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THE SUNNY SOUTH
MARCH 2, 1907.
&f>e SUNNY SOUTH
Published Weekly by
Sunny South Publifhing Co
Buslnefs Office
THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Entered at the poatafllre Atlanta, Gn.,aa aecond-claaa mail matter
March 13, 1»01
The Sunny South Is the oldest weekly paper of Literature,
Romance, Fatfl and Fiction In the South & It is now re.
flared to the original shape and will be published as for.
merly every week £> Founded in 1874 it grew until 1809,
when, as a monthly. Its form was changed as an expert•
meat S? It now returns to Its original formation as a
weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of eelips.
Ing Its most promising period In the past.
Mother’s Pampered
Darling
i\OME weeks ago we
action of a certain
discussed
lady of
the
New
York city who had sent her son on
orous and continual exercise mean a disease-resist
ing physique and a vice-resisting mind in later
years.
They are teaching him. unconsciously, perhaps,
to shrink from those rougher encounters which
must play a part in the lives of the most fortunate
of men. They are putting a discount on the cour
age and tenacity which are the deciding factors
when the young man gets out into the world, with
no indulgent father or pampering, consoling mother
to fight his battles.
The standards of the latticed nursery are not
those of real lite. Any man or any woman who has
lived to mature age ought to be aware of the radical
contrast. Tn the world, it is give and take—or go
to the rear on a stretcher, or give place to some
man or woman with the boldness and the com
bative power to attack the problems which every
day creates for itself.
It is, therefore, a cruelty to the coming man to
leave him unequipped for the struggle. He will not
thank you for it in later vears, though he may sob
his babyish appreciation on your shoulder when
you interfere to save him from a well-deserved
drubbing at the hands of a bov of his own size.
It is. moreover, an injustice to the community.
Every state, the countrv itself, needs men of steady
hands, clear brains, calm and proved courage, to
work out the larger material destinies of the twen
Sure! Loot His Pockets
a trip around the world during his j lict, J c . entur ';. J he “mollycoddle” will have no part
most impressionable years, her | H1 “ lcn making.
theory being that the best way to I
make a man strong morally was to !
keep him entirely ignorant of even j
the existence of evil. We combated i
her viewpoint, our argument being j
that the most effectual formula for i
inculcating resistance to evil in j
young men was in warning them, ■
frankly, of its existence and its per
ils, showing them its repulsive side !
and then watching them with a keen eye and help-1
ing them with an intelligent hand when they opened !
their battle with the world. We pictured the dis- I
astrous results where the young man was kept in j
monkish seclusion and turned loose, as from a mon- |
asterv, to play the strange game, of competition and
crude and refined emotions called life. Closely
related to the folly of sheltering a boy too sedu
lously on the moral side, is the practice of shielding
him from the friendly rivalry and the little rough
nesses of physical play as they develop in the romps
of early childhood, later maturing in the contests
of physical prowess on the football gridiron, the
baseball diamond, the footpath and other forms of
young men’s sports. President Roosevelt, in this
connection, delivered himself with characteristic
candor and vigor in a recent address before the
Harvard Union. Declaring that all men of robust
mental and physical viewpoint loathed the “molly
coddle,” he urged such discriminate indulgence in
college athletics as would test the student’s capac
ity to endure slight physical pain, make strong his
muscles, and produce in him that subjective and
objective courage without which his chances in the
more serious business of life are dangerously im
paired.
The president is, himself, an exemplar of the vir
tues of the life outdoors and of that courage and
tenacity which does not flinch at grappling with
obstacles of any nature—one of the most desirable
■results likely to grow out of the clash of man
^Rgainst man in friendly rivalry.
We believe the average American father and
mother have tolerably wholesome ideas in this con
nection. They hold, as a rule, to that sound doc
trine which decrees that a body must be sduuid be
fore the mind for which it is only a tenement can
be sane and productive.
