Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-05-09
BILL ARP SCORES DEPEW.
He Takes Chauncey to Task for His
UtteranceS About
BARBARA ERIETCHlE STORY
Depew Was Too Old To To BE PLAY
ing Around His rlotIIer's Knee in
Those Times.

Whittier is dead. but his poetic Ii
cense and slanders still live. He was
as much a fanatic as old John Brown
and no doubt old John lmbibed fram
him his first lessons in hatred of the
South and slavery. Whittier's poems
are before me and thirty-seven of
them are wailing for the slaves anu
malignant stings against the South
ern statesmen. including Calhoun. and
the Southern people. He was an in
tense secesSiOniStS and when Texas
was admitted he prayed in verse for a
yawning gulf to oDer and separate the
North from the South. When Daniel
Webster made his last and greatest
speech at Cqp)u Hfrlu%s. III which lie
defended the south and declared that
we had the Tight to withdraw frCn
the union when We believed the fed
eral compact had been broken. Whit
tier flew to his inkstand and wrote
this of him:
so fallen! So lost, The light ~ ith.
drawn
Which once he wore:
The glory from his gray hairs gene
For evcrmOrc.
Let not the land once proud of him
Nor brand with deeper shame lis dim.
Insult him now.
Dishonored brow.
All else is gone; from those grca.
eyes
The soul is fed.
When faith is lost and honor dies
The man is dead.
They pay the reverence OF old-days
To his dead fame:
Walk backward. with avertcd gaze
And hide his shame
That is part of the tribute he pni0
10 the immortal Webster. the Grand.
est figure in New England history.
But | was not troubling myself
about the gifted fanatic. | was ru-
minating about Chauncey Depew. Who
is not dead and who every little White
bohs mp sercncly to get ii little more
fame as a EHmOrist. 1t seems that
when General Early passed through
Frederick City in Maryland. ne paus>
ed long enough to exact iSsm the good
people the sum of 5000. 900 for army
purposes for as Whittier wrote OF
them. they were "A famished horde"
and now that city has applied to con-
gress for refunding OF that money
and one reason they give is that an
WV NOllittH III utI ninety N-SlNln year
waved the union flag at the rebels anG
Stonewall jackson ordered his men to
fire at her and they fired and broke
the window glass and riddled the
flag and knocked it out of her hand
and she picked il up and waved il
again. That's the poetic yarn that
Whittier told about Barbara Freitchie
and a committee from Frederick city
has been before congress and said *
was so. Chauncey Depew heard il all
and said it was worth 5000 900 to have
the truth of the story established ana
lac nodded his head approvingly ana
said that old Barbara was one of the
idols of his childhood. and when he
played around his mothers knees n.s
heart throbbed with sympathy for the
gray-haired old woman whose patri-
otism defed the enemies OF his coun-
try" The old Rip Van Wrinkle! |
reckon that is one Of his latest Jokes
for he was born in 1884 and was
twenty eight years old when our army
was in Frederick City, and he was
then playing around his mothers
knees in the New York legislature
DR. J. William Jones. of Richmond
the highest authority on confederate
history. has published in the March