The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-29

As the poet Browning said II
.houeht the lie was dead. and damn
ID but it GEMS not. Audersonville
has broken out again. We thought
hat our -geperal-Senator Hill-had
L;lled that whole Andersonville bust
ness in his masterly reply to Blaine
.ome twenty-five years ago. He prov
ID from the Federal records that the
suffering Of their soldier boys in tha,
nr;son was the sin, the crime, the
shame Of Stanton, who refused to ex-
change with US and refused to send
medicine and supplies for their sick.
We did the very best we could and
some honest Northern soldiers have
30 written and published in Northern
napers. But ever and anon the same
old lie breaks loose again, and now
thsy have starteda a new one about a
snriug-the providence spring, y
which they say gushed forth from the
ground just in time to save their sol
diers from perishing for lack of water.
And they are spending money in in
closing and beautifying the grounds
around the spring. The contemplate
liars. Scores Of -good'old men still live
vho knew of that spring away back in
the 4O's when Andersonvillo was a
wilderness and the spring was known
a. a deer stand. Yes, it was.a Provi-
dence spring, for Providence created
il, and all the other springs when He
made the continent and the rivers and
mountains. Andersonville never
lacked water and was. selected for a
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 half a.gill "a day to the
prisoners. The spring was covered ur
BY the hands when ditching for the
stockade and it's water fornd some
other channel and broke out again af-
ter big rain and that's all there is
about it. No Providence spring
Those everlasting liars are just hunt
ing up some more devilment. This
spring business is another Barbara
Frietchie delusion gotten up tokeep
the Northern heart in tune and. fire uI
Goldwin Smith to write some more
historic lies about the South. Blu.
whom the Lord loveth. He .ehasten
eth" and our faith is that He loves
eur people very much orr He would
not ehasten US 30 much and so Ions
With these vile sl=naess. 'tlAA61a 'tlAA61a
said in Mine haste all men are liars
said David. If he had lived mp Nortf
in our day he might have said it ct hi.
leisure. We are getting so ,aeeustom
ed aud SO hardened to their eSasgera
,tioa aud prevaricatiea shst se don,
believe them when they tell che Ssash
History says that Issael Putnam
arauled in cave and killed a wolf.
4 used to believe shat, but ]. doubt j
4 nou since Goodwin Smith has set VI
/ Benedict Arnold as heso. Provi
,denee spring: what liei
Bat our veterans ara clearing III
this history business aud cur teacherl
1 had better be very careful what the!
teach. [ never did understand unit
recently why Maury's geography wa,
ruled out Of so many schools an,
Frye's was put in. There is som,
bribery in this school book business
Money is paid to school commission
ers, or teachers, or some outside law
4 yers for their influence.
j Last year q teacher high in Office a
Knoxville was expelled FOR accepting
a bribe and I have heard it CHARGE
that lawyer in Atlanta got big mon
ey for booming o book into the publ
] schools. Mouey rules the roost il
4 every calling, and there is q monei
q job behind the Andorsopville bus;
ness. Providence spring! Oh, M
country, what does providence have
8 to do with those fellows except to 10
them run their course. 81 have see