The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-07
BILL ARP WANTS NO WAR,
Nmows when He Has Had Enough
Ine Ieoplc are So Ditferent from
old Times ~

Knows When He Has Had Enough
| 1M1e Ihe ,nmeopic are SO Different from
! Al is peace and harmony about
AIanta now, but | haven't forgotten
When sherman was throwing his I'M
feellng shells ovor the city. Such q
panic, such u stampede, such helpless
terror among women and children
never Witnessed. ! had gotten nv
wife and little children away, but I
had to stay, and the scene was as aw-
iul as the picture Of death on q pale
morse. Everybody and every thing that
could move was moving. Shells are
not SO terribly destructive, but as Big
John sald that day, they are the most
MN on Decatur street, making tracks
toward Stone mountain, CARRYING his
three hundred pounds of llesh-most of
IL III 'front.'. Big beads of perspiraton
were on his forehead and he was car
ry1ng his wig in one hand and an old
carpet bag in the other. Where
now, my friend :" said |. Anywhere
IN this direction," said he, with u dis
tressing smile. C. am bound to keep
ahead OF 'em, the Internal devils.
Ihey don't travel fast, thank the
Lord" Where is your cart and
steer :" said |. sold EN- sold 'em
TO IL Tree nj gscr for two hundred dol
tars Contedcrate money. about enough
TO Keep me In vittles and whiskey for
q week. " And then WHAT" said |.
" Jine the conscript camp at Decatur. "
SAID he. and he mopped the sweat off
MS head and face with his big ban
dana handkerchief. Another shell
sang through the air and Big John
moved on with alacrity, nevor even
said goodby. but hallooed back, "pray
for me Bill" The next week I
got him place in the ordinance de-
partment ut Macon under General
Howell Cobb and left him sitting on a
BOX full of guns. He placed two boxes
close together for Il bed and said he
should s,eep on his arms.
Inc she'is kept coming on making
tnelr parabolas and singing and siz-
zlhg IN the circumambiel air. | had
sorter gotten used to shells In ola Vir-
glnla and SO ventured to walk own
'uli mile on Walton street TO see
"hat had become OF an old uncle and
| us family who lived there. His fou
'"ys were all in the war, but NY uncl.
and aunt and their only duuyhte
lived there. found them luddled vi
In tho ba> emeut, for q shell had a
ready torn part OF the roof away ano
! they had movcd-moved lower down
ana were waiting, waiting, he said, t,
see what tho Lord or the devil wuult
40. Ihey escape unharmcd. One
ioir absent boys w.s Killed and an
| 'ther was trimmed up, but that wa.
| the common lot. But now everybod,
Is happy except some-evcrybody ex-
cept tho very rich aud the very Door.
That is why old Augur didn't want to
40 either. just the express ion of the
people you meet-meet on the trains
or at tho dcpots 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 Yo-
ma and children. How cordial the
greetlngs between the North and the
| fact is, when our Northern brethren
come down here and eat our barbe
cued meat and receive our hospitality
| ana look at our beautiful women they
are nearly ready to apologize for
everything they have done to us or
| said about us. I've been waiting for
them TO apologize for twenty 1.-Two
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 a
pension law for our soldiers about the
time they are all dead, for it is q fact
lime cuts down all,
Both great and small,
Except q pensioned soldier"
An insurance man told me that a
man who was drawing q pension could
get his life insured for half price.
IL Is curious how short sighted are
the wiscst and the greatest men. Cal
noun and Davis and Stephens and
Henry Clay and John Randolph all
aald that no races Of people could over
live together in peace unless one was
IN subsection and under the civil do
mlnlon OF the other. That has proved
mistake. We are living together
now on terms Of civil eauality and got
ting along fairly we'll. Giddings aud
Phillips and all the abolition leaders
SAID that just rs soon as war broke
out the negroes would rise up and kill
and burn and destroy all over the
South. They did nothing of the kind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne said CT am
for the war, but I don't understand
what We are fighting about or what
good results can come from it. | re-
joice that the old union is smashed.
We mover wore one people and never
will be. If we pummel the South
ever so hard they will love us none tho
better.'
But the union is not smashed. 1t is
stronger than ever and Dana says the
nation will have TO look to the South
for It's sprescrvdtiOn--prese from
anarchy and isms that seem to breed
and tester and flourish in the North.
And Chaunccy Dopew says the South
Is 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.
tion That the North got 95 pcr cent. of
all the appropriations all the money
that Is spent on the army and navy
and public printing and supplies of
every Kind, while all we get is O. little
custom house and postoflico hero and
there and for those we have to take q
Northern architect and build it with
Northern stone or brick and fill it with
Northern furniture. Confound 'em,
dogon. They throw sop to us once in
u whl'c. just IKE throwing q bone to q
dog. Never mind. If they do get no
q war with some fOrcipn countrv tbov