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THE TRAGIC DEATH
OF A BRAVE PICKET
BY GEO. M’RAE.
Late in. the year ISM Longstreet's corps
occupied the breastworks below Rich
mond. north of James' river, the right of
Benning's brigade being near Fort Harri
son. which was the most important strong
hold for defense on that part of our lines.
At this point our picket line was about a
mile in front of our main line, and the
space between thickly wooded. It could
not be seen from the main line. The en
emies' pickets were about 150 yards from
ours and in plain view of each other. Each
picket line had rifle pits, though at this
point they were not using them as they
were friendly and by mutual understand
ing refrained from firing on each other.
They would occasionally meet between the
lines and exchange newspapers, giving us
the New York papers for the Richmond
papers. They would frequently do other
trading in a small way, generally giving
our men ground coffee mixed wiin sugar
in exchange for tobacco. While we al
ways had plenty of tobacco and scarce of
coffee, they always had plenty of coffee
and were scarce of tobacco; though I
could not understand the cause of their
scarcity of tobacco when all the markets
of the world were open to them.
It was the custom when a picket de
sired to meet an opposite picket for the
purpose of exchange, he would wave a
newspaper which would be in like manner
answered by an opposite picket, and each
would immediately start to meet the oth
er. leaving their arms behind. These con
ferences were always very brief.
But those who have had no experience,
in.war must not suppose that such was
the case on all parts of tne line all the
time. At the same time the opposing pick
ets were friendly at some points on the
line, at other places It would be their
constant study to gain an advantage and
contrive ways openly or by stealthy craft
to kill each other. But at points where
they were friendly and either side for
some cause desired to resume hostilities,
they would first put the other side on fair
notice.
While we were occupying this line the
enemy would at intervals each day send
a shell from a gunboat in James river
over their line and ours, for as those on
the gunboat could not see or locate our
line to get the range, the shells, which
were very large, round ones, would al
ways fall or explode somewhere between
our picket and main line, where there was
no one for them to hurt. But it happened
different on one occasion. An old man
who was a conscript that had recently
been sent to one of the companies of
Benning s brigade, was out one day on
picket for the first time. He was not
cowardly, but seemed to be a careful, me
thodical old man. Not being used to them,
it was natural that he should not enjoy
the strange, unearthly screeching of the
huge shells as they would occasionally
pass over. Desiring to take some sleep
while off duty, he spread his blanket on
the bottom of one of the rifle pits as a
place least likely to be disturbed by the
shells, and. lying down, was soon fast
asleep, and perchance, was dreaming of
his beloved family and little farm in far
away Georgia, and it seemed that no hu
man forethought could have made a bet
ter selection for a place of safety. It seem
ed next to Impossible for one of the shells
from the gunboat to have injured him.
But he was scarcely more than asleep
when one of the shells, for the first and
only time, fell short, striking the ground
in front of us. but nearer to their own
pickets, and ricocheting, passed directly
over and high above the rifle pit, striking
a tall, springy tree high up near its top.
its force being nearly spent, rebounded
back and exploded with terrific force as it
fell on the old man lying asleep in the
rifle pit, scattering his body in all direc
tions in minute fragments.
One night we could hear the enemy
crossing James river on a pontoon bridge.
They seemed to be traveling rapidly; foot
men. horsemen and artillery; and the
length of time they were crossing Indicat
ed a large force, and we felt sure a sud
den attack would be made on us at some
point. But we could not know by the
noise made crossing the bridge which di
rection they were marching, whether they
were going from the north side, which
was our side, to attack some point on the
south side, or whether they were coming
from the south side to attack us on the
north side of the James river. I do not
know what time it was when General Lee
received correct information as to which
direction they were moving. However,
they attacked us on the north side at day
light. and it was late In the day before re
inforcements from the south side reached
us, a few minutes too late to assist us.
