The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-11

Saws when Preacher Advises People to
Fight there is Trouble Ahead.


thoughtful love Of country and home
not that kind which is pretense
and which DR.. johnson said was the
last refuge Of scoundrel. Politics
aud greed and religious fanatacism are
often confounded with it and woman
is always the chief mourner, both in
victory and defeat when war-aftilcts a
country.
Nations make war in haste and re-
pent at leisure. The saddest picture
ever painted was that of mother
with babe at her breast hunting over
q battlefield for the body of her hus-
band.
HThe. child Of misery baptized in
tears. But enough of this. I'm
afraid am becoming confirmed pes
simist. I will go out in the garden
with some Of the little offsprirgs and
pick strawberries. These little chaps
always comfort me. / don't see what
we grow up for, nohow, for the scrip
lures say unless ye become as one of
these little ones ye shall not enter the
kingdom of heaven. What faith,
what trust, what confidence they have
in US. "Grandma," said little Off
spring, 'Dident God make every
body2" eyes," said my wife.
"Well, dident Jesus help him some?'
81 reckon So" said she. The boy ru-
minated a minute, and then said:
"Grandma, I reckon Jesus carried the
dirt, dident hep" And 80 they amuse
and perplex us all the time. No won
der that parents all love j. Whitcomb
Riley, for lie loves their children, and
his sweet poems make everybody else
love them. He is their Santa Claus
all the year round. Ihad rather go to
St. Peters gate with lis record than
that Of the greatest warrior that ever
lived.
But the negroes interest me. They
are sorely perplexed, but they have
some good ideas. Nose says he never
could fight until he got mad and amt
mad yit; nobody hain't dun noshin' to
him.
DR.. Calhoun told Squire that Mr..
Mckinley had called for 1000 negroes
to go and take the Canary Islands.
"Well, sir" said Squire, II is not
agwine onder no sich call. Itis not
a spectacle call, sir; I is willin to do
sum 6ghtin', sir, but de white folks
must go long wild me-where dey go,
sir, 1 will go-whar dey fight, 1 will
fight, but Mr.. Mckinley cant shove
ne of on an island wid nobody but
niggers. l been livin viii my white
folks all my life, and dependin on
'em, sir, and / am not willing to 60,
sir, not unless they go, sir-no sir-l
am not gwine onder DO sich call as dat
Its not spectacle.
And Squire meant it. But we are
all waiting now-waiting for some big
thing to happen. Old Georgia will do
her part, and the south will furnish
generals in whom the nation has con-
fdence.
And now here is letter from Dir.
j. q. PRESLEY, of Abbeville, who
says he is coming to the veterans re-
union in July, and wants to meet his
comrades of old Tige Anderson bril-
gade and especially Of the Seventh
Georgis regiment. He wants to know
what became of old Major Minton,
who fought with the Eighth Georgia,
though his son was in the Seventh.
Why, he is dead, of course, for he
was near seventy when he joined the
Eighth as an amateur, and he fought
all day at the first battle of Manassas
and received slight wound in the
head and that night he went to DR..
Mile and said, doctor, I've fought
enough; give me discharge and let
me home. The doctor gave it,
aud le came home and rested on his
lau els, and not long afterwards Gre
gu .scat in pace.
And here is another letter about the
war. W. j. Ballard, Of Septus, S. c.,
ishes to know if any veteran can tell
him what became of his only brother,
). NJ. Ballard, who was wounded at
Nashville: and captured and taken to
Camp Chase in February, 1865. He
belonged to the Twenty-Ninth North
Carolina regiment.
BILL ARP.