Undoubtedly, however, there are mothers here [will be lavishly generous where the food supply is
and there—fathers, too, for that matter—who sys- concerned—he generally has a healthy appetite and
tematically pamper their sons, wailing over every [loves to eat. Put let the woman propose anv nice-
little scratch which appears on the cuticle, rigidly ties in the way of adornment for herself, clothes or
forbidding participation in games likely to cost a j shoes for the children, an occasional pleasure which
bruise or a jar, and fiercely denouncing the boy ! may cost money—and vou will see the purse
across the way who may have, in the heat of his | strings pucker with a truly startling suddenness,
anger or the enthusiasm of his resentment, dealt i When such a man heads a household, there are
precious Algy a blow which blossomed into a black Icertainly extenuating circumstances if his wife finds
eye. j herself under the compulsion of occasionally rifling
In pursuing such a course they are simply rais-jhis pockets. The pitv of it is, she is generally,
ing a hothouse son, a sort of masculine exotic—one [under the laws of convention, forced to keep a smil-
of the most pitiable of the species that are called ing face to the world and givte her husband credit
upon at the ballot box to settle the destinies of the for all the cardinal virtues.
nation. They are denying him that full play of the May the judge who issued a righteous decision
bodily energies at the formative period, when vig- rest in peace.
JUDGE who, at one time in his life,
decided that the wife had the legal
right to go through her husband’s
pockets anil extract therefrom
small change when the gentleman
was too miserly to provide for the
necessaries of life, has just died.
We hope he will receive his reward
in the after-life if he did not in this
one. For his decision was a right
eous one. It would not be amiss
if the women of the country who
have found themselves in difficul
ties from taking his advice should
band together and erect a monu
ment to his memory. Probably they will. We arc
not, primarily, in favor of pocket-picking as be
tween husband and wife, where the motives are
tiiose of suspicion or distrust or idle, petty curios
ity. If madame thinks her lord has been capering
with another lady and tHat his pockets conceal doc
umentary evidence to that effect, it simply adds
indelicacy to his indecency for her to rifle his
clothes in search of evidence. Neither is she going
to be one whit the happier if site finds it, though
she is pretty likely to be miserable if she does not
find it—thinking that it is simply the criminal guile
of Mr. Sly that has defeated her carefully laid plans.
The same principle applies to the man who ran
sacks his wife’s desk or opens her private corre-'
spondence. in the hope of stumbling upon some
verification for his gnawing suspicions. The day
that relations between man and wife become so
strained as to lead either of them to resort to this
sort of espionage, it is time they either indulged in
a fit of frankness, or stifled their suspicions in the
interests of mutual peace of mind.
But the miserly husband is an entirely different
reposition. And there are plenty of them—never ! w T.t. t ^ hed ‘
A Belated Valentine Rondeau.
Sweetheart—of all words known
Tliis vocable alone
Describes lier best to me—
So dear, so fair is she,
So like a rose full-blown.
If she were carved in stone.
Or, if her face were shown
On canvas, one would see
Sweet art.
So, at my beauty's throne,
1 kneel*In worship prone,
And make my lover's plea.
What will her answer be,
A melody or moan?
Sweetheart?—Tart?
—Life.
Wanted Permanent ^Employment.
Old Sam had been for several days pa
tiently sitting on the bank of the Rappa
hannock river, near the dam, holding ids
shotgun in his hand.
Finally he attracted the attention o; a
passerby, who asked: '"Well, Uncle Sam,
are you looking for something to do?"
''X T o. sail,” answered Sam; "I'se getlin'
paid fo' what I s doin’.”
“Indeed!" answered the stranger. ‘‘And
what may that be?”
‘‘Shootin’ de miskrats dat am under
“Shootin' dem muskrats dat am under-
“Well, there goes one now," exclaimed
the stranger excitedly, "why don’t you
shoot?"
“S'pose I wants to lose my job, sab?"
answered Sam complacently.
Along' tHe Highway
By FRJIMK l~ STJINTOK
J
LAUGHTER AND TEARS.
I.
I gave Life my sighing—
The tenderness of tears;
But Life, it asked for laughter
To ripple through the years.
II.
"Earth has too much of sorrow,”
Life said, "And skies of gray;
Let me weep tomorrow—
Let me laugh today!”
III.
But thorny path or rosy,
This thought tfame with the years:
Life walks the way, but knows not
The laughter from the tears!
OLD TIME PHILOSOPHY.
Some folks try to get on the good
side of Providence by doing little ex
cept. abusing the devil.
Trouble must give us credit for be
ing mighty obliging, since all of us
meet it half way.
Some times it isn't so hard to rise
in the world as it is to keep from
getting dizzy when you reach the
summit.
On the road to the Halleluia coun
try you'll be sure to find people com
ing back to get the troubles they left
behind.
THE MIDDLIN’ BROTHER,
1.
He was this kind of a feller—
When trouble come projickin’ roun’.
He’d up an’ he’d say.
