The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-05-10
BILL ARP SCORES DEPiIW.
lie Takes the Festive Chaunccy to
Task Tor His Jtterances About the
barbara Frctchic story,

Whittier is dead, hut his poetic Ii.
cense and ISLANDERS still live. He wns
as mach fanatic u, old John Brown
and no doubt Old John Imbibcd from
him his first lessons IN hatred OF the
south aud slavery. Whitticr's poems
are before me and thirty seven OF them
are wallings Tor the slave and mallg.
nant stlngs against the Southern
statesman Including Calnoua, and the
Southern people. He WAS an intense
sccessionists, and when Texas was nd.
mitted he prayed in verse for a yawn-
ing gulf to open and separate the
North FROM the South. When Daniel
Webster made his last and greatest
speech at Capon Springs, in which he
defended the South and declared That
we h"d the right 10 withdraw from
the Union when we believed the Fed
eral compact had been broken, Wait.
tier new TO his inkstand and wrote ,his
OF him:
so fallen, So lost, The light withdrawn
Which once he wore:
The glory from his gray hairs zone
For GNcrmOrc.
Let not the land once proud Of him
Insult him now.
Nor brand W tn deeper shame his dim
DishoEored brow.
All else Is gone from those great ewes
The soul is He'd.
When faith Is los, and honor dies
The man Is dead.
Then pay the reverence OF old day.
TO his dead fame,
Walk backward with avrrtcd g;,Ic
And hdc hls shame"
That is part Of the tribute he pad to-
the immortal Webster. the sranucst
figure in New England history.
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the giiLed OLD fanatic. | was rumlnat-
ing about Cnauncey Depew, who is not
dead and who every little while bObs up
serCnciy TO get little more fame as q
humOrlst. II seems that when General
Early passed through Frederick Clty.
IN Marv!ahd, ne paused long enough to
exact from lae good people the SUN OF
$2OU, 700 Tor army purposes, for as Wntl.
LlCr wrote OF them, Lncy we're tam
ishcd horde, and now tnat city has ND.
Piled TO Congress for Is relundlng Of thai
money. and one "eason they give IS thai
an ola woman In her nlnoty-slXJn year
waved the Union ag at the rcbe:s aud
StOnewall jackson ordered his mLn TO
fire ut her, and they tired and broke the
windOw glass und riddied The AZ and
knocked it out Uf her hauu ana .nu
picked it up and waved itaeain. That's
about Barbara Frcitcnie and commit
tee from Frederick City has been be.
fore Congress and said it was 50.
Cbaunccy Dspew heard ii ali and said
it was worth 5000 900 to have The truth
OF the story establishCd and he nuuuc0
his head approviugly and said that
" old Barbara was one OF the idols Of
his childhood, and when ne played
around his mothers knees his heart
thruoDed with sympathy for the gray
haired 0ld woman whose patriotism
deiicd the enemies OF his country"
The old Rip Van W.nkle . reckon
that Is one OF MS latest jokes, for h
was born IN 1884, and was twenty.uInnl
years old whcu our army was in Fred
crick City, and he was then playing
around his mothers knees in tho New
York Legislature.
Dr.. }. William Jones, Of Richmond,
the highest authority on Confederate
history, has published IN the March
number Of The Confederate Veteran
another exposure Of this wantOu NAL q.
nant mytn about Barbara Frnitchlc.
and does SO only because the poem has
gotten inLU some Southern schOUlbOuks
and ne wishes to brand with falsehuud
this vile oianurr on Stonowall Jack son
The whole mi SCRABBLE thing WAS inVesLi-
gated not d. Washington, but on the
spot at Frederick City, ana it WAS cs-
tahiished years ago that no Couieder-
ate troops passed in s!Ght OF the Old wo-
mans house ; that no Il - was waved ::
that StOnewall JACK son WAS EOt then
with his troops, and that Old Barbara
was bed-riGdcn and paraiyzed and could
not have waved Is flag il she had had
one. The danes nephew, Naierius
Ebert, has published his certificate
that the flag story Is all myth
without !he slightest foundation, and
that his old aunt was at that time bed
ridden and hau lost the power OF loco.
motion. Ebert was there at the time,
and was the administrator on her cs-
tate when she died and never heard OF
any lag, and yet ono OF the rascals who
is after that money tcStl lied that he
had the Nag at home a. his house. The
very last curse in the Bible is against
him who maketh Or iOv1th lie, and it
makes no differences whether he Is Is
poet priest or Senator, he will find hlm.
self in awful bad company in the world
to come.
Years ago this myth was exploded
in The Now York Sun while Dana was
living, but now that nc is dead it has
come to light again in its columns.
The papers, motto used TO be If you
see it In The Sun it's So" but now If
you see it. in The Sun its not SO, would
tit it better. wish that every Confed.
crate soldier and their children and
grandchildren would subscribe for The
Veteran and keep up with tho best me
mOries Of the Lost Causc-a Is cause for
which we are still proud, for it gets
brighter and purer as the years roll
on. Some months ago DR.. Andrews,
the great educator, declared and pub.
lished that every principle the South
fought for had since been before the
Supreme Court Of tho nation and de-
cidcd in Us favor, and recently a n0ta-
bic New E.ag land minister has declared
that negro suffrage WAS miserable
hiundcr and that the iiftecntk and six
tccnth amendments to the constitution
shonld be repealed.
Well, time is q good doctor, and the
South is on the upgrade. the Repub
lican party may be reelected. but the
South cannot be woratcd. The day will
come when pensions and back pay will
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