The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-26

the lie was dead and damned, but it
seems not. Andersonville has broken
out again. We thought that our general
Senator Hill had killed that whole
Andersonville business in his mastery
reply to Blaine some twenty-five years
ago. He proved from the Federal records
that the suffering of their soldier boys
in that prison was the sin, the crime, the
shame of Stanton, who refused to ex-
change with us and refused to send medl-
cine and supplies for their sick. We did
the very best we could and some honest
Northern soldiers have so written and
published in Northern papers. But ever
and anon the same old lie breaks loose
again, and now they have started new
one apbut q spring-the Providence
spring." which they say gushed forth
from ground just in time to save their
soldiers from perishing for the lack of
water And they are spending money in
inelosing and identifying the grounds
around the spring. The contemplate
liars Scores of good old men still live
who knew of that spring away back in
the 40s, when Andersonville was will
derness and the spring was known as
deer stand. Yes. it was a Providence
spring, for providence created it, and all
the other springs when He made the con-
tinent and the rivers and mountains.
Andersonville never lacked water and
was selected for prison because of the
abundance of water and that little spring
was of no consequence, for it ran only
about thirty gallons an hour, which would
be less than gill day to the prisoners.
The spring was covered up by the hands
when ditching for the stockade and its
water found some other channel and
broke out again after a big rain and
that's all there is about it. No Provi-
dence spring! Those everlasting liars
are just hunting up some more deyilment.
This spring business is another Barbara
Frietchie delusion gotten up to keep the
Northern heart in tune and fire up Gold
win Smith to write some more historic
ties about the South. But when the Lord
Ioveth He chasteneth'' and our faith
is that He loves our people very much
or He would not chasten us so much
and so long with these vile ISLANDERS
"And / said in mine haste all men are
liars" said David. If he had lived up
North in our day he might have said it
at his leisure We are getting so ac-
customed and so hardened to their ex-
aggeration and prevarication that we
don't believe them when they tell the
truth History says that Israel Putnam
cTawled into cave and killed wolf. !
used to believe that, but / bought it
now since Goodwin Smith has set up
Benedict Arnold as a hero. Providence
spring! what a lie.
But our veterans are clearing up this
history business and our teachers had
better be very careful what they teach.
| never did understand until recently
why Maurys geography was ruled out of
so many schools and Frye's was put in.
There is some bribery in this school book
business. Money is paid to school COM
mssioners, or teachers, or some outside
lawyers for their influence.
Last year a teacher high in office at
Knoxville was expelled for accepting a
bride and l have heard it charged law
yer in Atlanta got big money for boom
Ing DOCK lnJO IHc puDllC oCiioOiN' ~ANAiOJ
rules the roost in every calling, and there
is a. money job behind this Anderson
willie business. Providence spring! Oh,
my country what does Providence have
to do with those fellows except to let
them run their course? II have seen the
wicked prosper like a green bay tree,
says David An old darkey heard me
say. II wonder what makes the Lord
smile on old Jim Wilkins so. Jim is
mean as dog, but every trade he makes
and everything he touches turns into
money. He is getting richer and richer
every year
The old darkey said: "Why, boss, de
Lord hain't got anything to do wild Jim
wilkins Lord haint noticin' him. Lord
dun give him up long time ago. OATS
why he gettin' rich-old debil ar runnin'
him"
Providence spring. But it is mighty
strange to me that the Northern people
will let Goodwin Smith scandalize the
founders of our government. l thought
that everybody North and South idollZed
Washington and Jefferson and Madison
and Monroe. / thought that everybody
outside of Massachusetts was proud OF
Patrick Henry and Randolph and Henry
Clay. l didn't know that Benedict Ar
mold had an admirer or an apologizer
North or South or in England or any
where. / didn't know that despair had
set in for want of water. Providence
upheaved the ground and the water
gushed forth like it did when Moses
struck the rock with his rod. Mr. Pills
bury, of Americas. an honorable veteran,
was there on guard and says the whole
thing is a made up lie. and it can be
proved so by many old citizens of Sumter
county We will have to nail that An
Jacksonville lie to board and put it up
at the forks of the road We will brand
it when we meet at Memphis. want to
meet Colonel John Cussons there and
thank him for his little book. | want
every veteran to have one. The price is
only % cents. and it is worth ten times
that much to have it in the house and
refer to it sometimes when we get cussin
mad
Providence spring. I'm going to see If
/ cant beat my nabors Cary and Var
brough and Corley and Mrs. Fields, rails
ing tomatoes. Mr. Corley has put out only