In the cheerfuiest way:
“I’m still upon middlin’ groun’!”
M.
Never did hear him complainin’—
Tellin’ his woes to the town;
All that you heard
Was that hopeful, bright word:
“I'm still upon middlin’ groun’!”
III.
The world never knew of his sorrow—
Never saw tears trickle down;
With the thorns at his breast,
Still he looked at his best: —
“I'm still upon middlin’ groun'!”
THE PUBLISHER’S TRAGEDY.
“Poor fellow!” ssaid the author.
“To whom do you refer?"
“My former publisher. See that man
slinking along over the way?"
“Fellow in the threadbare suit?”
“The same. He took me up when I
was an unknown quantity in liter
ature. I wrote three novels, got fa
mous, then leaned away back and
dictated terms to him. In other words,
i turned the tables on him. You- see
the result?”
“Hasn't lie got anything at all?”
“Oh, yes! I send him a little some-
Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
G
Talk about literary men being push-1 onoe in a while, and let hirn
ed for time—there's President Roose- j holcl ni >' automobile on dark nights!
velt. who runs the government iku!
writes books on the side!
LIVIN’
ALONG.
I.
I know ti-at (he sorrow
Will sometime be song,
So I just keep a-livin’—
A-livin’ along.
Way of Philanthropy.
A lady who was recently appointed ;.s
visitor to a hospital for children, fearing
'hat poor children failed to receive :he
same attention bestowed on those of |
richer parents, paid her first visit to the i
institution, intending to effect a change, I
says The Philadelphia Ledger. In a wa d i
she found a tiny hoy quite alone. lie i
informed her that there was another boy I
■n tlie ward, but that he was being ex
amined before a clinic. The lady loose
around her for evidence of neglect o
the part of tiie attendants. A suit ■'
clothes lay huddled on a chair. Foldin
them in an orderly manner, she said:
"Surely my dear, these trousers at
too long for you by several inches.”
"Yes, ma’am,'' replied the boy.
“A sin and a shame." cried she, an] |
took a “companion" from her bag. Sh* !
sat down and cut off the legs of the gar- (
ment and hemmed the edges.
“Now."’ she said triumphantly, when j
the task was. completed, "they will i.t j
you better.”
“The other boy's taller than me." re-!
plied the child. “They belong to him.' By HELEN HARCOURT.
If.
' I bore’s a bright star that shines
Where the black tempests throng
| So I just keep a-livin'—
A-livin’ along!
III.
No light will forsake me—
No rose do me wrong;
So I just, keep a-livin'—
A-livin' along!
KEEPING THE FIRE UP
He doesn’t mind the coal trust—
So favored is his lot;
The poems editors declined
Will keep the stove red-hot!
He pitches in a story—
A love song, in its turn.
(.The latter sure is warm enough
To make the fire burn!)
Though deep must be the sorrow
That geniuses endure.
The manuscripts returned to them
Keep ’em from freezing, sure!
THE DIFFERENCE.
“Samson's strength was in his hair.”
“Yes, but that new poet's hair is
a yard long, and he isn't strong
enough for a prize fighter."
Why She Was Mad.
“Foreign relations," said Senator Oul- !
lom recently, “are delicate things, an ]
must be handled delicately, says The St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
“Foreign relations, in fact, remind m ■
ol a newly married couplel heard about 1
the other day.
“Their life had been very happy for a
year. Not a cloud /md marred their pc -
r eot felicity Th.c'Jpne morning, the wif--
eame down to breakfast morose ml
doubt that fact. They will, cheerfully, spend sev
eral dollars on the “hoys” down-town and get a
widespread reputation for generosity—while groan
ing and snarling over every penn)- which the wife
may request to pay the butcher and the grocer.
I There is another varictv of Mr. 'I ight-Wad. He
snappish with her husband.
She would hardly speak to him. And
for a long while she refused to expi-ru
her unwonted eonduet.
“Finally, though, the young man, in
sisting that he be told why his wife was
treating him so badly, she looked up
with tears in her eyes and said:
“ ‘John Smith, If T dream again that
vou have kissed another woman, T won'- i
speak to you again as long ns I live.’ !
