The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-16
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Grand dchild dren V isit Him and Have a Happy
Time.


| have had some mOst delicious
reading lately. 1t is the address de-
livered by Dr.. Hunter McGuire on
January 22d last past at the St. Denis
hotel, in New York, at the eighth an
nual banquet of the Confederate Vet
erans camp, of New York City. 1t
must be, I know, the most beautiful
and thrilling tribute to Stonewall ever
written or spoken by any man. DR..
Mcclure was Jacksons medical di-
rector and mos. confidential friend
and has told in this address more
touching incidents connected with the
great generals military career than
have ever found and they are beauti-
fully, charmingly told. Every page
of this little booklet is adorned with
them. Is is not often that medical
men indulge in biographical litera-
ture. but DR.. Mcclure is certainly a
man of rare culture. I read this ad-
dress aloud to my wife and daughters
last evening and at times / could not
read. I had to pause and wait for my
heart to be still and my voice to come
back to me. These always tell me
when what read is inspired. How
| did our hearts burn within us as l
read and how was our patriotism re-
vived and set aglow with new fire.
Even on the first page he awakens us
from that lethargy which time and
curreno events bring over the best OF
patriots, for he says:
cit was with swelling heart that l
recently heard some Of the first SOL
diers and military students of Eng
land declare that within the past 200
years the English speaking race has
produced but FIVE soldiers of the first
rank-Marlborough, Washington, Well
ington, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson. I heard them declare that
Jackson's campaign in the Shenan-
doah valley was the finest specimen of
strategy and tactics Of which the world
has any record; that in this series OF
marches and battles there was never a
blunder and that this campaign was
superior to either Of those made by
Napoleon in Italy. One British off
Ger, who teaches strategy in great
European college, told me that he
used this campaign as a model and
dwelt upon it for months in his lee
lures and that it was taught in all
military schools Of Germany and Van
Moltke declared il was without rival
| in the worlds history. Indeed, he
added, Jackson seems to me to have
been inspired" Another British
soldier of high rank and a trained stu
dent Of war told me that for its num-
bers the army Of Northern Virginia
had more force and power than any
other army that ever existed.
Well, that is enough for starter
starter Of the blood in the patriots
veins. Sometimes I feel like would
be proud to have been born a Vir-
ginian, where these great soldiers
Washington, Lee and Jackson
and where Jefferson and Madison
and Monroe and Patrick Henry and
John Marshall lived. 1 wish that
every old soldier and every young
man in this Southern land could
read this splendid address. 1 fear
that it is too long fer single issue of
the Consultation, for it is near 1000
words, but nothing better could occu-
py it's columns. It reads like a ro-
nance, and if there are any young
men in Georgia who are inclined to
make sport Of the war the perusal of
this address will make them feel
ashamed that they ever entertained
such un patriotic feelings. We have
heard of a "young mans party as
hostile to any further political honor
to the veterans, but surely this can
not be true, for what young man can
be found who would so dishoAor the
mother who bore him or the father or
uncle or kinsman who fought or felli
the late war? No. Rather let every
young Georgian echo the sentiment Of
Henry Grady VIXEN he said at the New
England banquet: '|Thc South has
netking to take back. In nay native
town is monument that crowns its
central hill-a plain, white shaft.
Deep cut into its shining side is a
name dear to me above the names Of
men-that Of brave and simple man
who died in brave and simple faith.
Not for all the glories Of New Englaad
would | exchange the heritage he left
ne in his soldier death. To the foot