We supposed that If they were coming
to attack us on the north side they woul 1
strike us on our extreme left, and in this
way turn us oqt of our works before the
reinforcements could arrive from the
south aide to assist us. Fort Harrison was
almost the last point we expected they
would attack, as it would be folly for
them to attack it unless they could sur
prise it, and it was situated at such a
distance in rear of the picket line it was
not thought they could come on it by
surprise. But at daylight we who were
on the picket line were astonished to hear
sudden and rapid firing at Fort Harrison,
a mile in our rear.
They had formed their attacking col
umn in perfect quietness near their picket
line before daylight, and a little to the
right of where we of Benning's brigade
were on picket. They formed their line
in the shape of the letter V, with the point
directed to Fort Harrison, and before it
was quite daylight they moved rapidly on
the fort and took It. and as they could
enfilade our lines from the fort, our troops
were compelled to abandon them at once,
and then the two wings of the enemy's
line straightened out and passed over
them; we who were out on the picket line
barely escaping out before being cut off.
We retired to another line of works we
bad already prepared about two miles in
rear of those we were forced out of. On
this line was a fort called Fort Gilmer.
We only had men enough to occupy these
works from Fort Gilmer to the right, and
for about two hundred yards to the left
of the fort. The balance of our works were
empty when the enemy attacked Fort
Gilmer later In the day. That part of
our works unoccupied and defenseless,
was quite hidden by dense woods from the
view of the enemy, but directly in front
of Fort Gilmer was open level ground for
a mile from the fort. If the enemy had
known our works were defenseless and
made their second attack there they
would have turned us out of that line also,
unless our reinforcements who were al
ready near us and fast approaching, would
be strong enough to. drive them back
again. They did not suppose we had time
to fully man Fort Gilmer, and their idea
was to hasten and capture it before our
reinforcements could arrive, and which
they well knew were on the way from the
south side; and though they failed in their
attack on the fort they succeeded in mak
ing the attack a few minutes before our
reinforcements arrived and occupied the
vacant works.
But what made it the more interesting,
enlivening as well as amusing, our rein
forcements who were just arriving in
sight, did not know the enemy were de
feated and were retreating. As they
were advancing in line of battle at double
quick, their course directed towards the
vacant portion of the breastworks, they
first came in view of the vacant works
when they were about two hundred yards
from them. The guns were firing rapidly
from Fort Gilmer at the retreating enemy;
but the reinforcements thought that Fort
Gilmer was firing on the advancing ene
my, and supposing it was a race between
themselves and the enemy which would
reach the works first, every man of them
increasing their speed struck out with all
possible haste for the breastworks, in or
der to reach them before the enemy could.
If the enemy had let well enough alone
and contented themselves with driving
THE FEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1902.
us out of our first line of works, they
would have had much the best of the day.
but as it was. before the day ended they
got much the worst of It. losing many
more men than we did. They advanced
to the attack on Fort Gilmer in two lines.
The first line was composed of negro
troops, and the second line close following
it were white troops. The negro priso
ners afterwards told us there was no es
cape for them, that they were warned
that if they turned back the white troops
would fire on them. But the fort was
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Teaching School in a War Prison
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Mr. Jerome B. Manus, of Pendergrass,
Ga.. talks very thrilllngly of his prison life
at Indianapolis when a Federal prisoner
of war, from the fall of 1863 to the late
spring of 1865. In an interview about this
the other day Mr. Manus gave me his
and bis comrade's. Rev. W. H. Bridges,
experiences. Mr. Manus said: “I enlisted
in March. 1862. with company D. 55th regi
ment of Georgia Volunteers. Our first en
gagement was at Perryville, Ky.. under
General Kirby Smith, on July 20th.
1862. Although heavily outnumbered, we
won the fight; but not without a hard
contest. The union loss was about 7,000.
while ours was 400. Perryville Is situated
in a picturesque spot surrounded by hills.
We then marched toward Richmond, Ky.,
to aid it; but the battle was over ere
we arrived. We then struck camp near
Richmond. Ky„ where we stayed only a
few days, when we went to Knoxville.