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
HEN the British were forc
ed to evacuate Philadel
phia, in June. 1777, and
it became evident that they
were about to take up
march through New Jer
sey to New York, it was
a mooted question among
the American generals as
to whether “ Sir Henry
Clinton should be allowed
to proceed unmolested or
whether his march should
be made as difficult as pos-
*3* This Is the Largest launch in the World ^
AKIE a Mexican Central
train at El Paso, Tex.,
travel south into the land
of Manana for ten hours,
and if j-otij- engineer is
following schedule time
you will be traveling for
the entire period through
the ranch of one man.
This king among ranch
owners is General Luis
Terrazas, former governor
of many of his tnterests to other mem- .
hers of his family.
A 'few years ago lie gave nip tiie office |
of governor of Chihuahua, which he had j
held for years, and secured tiie place for |
his son-in-law. Enriquez Z. Creel, a man j
of very much the same type as tiie forme-.' ;
governor, and on* who is ready to carry j
on the same policies in regard to the fam- \
ily estate and the political government. |
A host of nephews, cousins and other j
relatives, many of them able financiers
and business men. are engaged in the j
'Of the state oC Chihuahua I various department of the gigantic busi-
and estimated to 'be the
wealthiest citizen of the southern repub
lic. Putting his ranch . holdings at a
very low estimate and reckoning his cattle
and marketable property at average
rates. Ills wealth totals more than S2CO,-
000,000. For all that anyone knows tt
may be actually double that figure.
The astiuite old general, who has proved
nt-ss. managing banks, directing the cat
tle raising, caring for grain interests
or controlling the big mining 'property.
EMBRACES CITY OF CHIHUAHUA.
The city of Chihuahua itself, with a
-poipulation of 31,000, is within the ranch
proper, and practically all its business
interests are under the domination of
Terrazas, directly or indirectly. Two
himself one of the shrewdest business) lange ore smelters, an iron -foundry, sev-
men of Mexico, never talks of ills riches | eral cotton seed mills, a soap factory, a
and professes even to be unable to state
what he is worth. It is left to outsiders
to guess from the portion of his property
that is visible to the eye.
OWNER’S IMMENSE WEALTH.
Mexicans who are competent to state
say that not even Pedro Alvarado, who
offers to pay off the Mexican national
debt with precious metal from his fa
mous mines, Is as wealthy as the ex-
governor of the largest state of the re
public.
How large Terrazas' ranch actually is it
Is impossible to say. Ridiing steadily on
horseback from north to south hardened
vaqueros require three days to make the
trip from one boundary line to the other.
East and west th° width varies consid
erably, running at times as high as 300
miles and others narrowing down to lit
tle more than 100. The line of the Mexi
can Central railroad runs through it for
270 miles, or in the metric nomenclature
Mexico, for 440 kilometers. Vast
MBpanses of grazing land, pieces of desert,
fruitful valleys, little towns, villages and
0©od-sized cities are all embraced In Its
©onflnes.
OWNER NOW AGED MAN.
General Terrazas is just past his 75th
birthday, an event which was celebrate,!
with great pomp and. show throughout
tiie city and state of Chihuahua. On a--
brewery and the banking houses make
up the principal business bouses of the
(place. Even the daily newspaper Is ed
ited and managed
Terrazas.
With the wide
this one man. very little of it is unde
1 by a
connection
of
domain
controlled
hv
nil dressed in white and mounted on ipurt
white horses taken from the ranch herds,
were sent to the train to act as an
escort to the gu ests for their trip to the
scene of the wedding.
CATHEDRAL’S INTERESTING HIS
TORY.
So many were tlie horses on the ranch,
■that tlte thousand tpure white ones, with-
| out mark or blemish, were* found without
i difficulty.
The city of Chihuahua possesses con-
siderable historic interest as the place
I where Hidalgo, tlie father of Mexican
Independence, .'■ailed by the Mexicans
! “the George Washington cf Mexico," was
! shot July 30. 1811. A statue is ere-cted
I on the spot to his memory. The great
| cathedral of the city, costing more than
1 $800,000, is of exceptional architectural
beauty and has an interesting history. Its
; cost was met exclusively by a percent-
agt tax u pon the fabulously rich Santa
| Eulalia silver mine, located about 15
miles south of the city, amd still noted
as a producer.
LARGEST LAND OWNER IN THE
WORLD.
Besides having the .premier distinction
of being the richest man tn Mexico, Gen
eral Terrazas may claim to be the largest
l land owner in the world, his .ranch hold-
His Troubles.
Tn a small Georgia town, says an ex
change, lives an old negro couple, the
support for both being the wife. Unci*-
Zeke spends most of his time fishing in
the brick-yard pond, not that he expcc.s
to catch any fish, but “‘des tpr hab som
harmless ‘musement, chile." Aunt Marv
takes in washing.
