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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
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“And then she vanished, like a
Mist at sea.
Then Love came past in daintv
Dress and light, affected air:
He knew me, too, and placing
Hand upon his heart, he bowed
And gave me most bewitching smile.
’Twas then I lost my temper
And my peace as well, and
Spake in ugly, angry tone of voice:
‘How dare you come, you false,
Ungrateful elf, to flaunt my misery
In my very face !
Art not content to steal my heart
And soul and even take my peace,
Nay, everything that goes to
Make up life and cast them worthless
At my very feet ?
‘Begone,’ I say! ‘else I’ll not bear
The blame if thou art strangled
With thy rainbow tie!’
“The small scamp laughed and
Shook his curly head, then whispered
Shyly, as he ran away:
‘I’ll come another day.”
‘Dear heart, be still!’ I heard
Sweet Sorrow plead—‘Love had
His day and Love can never die.’
“Aross the mountain of regret,
Within the valley of Lang Syne,
Beside the river of content,
Faith found us.
“Dear Faith! sweet, simple, childlike
Faith ! no mother ever found
Her long-lost son with more
Sincere delight than did this
Blessed angel, sent to comfort
Me.
“I leaned upon her breast and
Learned of God, our blessed
Home in heaven. She brought
Me back to days of childhood,
When youth and happiness were
All complete.
She spoke of truth, of deeds and
Aspirations which were mine
Before the war; of noble thoughts
That never were fulfilled.
“ ‘Look not upon the past, dear
Heart,’ she whispered low,
‘It’s treasures are but bubbles
On the waves of life—gone as
The vapor, ’neath the heat of sun.
Take Hope again !
She is a charming friend, when
Rightly known, and many bright, glad
Hours she’ll spend with thee.
Accept Joy, too! She is hs giddy
As a laughing child, but she
Is good and never harm can
Come if she is near, and Truth
Sits by her side.
And let Love in !
He is a jolly boy, whose
Arrows smite alike the happy
Or the sad, and thou canst
Never banish him with
Sword or gun, from out
The confines of thy
Tender heart.
Then Sorrow shall sit near,
Just by the door; and thou
And I shall live for nobler
Purpose—better life—within
The inner kingdom of our Master;
Filling the loving duties of a
Soldier brave—both in this world
And that which is to come—
The tender duties of
The King’s dear Son.’ ”
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The Capture of the Florida.
Editor Sunny South : But little appears in
the Gray and Blue column about the Con
federate Navy, which bore a gallant and hon
orable part in the great civil strife. Such
being the case I thought it but just that a
little space be given the jolly “tars” who
wore the gray. The capture of the Confeder
ate war steamer, Florida, in a neutral port,
in the most perfidious manner, is not gener
ally known. The captors in this foulest of
crimes, have probably all passed away, but
the everlasting disgrace that attaches to all
who had any part in the disgraceful act, and
others in high places, will ever remain. The
circumstances of the attack and capture of
the Florida were as follows:
Lieutenant Morris, commander of the
Florida, ran his vessel into the neutral part
of Bahia, Oct., 4, 1864, for some necessary
repairs. The Brazilian authorities gave him
permission to remain forty-eight hours to do
the work. The United States steamship,
Wachusette, was in port at the same time,
commanded by one N. Collins. Without
the least warning, and in open violation of
the Brazilian flag, at the dead of night, when
Morris and half his crew were on shore,
wholly unsuspecting such a base outrage, the
commander of the Wachusette suddenly
rammed the Florida, hoping to sink her with
out creating any alarm. Failing in this, he
opened fire on the vessel, which could only
surrender, as the crew was totally unpre
pared to resist the attack. The Wachusette
speedily attached a tow-line to the Florida
and carried her out to sea despite the efforts
of the Brazilian government to prevent the
gross and cowardly outrage. The baseness
of the act is disclosed in a letter by Collins
to Commodore Wilkes, U. S. Navy. He
writes :
“For yourself alone I can inform you that
it was my intention to strike her full amid
ships, without firing a shot, or any kind of a
loud word being spoken, and if we succeeded
in sinking her, to back off and go quietly to
sea. ”
Knowing that the Confederate commander
was wholly unconscious of any danger to his
ship, and was on shore and that those on
board the ship were as ignorant of his inten
tions as their commander, lie intended by the
foulest of means, to give them no chance, but
to send them to the bottom of the sea. Col
lins was tried by a naval court martial, com
posed of Rear-admiral L. M. Goldsborough,
Commodore H. H. Bell, Captains Melancton
Smith, P. Drayton, T. A. Jenkins, Jas. Alden
and Commander T. G. Corbin. He was
found guilty of unlawfully attacking and
capturing the steamer, Florida, and sentenced
to be dismissed from the United States Navy.
