The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-09-20
NORTH AND SOUTH UNITED.


the Civil war, has just returned from
protracted tour of the South, in the
course Of which he visited several fa-
nous battle6elds and studied with
deep interest the problem of North
and South ss they appear now, long
after the great conflict.
The trip had added interest for
Capt. Gary on account Of the conspic-
uous part that his battery played in
the war. 1t accompanied Sherman
from the Ohio River to Washington,
and was with him through the whole
of his famous march of devastation
from Atlanta to the sea. His battery
fred the FIRST shot after the fall Of
Fort Sumter. Its last engagement
was at Bentonville, N. c., where
johnson surrendered to Sherman,
practically ending the war;
Capt. Gary left Cleveland February
l, and spent several weeks at Lake
Como, in the central part Of Florida.
He Has in Cbarlestown on the South o
decoration day, April S6, and helped,
to decorate the graves. He partici-
pated in such memorial exercises on
several other ocoasioes, where veter-
ans of both North and South forgot
old differences and united in paying
honors to the brave dead, regardless
CT whether they wore the blue Or the
gray. o. his way home he visited
the historic field of Chickamauga,
where he fought years ago:
'The farther *e. recede from our
great Civil war times," said Capt.
Gary yesterday, "and tho more | see
of subsequent events, the more broad
are my views Of those times and of
the events leading up to that war.
From early manhood I have been
of those who believe in an irrepres-
sible conflict between the slaves and
non-slave holding States. Two dis
tinct systems of civilization, 80 10
speak, had obtained in this country,
one based on free and the other on
slave labor, aud while each section
was en- honor in the whole, yet each
in it's domestic affairs was 80 inoon-
sistent with the other as to preclude
all hope Of continued harmony. Even
the patriotic appeal Of our great
statesmen, ClsS, Wehs.erand others,
could only delay the impending ori-
sis. 81 Il !. ...:
"Nor could believe the South alone
responsible for this. The Puritan aa
we'll as the Cavalier established this
government and framed our consti-
tuition under which slavery was per-
a.:..ea in thas Northern ss we'll as
Southern States. In the former it
proved Improbable as we'll as less de-;
sirable, and was soon abandoned, ever
to their credit, even IL some OF. the
sharp Yankees did, as has been
charged, run their slaves of South,
and sell them ere the day Of emanei-;
patton arrived In The cottos, rice.
and sugar growing States the institu-s
tion became Of great profit and. owing.
70 the enefyasing effect of. them on on
white men, was regarded 40 almost q;
necessity. :,4 .5. iiSz d
"Fondly had it been hoped, and by
tie South I think ,:as we'll as BY tho
North, that this ever vexatious aues-,
tion had been finally settled by7 the;
famous Missouri compromise, which
attempted to restrict slavery TO the
north line OF that State. But this.
was a5rogsted not alone ID the inter.
est Of the South, butin the interest
Of politics and jat the behsst Of our
great Northern statssman Douglas,
and wi.b:ha approval of the Northern
PRESIDENT Pierce. |; 81
B by the provisions Or this aotI
slavery might then, with the scenaant
;of the territorial residents Be extands5
ed throughout thesvast territories offs
The southwest. I 10 secure this g &:
sent come rushed inso shese tsrsitories9
20 become residents with Bibles, and
some With shot guns / And sharps'a
rifles, and thua. was formed the skiraS
mish line of the great impsnd ling oen.
.f .flict with poor old orssy j Tom Broaal
on the left
81 ss,The heapy oolpmns were soon maj. &
shaled on SeAsh sjds goss sthsI anst strng-;
gle. All good sfol ddiisrs on m both Saidsss
stopped Sighting Is the close sof that
var but nnfortu tunately ss had had, ons
both aides, ], an army os distingnishsas
patriots who failed 60 reaeh the firing
lines until Isoo late 10 be u. sesyious5
there, and Tho wore tori nnnB nBsr ofs
ysass hereafter 81 great damags sto.
tha entire country. s.
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