One day one of Aunt Mary’s patrons
broached the subject to her, and sug
gested that she should not encourage her
husband’s laziness by supporting him in
idleness, but Aunt Mary protested.
“‘Deed, honey, mall ole man ain't lazy.”
she exclaimed: “it's des' dem scientific
notion he dun get when he was a-wuckin’
at de college.”
“But what have scientific theories git
to do with his not working?” the lady de
manded.
"Got er whole lot ter do. honey," Aurl
Mary said, gathering up her basket. “Vo'
«e. dem ideas what he got was dat hit
wasn't healthy ter wuk after meals, an’
he ain't been able ter figger out no was
ter 'complish dat not ye:—'less he gibs
op eatin’, an* course he can't do dat!"
Just Quips.
“Do you know that I am soon to be
engaged to Mr Huber?” “Is tiiat so?
Has he spoken to your mother?” "No,
but my mother has spoken to him.”—
ileggendorfer Blaetter.
seventeenth of June, Washing-
i a council of war to consider
measures it would be best to adopt.
Whether to attack the enemy at once,
whether the army should maintain its
present position until the final evacua
tion had taken place, or move at once | troor
towards the Delaware: whether, should |
the army march through the Jersey, it
would be advisable to attack them on
the way or to push on directly to the
Hudson and secure that important com
munication 'between the eastern and
southern states; also, whether, in case
an attack while on the march was de
cided on. should it ‘be a partial or a gen
eral one?
These were the questions laid before
the council of war by the commander-in-
chief. General Lee, his second in com
mand, always wayward and cynical, and
ever, like General Gates, in jealous op
position to his great superior, argued
against an attack of any kind, saying
tlie Sir Henry Clinton had ten thousand
men splendidly equipped and disciplined.
Our own forces were about the same in
number, but poorly equipped and for the
most part undisciplined. An attack
would endanger the safety of the cause.
His advice, Lee concluded, was merely
to follow tlie enemy and prevent them
from committing any excesses as they
| traversed the country.
j Several of the officers agreed with Lee.
I The most prominent and experienced,
! however, Greene, Wayne, Lafayette and
j Gadwallader, considered that the enemy
j ought not to be permitted to make a
j long march unmolested. An opportunity
might be found for striking a signal blow
j that would retrieve many American
I losses and at the same time inspirit tiie
troops. Such counsel as this was exactly
I after Washington's own heart and judg-
I ment.
GREAT SECRECY.
I Just at this juncture .word was brought
^ l to the council that Philadelphia was al
ready actually evacuated. Sir Henry
Passenger (about to leave the cars,
sees his heavy satchel fall from the rack
on a lady's head)—That's very fortunate.
I had just forgotten it was tilt re.—
Fliegende Blaetter.
Stoekson—One day last week old man
Gotrox bought a lot of those "Do
now" signs and hung ’em around
office. Bond—‘How dirt the staff take it?
Stoekson—Almost unanimously. The I Clinton had made his plans with great
cashier skipped witii $30,000, the head ] secrecy and dispatch. His army began
bookkeeper eloped with the private sec
retary, three c lerks asked for an increase
of salary, and tiie office boy lit out to
become a highwayman and got as fat-
west ns Pittsburg before lie was caught
and disarmed.—Judge.
cultivation. By far the greater portion j ings easily taking first plaice for extent
is used for stock grazing, and it
that at the present lime 1.000.000
said
•attle I
among the known properties of today.
Other randies in Mexico frequently count
roam the ranges of the Terrazas ranch, j i.qoo.OOO to 3.000.000 acres apiece, and
The Lesser Responsibility. Gladys. I, j^ad landed on the Jersey shore. Wash-
ant going to buy an automobile and I j (n gton immediately detached Genera!
want you to go and help me select one. . Maxwell with his brigade to cooperate
Cousin Jack .Not for me, little git!. w j t j, General Dickinson and the New
Why, I even wouldn’t pick )ou out a j jersey militia in harraesing the enemy
) on the march. Then, breaking up his
Hast .year 700,000 calves were branded,
so a su'cknian of the district avers.
HEADS OF STOCK INNUMMERABLE
These figures, It must be borne tn mind,
do not include the herds of goats, sheep,
horses, mules and burros, of each of
whicli there are thousands of head. No
pretense is madie to state within several
thousand the roumber of heads of stock
on the ranch, and this fact is one of the
causes for the lack of definite informa
tion as to the exact wealth of the Ter
razas family.
