The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-11-06


...H oummuniug Of late as one wouI,
."H IL rare visitor from anotheI
.H. whose departure was near a
..".. He represents, in the judg-
u.. Of his old comrades, about -
.". a- there was. and you know whar
...f means. He differs in two slight
..-u.o'~ from some Of them. He didn't
trud"r at Appomattox. once
. a.I him why. Il didn't feel like it
expect / felt about like Bill Arp's
t,".rgOIu, who was stopped on his rc-
1861. touthWard in 50 and asked
.##nr" Hc was going ana what he WAS
.aug to do He said, 4 ann going
|#nk ln S,lndorsVille, kiss my wife aud
'##a',u. raise crop and if the Yam
Hree bother me any more I'll whip 'cm
.-aH. When things got to Il point at
+#IHmJltpX, Il occurred to me that
|atnt dome anything to surrender
Hr Besides | had a wound that
'.tf,.i better climate than Fort Del
tHsrr. SO / toId Bob, my mess mate.
.H#l If ned lug the saddle I'd carry
Tic blanket and We'd go home
My old Confederate brought back
tT"m Virginia what he carried over
ilar an honest heart, a high moral
IHEto-c. Il clean Southern soul. of
##f"n no disasters robbed him. The
.aH ali not sour him He hasn't beel
. "i'urc in life either. Another pc
.ni"rtE of his is pet conccit, that
.sHIoIS assent when he explains him
s.I that for the true Confederate SOL
4..r who realized the deep things Of
taat war there is no such thing and
newer was, as the Lost Cause" To
gut IL i'm his phrase, "The Confedef-
H-. soldier is the cosmopolitan OF the
H"la. universe, alike a cOmradc Of all
worlds and all world >
IcH." If there arc any poor he can
say to thom, Il am your equal. for !
have lived dessoate amidst a great
lse~oIatinn.' If there are any riciI and
proud ne can say. 81, too, am your
equal, for | have a heritage of ValOr
aud human glory purchased with more
than millions"
meyer knew him to lower his flag
ot aversion to the phrase. 'The Lost
'#use." but once. | saw him throw
da#n a newspaper not long ago in a
blazing wrath He was greatly stirred
un My inquiry calmed him immedi-
.ieE. oh, WE'LL" he said, the South
oi8 pot have ''Iost cause" but II
@am. of these politicians and ncWs2a-
bHS keep on the way they are going
"@ will have one yet and there wont
Doc place in the moral regard OF
l"HAmI big enough for the South
erin people to put one foot on" |
didn't ask him what he meant.
/ cannot begin to tell you how this
grand old man has interested me and
helped me. But. frankly, I stand in
a"' of him when | realize what he
actually signifies. Sometimes when I
have come from my books of history
900 tHe war between the states | have
/" rub my eyes to appreciate that he
Us "lHt | have been reading about.
w" young men do not grasp the
historical dramatic fact of the Con
Southern hcrology slip through our
Uu-tr-
Why, over in Europe YOU can see at
a:lg time great companies of people
wine have made pilgrmagcs from all
"E'f the world just to look at a spot
where some old knight of insignificant
Mars stood or is buried. DO you
t".lZH when YOU are in the presence
". "n "Id Confederate soldier that YOU
"". there in eye reach and hand touch
real flesh and blood man
#."a NOT only lived in the most ter
ruth. hours and minutes the American
Republic ever had or ever will have,
t"' thu was at the kissing center Of
IL" vortex Of it all, an actual actor in
i"" scenes of supreme tragedy, that
r"fnmaudcd the breathleSs audience
d" #L Christendom? That man you
'.- uU the street without Il second
."". L- the incarnate survivor of an
h##.0".nth century in twain.
Nr old Confederate is unconscious
." impression he makes on me.
- wounds he cannot hide, but
H..'r wears them for ornament.
81" .r.Ik~ of Manassas and GCttys-
.'*#- u he caImest sort of way. There
Impression. however. the chance
...F. he mover allows to go by.
II" ..No~ he southland. old Mortal
Walter SCOTS book, went about
#H#Hg names off the tombstonc@.
+."k my old Confederate would like
.-- 1hout cutting his faith and creed
IT.. south on every heart Of every
.'.r he could find.
lay since our riot in Atlanta. |
'. uu him very much in earnest
.""lug him. ! wanted him. if he
.' give me out of his chastened
# his memory of the South =
some word that might. be
-tmcthing that might guido us
"." did not live then, but who do
.." and have mans part to
. hn South.
.md him at his bookcase. Tha,
.'.'.f Il quaint affair. 1t is filled
"#.@ books, many of which We young
'" ln not know very we'll. They
...umes which relate to the pc
H..u the South was the zenith
t all the considerations, when
"# horn States were the largest
.t aHl political assets humanity
'. The worlds map. the hundred
"I Washington, Hancock, JEFF
Marshall. Lee. Monroe, Mad
.i"ury. Macon. Crawford Pres
.. McDufic, when the Southern
".'a people regarding DcmoC-
... liberty what the Palcstiniaus
H. regarding religion and the
"" had been regarding art ana
".n ] interrupted him he SWEPT
."d along their serried titles with
.'rIai dignity he has.
p" alc some springs, my SON
. that your cotton lint and coal
ought never to choke. | aln
he added facetiously, "oi
'htm go to found Southern
t ''Hg library to save your tribe
.t .'ue Of your flimSy foundations.