The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-09


Webster made his last and greatest
speech at Capon Springs, in which he
defended the South and declared that
we had the right to Withdraw from the
union when we bel eyed the federal
compact had been foken. Whittier
few to his inkstand and wrote this Of
him:
$50 fallen! So lost! The light with
drawn
Which once he wore; .G.
The glory from his gray hairs gone
For evermore.
Let not the land once proud Of him
Insult him now,
Nor brand with deeper shame his dim,
Dishonored brow.
All else is gone; from those great eyes
The soul is fed,
When faith is lost and honor dies
The man is dead.
Then pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted gaze
And hide his shame.n
This is part Of the tribute he paid
to the immortal Webster, the grandest
figure in New England history.
But I was not troubling myself
about the gifted old fanatic. was
Illuminating about Chauncey Depew,
who ie not dead and who every little
while hobs up serenely to get little
more fam, as q humorist. It seems
that when General Early passed
through Frederick City, in Maryland,
he paused long enough to exact from
the good people the sum Of $500, 900
for army purposes, for as Whittier
wrote Of them, they were "a famished
horde" and now that city has applied
to Congress for refunding of that
money and one reason they give is
that an old woman in her ninety sixth
year waved the union flag at the rebels
aud Stonewall Jackson ordered his
men to- fire at her. and they fred and
broke the window glass and riddled
the flag and knocked it out of her
hand and she picked it up and waved
it again. That's the poetic yarn that
White. told about Barbara Freitchie
aud committee from Frederick City
has been before Congress and said it
was SO. Chauncey Depcw heard it all
and said it was worth 5000, 900 to have
the truth Of the story established and
he nodded his head approvingly and
said that cold Barbara was one Of the
idols Of his childhood, and when he:
played around his mothers knees his
heart throbbed with sympathy for the
gray-haired old woman whoss patriot
ism defcd tho enemies Of his couu-
try" The old Rip Van NVinkle!5 i
reckon that-is one Of his latest jokes,
for. he was born in 1884, and wal
twenty eight years old when our army
was 10 Freas.iek 1itv, and he .was
then playing around his mothers
knees in the New York legislature:
DIR. j. William Jones, of Richmond,
the highest authority on Confederate
history has published In the March
number Of The Confederate Veteran
another exposure of this wanton malig-
naut myth about Barbara Frei.ch;e,
and does SO only because the l.oem
has gotten: into some Southern school.
books and he wishes to brand with
falsehood this vile slander on Stone
wall jackson. The whole miserable
thing was Investigated not at Wash
ington, but on the spot atTFrederick
City, and ii was established years aga
that no Confederate troops passed 10
sight Of the old woman's 8 house; that
no flag was waved; that Stonewall
Jackson was not then with his troops,
and that old Barbara was bed-ridden3
and paralyzed and could not have
waved a flag if she had had one. The
damo's nephew, Valerius Ebert, has
published his certificate that the flag
storyis all q myth without the slight.
est foundation, and that his old aunt
was at that time bed-ridden and had
Inst Tho nn.En. ee .:
was there at the sime, and was the
administrator on her estate when she
died and never heard of any flag, and
yet one OF tho rascaIs who is after.
that money testified that he had the
faag at home at his house The very
last curse in the Bible is against him
who maketh Or loveth a lie. and it.
makes no difference whether he lis 81
poet, priest oS senator, he will find
himself In awful bad company : 3.l!ses he
world TO come Years ngo this myth
was exploded in Tho N lew ork sun
whilo Dana was living, but now That