The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-05-20
ARP ON WARAGA|N.
Believes ifit Was Lefthe People
We Would Haveace.
CIVILIZATION CoNMNs 1T.
Thinks Politics Is thause OF Our
Present Attitude 7ard Spain--
Some War ENperie

"And thou serenest that with such
holy face
Looks down upon thet asleep In nights
embrace
Dost thou not know : spot, some refuge
for the blest,
Where free flom toll pain the weary soul
may rest?
Behind cloud she her race In woe
Aud in sad, swcfce she whispered,
mo-
One great philher declared that
war was the stat nature. Another
said that peace only breathing
time that gives d leisure to contrive
an ability to exc military plans.
Sir Edmund BuAenied this, and SO
did l. The greajority Of mankind
love peace nnd.urally prefer it to
war. Burke squat politics was the
cause of war, fsomebody else said
war is hell. anse see already that
the two grearties are quarreling
about this war each is claiming the
glosy of Deweictory as party tri-
uSlph, but if voices of the people
the men and women-could have
been heard, t. would have been no
war. The spof the ago in which we
live is acainsr. Even duelling aud
single combis passed away under
the influenced higher Christian CIV
ilizntion. lido not fight at school
like they uIto. They have never
heard of the ~ boys who thought it
smart to pphip on the hat and dare
anybody to ok it oil. In every school
| ever wentthere were one Oh more
of these bYking, domineerinS boys,
and they seked sooner or later The
country III do not care to fight now
adays. 1tllre more pcaceable and
less agref remember when on
muster ddtere were dozen fights
in one light around the public
square. EAls Bowls: Nick Rawlins
and jim tison would be stripped
to the Wind walking around md
struttin4 wing and Dragging, I'm
the best / III Finkneyvillo dCcs-
trikt," abOwles would emphasize it
with a lump and crow. But that
has pas sseway. We see no manned
eyes drts or noses now. And yet
Nick II aigs and Bowles were really
good m at heart, and would have
died in,fense of q friend. They
fought ause it was the fashion III
those d. but their victories brought
no rews and no premiums, and their
childre.new it. They are better
class oiiZens. / met one of Nick's
sons iRome not long ago moral,
peacea Christian man whom the
peoplel respect. Well. now. the
arcuu is that if the sons are better
MORAL han their fathers were, then
the mn Is better and less aggressive
than was fifty years ago. Andrew
Jack was type of that age, and he
rode to the presidency on his war
recCbut he couldn't do it now. He
buped Spain out of FLORIDA, and
wouauve bulldoZcd England out of
CAD if he had lived up that way.
III was looking hcavenward last
land pondering on that beautiful
mcthat is shining so peacefully upon
Us this favored region, and was
prful that the war nor any of its
81. had reached us. We read of it in
tpreat papers and can't help but re-
il i'll our naval victories. The great
ces are crowded now with thrilling,
, ting news nId we read SO ca yerly
= even Old Aunt Lydia Pinkham $
icine is taken for war dispatch
is half read before we know it. |
e ON it is good for fever war fever
be dovetailed so close
N the war news. But nobody aroun d
seems to be hankering after fight,
1 n good old veterans widow told me
It the reason was because we were
ht in the heart of Sherman's belt and
population hasent changed any to
ak of. 1--WE can't forget the horrors
war;" she said. II was living in
ssville when it was burned and /
1T want to see any moro war, and
mt Eiy children to keep out of it. A
peace is better than good war if
re ever was such n thing. War is
q Texas mud on women. 1t is
ful. Men get the glory and
men and children are the greatest
,erers. When they burnt Cassville
husbands and sons were most all in
army, and those who were at home
70 taken prisoners and sent away.
there was nobody left but women
/ children and no houses to live in.
punched up i'll some little shanties,
they took our cows and drove them
to Cnrtersville and We didn't have
'dlv anything to live on. Five of uG
ut to Cartersvllle the next day to beg
our cows and we did get them back
signing some Loyalty papers which
5 Il lie. One widow woman whose
,band was killed wouldn't sign She
| four litt!o children and she took
IN TO the graveyard that night and
1T on the ground by her husbands
we. In IL day or two we got little
n and rode an old sore leg marc
to the nearest mill, for
y burnt all tho mills inside the bolt
II few days we got II httlc moro
II and three of us women rig
mp an old broken wheel wagon and
lame mule and al old marc and
X our corn to mill 1t took us near
.hrec days to make the trip, for the
son broke down right in the creek
we had to wade in and get our
ks out of the water and pull the
son out by hand. We patched it up
lin and went Oh till we got to ii pretty
cp hill and the team stalled and