Tenn.; but were ordered to Cumberland
Gap at once, where we held it until Feb
ruary 14, 1863, when we were sent to Hol
land courthouse. Ky., to aid Colonel
Hart's cavalry, against the bushwhack
ers. We were short of supplies, and suf
fered with cold and hunger; but we suc
ceeded in defeating the bushwhackers,
and returned to Cumberland Gap about
the 25th of February, 1863. We were then
■ent to Clinton. Tenn., where we remained
until May 23d, when we were sent to
Mount Celah. Ky.. to* defeat Wolford's
Union cavelry. The enemy, however,
fled before our arrival, and we returned
to Clinton; but remained there only a
brief period, until. we were sent to Knox
ville and remained there four days only,
THE LAST OF A GREAT RACE.
New York Sun.
Billy West, Billy Emerson, Billy Rice—
the stars fall fast. Yet these artists had
all but survived their art, for negro min
strelsy seems doomed, nor can even the
witty Mr. Dockstader give it a long re
prieve. The public taste changed; the
minstrels relied too much on their old lau
rels and wore out their welcome. We
know the weakness of the pralsers of past
time, and we will not say that the theater
at present seems to be Intended mainly
for the benefit or detriment of girls too
young to appreciate it, or as a means of
passing an evening to well-dressed, well
fed, mostly unimaginative folks to whom
it represents a few hours' rest, the inter
val between dinner and a supper at one of
the lobster palaces of which New York
will soon principally consist.
It seems, though, as though tastes and
times were simpler once. Perhaps people
laughed more easily. The generation that
felt the death of Dickens as a personal
loss had the gift of hearty laughter. Dur
ing the civil war and after, there w’as a
natural reaction toward gayety. The great
gods of ennui, the Ibsens and the Ttol
stois, were not droning as yet. People
were willing Ito enjoy themselves tn their
own way; and a manager couldn’t boost
a stick into a star, and a playwright was
not a cheap pathologist. Burton had not
long been dead; Wallack was still In his
prime. The name of John' Brougham will
recall to many not yet decrepit something
of the gayety of temper, the high spirits
<ft those not altogether remote days. Mr.
Joseph Jefferson Is the one eminent sur
vivor of the eminent actors on whom the
patrons of negro minstrelsy in its best
estate were brought up. Why, the boys
who waited with beating hearts for the
curtain to rise, who wouldn’t have missed
a sound of the orchestra, who yelled so
ferociously at the appearance of a "supe,”
had heard "Eddie” Booth offer his king
dom for a horse, especially of a Saturday
night, and felt their hair stand up as
"Ned" Forrest cursed Gonerll and Regan
with all the wind of those tremendous
lungs. ?,
Negro minstrelsy was no foolish whim.
It was legitimate art in its good time, and
Mr. Dockstader and Mr. Primrose have
not forgotten the traditions. A long
beadroll of names and companies comes
to the mind. The rattle of the bones
tickles the ear agreeably. The eye of
memory sees those preposterously black
races.lmposslble red lips, abysmal mouths,
worltfr-shadowing feet. Where did those
monumental shoes come from? The ban
jo has fallen Into the hands of the girls—
lucky banjo!—and they play it as if they
were petting a canary bird or toying with
a caramel. The old minstrels used to
whack it, thump it, take it by violence.
They were robuetrous with it.and yet they
dragged sweet tones out of it. The dia
logues between the Interlocutor and Mr.
Bones were meatier If less artistic than
Plato’s. The songs, comic or sentimental,
were given with an irrisistible heartiness,
often with a clever art. We can see Billy
Emerson as Policeman Moriarlty threat
ening the truckman: "I’ll have you off
that dray for ogling the ladles.”
The girls all cry,
As I go by.
"Are you there, Mo-rl-ar-i-tee?"
Good old Billy! He used to make every
body feel just as happy as a big sunflower.
He sang that, and "Love Among the Ros
es" and "Moriarlty” around the world.