There is a story told among tiie
vaqueros of the ranch demonstrating tlte
vastness of the herds they have to care
for. At one time, so they say. a favor
ite cousin of General Terrazas was to
be married at one cf tiie numerous pic
turesque ramchliouses. The wedding
guests were all to come by special train
to a point some 10 miles distant front
count of his advancing years he has the hacienda, and by order of General
gradually relinquished the management I Terrazas a cavalcade of 1,000 vaqueros.
the Zuloaga family claims 5,000,000 acres
but n‘ ne approach Terrazas’ record of
more than 15.000,000 acres.
There is Scotch blood in the veins of
the Terrazas family a few generations
back, and this may account for their
unusual business sagacity. Governor
Creel, the present hend of Chihuahua,
takes his name from Ids Scotch ancestors
and others of the family, following this
Mexican custom, have assume,) the same
r ante.
HOW RANCH WAS SECURED.
Possess! n of the immense holdings was
secured partly by purchase, partly by
other means—some say by appropriation—
soon after General Terrazas was sent
into Chihuahua to assume the military
control of the country and subdue its
rebellious people. When, he had finished
his work a grateful government gave him
large grants as a testimonials of his good
Continued on Fourth Page.
husband.—Puck.
A Mere Onlooker.—“They claim the
cost of living is going up. Do you find
it so?" "What have I to do with the
cost of living? I board.—Washington
Herald.
The Garden of Love.
(From The New York Times.)
Man ha,.-s got four ages.
As you here will see;
111 his happy childhood
Gets the Christmas tree.
Past that blissful season.
Older grown to be.
Then from Eve's fair daughter*
Gets the apple tree.
When for bread and butter
All his children yell.
He must with a hustle
Shake the plum tree well.
I,asl, when lean and slippered.
All his pleasures flee.
He has grave suspicions
Of a lemon tree.
How Washington Turned the Tide
^ At the Battle ©f Monmouth ^
IN TWO PARTS-PART I.
l.v keeping along the mountainous coun
try to the left, of the northern road. Sir
Henry was moving very slowly. He was
encumbered with wagons and provisions
in Igrge quantities. His train of wagons
and led horses was twelve miles in
length. Moreover, the same heavy rains
and intense heat that had delayed Wash
ington's march, also affected Sir Henry's
advance, and in addition bridges bad to
lie built and causeways reconstructed
over creeks and marshes, which had been
destroyed by the Americans.
Sii Henry's dilatory movements made
Washington suspicious tha.t he was seek
ing to tempt him down into the level
country, anti then, by a rapid movement
to tiie right, give himself the advantage
of the higher ground above him, and
then bring on a general action under un-
: favorable conditions for the Americans,
i Washington was anxious for such a com
bat whenever ire could attack on favor-
| able ground. He, therefore, halted at ■,
j Hopewell, five miles from Princeton, and
j held another council of war while the
re resting. The conference did
not satisfy the commander-in-chief. The
majority, previously influenced toy I^ee,
advised keeping at a distance from the
enemy and annoying them toy rear
and flank attacks by small detachments.
In pursuance of these tactics a body of
1,500 men was sent off under the com
mand of General Scott to join the other
troops near the enemy’s line. Lee an
grily opposed the sending of even so
large a force as this.
As 'before. Generals Greene, Lafayette
and Wayne differed front the majority,
and at Washington's request gave their
opinion in writing that the rear of the
British army could he attacked by a
strong detachment while the main army
shotild give a general action whenever
favorable conditions could lb e secured.
This view agreed with Washington's
own judgment also, and he resolved to
act upon it without further delay.
REVOLUTIONARY COURTESY.
Meantime Sir Henry Clinton had reach
ed Allentown on his way to Brunswick,
intending to embark on the Raritan river.
Fearing, however, that the passage of
the river would be opposed by Washing
ton. and learning that other troops were
coming from the north tinder the com
mand of Gates, he changed his plans,
turning to the right to a road that led
through Freehold to Navesink and Sandy
Hook, with the intention of embarking
at tiie latter place.
