they cant do 1t
consistently until they begin to pension our
soldiers and our widows aud Orphans. believe
! they will pass pension law for onr toldleSs
about the time they are all dead, for it faos
that urpensioned soldiers do die.
''Timc cuts down all,
Both great and small,
Except pensloned soldier
An insurance man told me that man who
was drawing a pension could get his life In
sured for half price.
Il is curious how short sighted are the visess
and the greatest men. Calhoun and Davis
and Stevens and Henry Clay and John
Randolph all said that no races CT people
could ever live together II peace unless enc
waS in sub1ection and under the civil dominion
Of lhe other. That has proved mistake. we
sic living together rcT ON terms OF civil equal
itr and getting aong fairly we'll. Giddings
and Phillips and all the abolition leaders said
tia. lust as soon az o war broke out the negroes
wnuld rise un and kill and burn aud destroy
al! over the south. They did notliing Of the
| kind Nathaniel Hawthorne said: Il an for
the war. but don't understand what VIC are
fighting about or what good results can come
from it. I rejoice that the old union ls
smashed. We never we're one people AMI never
will b. We pGmmel the south ever 90 hard
they will love US none the better.
But the uuon is not smashed, It is stronger
Nd 40 III
to look tc the south for its prese1yation-pre-
se-yation from anarchy and isn1s that seem
! TO breed and tester and 0ourlsh in the
norh. And Chauncey Depew says the south is
fuller than ever Of the old spirit-the cd flag
and the old desire for an appropriation, Yes
cnnfounl him, I like ChauDcey, but why
ii!ent he mention that the north got 95 per
cent Of all the appropriations, AL the money
that is spcns on the army and navy and public
printing and supplies of every kind, Vile all
we get is little custom hruse and postofice
| here and there and for those we have to take 8
northern architect and build it with northern
stone or.brick and ill it with northern furni-
.,1re. Confound EN-, Go@oa. They throw
SOP to lis once in while. Just like throwing g
bone to dog. Never mind. If they do get
lp war with some foreign country they will
want us to do lie fighting and We expect to
lave it tn DO. bu. they will have 10 apologize
and hoa! NJ The oil sore first. Now mark my
prediction. II a war does become Imminent
between this country and any one OF tho
great powers some fsllow from -!assa-
clusetts or Tom Reed from Maine vii! intro
duco = hill to give pensions and back pey IT, the
sou:hcrn soldiers. Up to date there has ben
| paid $4,000, O01000 in pensions since the war
and the Grand Army is howling for more, and
Mr. Cleveland ard Carlisle have TO keep issuing
| ,onds 10 keep up with It.
But let the procession proceel. Alr. LGchrea
saws he thinks that same Of the pensioners Will
| begin TO die of next year. Some Of them are
moving down to Georgia and luylnS land and
building towns in the pinoT woods. Ttiass all
| right. We welcome any northern man who
| comes here 10 stay. Il!fy are most always
! good citizens. Tic mean ones don't come.
! Thcr Eal rather stay up there and abuse us. a
man ;cld me that about half Of the G. A. K. 3
WHO came to the Louisville encampment the
| other day we're foreigners. who ddent speak
! English and came with on? shirt ami 81 and
! GiIcns change either till :heT SnE lack home.
! But we are harmonizinS a: last and We want
everybody from up thee 20 come down 10 our
! show. There are good many signs OF coming
! ncace and good will b.tweenthe sections. A
! northern democrat sent my wife photograph
. Of Lincoln as he Was away back i'll the fiFtles-
| Lincoln in the woods, Lincoln The rail splitter
! and says he has had it thi!ty-threc years 1t
| is II cmarkable picture-the most earnest and
serious and The ugiest white man ever saw
On cardboard. 1t is strangely attractive, and
vou ncve: get tired looking at it. No wonder
| h" captivated the common people MI. hllAle-
! man writes that he wants US to be reconc led 10
| I'D Abe Well. we are. Tie south admired HIM
and rcvcres his n-m"rv. He was the hest pIb-
| lie man the north had. He WAS honest, s!scere
| and be- hcar:rd. Bni from all the SEcrmans
| may the COED J.oid deliver rs.
AnI now think feel better. General FaI-
rler made me mad in his Grand Army speech
at Louisville. He is 4 brag and delragoSue
and I'm bound 10 get even with him ard bis
sort. BILL ARE in Atlanta Constitution.
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