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JOHN H. SEALS. - Editor and Proprietor.
W. B. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor.
MRS. MARY E. BRYAN (*) Associate Editor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 20, 1878.
Burton Bros., of Opelika, ;Ala., are Agents for
Tee Sunny South.
A list of the delegates to the International
Sunday School Convention will be published in
our next issue.
Tlie Old Tabby House.—We do not know
what to say to our readers in explanation of the
non-appearance of this story for two weeks.
We have had no word of explanation from the
distinguished author at Washington, but fear
he is overwhelmed with official duties.
Woman’s Patriotism.—In this country, wom
en so seldom exert any avowed influence upon
the political transactions, that we are not
in the habit of thinking of them in connec
tion with public sentiment When our journals
speak of the opinions and wishes of the people,
it is generally understood to be the pant-wearing
portion of the population to which reference is
made. The fact is certainly not duly apprecia
ted that women may be affected by political oc
currences, and therefore have an interest in the
management of public affairs. Nor can all of the
sex find a full outlet for their energies in mak
ing bread and trimming bonnets. While most
women do make slaves of themselves for the sake
either of being model housekeepers, or of being
leaders in society, there are some who think of
other things than these. There are those, who
are not to be classed with vile intriguers, or
strong-minded females, who seek to exert and do
exert a powerful, and in most instances a salu
tary influence upon politics. Despite the Salic
Law, woman will rule the camp and court as
fully as she does the grove, so long as she is pos
sessed of tact, wit and beauty.
It is well that it is so; for woman’s love of
country is purer than that of man. In her devo
tion to a cause there is less of selfishness—less
looking after the main chance. She gives her
self to it entirely, allowing no greed of gain, or
distinction to interfere with her consecration.
When men embark in a revolution there is al
most invariably something of business mingled
with their motives. One is impelled by disap
pointed ambition, and another by ambition for
power; wealth, or glory which he trusts will not
be disappointed. Often close beside the noblest
are seen in dark relief the worst principles of his
nature. Woman sympathizes with and shares
iue cause wmuu uoi uuoumhv*, , --
er has espoused she believes in with her whole
heart. Let others have what opinion they may
of the justice or injustice of the quarrel, it is
holy to her. When she assists with trembling
fingers in buckling on the warrior’s grim ar
mor, she believes she is preparing him to battle
for the right, and this enables her to repress the
starting tear and to hide the heaviness of her
heart behind a smile. Hampden, Jefferson and
Mirabeau uttered brave words that enthused
continents and changed the destinies of nations
bat neither they, nor their illustrious compeers
in council and action ever displayed a patriot
ism surpassing the high-souled devotion of wo
man.
History will confirm all that we have said.
Many generations have admired the Spartan
Matron who bade her sons return with their
shields or on them. From heroic mothers the
sons of Rome received that firmness of temper
which gave them the mastery over all the other
nations. But we need not go back to those dim
records. In our own land and in our age, we
have witnessed most signal displays of woman’ g
patriotism. In our war of secession, our women
gave up unmurmuringly all they held dear,
and still kept heart when statesmen and warri
or* despaired. In war woman is called on to
exercise the bravery of patience, a virtue of a far
higher type than bravery in action. But while
we joy in the fortitude with which she sustains
this fearful ordeal, it is not amid such scenes
that we best love to contemplate her. We far
prefer to trace her influence in the private walks
of life—in the books she writes, in the sentiments
she utters, and the studious desires she ever
evinces to make home a place of happiness. As
a patriot she figures best and does most as a fire
side teacher, instilling with graceful tact into the
minds of her offspring those principles which
shall make men firm in counsel and bold in ac
tion.
