The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-07-19

are the soldiers who ars di<craCinE
their fathers and their uniforms and
their State by their shameful conduct.
NJ, My Mason friend j. mistaken. The
rl"ters were not Georgia volunteers.
III bet on il. The Constitution tells -
some Iowa soldiers. the Twenty ninth
Regiment, who went down on the South
crn the other nigh; aud broke all thu
lamps aud window glass in the ears aud
II a station where the train stoppcI
awhile they went out and ran the peo-
pie out ~ their houses IN the dead 81
night.
But a %thousnttul Atlanta friend says
My friend. II is useless and impolitc Ia
c%ritici>c the army during war. W. must
suffer III silence and endure what We can
not help." | reckon that is good advice.
and | ann reminded II the old woman
whose little dog tarkc.i incr>~antly ~
the soldiers a> they passed. and she said
Hush. Fido. hn>h. youll hark your III
tie SELF g death. You can't bite m
army
Mud 50 | viii hush AMI },; the process
sion proceed. bur i am pleased - -.
that Captain Davies. nf ATLANTA. i.
drawing the lines and rejects All tramps
ami Na-ah"ud~ and laWlv~> m,n who M
Ply t. join his command. Every veteran
III th" army az Northern Virginia re-
members thu trouble III, Louisiana Ii
gers SaNc Che officers The. were the
wharf rats IT New Orleans devils in
carnatc Who feared not cod nor regard
cd man. hut they fought like tigers and
fell with their faces t. the Zoe. This is
their best epitaph. Just 81 even the
worst of our soldiers | reckon ~ill fight
the Spaniard~. Some of them have n
ready fought and fallen. and as thrv nrr
all now al the front and in constant peru.
let us draw The curtain over the past
and say Allah is mcrciful great Is
.Allah.'
The South celebrated the Fourth af
July. That was right. for that dcclara
tion Of independence. 1t ought H. b.
especially inspiring to til" troops from
the southern States. for that dcclara
ton was cmphatically Southern in It's
conception and execution. 1t was intro
duccd in substance on the 9TH day of
June, 1116. hy Richard Henry Lee and
its consideration deferred until Congress
could hear from New York. New Jersey.
New hampshire. PENNSYLVANIA and
Delaware, which colonies hcSitatcd and
were slow 10 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 n
resolution WAS passed AMI 4 committee
appointed to draft the declaration Of in
dependence. Thomas jefferson drew II
and the house whore he did ii - still
standing. Il grand old manSipn in Nir-
glnia. the property Of the Plga fimlly,
the lIncal ancestors Of Thomas Nelson
l'agc, our much loved Southern author.
With Il Lee to write it and Washington
and the Lees to fight for it, We should
celebrate It rs often as its anniversary
returns. We celebrated il here
in orr 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 Gwinncttc heads the
list and Lyman -.all 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 l~othcrly touch and both in
war and in peace have honored the no.
bic names that were given them.
BILL ARP.