The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23

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in front of the Texans, he soon rallied
them and led them forward to most
glorious victory. using his pan the
while in place Of sword. This story
is known locally from hearing the old
veterans laugh at the way Hunter
looked walking up and down the bat
tie line waving his frying pan, but in
few years more these shall have
passed away and the name of Hunter
will not be found in history and the
incident will be lost, with the thou
sands of others, to make room for pa
ges Of gush or parade Of prejudice
and sycophancy.
I was talking to some young boys
yesterday about the way they gathered
taxes during the war. Then the far
mers had to give one-tenth Of every
thing produced. Money would not do.
Produce was far ahead Of gold or any
thing and it certainly took a fine
quality Of brain to handle it and find
the men and the teams as they we're
fed. After doing all that could be
done, mountains-at least piles as large
as houses-was burned atalmost every
station along the railroads. I venture
to assert that fully as much Of this
produce was burned as ever the sol
diers received, and even as it was
burning thousands of women and chill
dren were almost starving for bread,
not to mention meat-and not to men
tion the hunger of the soldiers at that
very time.
You will never learn Of such as this
from history-not in it's immensity
and intensity. A line may be devoted
for the remark that much property
was destroyed and much suffering
undergone-this is about the extent
while they will greedily devote page
after page to the magnifying Of some
great officer, and SO pleasing will the
picture be made that the youthful
mind will be lost to the terrors Of war
in the warship Of the warrior hero.
1 feel it a great privilege to admire
and love such men as Lee, Johnson,
Longstreet, Jackson, Gordon-and l
don't mind throwing in lot of admi
ration for Grant, Sherman, Sheridan
such as these-but I venture to assert,
and l hope it will not astound you,
that if all the talent which has been
exerted to the magnifying of such
men, had been devoted to giving a
true history Of their times in all the
details. it would be mighty hard to
get up war with Spain or with any
one else that has any gumption.
Perhaps it is good policy of govern
ment to encourage hero-worship. I
don't see any way around sucha thing,
nor do have any particular objection
to heroes, but do assert and believe
that they could be created and trend
for the youthful mind, guided into a
more worthy and exalted channel than
that of the killing of soldiers and the
destruction of wars. | believe that
the commissary Of an army had need
of a finer brain than the man who
marshaled the army. Especially did
it take the clearest heads and the most
indona;table courage to feed the army
of the Confederacy, and the Federal
army, also, when they were away from
their base of supply, and yet you will
never hear Of hero emanating from
the commissary rather it would be a
subject of reproach, so much for the
tutorage we receive-for the impress
sions of history.
The men who went into Atlanta
after the war and raised the city from
the ashes, the least one of them was
greater than Sheridan and they more
deserve the piaudits of the world.
They have done greater things than
ever Sherman dreamed of. Count the
men who waded into the rubbish that
filled the streets and blocked them.
Just study on how they reared build
ings, started factories, opened streets
and built bridgcs-think upon them as
building the greatest city of the South
and say if it is not greater thing
than ever Sherman did. These are the
kind of men the most worthy of imita-
tion and the ones that should engage
the greatest reverence from the youths
they should be our heroes.
Industrial heroes is what this land
Of ours needs. Brave men and brainy
men who will risk their money and
give their energy to the industrial
pursuits-=iving work to the poor and
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