His act was too outrageous to be condoned
by these officers, who justly prized the honor
and reputation of their arm of the service.
To show that Collins knew what he was
doing, Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy,
disapproved the sentence, without a word of
comment, and kept him in the service which
he had in the most signal manner disgraced.
The whole proceeding was a farce from start
to finish. The Florida was sent to the United
States, and finally anchored in Hampton
Roads. Although Secretary of State, Wm.
H. Seward, disavowed the act of Collins, and
he was tried and sentenced to be dismissed
from the service; the whole matter was a
sham and he was retained on the rolls of the
navy in active command. When it was found
that the Florida would have to be delivered
to the Brazilian government, and by them
restored to the Confederates, she was sunk at
her anchorage. Seward pretended it was
accidental but no one conversant with the
facts places any credence in the claim of its
being accidental. Wells and Seward excused
and condoned the crime of Collins and made
themselves as guilty as he. From a careful
examination of the facts in the case the writer
is convinced that Collins thought his act
would be approved by the United States
authorities, and he was evidently surprised
at the turn affairs took. In his letter to
Wilkes about the affair, he says:
“We had many difficulties to contend with
which I do not believe Senator Summer could
fully understand, although he has criticised
my course in strong terms.’
Summer knew it was a national disgrace
and was unwilling to let it pass without
his marked disapproval. Would that others
in high places could present such a clean
record. It was simply farcical to pretend that
the Florida was sunk by accident or that any
proper precautions were taken to save her.
Thus was ended the career of this noble ship.
G. W. Granberry.
Cabot, Ark.
P. S. : The above facts are taken from the
official records of the Union and Confederate
Navies.
G. W. G.
The S. A. L. Complimented by Candidate
Bryan.
The Seabord Air Line got out a poster an
nouncing reduced rates on the occasion of
the Bryan notification which was attractive
and unique. It was printed in silver ink on
blue glazed paper. A copy was sent to the
Democratic candidate with the compliments
of General Passenger Agent, T. J. Anderson,
and that gentleman is in receipt of a letter
from Mr. Bryan in which he says :
“I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of
your very attractive poster announcing the
silver flyer to the notification meeting at New
York. It is one of the most unique things of
the sort encountered during the campaign. I
am grateful for the interest that prompted
it.”
I tarried with a maiden,
With charms so richly laden,
She fired me through and through.
’Twas getting toward morning,
When coming without warning,
Her father fired me, too.—Ex.
There is No Death.
These lines were sent to one of our con
temporaries with the statement that he did
not know who wrote them, but that they had
been attributed to Bulwark :
There is no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore,
And bright in heaven’s jeweled crown
They shine forevermore.
There is no death! The dust we tread
Shall change beneath the summer showers
To golden grain, or mellow fiuit
Or rainbow-tinted flowers
There is no death! The lenves may fall,
The flowers may fade and pass away;
They only wait through vintry hours
The coming of the May.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o’er the earth with silent tread;
He bears our best-loved things away,
And then we call them “dead.”
He leaves our hearts all desolate;
He plucks the fairest, sweetest flowers;
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The birdlike voice, whose joyous tones
Made glad this scene of sin and strife,
Sings now in everlasting song
Amid the tree of life.
And when he sees a smile too bright,
Or heart too pure for taint or vice,
He bears it to that world of light
To dwell in paradise.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread,
For all the boundless universe
Is life; there are no dead!
BILL ARP ON THE PRESS.
He Discusses the Journals of to-day—Criti
cises Political Abuse—Newspapers
Necessary for the Mind.
HERE is a lamentable usage of
the press and of partisans dur
ing election times—and that is
the wanton, outrageous abuse
of the other fellow and the
other side. I have not seen any
such abuse of McKinley by the Democratic
press, but the Northern Republican journals
just teem with the vilest and most malicious
slanders of Bryan and his platform. He is
denounced and cartooned as the arch an
archist and repudiator, a tool of the silver
mines, a babbling boy, a sky-scrapei, a bag
of wind, and the punka of the Platte. I don’t
know what punka means, but suppose it is
some very bad thing like a polecat. His
Madison Square speech, which Ingalls said
was a very great speech, is ridiculed as an
abortion, a chestnut, a miserable failure; and
they Wirteon him as a little sophomore
schooltoy oratcr. This is very bad policy.
The people of all parties know that Bryan is
a very eloquent, smart and sincere man and
the reaction comes when such slanders are
used against him. The jubilant, guying tone
of the Republican press reminds one of Go
liath and David—“And when the Philistine
saw David he disdained him for he was but a
youth, and the Philistine cursed David by
his gods and he said, ‘Come to me and I will
give thy flesh to the fowls of the air and the
beasts of the field’.”
