The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-11-18

* truth in that and ny wife Is nursing
ne now. Our girls haEe some OF, one
TO a weddinc and the othor t. Atlanta on
a visit. l told them II 70, for they h"d
h.en penned Up here with rle Tor Tour
long months ana thcir mother sd Sic
would take care OF No until They 60
turned. | get aIong pretty well curing
the day. buc Il night M cough is dis
tressIng and ray wife has TO dos me with
various redenies until | get TO sleep. The
rain has come at ,ast and purified the
air and l feel bet-e-. Yes. we tSa are
alone in a great big house. She sits II
her accustomed corner and sews most
all day long, while | sit opposite IN
mine and writc II read aloud 10 her, ana
when neal time comes she sits al ono
end of the table and I at the other. and
that's all.
old Father Gibbons came 9 miles yes
terday to see me and TO invite me and
nv wife TO his birthday dinner. Next
week he Will be 50 years old and still
gets about lively and takes comfort in
meeting his friends and abusing the
Yankees. 1t is hard to reconstruct these
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 in this county on a
| good farm and his brother located IN
| Rome. | never was at the old gentle
mans house but once and that was IN
1866. His brother was a game man and
had been a colonel in the Confederate
army. When the carpet-baggers and
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 10 his
brothers place in this county and hide
out until the pursuit had bloWed over.
SO / hitched my horse to our r~ockaway
and we left in haste. / 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 topped and
~ hOo'A -
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 | knocked at the
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 my
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 fine 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 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 it?' And as for lynch
ing, | repeat what | have said before,
Let the good work go on. Lynch EN-.
Hang EN-, Shoot en-, Burn en-"
Israel Putnam went into a cave with a
torch TO shoot the wolf that had devour-
) ed the lambs of his flock, and just so I
! would lynch the brutes who outrage our
women. He is not a human. He is a
brute, a beast and all these demonstra-
tons by Governors and judges and
sheriffs are hypocritical and perfuncto-
~. In their breasts they rejoice in the
lynching.
And there is another set Of hypocrites
who lnfest our Southland. | mean those
who for the sake OF filthy lucre and
nothing else invite Roosevelt to visit
their city and they promise him an ova-
ton. He comes nearer being a figure
head of a President than any we have
! ever had. He is a confirmed slanderer
of a great and good man and he knows
he slandered him and Will not retract or
apologize. Our women have just laid a
corner stone for a monument to his la
mented daughter and our veterans and
members of the Legislature approved it
py thelr presence, and yet some of the
same creatures would invite Roosevelt
to Savannah and Macon and Augusta.
wouldn't invite any man to my town
whom | wouldn't invite to my house ana
no man who fought for the lost cause or
respect Mr.. Davis would do that. There
Is more patriotism today among our Wo-
men than among our men. A friend
wrote me from Atlanta that he was going
to have 5000 copies of General Jackson's
great speech on the "Wanderer'' print.
cd IN pamphlet form for distribution al
q small cost among our people and |
nave promised to help him advertise it.
but | had no idea that he could sell or
hardly give away a thousand copies, for
our old men and cultured men and pa
trlots We're nearly all dead and this
generation does not care whether Cen
eral jackson made a speech or not.
asked a college man if he had ever read
II ana ne seemed surprised and asked
who was General Jackson. Our neonle