The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-13

ties with the expectation Of it being
read.
As for war, the excitement il i'm
mcnsr. and people are ready To receive
it. 1t is not to be wondered ut to see
the people Of the South excited and
anxious oyer a prOspccto OF war, for the
immcnsity Of the last Wal certainly
justitics u~ncAsincss. have found
consolation in the thought that there
sill never be such 4 war again. Never
will any people fight anil endure a.
was done in the war between the
states. and never can the South be
called t. suffer a il suffered then.
e a!i tie world "oulii array itself
against these nit"l States, do no.
believe they could run over us a the
hanger Of another such war. In ON
ncction with this thought was think
ing Of England, and IF how little
concern She gives her wars. England
would have long ago cleaned Spain
from off the Cuban island, and thought
nothing Of it. The 'nitcd States is
greater than England then, why
should wc make snch Il to do? Eng
land is nearly always in a war, and
;hrivcs upon it why should not We?
! have come to think, after giving the
subject much thought, that the future
craftsmanship Of America should be
to keep US in Il foreign war. This
would keep us united at home, and
united we stand There is Il few
old fogies who object to everything.
These 80 into figures to prove that We
should have no war. was with one
yesterday, and he had 39G pages Of
legal cap paper covered with figures.
lie makes the expenses Of Il wal ter
riblc. According to these figures, the
work upon broastworks and forts would
terrace every hillin the United States,
ditch every bottom and reclaim every
WORKOUT spot. The other expenses
would buy a home for every homeless
man, build them q house, give them a
years provisions and supply them
with stock and farming implements.
IT We were to pay attention to these
figuring fellows, We never would have
any fun shooting at each other there
would be no heroes the Christian
"reformers," who would work a poor
man for nothing that they may enter
their families and magnify themselves
by cloud and gracious acts, would
have to attend to their own business,
for prosperity would be in the land to
such an extent that no poor devil
could be squeezed that some reform
er" might spread. And it might be
be that Prince Albert would never be
king of England in case Queen Veto
ria were to die soon. and the lcavcn Of
republicanism might so enter the
Kingdoms Of the world as to ''lcavcn
the whole am sorry for these old
fogy figures, they are out Of date and
fools for not knowing that they will be
laughed at.
Brown is one Of these figuring fell
lows. | wish you could hear him talk.
He is away down in the n%cwground of
sorrow over the prospects and his
voice sounds like he talked from under
a wagon body. Says he:
II vas so badly fooled in our last
war that l tremble now. When that
war was being got up | was sure that
| could whip the three best yankees
that could be brought before me. |
never thought a yankee could ride IL
horse, nor shoot, nor srant around.
and SO | talked accordingly.
IL wore n cockadc, howlcd for scccs-
sion. sworc that our boys would clean
them up in sixty days and thought
sure that | could drink all the blood
that would be split, and so ! talked
according.
After sixty days, and ninety days,
and = hundred days had passed | de-
cidcd that | hal been ii little bit mis-
taken in the time it would take to
clean them up. AID. after some pray
crful consideration decided that
three of the %rascals might weary me a
little aud it was best for me to fall
one, making it two that could whir,
and | would have sworc to this and
talked according.
".Aftcr the war had run along about
two years | called Il council vf nv
family and it was unanimously dccid.
ed that l had better fall another. max
ing it one for me to whip-man to man
this was, and | would have sworc that
| could do that and talked according.