The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-20
Provision Made for All
Whose Property Does
Not Exceed $500.
EGBERT BEALL WRITES TO RE-
FLUTE STATEMENT PUBLISHED
SOME TIME SINCE TO EFFECT
THAT BUT $f8 PER ANNUM WAS
ALLOWED - A TRIBUTE TO
FALLEN HEROES.
Editor Pensacola Journal:

Editor Pensacola Journal:
There appeared in a communica-
ton in your paper several weeks ago
the statement that South Carolina
only allowed TO her disabled and in
digent veterans, a pension of eighteen
dollars a year. | was satisfied at the
time that it was an error, and de-
termined to look into the facts when
came here again. l called on Gov.
Henderson today, and he introduced
me to Adj. Gen. Jones, and also to the
members of the pension board of the
state now in session, and l learned
from these gentlemen that the state
divides her Confederate pensioners
into several classes. Class A receives
eight dollars a month. Glass B. re-
ceived six dollars a month Glass c
receives four dollars per month and
all veterans (and widows of veter-
ans) whether disabled or not, whose
property does not exceed five hundred
dollars, get eighteen dollars and
seventy-hve cents yearly.
The legislature appropriated three
thouSRld five hundred dollars to be
used by the veterans to defray the
expenses of the INDECENT ones to the
state reunion and also appropriated
five hundred dollars for the pur-
CHdSS VI dTllHCldl llInDS IOf IlOS3
who lost an arm or leg.
At the time l read the statement
that South Carolina only allowed
eighteen dollars a year to her yeter-
ans, it occurred to me as inconceiv-
able that the state that produced
such men as Hampton, Rhett, Butler
and host of other heroes, should be
so wanting in gratitude and patriot
ism, as TO fail to provide for the dis
abled and unfortunate survivors of
the lost cause, and l ask the publica-
ton of this refutation of the state
ment referred to-, as it caused so
much surprise and comment among
the members of the different South
ern organizations in Pensacola, at
the time, and the misstatement of
facts was read by thousands among
your daily readers. .
II not infringing on your kindness,
and valuable space too much. | would
like to say further that first in front
of the capital stands a magnificent
Confederate monument, upon which,
are the following inscriptions They
deserve to be written in letters or
gold and pictures of silver" in the
heart and mind of every true South
erner. They tell in simple truth. in
language rarely beautiful. and grand
ly eloquent, of the appreciation of the
people of South Carolina for the
brave sons who represented her from
Sumter TO Appomattox:
This monument perpetuates the
memory of those, who true to
the instincts of their birth--faith-
full to the teachings of their
fathers - constant in the love
of the state-died in the performance
of their dutV Who nave 1lOrifipd a
fallen cause by the simple manhood
of their lives, the patient endurance
of suffering and the heroism of death.
And who, in the dark hours of i'm
prisonment, in the hopelessness OF
the hospital, in the short, sharp agony
of the field, found support and consO-
latiOn in the belief that at home they
would not be forgotten"
LET the stranger who may in flu
ture times read this inscription recOg-
niZe that these were men whom
power could not corrupt, whom death
could not terrify, whom defeat could
not dishonor, and let their virtues
plead for just judgment of the
cause in which they perished.1
Let the South CarOlinian of an
other generation remember that the
state taught them how to live and
how to die. and that from her broken
fortunes she has preserved for her
children the priceless treasure of
claim the same birthright that truth,
courage and patriotism endure for
ever
EGBERT BEALL.
Co. b, 18th Georgia.
Columbia S c. ADr II