Petty Animosities.—It has been pronounced
by critics a defect in the earliest and grandest
of epic poems that it has a theme no more dig
nified than a wrangle between two chieftains for
the possession of a female slave. While the great
bard has sought to ennoble the wrath by por
traying the evils which it brought upon the
Grecian host, it must after all be pronounoed
petty. But while perhaps less dignified than it
might be, this deficiency is fully atoned for by
its trueness to nature. Petty animosities had
much to do with directing the movements of ar
mies and the councils of nations in the days of
Homer, and so do they now. The inward his
tory of the greatest political revolutions would
reveal the fact that the spitefulness of some fe
male intriguer, or the jealousy of some disap
pointed aspirant are the hinges upon which mo
mentous events move. We are told that the
greatest captain of modern times was stopped
in his career of victory, the tottering throne of
Louis the Fourteenth saved from utter over
throw, an efficient ministry turned out of office
in disgrace and the whole political force of Eu
rope changed because a little water had been
thrown on Mrs. Mashan’s gown. Nor are we
disposed to reject the statement as a bold
flight of imagination when told that our own
war of Secession and the painful consequences
which have flowed from it were hurried on by
the resentment of Peggy O'Neal at being denied
admission to Mrs. Calhoun's drawing-rooms.
Certain we are that causes as seemingly insig
nificant have been among the leading influences
in bringing about the greatest events.
But we design to speak not so much of the
conseauences of petty animosities, as of their
frequency, and harassing nature. They exist
in almost every community, and constitute one
of the greatest hinderancesto social enjoyments.
It is very difficult to get men cordially united to
any scheme for their own progress and improv-
ment. One holds off because he cherishes dis
like for another who is hearty in the movement,
or perhaps many refuse co-operation because
each one cannot be leader. Many of the best
laid plans for ameliorating the condition of so
ciety have thus come to nought because of little
prejudices which those who cherish them would
be ashamed to avow. Organizations designed
to promote the moral culture and intellectual
advancement of their numbers have fallen to
pieces because they could not agree. Even the
church, the most sacred and beneficent of all
organizations, has suffered largely from this
cause. Many a body of professed Christians
fails of extending any wholesome influence upon
the world around them, because of the uncon
fessed spites and jealousies which they enter
tain against each other. There are not a few
men, who however unlike Achilles in strength
and heroism, resemble him in the one particu
lar of being willing to see their cause fail rather
than that one they hate should be aggrandized
What Substitute Z—Almost since its first
introduction into the world men have
been writing against Christianity; but
who has ever suggested a creed more potent
to curb the bad passions of men and in
fuse peace and good will on the earth? The
demand to do this must stop the mouth of the
loudest infidel. If all the religion be but a de
lusion—if Christianity be but a myth and a fa
ble, it must still be admitted that it has done
good, and if we now set it aside, what shall we
take in its place, Some influence we must have
to restrain the corrupt tendencies of human na
ture. When Tyndall, Huxley and their disci
ples shall have reasoned God too far away to be
perceptible with their spontaneous generation
and evolution, they will have a harder task to
perform in showing how this last product of
protoplasm with all its powers to feel, think and
act, in passion so like a demon, in intellect so
like a God shall be induced to refrain from
evil, and learn to live in accordance with its
higher instincts. *
Sunday morning dancing is getting quite fash
ionable. In Williamsburg last Saturday night,
the proprietor of Francois Hall, where there
was a dance, greatly insulted the crowd of young
roughs by turning off the gas at midnight. They
tore up the pavement, and riddled the building
i with stones. Not a pane of glass was left and
Hhe furniture was all broken.
tssures us no man can govern, has
much to do with producing and keeping alive
these petty animosities. The slanderous tongue
is in fact the greatest blister of humanity. The
wounds which it can inflict upon the spirit are
more severe and more lasting than those which
the hand can inflict upon the body. The voice
once uttered knows not to return, and the effects
of a bitter speech can never be wholly effaced.
Apologies may be received, resentment may no
longer show itself, but only with the noblest na
tures is the offence really forgiven. The dislike
remains hidden away to become the controlling
influence of some course of conduct, which, to
one not apprised of the facts seems perfectly in
explicable.