And he was only one of a jovial crew,
high livers, honest and thirsty souls, most
of them. Like every honest good fellow,
they spent their money freely. Rich again
and again, and paupbrs at the end.i
Billy Rice with his stump speech; How
many ludicrous monologues, temperance
lectures anu what not, punctuated by the
thumps from an impossible cotton um
brella. have the minstrels given! The Mor
ris brothers; Nelse< Seymour, one of the
mightiest minstrels of all; Mr. Birch, Mr.
Backus, Mr, Bernard, Mr. Wambold, all
A BUSY WORKER.
Coffee Touches Up Different Spots.
Frequently coffee sets up rheumatism
when it is not busy with some other part
of the body. A St. Joe. Mo., man. P. V.
Wise, says: “About two years ago my
knees began to stiffen and my feet and
legs swell, so that I was scarcely able to
walk, and then only with the greatest
difficulty, for I was in constant pain. •
I consulted Dr. Barnes, one of the most
prominent physicians here, and he diag
nosed the case and inquired, 'Do you
drink coffee?’ ’Yes.’ ’You must quit us
ing it at once.* he replied. I did so and
commenced drinking Postum in its place.
The swelling in my feet and ankles and
the rheumatic pains subsided quickly,
and during the past 18 months I have en
joyed most excellent health. and. al
though I have passed the 68th mile post I
have never enjoyed life better.
Good health brings heaven to us here.
I know of many cases where wonderful
cures of stomach and heart trouble have
been made by simply throwing away cof
fee and using Postum.”
SHELL BURST OVER HIM AS
HE LAY ASLEEP—AN INCI
DENT NEAR RICHMOND.
better prepareu for defense than they sup
posed. and tne white troops were glad
enough to get out of the reach of its
guns. Many of the negroes did reach the
fort, but without any intention of taking
it, but to beg to be taken over as pris-
oners. • i
‘Tired, weak, nervous" means impure,
impoverished blood. The nerves must be
fed by pure blood, which may be had by
taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the best blood
purifier. ***
when we went to Cumberland Gap to de
fend it. Here we were hemmed by Burn
sides on the Tennessee side and Shackel
ford on the Kentucky side, and after some
skirmishing against an overwhelming
force we were surrendered by General
Frazer. My regiment was taken to Camp
Douglas. 111., but owing to sickness. I was
sent to Indianapolis. We surrendered on
the night of September 9. 1863. A few
days later Rev. W. H. Bridges was cap
tured at Morristown, Tenn., and taken to
Indianapolis, to my prison. Here he
taught school with us. his fellow-priso
ners, as pupils. We suffered with cold
and hunger, being fed quarter-rations.
He required no remuneration whatever,
and we grew to love and admire him; for
he was a noble comrade. After eighteen
months Rev. Bridges and myself were sent
as prisoners to Baltimore, Md„ and stayed
there three days, when we were sent to
Aiken's landing on the James river, and
there to Richmond, Va., where we
I received our parole for thirty days, and
later came back home. On the return
home Rev. Bridges was taken violently
ill at Charlotte, and was detained there
two weeks.',’ , , . ,
ARNOLD B. HALL.
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fresh in properly regulated and grateful
memories; Luke Schoolcraft, the Water
melon Man and Hdrry Bloodgood—claud
ite Jam rlvosjaurn off the reminiscences!
They say Nell Bryant is lying stricken
over in Brooklyn at a hospital, and they
say he is more than 70. Lord, Lord, what
a foolish thing time is! it must be nearly
twenty years since Neil Bryant stripped
off the cork, and he is forgotten already.
He was in the twenties when he and his
brothers opened a theatre on Broadway,
somewhere in the fdiir hundreds, three or
four years before the war. Bryant’s min
strels had their home in Fourteenth street
afterward, say, from 1867 or thereabouts,
and moved to Twenty-third street in 1870,
perhaps, but we are not swearing to any
well known as the custom house, and
they have chased the blues away from
thousands. George Fox.- too soon to be
come the melancholy ‘figure which used
to be led about the slrbets of Cambridge
in the early 70s, was* at the Olympia. Mr.
