The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-04-19

-rue~ they have got - - and 10 al
tile fighting Tor IL j. McN.uEvy's war
ana ~ all voted FOR him. The boy>
read to ihcn para -raphs frum the
Northern papers which say Thar North
crn soldiers would die ~ fever In Cuba
in 4 week and that only Southern NJ
groes can stand the climate. Lots "
them around here are fixing ~ hide out
AMI have done picked out their cane
! brake. Clarence. the drlymau. Is i
1 leader, a hvclpr i'm elections and hc says.
Il never voted FOR any War. | ain ,
! SNine 10 fc4t. | amt done uothin' IL
noGody agd nobody ain't done nuth:n' 10
me. | amt mad Wid nobody and how
can 4 man fight Widaut he's mad Mr.
Akcrman and Mr.. Crawford got me
into lis >crapc and dcy must git me out
wonder If dcy j. -winc 10 dc War"
Last Sunday | saw a gang Of no.
"rorS standing around Il preacher and
| hr WAS reading the big headlines 81 The
Constitution To them. There is 4 large
| pictorial recruiting poster IN the post
office ana they stand off and look 1T ii
With serious alHrm. But they are not
going from these parts neither are the
white people gong right now. old man
/ Ingram WAS a good fighter i'll the last
war and seemed To like the business ara
| be says hr wouldn't upind going If
they will let him fight under General
! Lee and wear gray clothes. My friend,
| Captain DohhS. says he viii 20 alon-,
with DR.. Calhoun and Will skirmiSh
around awhile and get sick and get the
doctor To give him discharge at the
end Of three months and then he Will
come home and draw pension al the
rest Of his life
Well if it has to be war Mr. Mck:n-
,...I
Lee To- fight it,
Big things are pilin" in Oh us just
now. The state canvass for state Of
licialS is now going OH and getting red
| hot. and il takes nearly ail our time -
keep up With that and the war too.
Maybe we shall need another war -
crnor. and if we do Colonel Gambler
has had more experience in that line
than some other folks.
Colonel licnfrGc could take care of the
!u"gro conVictS and march them to the
front i,lst--l.ke old Joe Brown dill the
200 convicts in the penitentiary wlISn
sherman came along. Governor Brown
went down there with Il wagon load Of
gray clothes and made them take off
their stripes and he gave them all guns
and had them TO elect their officers
and then made Them Il speech and
said:
''Gcntlcmen Fellow Citizens, soldiers:
1t doesn't follow that because YOU are
conyicts you are not patriots. Now i
the great opportunity Of your lives to
redeem Yourselves and wipe off The dis
grace from yourselves and Your kindred.
TIL" enemy is ut Your doors and you
must fgl h;m-ycsi
Flight till the last armed Zoe expires.
Fight for your affairs and your fires,
God and your native land
And they hailed their freedom with Z,
shout and they marched forth like now
men, and they did fight Just 50, Colonel
Renfroe could marchc the 1000 negro
cony.cts forth and under his lead they,
too, viii fight.
Then here is the cold wintry blast
! that has come over our country and kill
cd our fruit and vegetables and para
| lyzed our hopes. Our most forward
.peachcs are not killed, but our potatoc,
are utterly Frustrated. They VIII come
out again and think will make us Il
good crop. Two years ago mine were
killed down 10 the ground. but they
came out again and ! never had 4
better crop This leads me to think
that maybe they had better be cut
down early and thcn they would make
more fruit and less vines. My We
t rev al sorts Of old clothes OYER her
MarcSchai Neil rose Vine that was fun
Of buds Ny nci@hbors covered M
| their beans and be"tS, and some or
them spread newspapers over their po-
tatocs and saved them. ] was away
down in Greens boro the coolest night
and it was not cold enough there tp
! Kill anything. y few degrees Of latti-
tud" makes Il great difference. Mr..
i Nm 7 toll
of this coming freeze and ] have great
! faith in him. When the weather bureau
/ was first established we thought it WAS
Il hunbug. but long observation has CON
yEced the world that the winds ana
the waves and the weather are not
the mystery they used 10 be. Scionc-.
! has revealed their courses and their
changes. and the telegraph tells it truly
many hours beforehand. The scrip
lures say: The wind blOWeth where
it istcth and yc hear the sound thereof,
but ye cannot tell whence it coIneth nor
whittier il gocth.'
! Bat we can tel now and can fortify
against disasters on land and perils
the deep. Verify. there is somcthin.
now under the sun.
was rumnatng about the classic
town Of Greensboro, one Of the oldest
towns N the State. What Il beautiful!
roads ard streets. What attractive homes
and pretty mansions. What wealth Of
lovely flowers. ! saw wisterias there
growing wild and towering upon old
dead trees. Many OF these stately ante
beilum mansions still have the tall
huted columns and the parapct roofs
that We're so common III the Oldcn time.
| saw the Old Cone mansion and the
house where William {. Dawson lived.
| went to college with the Dawson boys
but they are dead and left no sign. |
heard their father make speech in
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