The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-11-21
Faithful Nurse" Watches Over
Him While Girls Go Visiting,
A STORY OF RECONSTRUCTION DAYS
William eIhs Hypoorites and Frauds
IN General and Incidentally Takes
Another Shot at President
Roosevelt.

middle age and old mems nurses"
There is truth in that and my wife
is nursing me now Our girls have
gone OFF, one to a wedding and the
other to Atlanta on a visit told
them to 60, for they had been penned
up here with me for four long months
and their mother said she would take
care of me until they returned. l get
along pretty we'll during the day, but
at right my cough is distressing and
ny wife has to dose me with various
remedies until get to sleep. The rain
has come at last and purified the air
and | feel better. Yes, We two are
alone in a great big house. She sits
in her accustomed corner AMI sews
most all day long, while I sit opposite
IL mine and write or read aloud 10
her and when meal time comes she
sits at one end of the table and al
ibe other.
Old Father Gibbons came 2 miles
yesterday to zee me and To ivite me
and my wife to his birthday dinnee.
Next week he will be 50 years old ana
still gets about liJeJ and takes
comfort in meetl1s his friends ami
abusing the yankees Il IS hard to re-
construct these old veterans, especial
ly when they come frorn Virginia. lie
and his brother novel to Georgia Just
af'er the close of the war He settled
In this county on good farm and his
brother located in Rome never was
at the old gentleman's house but once,
and that was in 1865 His brother was
a game man and had been a colonel
in the confederate army. When the
carpet-baggers and mean niggers over.
ran their section and plundered every
rebels home the colonel organized A
Land Of avengers and played kukluX
among hem and whipped them and
ran them off and later they came lack
with federal officers and the colonel
and his band had to leave to save
their lives. Not long after the colonel
had settled in Rome the Virginia car
pet-baggers got a military order for
his arrest and transportation to Vir-
ginia for trial. A deputy marshal and
another fellow came secretly to Rome,
but the colonel had already been az
vised of their coming and so one dark
night about 10 o'clock he came to my
house and told me his peril and said
he could go to his brothers. place in
this county and hide out until the pur-
suit blowed over So | hitched my
horse to our rockaway and we left
in haste. knew the road to Kingston
and he knew the rest Of the way. 1t
was about O'Clock when we reached
the place and saw the gin house out
in the field. There we stopped and he
took refuge in it and told me to tie my
horse out in the bushes and then go
down and rouse up his brother. This
is the old man who asked us to come
and dine with him. When I knocked
at the door he came in his night
clothes and said, who is that and
what do you want?" l whispered my
business and told him to talk low for
we didn't want the family or the ne
groes to know anything. He put on
his clothes and went to his brother,
and / got in my conveyance and made
FOR Rome, where l arrived about sun
rise. The colonel kept hid in the gin
house under the cotton for nearly a
month and then dared to return, for
the officers had departed. l never see
this fine old Virginia gentleman but
what / think of that ride and the mar
row escape his brother made. Verify
reconstruction was worse than war.
But it is all over now, thank the good
Lord, and we can hold our reunions
and carry our battle-torn banners and
build our monuments and lay the cor
ner stone for Winnie Davis and lynch
the brutes that assault our wives and
daughters, and as Governor Oates said
to our defamers in congress. What
are you going to do about it?" And as
for lynching, repeat what I have
said before, Let the good work go
on. Lynch EN-! Hang EN-! Shoot EN-!
Burn 'em!" Israel Putnam went into
a cave with a torch to shoot the wolf
that had devoured the lambs of his
flock and just so would I lynch the
brutes who outrage our women. He is
not a human. He is a brute, beast
and these demonstrations by govern
ors and judges and sheriffs are hypo
critical and perfunctory. In their
ebreasts they rejoice in the lynching.
And there is another set OF NO
critics who infest our southern lanu
Tmean those who for the sake of filthy