Birch and his halo were at five
hundred and somethftifc Broadway. Kelly
and Leon's minstrels were on Broadway,
near Eleventh street. Harry Beckett was
at Miss Lina Edwin's theater—Oh, yes.
there was such a theater in ’7O, and near
it. we think, was the Globe, where we had
the Ineffable pleasure of seeing Mr. Josh
Hart in the Sea Serpent. Mr.
Antonius Pastor, the immortal; was on
the Bowery then. MY. Pastor came over
with Mr. H. Hudsofi, and his hand al
ready grasped that immortal opera hot
or "dry’ hide.” May Tony live forever ajid
a day; but most of the theaters and the
actors of that time are gone.
The race of negro minstrels will be as
extinct as the cave bear or the mam
moth in a few yeai-s: They gave a good
deal of harmless pleasure; and there are
many who will join us in kind recalling
and remembrance of those noisy, rollick
ing and sentimental artists. It can not
be denied that ther* is some selfishness
In the regret. The death of the favorites
of his youth -makes a man feel more
keenly that he. too, is growing old. Poor
old Nell Bryant, and all the rest of that
gay company! The Finches of the Grove
are silent. The Cave of Harmony is
closed. .
Basra the Thß Rin(l You Haw Wways
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with my husband, Butler Kennedy, to cor
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Address
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No. 6 Harper St., Rome, Ga.
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Republicans Opposed to Reciprocity.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
. The Republican party was fully committed
to the reciprocity of the Dlngley act, buy the
senate has ignored the treaties ao far made
under it. That bill, however, was passed nearly
five years ago, and tn that space of time
opinions change essentially. But even with the
assent of the house, given as a concession to
public sentiment, it Is by no means certain that
a reciprocity treaty would get through the
senate.
Greater Than the Lion.
Catholic Standard and Times.
"Yes, he’s absolutely penniless now, but
once he was a prominent contractor in New
York and got the lion’s share of all the con
tract work given out by the Democratic admin
istration.”
"Ah! I suppose when he turned over ths
Tiger’s share he didn't have much left.”
There seems to have been at least one
practical sort of woman among those who
make these hysterical demonstrations
over Paderewski. He lost a SI,OOO watch
and chain in one of the scuffles the other
day.
VERSES FOR A CHILD.
We lived out under the pear tree.
We dined upon tarts and cream.
I married you there forever;
But. dear, 'twas only a dream!
We railed away In the branches
To countries strange and new.
For we owned estates In Dreamland;
But, sweetheart, it Isn’t true!
We made a church in the pear tree.
Where the angels came to sing;
We stroked their wings—but, dearest.
You mustn't believe a thing!
We cut our names in the tree trunk.
So the bark could never grow.
And the Dryad cried! But, my darling,
"Twas none of it really so!
—Josephine Dodge Doskam in McClure's Mag
azine.
Unwritten Chapters in
Georgia History
When I was writing the Life of Bishop
Pierce an old book of records came into
my hand whloh gives a charming view of
a scene which our people will never see
agate. The view of an old time debatlpg
society in a Georgia village. The book
holds the minutes of the Greensboro
Polemic Moral society and gives its consti
tution. Its first session was the 10th of
April, 1817. Nicolas Lewis was appointed
chairman and Dr. Lovlck Pierce stated
the object of the meeting. A constitution
was provided and the following members
united with the society.
Sterling Grimes, Green Bush, Arch H.
Scott, Robert Martin, Benjamin Jepson,
James Armour, Vincent Sanford, Thomas
F. Foster, Nicolas Lewis. Ebenezer Tor
rence, Jonathan Pickens, John Bethune
and William B.' Holtzclaw. Greensboro
was then about 30 years old. It was the
center of one of the richest counties in
the state, and was famous as the abode es
wealth and refinement. The list of mem
bers will be to the Journal readers one
of real interest, for hundreds of them
scattered all through the south and south
west will find their ancestors in this little
group. Sterling Grimes, who heads the
list was one of the famous Grymes family
of the northern neck of Virginia and af
terwards of Elbert county.
