The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-16

federate veterans and pay their way
to Louisville. That battalion Of one
armed, onc-legged, one-eyed heroes of
the lost cause will be the most signi-
fcant featE,e of the reunion and will
make more lasting impression upon
the rising generation than anything
else. "That is gcnuine,' they will
say. Those old fellows were certainly
there and they have not repented Of
it. In fact, they are proud Of it. 1t
will teach the youth OF the other side
that our boys were terribly in earnest
and that neither time nor poverty has
obliterated single feeling or emotion
that possessed them when they faced
the guns Of the enemy nearly forty
years ago. They are established in
the faith and will die, not believing
they were right. but knowing it.
That word believing is misnomer,
kind Of compromise. 1t 1oes not fit
us. We know We were right then and
we know it yet. Believing is word
that fits the other side. A good many
ef their soldier boys believed they
were right and knew no better, for
their politicians fooled them, but
more than half Of them dident believe
anything about it and dident care, for
they were hirelings and fought for $40
a'month and nothing else. They were
hungry. It seems to me if I was q
Northern man I would say to my peo-
pie, "We can't do anything with those
Confederate Veterans. Just let them
alone. They were conquered and
that's all. We piled four to one on
them aud wore them out, and that 8
all, but such fighters the world never
saw. They never had but 100000
men in the field, all told, from the be-
ginning to the end Of the war, and
they have put million Of our folks
on the pension rolls, besides all that
they killed. Good gracious, boys!
Let's quit talking and quit Dragging,
aud when them fellows down South
want areunion let's bid them godspeed
and say, Colt, boys! We are betting
on you. Get together by your camp
fires, as it were, and retell your old
war stories, and let the tears from
your old watery eyes glisten again,
and after it is all over then go back
home and tell it to your wives and chill
dren, and then-yes, and Ghen-and
then lay down and die.'" Well,
that's just what the old vets are
doing. They are dying pretty fast
now and there will hardly be enough
!aes 3oT s1esheF Esuaio5. Oar hope
and faith is chat our boys will keep
the camp6res burning aud gather
around them and tell what their faith
eye Did. Let tfh05a memories survive
the fight Of time, just like che his
toric and heroic deeds we read Of.
The oldaf the better. We have 10 our
family an old paper that gives an do-
count Of the battle Of Lexington .duE-.
ing the 6rst revolution and slaHs e. s1ss
margin across the top afeipiastrsa
seventeen Gofita, aud on each colin is
o name, and one of these names ID
very dear to dc. for itis the name Of
an snsesto- who fs.l in that Eight.
That ancestor never fought FOR just-
er cause or on greater 4provocation'
than We did, and our children should
be proud OF it.
And 40 let the old battle SCARED
veterans 60 to Louisville and have
perhaps their last lovefeaat. Atlanta
will raise that money. We low, TO
look over che published names Of the
contributors and to rejoice that there
are noble men and women left who
may have forgiyena but have not for
gotten. We measure people by their
charities, their willing responses
when called on for cause. like this,
aud I would sbe ashamed to see NY
name in the column with leas. than s
! dollar attached to it. II I cculdent
Sor wouldent give more than q dino or
25 cents, j would say mark lt cash and
I. go on. a man who can't afford to
giyela dollar should not be called on.
Louisville is going 20 give royal
welcome to the veterans and hope
every one who csn go will go. houis.
vile is the most intensely Southern
city In the union--more 30 than Nash
vile or Chattanooga or Atlanta, or
even Charleston-- land its people never
do thiDRs in alf.henrtad: or nen..:-
ous way. The last time was there I
saw the blue and The gray each about
& SUI eerong aitSng In the Same hall
listening to. 90 address for. tho benefit
% Confederate yeterans. Yes, the
n 20.