The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-06-07

Afsorlthe uHvoiliua I'll tiio Sov ovar Sr yno )
ahd adresBsing Con, q 4 81 Nm II lsyl, M
Uhiokamauga Park commisainn! sss siis \
that as commissioner OF Tho M aEtsta NJ, II
south Carolina it was his auty Ssnd
pi.easuro to prosent him, and ho did 90
Win prldo and pleasure; this monumont,
usn' Boynton in rocoiviDg the monu.
mont made most patriotic addross.
Ihls ended the ceremonies. q
ALL LIARS NOT YET DEAD.
Bill Arp Writes of Andersonville and
the Lies Now Repeated
Az tho poet Browning said: 81
thought tho lilo was dead and damned, .
put it seoms not. Andorsonyillo has
broken out again. Wo thought that
our general Senator Hill had kille d
that whole Audorsonyillo business in
his mastorly reply to Blanc som o
twenty. fivo years ago. Ho proved from
the Federal records that tho sufforip Q
of their ooldior boys WAS the slu, tho Q
oorimo, tho shame Of Stanton, who 70
fused to exchange with us and rsfused d
to 30 nd modioino and supplies for
their siok. We did tho very best wo
could and some honest Northern sol.
diers have 81 written and published in
Nor. horn papers. But ovor and anon
tho same old lilo broaks looso again.
aud now they have started q new ono
about q spring the Providence
SPRING" which they say gushed forth
from tho ground Just in timo to save
thcir soldiers from porishing for lack Of
!wator;; Aud they arc spending mcnoy
in inclosing aud boautifying tho grounds
around tho spring. Tho oontemptible
Liars. Scores Of good old mon atilI live
who know Of that spring away back in
tho 40's, when Andcrsonvillo was
deer stand. Yes it was a Prov demo,
spring, for providence oroatod il, and
all tho othor springs whom Ho mado tho
oontontmeat aad the river and tho
mountaias.
I Andersonviilo never lacked wator
and was solootcd for priso because
Of water, and that littlo spring If no
consequence, for it ran ouly about
thirty gallons m hour, which would
bc less than half gill day to tho
prisioners. The spring was covered up
by the hands when ditohiug for tho
stooBa1 10 and it's wator found some othor
channol aud broke out again aftor a
big rain and that's all thero is about it,
No Providence sEringl Those eyorast.
lug liars arc Just huatingijup somo
moro devilmont. This aprlng business
is another Barbara Friotohei doolusion
cotton up to keep tho Northern heart
in tuno aud fire up QoldWin Smith to
77Eito soDio moro hio;0fio ;ius about
tho South. But whom tho Lord
loveth Ho ohaltoneth," F" and our faith is
that Flo lovss our peoplo worry muuh or
lie would not chaston us 50 much and
30 long with these vilo ISLANDERS "Aud
| saio in mino hasto all mon arc liars, y
eaid David. If he had livod up North
in our day he might have said it at his
leisure. We arc getting 80 aocu ,tom "a
and 50 hardened to their oxaggeration
and provarioation that wo don't be-
liove thom whom they toll tho truth.
History says that Israel Putnam
orawlei into cave and killed wolf.
used to believe that, but doubt it now
since Goodwin Smith has tup Bono
dict Arnold as hero. Providence
spring! what liel
Bat our veterans arc clearing up this
history business and our teaohers had
botter be vory osroful what they teaoh.
[ never DID understand until reuontly
why Maury's geography WAS rulcd out
Of SO many schools and Ffye's was pat
in. Thsre is some bribery in this
school book businoSB. Money is paid
to school commissioners, or toaohors.
or sotao outside lawyers for thoir in.
fuenoo. IL 81
Last year teacher high in oflise at
Knoxville wss oxpollod for aooeptin ng
bnbe, and I have heard it charged
that lawyer in Atlanta got big monoy
for booming book into tho public
schools. Money rules tho .roost in
every calling, and thers is almoney Job
behiad this Audersonvilld Sbusine IS.
Providence springl Oh, my country,
%%hat doeb .proYisaSoe have 30 dowith
those fellowSg51 51lAEsS Sbt TO let shem run
their course. II have aeelSS sS3lls RIo kh,ed
prosper like green bay2@treo, says
David. An old darky heaS IA mo say,
II wonder what makes tho III ord smilo
on old jim Wilkins So. Inn ls as mean
aB a dog, but every tradoS no Amekes and
everything he touches turns into
money. Hs 10 getting richor and riohor
every yeW."
Tho old darky said: HWhy, boss,
do Lord hain't got anything to do wild
Jim Wilkins. L)rd haint;noaioin' him.
Lord dun give him up long slmo ago.
Dat's why ho gettin' rich-old debll ar
lunnin' him."
Providence spring. But tits mighty
strange to mo that the Northorn pooplo
will lot Goldwin Smith soandaliz, tho
founders of our goyornment. ! thought
that everybody North and South idol
lied Washington and Jsffsrson and
Madison and Monroe. thought that
ovory body outside Of Massachusetts
WAS proud Of Patrick Horny and Ran
dolph and Henry Clay. [ didontknow
that B ,nodiot Arnold had an admiror
or an apolg.zef North or South or In
England or aaywhore. | dident know
chat Goodwin Smith Was such @ in
spiouous historian until this laht history
appoAr L. appears that he 10 q great
iavorlto in Eugland and Oansda, and
Is a contributor TO tnu eadiiig maga
niz ~ amt oo.cditor of aa Edg!ibfl oyclo
poulA.
But Wo aro making progress' Provi-
donco Bpringl Those Yankoos Say
that just in the niok Of time @Aon hopo
was noary gono and despair had set
ia for wsnt Of wator, Providence up
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