So now at last the enemy’s route was
no longer in doubt, and Washington at
ence sent Wayne witii 1,000 men to join
tiie advanced corps, which, with this ad
dition, now amounted to 4,000. The com
mand of this corps belonged to Lee, as
the senior major-general. Lafayette,
however, entreated Washington to give
it to him, and as Lee was so strenuously
opposed to any attack at all, Washington
gave ills consent, provided that Lee was
willing. Tiie latter ceded his right to La
fayette without hesitation, saying that
he “was well pleased to be freed from
all responsibility In executing plans that
were sure to fail."
Lafayette therefore set out without de
lay to join the force under General Scott
Washington, leaving his baggage and
other encumbrances at Kingston, moved
with his main body to Cranberry, three
miles in the rear of Scott and I,afay-
ette's forces, so as to bo ready to sup
port them. And now again. General Lee
proved as usual, “ft thorn in the flesh"
to his commander. • Scarcely had he
given up his command "gladly.” when
he changed his mind and desired to take
it back. He did not consider it fitting,
he said, that a young volunteer general
should be second in command. He did
not approve of the marching of the de
tachment, but if it was to march, he
wanted to be at its head.
This tardy change of mind placed
Washington in an embarrassing position,
which probably was Lee's Intention. He
did not see how he was to satisfy Lee
without hurting Lafayette’s feelings.
But a sudden change of plan on tiie part
of Sir Henry Clinton furnished a solution.
Finding himself harassed by the Ameri
cans on his flanks and in danger of being
attacked in the rear, lie sent all his bag
gage to the front under the convoy of
i its retrograde movement at 3 o'clock in
| the morning of the eighteenth of June,
crossing tiie Delaware in boats from a
! point of land below tiie city, formed by
| tlte junction of the Schuylkill and the
i Delaware. By 10 o'clock the rear guard
camp at Valley Forge, lie, himself, push
ed forward with tiie main body of the
army in pursuit of the retreating Brit
ish.
The route of the latter lay along the
eastern bank of the river as far as Tren
ton. Washington was, therefore, com
pelled to make a long circuit in order to
cross the river higher up. Heavy rains
and the sultry summer heat retarded his
progress, but the army succeeded in
crossing at Coryell's Ferry on the twen
ty-fourth. Tiie Britisli were then at
Moorestown and Mount Holly. Thence
they had the choice of two routes. One
by a road on the left for Brunswick,
thence to Staten Island and New York;
the other by a road to the right leading
through Monmouth by tlte heights ot
Middletown to Sandy Hook.
Uncertain as to which road would be
chosen. Washington sent Colonel Morgan
with 600 men to reinforce Maxwell, and
^ to hang on the rear of the enemy. He
j himself pushed on to Princeton, cautious-
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REAT interest was manifested dur-
ing tlte war in what the foreign
newspapers had to say about t ie
conflict. I find the following clipping in
the old war scrapbook:
“We yesterday gave an article from
the London Times on the opening ot
1864, and wliat had been accomplished
by the north in 1863. We give today
some further foreign extracts, wlii.n
show what is thought in England of t; 8
prospects for the confederacy for 1864:
(From The London Standard.)
“ ‘Territorially, the south has rn>
doubt lost something; hut she iias loa;
infinitely less than was generally ex
pected, and not a fourth of what some
peculiarly audacious partisans of tiie
federal cause have lately set down to
Its credit. They say that the confea.
eracy now holds only one-half of tiie
territory it claims. The answer is simply
that this is utterly untrue. In tie
"claim,” of course, are included Mis
souri, and Kentucky, of which toe con
federate government never held pos
session, and of which the nortli will no.
keep possession when once it is de
feated in its main object. Of the
eleven states represented at Richmond
in July, 1861, only one has been tem
porarily reduced under federal rule, or
rather occupied by federal armies. Sines
the outbreak of the war the south hai
lost Tennessee and a fragment of Ark
ansas. a little portion of riverside terri
tory in Louisiana, and isolated positions
in Florida and the Carolinas.