We are not sure that civilization, as it renders
the repression of the passions more necessary,
tends to promote these secret animosities. The
savage openly resents every affront, and when
he has exacted reparation for the real or imag
inary wrong he may be again at peace with his
neighbor. But in polite society, this may not
be. The covert sarcasm cannot be punished
with a blow, but it may awaken a dislike which
may linger in the mind for years. We suspect,
that were the little animosities analyzed and
traced back to their origin, many of them would
be found to have arisen from words spoken
in seeming jest. Often the offender is quite un
aware of the offence he has given, and if inform
ed of it, might be perfectly willing to repair the
injury so far as a full acknowledgement would
do so. We need more candor as well as more
Christian forbearance. If thy brother offend thee
go and tell him of his fault. Were this plain
Scriptual injunction followed, how many of the
petty animosities which disturb society would
be prevented.
Soldifrenehers.—During the late war it
was noicommon thing for preachers to be
come sobrs, and since the war, for soldiers
to beconoreachers. We have a distinguished
examplei the case of Rev. C. A. Evans (for
merly (this city), of Augusta, a prominent
general the Confederate army. There are
many cai of less note, but equally as patriotic
and galli.
We doot however refer to this class of
‘soldier-pchers’ in this connection. O’ur
purpose jo call attention to a valuable article
in the Phdelphia Weekly Times, March, 30th,
from the u of Major Sidney Herbert, of this
city, in lich he sketches the career of the
graduates' West Point Military Academy who,
after a femonths or years, resigned from the
army anditered the ministry.
The finof these graduates was Rev. Dr.
Woodbridj of Richmond, Va., of the class of
1826, and t last was Rev. C. C Parsons, now of
Memphis, inn., of the class of 1361. Of those
deceased a Bishop Polk, Rev. Drs. Wood-
bridge, Wion and Bledsoe, and Rev. Profs.
Hackley, Bant, Parks, Curd and Swing. Of
the living p Rev. Drs. (and Gen.) Pendleton,
Clark and Ishon, and Rev. C. C. Parsons, with
Rev. Geo. ’atson, unknown. Cadet Leonidas
Polk becama bishop, and Rev. Dr. Winton and
Rev. Mr. Piks declined bishoprics which were
tendered tlm. All were or are men of ripe
scholarship, and the Church has received
valuable setices from them in her highest
educational jstitutions.
Bishop Po:, Rev. Dr. Woodbridge; irture,
Pendleton ail Pork, and Rev. Messrs. Hackley,
Bryant, Park and Parson, were, or are, Epis
copalians; Re. Mr. Parks, however, was first a
Methodist, lev. Dr. (A. F-) Bledsoe and Rev.
Messrs. Swig and Watson were Methodist
Rev. Drs. Clak and Deshon and Rev. H?. Curd,
Roman Catho cs. Bishop Polk resigned before
he was assignd to duty in the army, and some
of the others Qly served a year, or less. Rev.
Mr. Parsons ws a gallant soldier in the Federal
army, during tie late war, serving in the South
west, and was'requently brevetted for his good
conduct. He:esignedin 1870 as Captain (and
Brevet Lieut. Dol. U. S. A) of the Fourth Ar
tillery, and is tow a rector of an Episcopalian
church in Memphis Tenn. It is a singular fact
that much of Iib most gallant service in the
late war, was performed in that state as a fede
ral soldier. Bu; now, in the midst of peace,
and aB a soldierof the great ‘Prince of Peace,
Col Parsons is doing a noble service for, and not
against, the people of that section. A
good soldier always makes a good minister. In
all the list above named, not one failed to do a
noble service for the great ‘Captain of our sal
vation. And all are now among the revered
dead or the honored living of the Church of
Christ
’ . . ,, y»i| carjd the Yankees
The Stage Mania. Really, the figurative re- thumb-nail, and *J* en 1 h to 6arr en-
.lannnaa that “all fchft word that thcr© isn fc any S „ ,
flection of melancholy Jacques that “all the irord that there isn t any
der. But you don’t believe it, ad t
The Key to Success.
what is the key cr
talent; I
Dinners and no Dinners.
