The National tribune., 1903-07-02

Mobray started to say, but McCabe rough
ly interrupted him.
Jenkins Mobray, you were one of the
men that went up and down the country,
every where, preaching secession and devil
ing the young men to go into the army.
You said that there wasn't going to be
any war; that all we'd have to do would
be to make a show of being ready to fight,
because thatd scare the Yankees, who
were spiritless towards. Then, when We
found out they really would f hit, and fight
hard, you We're red-hot for draft laws, to
put everybody into the army, and you
voted to make them hard and sweeping.
and to make lot of bomb-proof places
for your relatives and pets in the Con-
script Bureau. to force better men than
they were into the army. But you were
mighty careful to keep out yourself. What
astonshed me IN seeing you here was that
you'd venture in sight of n Yankee with
gun, no matter how peaceable he might
be at the time"
"Mr. McCabe," said Mobray, rising
threateningly, you're a poor one-armed
soldier, or ID
''No, you wouldn't Jenkins" said Nc
Cabe contemptuousiy. You wouldn't do
thing to me. l was fool enough to let
you bully and coax me into enlsting, and
I've thought about it often since, and
longed to get back where 1 could tell you
my real opinion Of you, and your whole
breed. Sit down again. Mobray. You've
got to hear good deal of this kind of talk
from the boys when they come back-and
they'll all be coming back pretty soon
and you might as well get used to it.
They've all got big score to settle with
you, SIR"
Coming back?' laughed the Deacon.
who was enjoying the scene, why, he's
been telling me that the South was going
to fight on forever"
80. yes. he'll fight on forever-with his
mouth. That's the way he's done all his
fighting. But as for me, I'm through.
know when l have enough. I'm no hog
I've fought all the way from the Ohio
River clear back here to the Neuse. where
1 lost my arm. I've been licked back
over about IA States, more or less, and We
got all the licking my constitution needs
OF can stand. Sos the rest of the boys.
What's the use Of keeping it up any long
er, I'd like to know? l said two years
ago that if we couldn't drive the Yankees
back out of Tennessee and Kentucky, there
was no hope of driving them back at all,
and since that time they have driven us
back, in spite of all that we could do,
through Georgia and South Carolina, and
mighty near through North Carolina. All
of us who have been doing the real buck
iuS up aSiuSt TIE L duheeS see the IOOllSn-
ness of it, and are mighty tired. You
hear me-"
Flows that. Mr.. Mobray?" said the
Deacon teasingly. This gentlemans opin-
ion is very different from yours"
20, he always was a Union man at
heart" sneered Mr.. Mobray, rising an
grily, and in his agitation sticking the
Deacon's plug of tobacco in his own
pocket. 'We had the greatest trouble get
ting him into the army to fight for his
country. He was whipped long ago, and
ready to submit to whatever degradation
the Yankees might impose upon him. But
the true sons Of the South are Of differ
ent mold. They will nevah go back into
the abhorred Union. Neyah, sab. Their
only terms to the mudsill Nawthern in
vaders are on the points of their bright
swords"
"Great snakes" said McCabe with
horse laugh. '.how different that sounds
from what it did four years ago. 1t SEEM
ed to mean so much then"
The honorable member from Pamlico
strobe haughtily away, followed by de-
risive and cutting remarks from McCabe |
HE was big slave-owner, wasn't he?"
inquired the Deacon, as the man vanished |
HE a slave-owner? answered McCabe, |
in tone of scorn. "He never owned so |
much as a nigger's toe-naiL"
what makes him SO fabid on the slav-
cry question, then?"
20, he was one Of those bucks of poll |
ticians, who We're crazy to get on and the |
surest way to do it was to curry favor
with the slave-owners, and be a great deal |
more pro-slavery than they were them
selves"
"But he said he lost 10 slaves by the
war"
$50 he did. So he did. And the way
be did makes him hot every time he thinks
about it. You see, he's a widower, and
was setting up strong to a widow in New
Berne who owned 10 fairly good hands
hat her first husband had gOt by hook or
,rook, some way. You see, lie was a ves-
vel man, and there were stories that he'd
.un them in from Cuba or Africa Mobray'