Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-06-14
5"UNCLE" w WRITES.
Reader of Fhe Advertiser Sixty
Two Years. Down on Mex
leans. Writes of War
Times.

FlISdT AUVeTL.SeI.- Saw LII tuc
Southern Cultivator for June where
there was a man that has been TAX
ing that paper continuously for fifty
years, and it put me to thinking
about how long I had been reading
the Edge6eld Advertiser. I, if /
live to see the tenth day of this
month, will be seventytwo years
old, and my father was taking it
when; / can first remember, and l
canssafely say that I have been read.
ing The Advertiser since | was a
ten.year old boy; not regularly, but
most of the time for sixty-two years.
Well, I am certainly glad to hear
from Russell Wright again, and l
would reiterate every word he has
to say about mothers. What a
blessing to the girl or boy that has
Christian mother, or man that
hasa Christian wife. Must / say
it!'Tis sad, but true sometimes,
the sons and daughters do not seem
to appreciate the prayers and cares
of their mothers as they ought.
Write again, Bro. Wright.
Ialso see in the same paper that
Jabez Garnett is not dead or even
captured by the bandits or Mexi'
caniwidow, but likely to have to go
to some other place to live on ac-
count Of twelve-month drought,
but am afraid Pindar wv. J. Ro-
chelIe)is either captured or hid in
swamp or an alligator hole, and
/ don't blame him if he is hiding,
for I certainly think if l was any
wherein Texas l would be looking
out for No. l, for Uncle Sam ID cer-
tainly very slow in teaching those
Mexicans lesson that they would
notforeet verv soon.
Do I want. the United States to
have war? No, l don't, but if /
have a. corn on my toe do you think
i Waaastd u let a fellow stand ~on it?
No; sir; but should he accidently
tread on that corn and apologize, of
course I would readily forgive him;
but should he turn about and step
on that corn again and again l am
inclined to think that the time had
come where patience would cease to
be virtue, and l would not be sur
prised if there would not be some
battling on the nose done. But l
hear some one say: Look here,
old man, you are mighty old to talk
about battling" That is true, but |
am still in the flesh, and am some
what like the Indian who went with
a missionary to the Southern Bap-
tist convention, and the missionary
was asked if the Indian could rea-
son, and he (the missionary asked
if any one in the crowd had cake
of soap about their person, and one
of the preachers present handed him
cake of soap, and, it being nice
looking cake, something new to the
Indian, the missionary gave it TO the
Indian and told him to bite it. He
bit it and made very .wry face.
He was told to bite it again, but the
Indian shook his head and said:
TOO much of thing was enough" :"
and that explains just how | see the
way those Mexicans are doing, and
tits about time for them to be given
to understand that the United States
has had enough of it. | believe
Governor Ferguson of Texas sees it
that way, too, and if the United
States will just say to him, we give
you the right to put things in order
in Mexico, it would not be long be-
fore there would be something do
ing across the Rio Grande.
Well, really l did not intend
writing what | have, but intended
giving en- incident that took place
during the Christmas holidays of
1862. (This was given birth by
seeing an account of the death of
Col. John S. Mobley in the Tri-
weekly Constitution of Atlanta }
On the oath of December a good
portion of the Second South Carolina
Cavalry, with some from every reg
iment in Hampton's brigade, broke
camp and went with Gen. j.
E. B. Stuart across the Rapahan-
mock river, and was in the enemy's
line by the morning of the 25th, and
it was about the 2Sth before the
Yankees knew that Stuart was on a
raid within their lines, and we were
then near the head of Ocquan Bay.
Col. M. G. Butler was thrown on
the extreme left, and as we came
near to piece of woods we saw
two yankee videttes in the road
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