Green Bush belonged to the famous
Bush family, in whose neighborhood a
Methodist annual conference the second
ever held In central Georgia was held in
1808. Arch H. Scott was a classical teach
er, the father of Rev. Dr. W. J. Scott,
who died in Atlanta, and was so often a
contributor to The Journal. Robert Mar
tin belonged. .1 think, to the family of
North Carolinians into which Steven A.
Douglass married. John. Armour was a
descendant of a Scotch Irishman who
came from Ireland to Virginia and then
to North Carolina and then to Georgia,
relatives doubtless of the Armours who
form the collosal provision house of Chi
cago. . ..
Vincent Sanford, long the clerk of the
Greene county court, and noted for his
purity of life, and public spirit, a Baptist
of the best type. Thomas F.-Foster was
the son of George Wells Foster, and the
uncle of Bishop Pierce, a prominent law
yer, and afterward a member of congress.
Nicolas Lewis was the brother, I think,
of Mrs. Hugh A. Haralson and William
B. Haralson was a young Virginian
whose son Hugh was afterward for
so long a time a congressman and the
father of Mrs. Gordon, and Mrs. Judge
Bleckley. Lovlck Pierce was the "old
doctor,” then he was a local preacher and
a practicing physician, and his old home
in Greensboro is still standing. Ebenezer
Torrence was at that time the clerk of
the court. He was the half brother of
Mrs. Judge Longsfreet, and her guardian,
and while not a member of the church
himself, yet was a devout Christian, and
ten years after this time led Judge Long
street to give up his skepticism and be
come an earnest Christian, and afterward
a Methodist preacher.
John Bethune was the famous old gen
eral who in Columbus defied the awful
city council and the mighty mayor and re
fused to pay a tax on the vegetables bo
was selling from his own patch, and
whipped the fight. He was not only fam
ous as a lawyer, but accidentally discover
ed Blind Tom’s genius and made a for
tune out of the discovery.
Os Jonathan Bickers I know nothing, but
I see ever and anon a poem of real merit
from D. G. Bickers, And the name is so
unusual that it is likely he is of the same
stock. At the next meeting Mr. John
West and Colonel Nicolas Howard were
admitted to membership. Colonel Howard
was a bright young Virginia merchant,
who was the ancestor of Judge Howard
Van Epps and of George Muse. John
West ancestor of those Wests who remov
ed to Polk county.
On each Thursday evening the society
for a while met to discuss profound ques
tions. The first was as to “whether jus
tice was Innate or acquired.” There was a
long and animated debate and that justice
was Innate Messrs. Bethune, Jepson,
Lewis, R. Martin, J. Martin and Dr. Ray
voted aye.
That it was acquired, was the opinion of
Messers. Bickers, Bush, Foster, Haralson,
Pierce, Sanford, Scott, Torrence and West.
So it was decided it was natural to be
just, a fact which I think few now dis
pute.
The little society 'tackled hard questions
and debated them vigorously, and one of
its questions was as to the future state
of the heathen. They debated the question
till 11 o’clock on a hot June night, and
Messrs. Foster, Lewis, Martin, Pierce,
Ray and Torrence voted for the poor
heathen, but Messrs. Bickers, Haralson,
Sanford, Scott and West refused the poor
fellows a shadow of a hope.
Every now and then Dr. Pierce was
wanted to deliver a moral lecture or
preach a sermon. They tackled that ques
tion, ever a living one, "Is dancing sin
ful?" but it was too weighty a subject for
one evening, and so there was an adjourn
ed term and then the vote was taken.
Messrs. Bethune, Bickers, Foster, How
ard, Martin, Pierce and Torrence said
yes, but Mr. Nicolas Lewis said nay. Then
they took up the question as to whether
duelling was justifiable and all said nay
except Mr. Thomas J. Moore, who said
yea. They made a rule that no member
should speak at one time more than two
hours. Then came the question of taking
usury, and there was a close vote, five
against taking and four who said no sin
in it, among those in the negative being
my kinsman. Colonel Nicolas Howard.
