The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-12-11

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~ though have known you
since you first entered Con-
gress and attracted the attention of
the public by your bold and outspok-
en- sentiments in regard to the
abuses of the times and to the mem
Der Of Congress who in g maudiin
condition became bewildered and
said: MIR. Speaker, where was I
att" I also followed you through
your political career as a Populist
leader, and while I admired your
superb courage, did not agree with
you in your break from the party,
and thought at the time, and still
believe, that it would have been bet
ter for you, the party and the coun-
try st large, if Tou had remained in
the party and made the Aght for the.
reforms for which you Justly con-
tended, than to hare done as you
did-atte1npted to organize 3 new
party. / therefore remained in the
party, and have lived to see many of
the policies for which you contended
adopted and carried Into law.
I want to congratulate you on
your recent great victory IN vin3icat-
ing the time-honored and welI~estab-
the untrammeled iaszapeu8 ence Of q
free press, the palladium Of American
liberty. The Catholic hierarchy as
the agency OF Rome and it's aggres-
siv and unscrupuIeus policy of max
ing America Catholic, constitute a
dark speck upon our political and
social horizon that ought to be
alarming to ali thoughtful, liberty
InT4r o. a Yon~ioo51 0SkSwnnc G
Jefferson said in regard to the FIRST
agitation Of the Slavery question,
that it fell upon his ears with ali
the fearful alarm of a fire bell at
night SO this question Of Catholic
supremacy in America, with all it's
frightful and bloody history and ty-
Fanny behind it, is calculated to
alarm all thoughtful and patriotic
American citizens. So here's to you,
Mr. Watson; stand by your guns
clay on, Macduff, and damned be he
who first cries, Hold! Enough"
But the purpose Of this letter was
not the Catholic question. In your
issue of Nov. 27, l notice letter of
an old Yankee soldier, r. NJ Fulton,
Der of the Twenty-fifth Ohio Regi-
Georgia at Green Brier, Va, in 1851,
and subsequent battles My heart is
drawn to this old soldier with pecu-
liar attraction. [ am g native GeOr-
gian, was born in Talbot county, Ga,
in 1848, and reared in Marion coun-
ty, and was a boy Of twelve when the
war between the States began.
was reared and educated with all the
pride and prejudice Of the old South
of antebellum times. | had q broth
er four years my senior, and who
was barely sixteen when the toxin OF
war sounded in 81. He volunteered
in the second company which left
Marion county, being Company K, in
the Twelfth Georgia. He followed
the fortunes of that distinguished
regiment all through the Valley Cam
paign under Jackson, down to Rich
mond, through the undoing of Nc
Clelland, and on to the fatal field CT
the Second Manassas, where at the
bloody railroad cut, behind which
jackson planted himself to stay the
= tide of Pope's legions until his great
chief should come. There it was he
dropped his stainless sword, and hes
buried in an unknown and unmarked.
grave. | have his letters written
from the time he was mustered in
at Richmond, until lie reached the
fatal field of Manassas. They are
old and dingy with age, and written
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