The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-09

diers don't live forever; neither do
they multiply as the years roll on.
"Time cuts down all
Both great and SMALL"
Except pensioned soldier.
No. For the peace and brother
! hood of all our people it would
| have been far better for the north to
have said thirty years ago: "Now
let us be brethern. You thought
you were right and maybe you we're
You fought good fight and shall
have your share of all this pension
money" If Lincoln had lived he
would have said so and stood on
that platform.
Walter Scott says: "Woo awaits a
country when she sees the tears of
bearded men," and 80 it would be
better to conciliate our people with
kindness rather than to alienato
them with abuse and unfriendly leg
islation. See what Il martyr and q
hero our people have made of Sam
Davis, the noble boy who held his
honor dearer than his life. And
this reminds me to say that I have q
letter, a good letter, from II. S. Hal
bert, of Crawford, Miss, who was an
| army comrade of Calvin Croizcr, the
Texas soldier who was put to death
by order of Colonel Trowbridge at
Newberry, S. c., for resenting an in .
suit given lady by negro soldier.
wrote Of this in a former letter and
of the monument the good people of
Newberry had erected to his mem-
ory. The negro was but slightly
wounded and in the confusion in the
car another man was arrested for the
deed. When Crozier learned this ho
, gave himself up and was shot at
sunrise. Mr.. Halbert had never
heard of Crozier's fate until ho read
it in Tho Constitution and he now
begs for moro information concern
ing him and his sad fate. Will
some one who knows please write to
him. He says that Crozier was a
noble man and gallant soldier and
belonged to Goodies battery organ
lied at Dallas, Tex. Sam Davis and
Calvin Crozier were but two. We
had many more just like them, but
thoy we're not 80 tried.
But speaking of toars and war the
most touching lines ever written
were by Langhorne, who died more
than one hundred years ago:
"Cold on Canadian hill or Mindcn's
plain,
That weeping mother mourncd hen
husband slain;
Bent Ger hcr babe, her eye dissolved
| in dew
The big drops mingling with the milk
he drew.
What sad presage of his future
years
The child of misery baptized in tears"
What could be more swoetly, sad
ly pitiful, No wonder that Burns
shed tears when he looked at the print
that had been made of the scene. Why
has not some great artist taken the
hint and painted it to the life--the
mother seeking her dead husband
among the slain on a battlefield and
weeping over her child rs he nursed
from her breast--"the big drops
mingling with the milk he drew"
1t is enough to mako an angel weep.
1t is enough to emphasize General
Sherman's pitless remark that
"War is hell"
The poet Rogers said the pretti-
est thing about Il tear He wanted
to find a chemist who could crystal
lize one so that he could wear it as a
gem next to his heart for tailsman
Shakespeare calls tho tears of an
old man honorable dow that silvers
down thy Cheeks" and another poot
describes man rs "a pendulum be-
twixt q smile and a tear" So we
will let these old soldiers weep if
they wish to. 1t will do thom good
for they aro not tears Of sorrow no1
grief. They are the yelling up and
overflow of sacred memories. 1t is
like unto man after years and
years Of wondering going back to
the home of his youth and greeting
his kindred and schoolmates and
communing together about the joys
and SORROWS of the olden time.
These veterans all shared q common
peril and it is but natural that thoy
should love to get together and talk