Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-07-03
, Conc 10 tho Poor House.
Anderson Intolligoncor. !

lhhuoAoOu AuSoiIiHChCCIsl
Pendlcton, June PA Confederate
soldier in tho Anderson county poor
house! just think Of It'll Here we are
gressive counties in the proud and patri-
otto State Of South Carolina, housing one
of her noblest heroes under tho roofs
along with tho ordinary INDECENT pauper
white people and our semi i-barbario
negroes, the close descendants of our
imported barbarians from the darkest
spot on Gods green earth--Africa.
poor house" that is very crude and dis
tasteful to some of our more progressive
and enlightened minds, and some OF us
want to dodge it and lop it off by calling
it "Tho County Home," but it is the
poor house at last. This is progress too
cheap ovon for q demagogue, and 1t is
patriotism too shady to stand the pros
tempest of Indignation that is brewing
in tho minds of our people in behalf OF
the men who loft their happy homes and
| won't out to faco tho mighty storms of
fire and lead of war in dofonce of our
| beautiful Southland.
Yes, it is too true that w. II. Rowland,
rcic of tho 22d S. c. Regiment and q
up" at neutrality-suspicious. the greatest
| catastrophe Of war that was ever enacted
lis now in the Anderson poor house.
But wo could not expect anything bet
| tor from somo of our Represon tatives
who have stood up in our legislative
halls and maintained heated debates in
behalf. of our yellow dogs, and on ano-
worn-out Confederate soldiers to poor
houses, and yot another of our prosper
GUS lawmakers refused to Ontribute
ono dino to help buy an old soldier q
coat.
Good people of Anderson county,
noble citizens of chivalrous and patriotic
South Carolina, can't we do better than
hot debates in behalf of tho yellow dog
and his friends and thcn insult tho dig
nifty oven of our enemies in war by advo-
| eating tho generosity of sending our
unfortunate heroes of the greatest war
tho world has over known to tho poor
house to die9
We think when wc hear great chorus
of voices rise up from every battlefield,
from Manassas to Appomattox, coming
out from tho resting places of tho noble
heroes who fell thoro (whilo tho thrilling
Rebel yoll was ringing), saying, "My
God and my country, can it be thus, that
somo of the last of our great army-our
comrades left bohind-will dio IN the
poor house at home, among our kinsmen
| VI' lilCHNto1 iuSGCitt vi ~ NOnl Cu6TAGS
Homo in honor of our namep WOt not
that thcy, too, had watcred tho soil by
our sides with their lifc's blood and saved
tho honor of our beloved State unfair
nishcd with tho momory of allowing her
soldiers to die in the poor house."
God bless our Confederate women! If
they could man tho halls of our Legisla-
turc but day comfortable and lovely
| nome for the wOrn-out Confederate sol
dicr would loom up in day that would
mako tho hearts of every old soldier on
either side Of our Civil War loap with
joy. In proof of this we turn to the
grand monument to tho Confederate dead
now going up in Anderson, and again we
turn to that beautiful and impressive
demonstration made at Pendleton on tho
'lth OF May last, when feast was spread
with all the viands and substantials that
carried the old soldiers fond reco lcctions
back to tho Satisfactory years.
| Tho Lost Cause" is no more-4th Of
May at Pcndleton and the laying of the
cornerstone of tho monument TO tho
Confederate dead at Anderson killed it,
Where is the reasonable mind that could
| look upon that long line of lovely girls
and yonng women, all dressed in pure
| white raiment-a cohort of terrestrial
angels, with flowers and wrcaths for the
graves of the Confederate dcad-and not
be impressed with the truth that he who
could command tho respect of such a
lovely army had not won a great victory,
whether he gained territory or notp
We, tho survivors of that great Con-
fcdcratc army, may fail to do our full
duty toward ono another, and our sons
may pass by our standard of patriotism m
nnnoticcd rs they would milopost in
their mad rush after the dollar, and a
dark cloud may hang over tho whole
earth like pail and completely obscure
the brlliancy of MONDAY sun, but tho
women of South Carolina will never fail
| to do honor to the name of Confederate
soldiers. Camp ,OOG, u, c.. Y.