•‘ ‘The fed era Is occupy posts in Missis
sippi, but that is all. Northern Vir
ginia is simply a devastated battle-field,
of which the north cannot be said to
have possession. For all practical pur
poses ten of the eleven states are stiii
held by the eonfederates, excepting such
portions of them as have been actually
occupied by the federal troops under
the protection of their gunboats. A ter
ritory more than three times as large as
France remains entirely unsubdued, and
at their present rate of progress, wn ■
is not likely to he maintained,
would take the north ten years to over
run it. Even when overrun it wo l
not be conquered; but we need not en
ter : nto any discussion of what may
happen in a case far removed from
practical probability-
" ‘If at any moment that should oc
cur which has more than once seemed
on the point of coming to pass; if the
confederates should gain a decided
tory i n tiie west, while driving the
army of the Potomac out of Virginia,
the north would have lost at a blow
erything—except New Orleans—that t
has gained in three years o! war!":
while, as we have seen, the south m
sustain a defeat without losing any
thing of her essential strength and po w
er of self-defense. It is quite cle;
she will maintain it until her indep*ml
ence is recognized; and it is for Eur-me
to consider whether the termination ot
a war which is a disgrace and an af
fliction to mankind shall be allowed tc
await tiie slow recovery of the t or
from its fever dream of conquest, booty
and empire.’ ”
THE FLORIDA TROOPS
The Floridian contained the follow
ing in 1864:
.v writer for the Knoxville Bee is;
commenting upon tiie late eugug.*■:
wnn the Yankee Raiders, took ...
sion to pay our Florida soldiers
handsome tribute of commendation fo
their gallant conduct.
It is comforting to us to know,
wherever our brave boys have go
in every section of our country — ,
every batt^ field, they haye
trated’ their Peninsular State,
ered themselves with a halo of u;m -
ing glory.
"We had the pleasure to muster i . y
of the companies composing tiie s- -
enth Florida into service—as well
inspect the Sixth Florida before its
parture for Tennessee and can saf>
say, a finer looking body of men w*
never saw mustered or inspect*, i,
hence were not supprised at the an
nouncement of the Register, but rhe> -
fully give it a place in our eoluuv
“ ‘The country, and especially >. u
own city, owe much to the niih a >
who aided in the defence of our Tt.im-s
on Saturday last. They were f*’u
number, but more gallant spirits never
took part in the fray of battle, than
they proved themselves to be.
“The Sixtli Florida, commanded
Colonel Finley, and fhe Seventh FI
ida, commanded by Colonel Bull." k,
entitled themselves to the gratitude f
our people, and we take pleasure
aclcknowledging our obligations to
them.
“ ‘These troops were posted in tha
support of our various batteries i
approaches to the city, besides doing
heavy picked duty. Their coolness and
determination, their good order and
evident anxiety to meet the enemy at
tracted the attention of all who were in
a position to see it, anti won for them
the highest praises. M'e owe much to
these troops! But for their presen e
our city would doubtless now he i
the hands of the enemy, and we lie
enduring the pains of the conquer* l.
As citizens of Tennessee we acknmv
edge our indebtedness to Florida! As
the best return we can make her. we
send, her word that her sons all ,l i !
well! None could have done better. '
A STORY OF L-EE.
The following letter was 'writtei bv
General Robert E. Lee. in reference to
a proposition introduced into and add
ed by the Richmond city council, for
the purchase of a mansion as a p--’
ent to the great leader of the Virginia
army. The spirit of the letter is oil
the more lofty, inasmuch as It Is wel
known that General Lee. having left
all his property in the hands of the
enemy, had little beyond his pay for the
support of his family:
“Headquarters Army of Northern Vir
ginia. November 12. 1863.—To the Pres-
i, J ent °f the City Council. Richmond,
\ a. Sir: My attention has been direet-
ed to a resolution reported In the news
papers as having been introduced into
the body over which you preside, having
for its object the purchase, by the city
of Richmond, of a house for the use of
my family.
I assure you, sir. that no want of
appreciation of the honor conferred me
by this resolution, or Insensibility 1
the kind feeling which prompted it. i -
duces me to ask. as I most respectful; '
do, that no further proceedings be tak
en with reference to the subject. The
house is not necessary for the use *f
my family, and my own duties will
prevent my residence In Richmond. I
should therefore be compelled to de
cline the generous offer, and trust th. t
whatever means the city council may
have to spare for this purpose may be
devoted to the relief of the families of
our soldiers in the field, who are more
in want of assistance and more deserv
ing of it than myself. I have the honor
to be, most respectfully, your obedient
servant, R. E. LEE, General.”
ifKTT
CAPTURE OF GENERAL VANCE
I find the following interesting bit ol
war news in the old scrap-book:
“The capture of General Vance, of
North Carolina, in east Tennessee, is
confirmed. He was sent to Knoxville.
The following is an account of it from
a letter dated Asheville, N. C„ Janu
ary 18:
“ ‘On Wednesday last. General Vance,
with about 150 men, entered the vil-
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