Fortunately for the country, both of our
candidates for president have characters above
reproach and clean records in their public
life, and are endowed with very high qualifi
cations in statesmanship. The one elected
can not make a law. Then why abuse him?
Each has a host of friends and it wounds a
man’s feelings to hear his favorite, his
leader, his idol, as it were, lampooned and
vilified by penny-a-liner scribblers, who have
no conception of what constitutes true great
ness. There is no manliness or good breed
ing in the modern modes of conducting a
political canvass. I heard an old veteran say
to-day that he had not intended to vote for
Governor Atkinson, but since Watson and
Wright were denouncing him for pardoning
that man Hinton he had changed his mind
and should support him. “Candidates are in
a desperate strait,” said he, “when they re
sort to such demagogism as that. Hinton
ought to have been pardoned. The governor
has shown more consideration for negro con-
victsand pardoned more of them than any
governor we have had.”
Hating the railroads and loving the negro
are still campaign capital. It is all a lie, of
course, for no sensible man does either to any
extent in his heart. He says he does so as to
catch votes, but he knows that he is a hypo
crite when he says it. Such declarations are
about as sincere as newspaper editorials and
governors’ proclamations against lynching
negroes for their horrible outrages. It is all
for Buncombe. I’ve forgotten that fellow’s
name, but I have always admired him for his
frankness. When he was reminded by the
speaker that everybody had left the house he
replied: “That’s all right, sir, I’m not
speaking for them at all, sir; I’m speaking
for Buncombe, my county, sir, and my con-
stitutents, for it will be printed, sir.” And
he kept on with his argument.
But the way I read it in the goldbug papers
the Republicans are not as jubilant as they
were. They are somewhat alarmed even about
the State of New York. I see in yesterday’s
papers that the rich women of New York
City have organized female McKinley clubs
in every ward and they have parceled out the
work and are to visit the tenement houses
and canvass among the toilers. I read Mc
Kinley’s letter to these women bidding them
God-speed and saying he was glad to see the
noble women of this country taking an in
terest in politics. This is no fake. It is
published in the Republican papers and to my
mind is the first bad break Mr. McKinley has
made. The idea of encouraging women to
go canvassing in the slums of great cities for
votes looks like alarm to say the least of it.
Mr. Bryan has made no break. Every utter
ance along his travels has been in good taste
and entirely proper. He has not boasted of
himself nor abused his adversaries and we are
glad to see that the people, the common
people, heard him gladly and treated him
with the greatest respect. The other day a
fake appeared that for awhile astounded me.
The idea that Ben Tillman had visited Tom
Watson to get him to come down and take a
cabinet position was monstrous, for Mr.
Bryan chooses his own cabinet. He will not
buy them, and, if he did, Ben Tillman would
not be his broker. The average politician
seems incapable of measuring Mr. Bryan. He
can’t conceive of a standard that is far above
mercenary or ambitious motives. Neither
will Mr. Bryan for a moment encourage any
attempt to get Sewall down. It would be dis
honorable, and he knows it. What is the mat
ter with Sewall anyhow ? Nobody, not even
the Republican press, has said a word against
him, except that his son is a Republican.
Well, that is hard on the boy, but nothing
against the old man save a suspicion that he
didn’t whip him enough and make him stay
in at night and keep out of bad company.
These Populists pretend they don’t like
Sewall because he has stock in a national
bank. That’s all hypocrisy. Every one of
them would have it, from Tom Watson down,
if they could get it. Whenever I hear a
“Pop” or anybody else denouncing rich men,
banks and bankers I know that he is a hypo
crite in his heart and there is a streak of envy
and meanness and original sin running down
his backbone as big as a fence-rail. He has
nearly reached a condition of total depravity
—and that’s the law.
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Mere sharpness is of small value as an ele
ment of character. There must be personal
weight of some sort to give practical power
to sharpness in a man’s manner and method.
A thin razor blade must have a heavy back
ing, or it is more likely to cut the fingers of
the user than to be worth much for shaving.
Many a man who has the reputation for
sharpness lacks the weight of character to
make the thin edge of his nature effective for
good. A nature can have a thin edge, but it
must have something more than edge, or it
will be a dangerous tool for its owner’s use.
—S. S. Times.
‘‘I have called,” said the captious critic,
“to find out what reason you can give for
representing the new year as a nude small
boy ? : ’
“That is done,” responded the art editor,
‘‘because the year does not get its close till
the 31st of December.”—Indianapolis Jour
nal.
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