The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-26
local News.
Gore to the Peer House.

in the Anderson County Poor House
Just think of it! Here we are in one
of the most prosperous and progressive
Counties in tho proud and patriotic
State of South Carolina. housing one
of her noblest heroes under the roofs
along with the ordinary INDECENT pau
pcrw white people and our semi -barbaric
negroes, the close descendants of oul
imported barbarians from the darkest
spot on Gods green cartll-Africa.
There is Ii stigma attached to the
name '1'OOr House" that is very crude
and distastcful to some Of our more
progressive and enlightened minds
and some of us want to dodge it and
lOp it Off by calling il "l'lc County
!!o"e," !;::! x !:; 81" pee" house ::t last.
This is progress too cheap even for Il
dcmagOGuc, and il is patriotism too
shady 70 stand the press ,rc of the
mOrnD. breeze, let alone the tcmnrst
OF Indignation that is brewing iE the
minds Of our people in behalf of the
men who left their happy homes and
went out to face the mighty storms of
fire and lead of war in defence of our
beautiful Southland.
res, ii is too true that w. X. Row
land, relic of the 22nd $. G.. Rcgi-
mcnt, and survivor that asscd
through that elbow up at Petersburg
perhaps the greatest catastrophe of
war that was ever cnactcd-iS now in
the Anderson Poor House.
But we could not expect anything
better from some Of our Representa-
tives who have stood up in our lcgisla-
tive halls and maintained heated de-
bates in behalf OF our yellow dogs,
and on another occasion advocated
sending our wOrnOnt Confederate sol
dicrs to poor houses, and yet another
of our prosperous law makers refused
to contribute one dime to help buy an
old soldier Il coat.
Good people of Anderson County,
noble citizens of chivalrOus and pntri-
Otic South Carolina, can't we do better
than send men to Columbia who will
wage hot debates in behalf of the vel
low dog and his friends and then insult
the dignity even of our enemies in war
by advocating the generosity of send
ing our unfortunate heroes Of the
greatest war the world has ever known
to the poor house to die?
We think we can hear Il great chorus
of voices rise up from every battlefield,
from Manassas to Appomattox, coming
out from the resting places of tho no
bic heroes who fell there (whiIc the
thrilling rebel yell was ringing) saying:
'My God and my country, can it be
thus, that some of the last of our great
army-our comrades left behind-will
die i'll the poor house ut home among
our kinsmen and friends instead of IL
Confederate Home in honor of our
nameY Wotnot that they too, had water
cd the soil by our sides with their lifo's
blood and saved tho honor of our be-
loved State untarnished with the mem
ory Of allowing her soldiers to die in
the poor house."
God bless our Confederate women
If they could man the halls Of our leg
islature but day comfortable and
lovely home for tho wornout Confed-
crate soldier would loom up in day,
that would make the hearts of every
old soldier ON either side of our Civil
War leap with joy. In proof of this We
turn to the grand Monument to tho
Confederate dead now going up in
Anderson, and ngain we turn TO that
beautiful and impressive demonstra-
ton made at Pendleton on the 4th of
May last, when feast was spread with
all tho viands and substantials that
carried the old soldiers fond recollec-
tions back to the sixties-forty years
ago.
"The Lost Cause" is no mOre-4th of
May at Pendloton and the laying Of
the corner stone of tho Monument to
the Confederate dead ut Anderson
killed it. Where is the reasonable
mind that could look upon that long
line Of lovely girls and young women,
all dressed in pure white rniment-a
cohort of terrestrial angels, with flow
crs and wrcaths for the graves of the
Confederate dead, and not be Impress
cd with the truth, that he who could
command the respect of such lovely
army had not won great victory
whether he gained territory or not?
we, the survivors of that great Con-
federatc Army, may fail to do our full
duty toward one another, and our sons
may pass by our standard of patriotism
unnoticed as they would mile-post in
their mad rush after the dollar, and a
dark cloud may hang over the whole
earth like pail and completely OBJ
scurc the brilliancy Of q MONDAY sun,
but the women of South Carolina will
never fail to do honor to the name of
Confederate soldiers.
CANT 1,008, L. G. V.