Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-08-02
BIZ Arp on Remarks Of Great Men
Dying.
BILL SAYS lie STILL LIVES.
And This Reminds of Daniel Web
ster's LAST Words end How They
Impress Him.

or Daniel webster always impress ne /
with peculiar force. On the very con- l
fines OF eternity. On the brink Of the I
everlasting change that he knew was /
at hand. his great mind seemed TO be I
studying and was'ins Tor the moment
or HIS departure wasting and watch I
ING for the separation os the soul from
the body. and wondering how he would
pass the crisis. There was no fear. no
dread. as he calmly whispered. II still
live" and Immediately died. Ills body
died. and what wac the next vision OF
his great soul the world wouid Ike 20
know. but IL is forbidden. I thought of
all this not long ago es I seemed % he
drawing near the end and approached
the confines OF that undiscovered coun-
try from whose bourne no traveller re-
turns 7 was serious and solemn with
expectation. but was not alarmed. for
my faith IS that my Maker VIII take
care of nae and OF all others who love
Him ana try 20 do right All that trou-
blej me was the separation from those
7 love and their GRIEF a- my departure.
Two months IS Ions time 90 be
child aeain without vital force enough
CD walk alone. But / have passed the
crisis. and though weak and nervous
am on tho upgrade and car walk about
| che garden and carry the little grand
. child in my arms and give him flowers
. and feast on his smiles and carcsscs.
Fo.ty-cne years ago last sunday the
battle 0f Manassas was fought To was
tho frs; battle % tho civil war and
made D deeper impression upon those
4 ENGAGED in it than any other C-mpar-
\ ca with the great battles that came af-
ter 81. it was almost insignificant. for
. there were only four hundred and scv-
# entv felCrcls killed and three hundrci
i AID seventeen confeicratCs. Tho fed-
I cal account gives sixteen hundred ~
their army as Kissing That is mis-
take for hv 4 o'clock they were all
. missing Our cavalry couldn't find
them though they followed their trail
OF discarded guns and haversacks FOR
. miles and miles. There never was such
n ROM and such panic during the
war. we didn't have enough wagons
next dly 90 gather mp the scattered
. munitions 0f war and it took Mcdowell
. q month go cell in his army az twenty
seven thousand mon and rco--anizo
But n the long run they got even with
us and a lirtle ahead. and the Grand
Army is rtiI Dragging how four II
them whipped one of us in four years.
That's an ri-ht We are satisfied with
our record a1d 30 grows brighter as the
wears ror on. Ammo domini viii tell.
I The other day nay doctor said must
take some exercise and he took his
+ mother and me up the river road for a
. few miles 20 the ruins OF the Cooper
iron works. u was a Wild. weird. ghost
ly place on the banks of the Etlwc0.
where once were rolling mills and
foundry and furnaces and flour mills
and tan yards and hundreds 90 cot
razes where happy l0bcrers a1d me-
eha-lrs lived. But Shcman's army
burned and destroyed everything and
since the most OF the crumbling walls
have fallen and the trees have grown
. no in their midst and wild vines have
climbed the trees and nothing U.s. WIS.,
itlc but ruins and the sad spectacle a
cruel and brutal war But this Isl one
, burning that. according 90 the rules
and usages % war. was Justified. foi
these iron works We're making cannon
Tor the c0nfedoracy. IL was the lone
some chimneys ~ the poor an alone
his line az march that marked Pals
I. brutality and proved his assertion tia
J 'War .s hell"
t But no more Of this. While view
I Inc these ruins my memory went bacl
. / 90 the time when Joe Brown was gov
p ernOr and ordered that 0o0 pixies bl
> made with a spear point and side cur
we'd downward like a reaphO0k and
: F long handle IN a socket. so that on
L BOYS might take EN- coming and going
= II they flnt run we were % spoa
'em and hook EN- back. That's wha
p old man Lewis told me and be was Ia
\ master mechanic who made them. an
: no stll lives near here anu is IN Ill
SSth year. I saw him today and ,
. STEPS light and springly. Tie Is "a
- Epglishman. Mr.. Lewis" said ]. 'wh
IS didn't the Georgia boys use these piA
cs2' well YOU see. said he "the oil
= army officers who were drilling on
* boys at Big Shanfy looked at thes
Il pixies and said TO the governor. "Wha
- win fhe enemy be doing w!th thel
y guns while our bows arc rushing o
thorn with these pixies? They wi
81 shoot our boys down before they CO
set % them and they made so muc
20 Fun over the pixies that they were n
fused. West Point wouldn't have an
& thing that was not used az We
le . Point" And so the further manufa.
0r tlre OF pixies was stopped and tho.
m that were made are now scattered a
,e Cvc- the country AS curios for mu
=, ( Gums. 4 sister % mine says she sa
= one ~ them not long ago in q museu
ir Eoston. BIT still ] don't gee w
enra-s are any mo-c ont % order fhs
% haroaets vixen q desperate charge
~ 20 le made "Charre 5ayOncta,' U.s.
10 'he west Poi~t tactics. and Why q
-r "Cfergo pikrs,' ltoy are an aTf
=. locr'ng Eearcn ard % taoy were en-
lne ~ f1o ara nv crn WAS % miss
-, should drop 90 and rrn like a turke
hid rather te bored with bull
> than afrcf liie n ho~ Iiat 20 is an %
or nov. and we have beaten orr sDea