A French wit facetiously divides the human
race into two great classes—“those who have
more dinners than appetites, and those who
have more appetites than dinners.” The former
are the matter-ot-fact, solid men who make
money and enjoy it, and who rejoice in their
good common sense and plain, plodding pro
clivities. But such men never speculate.
Plenty of roast beef and plum pudding
produce a very quiet, self-satisfied feel
ing; that is highly respectable and reliable.
The full stomach acts as a weight to keep down
all flights of that erratic thing called mind. But
it is the latter class—those who are not troubled
with dinners, and whose appetite goads them
to restlessness, that “see visions and dream
dreams.” These are the originators of new in
ventions—the explorers and discoverers—the
founders of new theories and new faiths. There
is not in the world such a potent source of in-
spiration as the gnawing of the gastric juice.
From the reckless activity it induces, arise
plans and plots that overthrow thrones, and
theories that startle the world and supplant all
other beliefs, or else dazzle with a brilliancy
momentary, but splendid. *
Too Personal.—At a recent fancy ball in Ed
inburgh, the son of Sir James Simpson, the fa
mous physician and discoverer of chloroform,
appeared as a penitentiary convict, chains on
arms and wrists, striped clothes, a jemmy, and
a five years’ badge on his arm. Washington,
always eager for a new sensation to enliven
Congress, would no doubt like to copy the idea
for some forthcoming fancy ball, but it won’t
do. That hint of the penitentiary would be
taken as personal by too many members of our
country’s law-making and law-administering
machinery. *
-. ” - ‘ "AH f All
A*xa industrious and attentive
to business, y Jt here I am at the bottom of the
ladder, and likely to stay there.”
It is hard to tell in this kap-hazard world
what is the key to success. Sometimes, when
we see fortune’s door opening to ignorant as
surance, we are tempted to think the key is a
brass one, but then impudence gets tripped up
as frequently as better qualities. There seems
no consistent law operating in this matter of
success. Talent and industry often fail to rise,
while mediocrity mounts the ladder in triumph.
Some happy accident often does what genius
and toil have failed to achieve.
But, as a general rule, the way to advance is
to push ahead. This is an intensely selfish
age. Number one is the only numeral in its
practical arithmetic: every man for himself its
only rule of action. To reach a front rank in
the “innumerable human caravan,” one must
push ahead. No stopping to say, “by your
leave,” no looking for nice places to step upon;
no sitting down to cry over kicks and snubs.
Tough elbows are necessary in this pushing
business, and sensitiveness must be set aside
for a more convenient season.
Energy and will are worth more than genius
in the battle of life. We see this exemplified
every day. The large-browed, deep-eyed man of
brains and culture is left behind by the go-
ahead-ativeness of some active little fellow, with
no talents to boast of, but with pluck and en
ergy enough to put what he has got to the best
advantage.
Self-belief is another requisite to success.
Not conceit nor impudence, but a calm faith in
one’s own capacity, and a resolution to be suffi
cient to one’s self. Be dependent upon no one
to mould your decisions or to shape your course
of conduct. Fawning and looking up and al
ways asking for advice, may, by the flattery it
conveys, win a certain kind of friendship, but
it is one closely akin to contempt. The Uriah
Heeps may fawn and wriggle themselves into
favor, but what self-respecting man or woman
cares to be trotted along to success by the string
of patronage, as my lady trots her poodle after
her by its blue ribbon ?
