The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-02-21

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600 ragged Confcdcratcs is no ucnrr,I
But he behaved well after the surrcn-
der and said: LET us llnvc peacc,n
was convcrsing not long ago with a
Northern lady, Il mature lady of cul-
tIlc and refinement, and when re-
marked that Grant did not fight to free
| the slaves, for he was a slave owner
and lived of their hire, she was amazed
and said: Well, what upon earth
was he lighting for? ! thought the
war was about slavery and nothing
else And SO had to explain, and
told her how Lincoln issued a pro-
ca'natlon setting the slaves free III
january, 1863, but he excepted Mis-
soirl and Kentucky, and so Grant held
Ills slaves until January, 1863, and
kept on hiring them out and kept on
l'Sh' ing us 70 make us let ours 90.
ne diuh tote fair. "Can il be pos
slOlc? she said; sure v you are mis-
takcn.'
lhe truth is the history of thus war
OF ours is just beginning to leak out.
lhose Nanks have abused us so LONG
that some Of our people have 90, dis
couragcd and begin to confess judr
mcnt. Some OF them arc even npo)0.
gzing for that malignant book called
"UnClc Toms Cabm.n WAS do
lighted TO read John Temple Caves
reply to Henry Waltcrson. 1t was the
truth, every word Of it, and our good
people thank him for it. Those impu-
debt rascals up North have had il
dramatlzcd and stuck under cur noses
Tor twenty-five years and lots of our
fool folks 80 to sec it and swallow it
down. | was rumnating about these
SANDERS and wondering what made
those people hate us so; when I came
across an explanation in an old book
OF mythology which sad that when
Jupiter first created man he hung two
bags on his neck, one hung before and
contained all his faults and little sins.
the other hung behind and contained
all his nclghborS' faults and short
comlnSS. The man got very sick in a
few days and Jupiter couldn't tell what
was the matter. lie was afraid the
man was going TO die, so he sent
lluio, VIII" was head devil and doctor
to boot. Pluto diagnosed the case and
sad that the po r fellow WAS hcartslck
from having TO look into that BAG SO
much; that his sins were ever before
him, and so he advised .Iup,trl TO swap
the bags around and put the mans
SINS behind anl out of sight and his
| nclghbors' in front. This was done
and the man got well and has been well
! ever since.
But we will not fuss about the Hall
OF Game os long as they leave out old
John Brown. When he is nut in we
want Lee taken out. Speaking of John
Marshall being Il Echcralist reminds
me 10 say that Ice was not, for ne de-
cMrcd when he resigned from the
United States army that his highest
allegiance was due to lis State. Many
great men have differed over thai
question. Daniel Webster differed
with himself and in his last yrcat
speech at Capon Springs admitted that
a STATE had Il right to sccedc when
there was sufficient cause and that the
State must be the Judge of the cause.
That was what Whittier lampooncd
him about in those malignant verses.
] am rcvcllng NOW in old things and
holding converse with some good old
people. ] received IL letter today from
an Old gentleman of Atlanta who has
Written me fourteen pages in large
loud handwriting, for he knew was
deaf. lie says he Is IN bis nincticth
year and just wanted TO write about
the good old schoolbOy days and about
the great men we used TO have. He
went to school TO George White, who
published the statistics and " IIistorl-
cal Collections Of Georgia " over fifty
years ago, and Charles Wallace How
ard was his schoOlmatc. MY friend is
blind, hut he writes his own letters
the lines arc an inch apart and about
four words to the line and yet nc
writes in Il most cheerful vein and tells
how good God has been to him all his
long life. His name is A. K. Wright
and he was born and reared III Savan-
nah. His favorltc speech at school
was
" LOchcll, IochclI, beware Of the day
When the ,owlands shall meet thee in
battle array"
] expect there are Il thousand living
men who spoke that speech, and that
other one, On Linden when the sun
Woo ''"' ii0 iiNiSItDol, IVY. NiCoCRc
larbr"ngh, is man Of memories, too.
lie is our Methodist Episcopal preach
cr now aud it is Il luxury TO talk to
him. lie helps me abuse The Yankees
and says he loves his enemies, but can
not suppress feeling of holy indgna-
ton at their conduct. He has curious
old book printed in 1925 called g Tho
Wonders of Nature and Providuncc.' .
That part devoted to Indians and thci,
mounds and the Lost Tribes of Israc
IS full OF interesting data. II seems tC
me that the older a man grows tht
more he learns and about the time h,
gets full OF knowledge and begins t,
run over he has TO lie down and die
What pity he could not live on an,
on for the sake OF the children am,
grand-chlldrcn. But as Pope says
" Whatever is is right.'
BI;L Arr.
i. 5. have received one answe
, to my Ohio friends letter, but IA nc
money came for the orphans / hay,
not sent il. Maybe he will send The