The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-14

honor her "a dead soldiers in the An
Jacksonville National Cemetery. Other
states will fall in line until handsome
monuments will rise heavenward all
over the place. The Central of Geor-
gia Railroad will send this Anderson
Vile pamphlet TO any person desir-
ing IL.
I would suggest to Bill Arp that he
sell his three sets of standard CYCLIC
pedias" and subscribe for some good
up-to-date newspaper Ike the Morning
News, and then he will be able to an
swer inquiries with greater accuracy.
Some chapter of the d. A. r. asked
him about the wives and mothers of
the Presidents, and in his reply he
says of President Willard Fillmore. "he
never married" IF / am not mistaken
Fillmore was twice married, but l do
know that his last wife was a very
wealthy widow of Buffalo. When the
American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals of New York or
ganiZed a branch society in Buffalo, it
did me the honor to send me there to
deliver an address on the plans and
work of the organization. Ex-Presi-
dent Fillmore presided at the organiZa-
ton and 1 then had the pleasure of
meeting his charming wife. 1t would
be foolish to suppose that a man who
had been congressman, vice president
and President, and whom Queen Vic
toria said was the handsomest Ameri-
can she had ever met never married"
Bill Apps recent sickness must have
affected his memory, and he put Fill
more in "old granny Buchanan's
shoes. He also forgets that President
John Tyler was a widower and married
the second time.
A correspondent of the Constitution
undertakes to correct Bill Arp and yet
he falls into the same errors | have
just corrected. Buchanan was the only
President who never married. Ste
phen Grover Cleveland having married
after he became President. Tyler, Har-
rison (Ben) and Fillmore were twice
married. OF all the Presidents only
five 1 think, married widows, and one
chose a divorced woman as his bride.
Cleveland was the only President mar
ried in the White House, and his sec
ond daughter the only child of
President born there. while Grants
aughter-Nellie-is the only child of
President to be married in the White
House. Harrison and Taylor died in
office, and Lincoln, Garfield and Nc
Kinley were assassinated, all leaving
widows. Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Nc
Kinley, both invalids, are still living;
also, the young widow of ex-President
Benjamin Harrison, and the venerable
and feeble widow of President Grant
Cleveland is the only living ex-Presi-
dent. and with his charming wife and
three lovely children, he lives a quiet
but honored private life in Princeton,
N. J.
1 last week referred to the work Of
the D. A. r. of Georgia in regard to
the old forts throughout the state.
Since then Capt. M. Ed. Wilson, the
talented and artistic Savannah pho
tographer, has sent me a handsome
set of the photos taken of the Gen.
Greene re-interment ceremonies. and
also fine photo of Gen. Oglethorpe's
ancient fort at Frederick, on st. ST.
mons Island. This is probably the most
valued of the old forts, although many
others have a history full of thrilling
events. From the time ORlethorpe
landed on Yamacraw Bluff, in 1888
down to 1888, it was forts and fights
that kept alive both the colony and
the state. The following is an imper-
feet list of the forts: Argyle, Augusta
Advance, harrington, Barnum, Corn
wallis, Defiance, Dearborn, Dread
nought, Corly, Floyd, Frederick, FL
dins, Gaines, Galphin, Grierson, Gil
mer, Greene, Howe, Halifax, Hender-
son. Hughes, Hawkins, Jackson, James,
LaMotte, Lawrence, Mcintosh, Nc
Lane, Morris, Miller, Nudge, Norton.
Pickering, Pulaski, ST. George, ST. An
drew's, st. Simon's, Tonyn, Wayne,
Wilkins, Walker, William, Wilkinson.
Many of these forts were named after
army officers who were in service at
the South.
THE history of Georgia." says the
late Bishop William Bacon Stevens.
is the record of striking providences.
Though chastened in youth by
the scourge of war, for its leanings
to liberty we behold it at last stand
ing erect and free In the manhood of
an independent state. Once
freed from the ravages of war and the
depredations of Indian tribes, .
the young state rose gradually in all
the element of national growth and
prosperity. In proportion to it's size and
population, It has furnished as staunch
defenders of liberty and as distinguish
ed soldiers in the field as any colony
of the Old Thirteen" Such has been
the history of Georgia's birth and
growth. and it is, this that leads me
to assert that while it may be true in
one sense that "high-rased battle
ments, labored mounds, thick walls.
and moated gates" do not constitute a
state, yet, in another and very impor-
tant sense, they make 1t possible that
state may be constituted, defended
and perpetuated, provided there be be-
hind those tower battlements and
frowning walls
Men, high-minded men;
Men, who their duties know,
But know their rights; and, knowing,
Dare maintain"
In last Mondays Morning News,
among the Book Notices." find
mention of volume by DR.. Gordon
Stables, of the British navy, entitled
Sweeping the Seas" it being a story
of the Confederate cruiser Alabama.
The book notice states that ION the
Alabama was Dr. Llewellyn, with
whom DR.. Stables became particularly
intimate and friendly. 1t was from
DR.. Llewellyn and Capt. Semmes, in
after times that DR.. Stables got much
of the information which he has woven
into this charming and stirring sea
tale" Now, what puzzles me, in this