In November, 1817, Mr. Torrence pre
sented the name of a sprightly young
lawyer, A. B. Longstreet, who had now
settled in Greensboro to practice law.
Then Julius Alford, the ancestor of Al
bert Cox and Thomas Dawson, joined the
debaters. They discussed the question
as to whether the cultivation of literature
advanced the happiness of the nation.
They decided it did, but Dr. Roy, Judge
Longstreet and Judge Bethune said no.
They contributed 12 l-2c each to buy
candles and candlesticks.
Then the question in which the good
women were interested was warmly de
bated. "Is' it morally wrong to follow
fashion in dress?” The debaters took
their places.
Judge Betham. Mr. Bickers, Mr. San
ford, Mr. Woodham, Mr. Henry Lewis
and strangely enough Mr. Longstreet said
it was but Messrs Alfred Haralson, Nic
Lewis. West. Redd, Foster, Forrest and
Dawson said it was not. The young law
yer spoke on one side, but voted on the
other and the Only ones who voted that
it was sinful to follow the fashions were
Dr. Pierce, Vincent Sanford, Mr. Bickers
and Henry Lewis. Then came the ques
tion of man’s free agency. It was too
weighty a question for one evening, and
so it was given a second evening. At
last the debate was over, and the only
advocate of a bound will was Brother
Bickers, who held his ground. Every
Thursday evening the little group met to
discuss some weighty questions. They had
been of a moral or metaphysical charac
ter exclusively, but they enlarged their
ideas and discussed political questions.
One of these was: “Should the State be
Divided Into Congressional Districts?”
This was carried in the negative.
The society continued to grow and
among the new members were young Wil
liam C. Dawson, who over thirty years af
terward was the popular senator. Th a
only question 1 find in which there was a
unanimous vote was “Is the banking sys
tem advantageous to the community?”
All said It was.
The society having flourished from April,
1817, to December 15, 1818, disappears from
view. Its last question concerned the
study of the dead languages. At the last
meeting Mr. Redd, Mr. Bethune, Mr. Fos
ter, Mr. Nic Lewis, Mr. Woodham were
all who were present. Whether it was
frozen out or not, or whether the shillings
to buy candles were withheld, or the rec
ord book was lost, I cannot say. t Greene
BY GEORGE G.
••• SMITH,
§ VINEVILLE,
MACON, GA.
was now in her golden day. The lands
were fresh and rich. Cotton was high, ne
groes were cheap. In that neglected book,
the best picture of Georgia life ever paint
ed, "William Mitten,” by Judge Long
street, we have’a good picture of the lit
tle village before the coming of Bermuda
grass, and the exodus of the people. The
descendants of these old Greene county
people are scattered from Georgia to the
Pacific coast. The people who have reach
ed high distinction who are connected
with those who formed the Greensborough
Polemic and Moral society, it would not
be easy to enumerate.
Nearly all these families moved to the
west of the state or to Alabama. Judge
Longstreet was the president of two col
leges and two universities; Wm. C. Daw
son was a senator; Thos. Foster was a
congressman, and Hugh A. Haralson a.
congressman, and Dr. Lovlck Pierce has
a world-wide fame.
Searching over the old books in Greens
boro is like old mortality among the
tombs. As one rides through the country
and marks what has been, the feeling of
sadness grows. Greensboro has under
gone fewer changes than any Georgia
village. The court house stands now
where it stood then. There • the Pierce
house, the home of Nicolas Howard, and
of John Howard, my grandfather, of the
Dawsons and Grimes and Fosters and in
these homes there is the same old Virginia
hospitality and the same kind of viands
as then.
It is the only place in Georgia where I
find beaten biscuits and Brunswick stems.
I have had rare pleasure in studying the
have had rare pleasure in studying the
picture of this debating club. The ladles
did not apparently attend the debates,
but when Dr. Pierce once a month de
livered a moral lecture or preached a
sermon they were out in force, and now
that the Moral and Polemic society said
it was not sinful to follow the fashions,
we may be sure that they were not slow
to show what the fashions were.
Long since the last of these debaters
has gone, but the same questions which
engaged them engage us now.