Flattery and obsequious deference to every
body’s advice and ojjinions may render a man
that unenviable nonentity—a person of whom
nobody says any harm,” but to succeed in life,
to gain fame, or riches, or social elevation, one
must believe in himself, trust to himself, single
out his goal and push for it. Yery few people
have honors thrust upon them. They must sow
before they reap. No position worth having
was ever won without working hard for it. It
is a question whether the middle ranks are not
preferable to the front ones in life’s great march,
but, fortunately for progress, there are restless
spirits that will not remain there. They have
the principle of push in them—and, with their
eye on the goal, they move straight ahead and
open paths for the less energetic to follow in. *
Miss Missouri Stokes, of this city, who ad
vertises for pupils, on another page, is a lady
every way worthy the patronage of those who
desire a cultured, sweet-tempered, pains-taking
and thoroughly efficient teacher for their child
ren. She has had long experience in teaching,
and has always been successful, filling to the
satisfaction of all concerned, several difficult
and responsible positions. Miss Stokes is es
pecially competent to instruot in rhetoric and
composition.
world’s a stage,” seems about to become true
literally. The stage is taking extraordinary
prominence in our modera civilization. Every
thing is becoming stagy, from the pulpit, down
to the beer saloon. Star troupes of actors fill
the season with entertainments, and then the
amateurs take up the tale.
Every town has its amateur dramatic corps,
every village its acting club, and the histrionic
talent exhibited is very remarkable. Is the
drama to be the coming form of intellectual ex
pression? Will the stage take the place of the
printing press? Will the lecture do away with
the book of history, essay and travels; the
tragedy and melodrama absorb the novel, the
comedy take the place of the lighter fiction;
and shall we have the daily dime club instead
of the newspaper ? The taste of the ago calls
more plainly every day for its amusement and
instruction to be in vivid, concentrated forms.
In the acted play, the eye and ear help each
other, and the mind takes in a rapid succession
of images and ideas.
Books are already voted slow and prosy,
newspapers can hardly be concentrated and
vivid enough.
We have history and travels in lectures in
stead of books; our preachers drop dry argu
ment and abstraction and give us truth in
graphic illustration, drawn from the life and
duties of to-day.
The days of twelve-volumned histories and
three-volumned novels are gone by as com
pletely as those more ancient days, when the
nimble types were not, and the intellect of the
age found its fullest expression in architecture.
When the thought of a century built itself into
some immortal pile of stone like the Pyramids,
or some carved wonder of granite and marble
like the ancient temples of Greece and Rome.
Mind has constantly striven to find itself
means of swifter utterance; until now, even
printing seems too slow, and the quick speech
and gesture are seized upon to “catch the man
ners living as they rise.” Speech and gesture,
indeed, are old as man is, but they have never
been so intelleetualized and utilized. Sunlight
dates from the creation, but it is only lately that
photography has turned the sun into an
artist.
What a Kind Word May Do,
If you have nothing else to give your fellow-
travelers, as you journey with them along this
busy thoroughfare of life, give them kind words.
They are often sorely needed when you do not
guess it; they do good that your never know of.
The kind word, the look of interest and sym
pathy; they may be the drop of dew that keeps
a heart from withering—the little touch that re
laxes a chord strained almost to breaking.
A poor girl said not long ago to a lady of true
but unostentatious benevolence: Do you know
that you saved my life once—just by two or
three kind words? It was the first time I saw
came in. i was so wreicnea auu u Ut ,v.i^vn you
gone to buy morphine to end my misery. I
could get no work, and I felt too weak—what
with care, and sleeplessness, and want of food—
to try any longer. My old acquaintances, I had
known in better times, would not notice me in
my poverty and faded clothes. I could not
bring myself to beg. I had made up my mind
the night before, and I had a letter in my pocket
to mail to my brother in New Orleans—a good
bye letter. I sold my shawl to get money to
buy the morphine to put me to sleep forever.
