The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-13
SARGE PLUNKETT.
A Talk Upon the War With little Poll
tics Trown In.
Atlanta Constitution.

Il
doubt if there is any use to try to
write Of anything except war or poll
tics with the expectation Of it being
read.
AS for war, the excitement is i'm
mense, and people are ready to receive
it. It is not to be wondered at to see
the people of the South excited and
anxious over prospect of war, for the
immensity of the last war certainly
justifes uneasiness. I have found
consolation in the thought that there
will never be such war again. Never
will any people fight and endure as
was done in the war between the
States, and never can the South be
called to suffer as it suffered then.
If all the world would array itself
against these United States, do not
believe they could run over us as the
South was run over. There is no
danger Of another such war. In con-
nection with this thought was think
ing Of England, and of 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 United States is
greater than England; then, why
should we make such to do? Eng
land is nearly always in a war, and
thriYes upon it why should not we?
/ have come to think, after giving the
subject much thought, thatthe future
craftsmanship Of America should be
to keep us in foreign war. This
would keep us united at home, and
tsunited we stand" There is few
old fogies who object to everything.
These go into figures to prove that We
should have no war. / was with one
yesterday, and he had 1896 pages OF
! legal cap paper covered with figures.
He makes the expenses Of war ter
rible. According to these figures, the
work uponb breastworks andforts would
terrace every hillin the United States,
ditch every bottom and reclaim every
worn-ont spot. The other expenses
would buy q home for every homeless
man, build them house, give them a
years provisions and supply them
with stock and farming implements.
If 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
sreformers, who would work poor
man for nothing that they may enter
their families and magnify themselves
by cloud and gracious acts s~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
err might spread, And it might be
be that Prince Albert would never be
king of England in case Queen Victo-
ria were to die soon, and the leayen Of
republicanism might so enter the
kingdoms Of the world as to ''leaven
the whole I 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. I wish you could hear him talk.
He is away down in the newground Of
sorrow over the prospects and his
voice sounds like he talked from under
wagon body. Says he:
ssI was so badly fooled in our last
war that tremble now. When that
war was being got up | was sure that
I could whip the three best yankees
that could be brought before me.
never thought yankee could ride a
horse, nor shoot, nor scant around,
and so I talked accordingly.
stI wore cockade, howled for seces-
sion. swore 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 I talked
according.
CATER sixty days, and ninety Gays,
and hundred days had passed ( de-
cided that / had been little bit mis-
taken in the time it would take to
clean them up, and, after some pray
erful consideration | decided that
three of the rascals might weary Inc a
little and it was best for me to fall
one, making it two that | could whip,
and I would have swore to this and
talked according.
"After the war had run along about
two years called council Of my
family and it was unanimously decid-