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Many years ago there lived in a central
Kentucky county an old gentleman by
the name of Stormes. He had two daugh
ters, one of whom married a man named
Ware and the other a man by the name of
Hicks. Both couples immediately com
menced housekeeping in the neighborhood.
Meanwhile the old man lost his wife, and
after mourning what he considered a
proper length of time, proceeded to in
vestigate the matrimonial market.
He had a snug little farm, with neat
and comfortable buildings, the necessary
amount of stock, some ready money and.
among other things, possessed numerous
bee gums and a lot of old tobacco, which
he kept for his individual use.
In a short while after he instituted
search for a wife he was rewarded by
finding a handsome widow, who was of
rather unusual size and, withal, a good
woman, who appeared to take his fancy,
and they were married.
The usual rows grew up in the family
on account of the second marriage, and
many things were done by his sons-in
law to annoy and bedevil him. - At length
his bee gums were spirited away, and a
short while after ins tobacco went in the
same manner.
Stormes was a Christian man, but this
was more than he could stand. In a fit of
anger he accused his sons-in-law of the
theft, by reason of which each of them
promptly sued him for slander, concluding
to obtain his estate by law, as no other
opportunity was presented.
When the case came on lor trial
Stormes secured the services of Major
Turner, of Richmond, who was one of the
most successful lawyers of his day. He
was an old-fashioned, plain, but strong
speaker, and could weep copiously at a
moment’s warning.
The defendant admitted the speaking of
the words and alleged their truth. At the
conclusion of the speech for the plaintiff
Major Turner arose and addressed the
jury about as follows:
"Gentlemen of the jury, you all know
my client. You know that for more than
a half century he has led a spotless life.
During all that time he has been a zeal
ous Campbellite {the jury was mostly of
that persuasion, a fact that had not es
caped the astute major). You know that
not a great while ago he lost his wife,
since which he married the second time
and his last wife sits beside him today—
and a good looking woman she is, too. one
whom any man on that jury would not be
ashamed of and one whom I would be
proud to have myself. After the marriage
the old man settled down, hoping to pass
the remainder of his days in peace and
happiness. When the winter came on, af
ter feeding and housing his cattle and par
taking of his evening meal, he would sit
down beside his companion and engage
in pleasant conversation. And as the night
wore on and while the cold winds were
whistling around his cottage he would
open the old cupboard and taking there
from his bottle of apple brandy, would
make two nice toddies.sweeten with honey,
and he and his wife would sit down beside
the table, while the hickory logs in the
old-fashioned fire-place were cracking
with flames shedding a genial glow and
pleasant warmth about the room, and
sip their toddies, and the good wife
would bring the pipes and tobacco and
they would smoke and sip and sip and
smoke until the bliss was too great to be
marred by conversation and amidst pro
found silence, as the blue wreaths ascend
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were, in a phantasmagoria of sentimental
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the thoughts of the felicity of the present.
“And while living in this Eden of bliss
with not a wave of trouble rolling across
his peaceable heart (here the tears
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streamed down the Major’s face) along
came these infernal sons-in-law, with heil
in their hearts and without the fear of
God before their eyes, and steal his bee
gums and tobacco, and then, because he
calls them the thieves that they are, sue
him for damages and attempt to rob him
of his home in his old age.
“Great God, gentlemen, did you ever
hear of such a damnable outrage!”
In uttering the closing sentence the Ma
jor's voice reached the highest pitch and
rang through the court room like a
trumpet blast, and with the perspiration
standing out in great drops and mingling
with his tears he took his seat, midst
tumultuous applause which the court was
unable to restrain.
It is perhaps unnecessary to add that
Stormes won his case.
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A distinguished member of the Harrods
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died only a few years ago. It is said of
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part of it was caused entirely by an
awkward mistake. Among other pathetic
things, he said: *
"Yes, gentlemen, these poor helpless
women were driven out qf their homes,by
these ruffians. Not only driven out; but
Into a dark, cold, chilly, December night
in the month of January.”