The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-16

Lord Bacon said. Wives are young
mems mistresses, companions Tor the
middle aged, and old mems nurses. There
Is truth in that and -ay Wife is nursing
ne now. Our girls haze sone off, one
IN q wedding and the other to Atlanta on
q visit I told them ID 20, for they had
l,on nenned 10 here with me for four
long months and their mother said Size
would take care OF me until they re-
turned. L get along pretty we'll Guri:,g
tbs day. but st night M cough is dis
tressing and iny wife has to dos me with
various redemes until | get to sleep The
rain has come at last and purified the
air and l feel better. Yes. we two are
alone in a great big house. She sits in
her accustomed corner and sews most
all day long, while ] sit opposite in
mine and writc Or read aloud to her. and
when meal time comes she sits at one
end of the table and ! at the other. and
that's all.
Old Father Gibbons came miles yes
terdav to sec me and to invite me and
my wife to his birthday dinner. Next
week he will be SO years old and still
gets about lively and takes comfort in
meeting his friends land abusing the
] duhceS II Is udIO W lSSOhoNA wv NAA~SN
old veterans, especially when they come
from Virginia. He and his brother NOV
ed to Georgia just after the close of the
war. He settled i'll this county on
good farm and his brother located in
Rome l never was at the old gentle
mans house but once and that was in
1866 His brother was game man ana
had been a colonel in the Confederate
Of no
mean niggers overrun their section and
plundered every rebels home the Col
onel organized a band of avengers and
played Kuklux among them and whipped
them and ran them off and later they
came back 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
carpet baggers got a military order for
his arrest and transportation to Virginia
for trial. A deputy marshal and another
fellow came secretly to Rome, but the
Colonel had already been advised of their
coming, and so one dark night about IL
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 pursuit had blowed over.
So l hitched my horse to our rockaway
and We left in haste. l knew the road to
Kingston and he knew the rest of the
way. 1t was about 3 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 NE 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
-
door he came in his night clothes and
said, WHO is that and what do you
want?' | whispered my business and
told him to talk low, for we didn't want
the family or the negroes to know any
thing. He put on his clothes and went
to his brother and [ got in my convey
ance and made for Rome where ] ar
rived about sunrise. 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.
never see this ane old Virginia gentle
man but what / think of that ride and
the narrow 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 corner stone
for Winnie Davis and lynch the brutes
that assault our wives and daughters
and as Governor Oates said to our de-
famers in Congress, What are you go
ing to do about it2'' And as for lynch
ing, l repeat what l have said before
Let the good work go on. Lynch EN-!
Hang EN-. Shoot 'em Burn 'em. -
Israel Putnam went into a cave with a
torch 20 shoot the wolf that had devour-
ed the lambs of his flock, and just so |
would lynch the brutes who outrage our
women. He is not a human He is a
brute, beast and all these demonstra-
lions by Governors and judges and
sheriffs are hypocritical and perfuncto-
ry In their breasts they rejoice in the
lynching.
And there is another set OF hypocrites
who infest our Southland. i mean those
who for the sake of filthy lucre and
nothing else invite Roosevelt to visit
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