The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-03-28
BIhL ARp'S LETTER
written for The Constitution. ]

Or. Hunter Mcclure resides I'm Richmond.
Va Six COPIES of his address on stone
wall Jackson were sent me and have beeh
disposed of. So many more calls have
reached me and continue 10 reach mo for
copies that l must request correspondents
to write to r. +. Lee camp confederate vet
Grams Richmond Va, or 70 DR.. Mcclure,
who. no doubt, will gladly send copies. In
close stamp, Of course. \ confederate vet
Grams camp cannot circulate better liter
ature and no doubt will be pleased to 90
It, 1t is an honor to want It and an honor
to send it, Like mercy, lit blcsses him VIII"
gives and him who doSt receive.
And now there seems TO be another war
impending and somehow l can't keep
from Illuminating about it. 1t IS a blessed
thing to help tho starving Cubans. ! re-
call the timo when hundreds OF our people
were starving and no help came from the
north. When the fowl invaders took every
COW and calf and horse and mule and hog
and pig and chicken and oil the corn and
wheat and burned down the towns and
left desoation behind them, and. Ike Wey-
Ter said that the quickest way to end
a wax was to make it horrible
The deadly parallel IS always uuwelcome.
but we can't help drawing it sometimes.
The CubanS are trying to do what we tried
to do--t0 dissolve Il uniOn-and the people
Of these United States seem to think they
are right And they are. If they can sue
coed If they fail. why of course, they
arc guilty of treason and ought to be
hung-gov'rnment Is a curious paradox.
But everybody who can help ought to
help and DO it quickly. We old men re-
member we'll when the first train load Of
corn came TO Georgia from Missouri-a gift
from the good people of that state, and
how the hungry gathered AT the dcpotS
along the lines to get n share. ] remem-
Der when IA check for 5000 was sent to me
unsolicited by the good people Of Liberty,
IN Clay county, and tndorsed it to Gov
crnor jenkins and that, too, was invested
in corn for the starving. / remember when
bread cornbrcad, was all we asked for
or hoped for and we sent a boat POO miles
down the river and got 300 bushels for Il
hundred dollars a busheI and my share
was five bushels and ] dideut dare to keep
It in town. but kept it hid
out Mt Rowland Bryants six
miles in the country and he brought us in
a little meal once week aud We were
thankful.
Anything is better than war and my fear
Is that the iugocs viii precpjtate one
without just cause. | see that the talk
now is about enforcing the Monroe doe
trlne and ordering Spain to talo hands off
of Cuba. II the Monroe doctrine applies
to Cuba now 1t did seyenty-hve years ago
when Mr.. Monroe enunctated it. Spain
has owned I; ever since Columbus dis
covered it 400 years ago and il is absurd to
Apply the doctrine to 1t now. Let US go
on and relieve the distress Of those miser-
able people. Spain says we may and hu-
manity says We must.
What blessed thing IS peace-peacR at
home and abroad While working in my
garden today | felt conscious of it's bless
ings and thankful, for ! knew that Aunt
Ann would have turnip green's ana boiled
ham for dinner and eggbread and rice and