When you came in the store, you dropped your
glove, and I picked it up. You thanked me
pleasantly, and looked at me as if I were a hu
man being. I must have shown my misery in
my face, for you told your little girl to give me
a flower, and when I put the rose up to my eyes
to hide the tears, you asked me if I loved flow
ers, and said if I would come some time to your
house, you would give me some roses. Then
time a gun-boat comes in sight you’ll come to
me and say, ‘General, we can’t fight gun-boate
with any hope of success,-don’t 7 0U t “ in
we’d better surrender ?’ Do you know w a
do then ? I’ve had a convenient limb ‘"“ me
up, in front of my headquarters, and HI st « n g
up every man that does say surrender,
am told by those who knew him host that
his statement of his purpose was probably^ not
an exaggerated one, and that if he had . been
charged with the defense of the city again.'? £•
hostile fleei, he would have made just sucn a
resolute resistance as that which he promis
His courage and endurance had been abuna
antly proved in Meaico, at any rate, and no
body who knew him ever doubted either.
This scene occurred just before the reduction
of Fort Pulaski, by Gen. Q. A. Gillmore, U. S.
A., at which time General Walker was in com
mand at Savannah. But when the tramp of
Federal soldier's feet was heard in the ‘I orest
City’ for the first time, (Dec. 21st, 1864), General
W. had been in his grave nearly six months.
General Hardee evacuated the city, which was
not prepared for a seigs, and General Sherman
as quietly occupied it. General Walkers lan
guage was indeed strong, but it must be remem
bered that in addition to his irrepressible sol
dierly daring, in this instance he was inspired
by that fiery zeal that nerved so many valient
Southern hearts whose life-blood stained hard-
sought fields, in victory as well as defeat, for
the Cause they so loved.
Cruel Amusements I** Texas.
Oh! for a multiplication of Mr. Bergh. They
need a dozen of him in San Antonio, where late
ly the cruel instincts of humanity were minis
tered toby a fight between a lioness and a bull.
The affair had been widely advertised, and
thousands of men, women and children, were
there to witness it. The lioness had been starv
ed to make her more ferocious, but the starving
process had been carried too far. The wretch
ed animal was so weak for want of food, that
the bull soon gored her to death. Next day an
other lion was brought out; not quite so badly
starved, and the bloody sport was more satis
factory. , . ,
This is really as shocking as our every day
cattle-car cruelties and the inhuman over-work
ing of our street-car mules.
Local Notes.
No Half-tickets for Cook-fighters.
A notable case of courage, conscientiousness
and moral integrity has lately come to our
knowledge which we feel ought not to be per
mitted to go unknown and unnoticed. It is this.
Col. Wash Houston is the General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Air Line Rail Road here. He
was applied to by some of the parties of the Char
lotte Cockfight for half rates over his road, in
order that they might attend that disgrace,
ful exhibition of the remains of the spirit
phatic refusal was accompanied with the de
claration that it is the policy of the road to
encourage nothing immoral. I am glad of the
laconic rebuke. More than that, I am glad to
believe it was sincere truth. The importance of
the utterance of this Officer will be the
more apparent by considering the following
just and accurate paragraph from the editor of
Scribner’s Monthly:
‘There is an influence proceeding from the
highest managing man in a rail road corporation
which reaches further for good or evil, than that
ol almost any other man in any community.
If the President or the Superintendent of a
rail road is a man of free and easy social habits -
if he is in the habit of taking his stimulating
glass, and it is known that he does so, his rail
road becomes a canal through which a stream of
liquor flows from end to end. A rum drinking
headman on a rail road, reproduces himself at
every post on his line, as a rule. Grog-shops
grow up around every station, and for twenty
miles on both sides of the iron track and often
the clerk brought your parcel, and you said , for a wider distance, the people are corrupted
good morning to me and went out. I went, too.
in their habits and in their morals. The farm-
; ers who transport their produce to the points of
I did not buy the morphine. I bought some ^ / A produce to the points of
, , . , , . . fo j- shipment on the line, and bring from the denots
bread instead, and then I went to my poor their 8upplie8> 8uffer a3 deeply as the serants
of the corporation themselves.’
