The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-17
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temptation and I suppose that private
in the regular army who draws $15 a
month and is fed and clothed and has
no responsibility and there is no pros
pect of war can pass self-satisfed. Self
satisfied. but who else does he live for?
My ideal of the patriotic soldier is the
volunteer-the men who in the revolution
of 1776 left the plows and their shops,
and Selling their guns and their KNAPP
I sacks rushed to meet the invaders.
Those are the kind that fought for the
south in the late civil war; fought
| against odds of four to one and put a
million on the pension rolls. Can it be
possible that the sons of those veterans
are the soldiers who are disgracing
their fathers and their uniforms and
their State by their shameful conduct
No. My Mason friend is mistaken. The
rioters were not Georgia volunteers.
| I'll bet on it, The Constitution tells of
some Iowa soldiers, the Twenty-ninth
Regiment, who went down on the South
ern the other night and broke all the
| lamps and window glass in the cars and
Mt n station where the train stopped
awhile they went out and ran the peo-
pie out of their houses in the dead of
night
| But n thoughtful Atlanta friend says:
| my friend, it is useless and impOlite to
criticise the army during war. We must
suffer in silence and endure what we can
not help" | reckon that is good advice,
and | am reminded of the old woman
whose little dog barked necessarily ut
the soldiers as they passed and she said:
Hush Fido. hush, you'll bark your lit
tie self to death. You can't bite an
army"
And so | will hush and let the process
sion proceed. but | am pleased to see
| that Captain Davies, of Atlanta, is
drawing the lines and rejects all tramps
and vagabondS and lawless men who APP
| ply to join his command. Every veteran
of the army of Northern Virginia re-
members the trouble the Louisiana Tt
gers gave the officers. They were the
wharf rats Of New Orleans-devils in
carnate who feared not God nor regard
cd man. but they fought like tigers and
fell with their faces to the foe. This is
| their best epitaph Just so even the
worst Of our soldiers | reckon will fight
| the Spaniards. Some of them have al
ready fought and fallen, and as they are
all now at the front and in constant peril.
let us draw the curtain over the past
and say "Allah is merciful- great is
Allah.''
The South celebrated the Fourth of
July. That was right. for that declara-
ton of independence. 1t ought to be
especially inspiring to the troops from
the Southern States. for that deelafa-
! ton was emphatically Southern in its
conception and execution. 1t was intro
| duced in substance on the 9TH day OF
June. 1176. by Richard Henry Lee and
| its consideration deferred until Congress
could hear from New York, New Jersey,
New Hampshire. Pennsylvania and
Delaware, which colonies hestated and
were slow to act. They did not have to
wait to hear from Virginia or the
Carolinas or Georgia. On the first day
of July the resolution was passed and
resolution was passed and a committee
appointed to draft the declaration of in
| dependence. Thomas Jefferson drew it
and the house where he did it is still
| standing. grand old mansion in Vir-
/ ginia the property of the Page family,
| the linea ancestors of Thomas Nelson
I'age, our much loved Southern anthor.
With Lee to write it and Washington
and the Lees to fight for it, we should
celebrate it as often as it's anniversary
| returns. We celebrated it here
| in our peaceful little city and try
to keep alive those sentiments of true
patriotism that make good citizens in
peace and good soldiers in war. The dele
gates from Georgia were the first to
sign and Britton Gwinnette heads the
list and Lyman dali and George Wal
ton come next in order. Our fathers
named three counties for these three
patriots and like them they stand side
by side in bsothery touch and both In
war and in peace have honored the no.
bic names that were given them.
BILL ARP.