This is no imaginary evil. Every careful ob
server must have noticed how invariably the
whole line of a railroad takes its moral hue from
the leading man of the corporation. Whenever
such a man is a free drinker, his men are free
drinkers, and it is not in such men persistentlv
to discountenance a vice that they persistently
uphold by the practices of their daily lives A
thorough temperance man at the head of a rail-
road corporation is a great purifier, and his
road becomes the distributor of pure influences
with every load of merchandise it bears through
the country There is just as wide a difference
in the moral influence of railroads on the parts
of country through which they pass-as there S
among men, and that influence is determined
almost entirely by the managing man There
are roads that pass through none but clean, well
ordered and thrifty villages; and there are roads
that from one end to the other, give evidence in
every town upon them, that the devil of strong
jaut-- 1 ? *.f
Slate, is determined in a gr.Ster or tea
by the character of the men who control
railroads which pass through them. These men
have so much influence, and when they are bad
men, are such a shield and cover f or vice which
always keeps for them its best bed and its best
ize^heirk^owe^ 1D ^^ese 8 though^ 11 neu * Ta *"
th A“r!l“ to i? connection wS
my poor
rooms and ate the bread, and smelt of my flower
and took courage to live on.
Only a few kind words and a rose, and yet
they saved a girl from throwing away her young
life—saved it for future work and usefulness
and happiness.
Sometimes a kind word saves more than life—
it saves a soul! It puts on the brakes when the
human locomotive has got upon a down grade,
and is rushing to destruction. The youthful
debauchee, on the very verge of losing all self-
respect, of caring for nobody ‘because nobody
cares for him,’ the girl, who, because of some
thoughtlessly imprudent act, finds that the
black bar of scandal and suspicion has dropped
down to shut her from the fold of the virtuous,
and to send her in her despair and human
yearning for companionship into the haunts of
vice, such unfortunates as these may often be
rescued by that little talisman—the kind word.
The little word laden with sympathy, the kind
word laden with interest—they are worth more
than long-winded moral lectures, than tracts or
sermons.
Why be so chary of them then ? Why not
scatter them freely as flowers along life’s stony
highway ? They may soften many a bruised
foot. And they cost so little. *
Onr Sketch of General Walker.—In the next
issue we shall give the promised biographical
sketch of Major General William Henry Talbot
Walker, accompanied with a fine picture of this
gallant officer, than whom a more irrepressible
and heroic fighter never drew a sword on the
field of battle. As General Scott said of him in
Mexico, where he was‘shot all to pieces,’ any
body but Walker would have died on the field.
He was not that kind of a soldier, however, and
after months of hand to hand conflict with
death, he won the fight and ‘got on his feet
again. ’
In an entertaining book, ‘A Rebel’s Recol
lections,’ first published in monthly parts in
the Atlantic Monthly, of Boston, Mr. George
Cary Eggleston refers to General Walker as ‘a
peculiarly belligerent man,’ which endorses the
opinions of General Wheeler and Cols. Avery
and Ross. He once met Gen. W. at Savannah
and heard the General tell some of the people
what his plan of operation was to be, in this
blunt manner:
“I’ll never surrender anything more than the
ashes of Savannah. I’ll stay here, and I’ll keep
you here, till every shingle burns and every
brick gets knocked into bits the size of my
railroads. They commend themselves for f
ness and truthfulness to every thon^f/^
In view of the convictions exS ^ 1 - 1111 ?^
lines quoted, I congratulate th« P e88e, J ln tlie
to the Ai, lS°Sd th „ 8 nT.S S'
Houston as an officer of this ti?.? g ur
He shows a firmness and a hi*?h moJ 1< i rOUg ^ fa 1 r0 ‘
are greatly needed in our pulflic SeD w °\ a i
we had many more such men ^ oul( ^
road officials, amon g rail-
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