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THE AMKK10US DAILY TIMhS-KECORDER: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1. ISOt. STONEWALL JACKSON. Fellow Citizens! Alliancemen! And Friends Of Southwest Ga.: Witli’compliir.ents of the season we respectfully invite yonr attention to our IMMENSE LI1VE Newest Styles in High Grade TAILOR-FITTING FALL AND WINTER. We have outdone ourselves this season and exceUed all previous attempts in placing before you more attractions and exclusive Novelties in Clothing and Haber dashery. We carry,beyond a doubt (and the most of you know it) the LARGEST STOCK cl MEN’S and YOUTHS’ SUITS In tliis part of the state, and are offering them at the very lowest prices. CaU and examine these linos, as well as our complete assortment in Extra Sizes, Stouts and Slims, which, as ;to style and 'fit, cannot ho surpassed. JOHN B. SHAW, “THE CHAMPION" Clothier and Furnisher, •117 Forsyth St., AMERICUS, - GA. A Comment on Dr. Field*. Decent Article In Harper'*. On the 21st of July, 1891, upon the bank, of an Insignificant creek in the state of Virginia, known by the unpo- etio name of “Ball Run,” began a mili tary career wbicb baa In history but few equals, and absolutely no superiors. Short and meteorio In Ita splendor, bat unlike the darning meteor, Its trail went not out after its swift light into darkness and oblivion, but Is as eternal as the noonday tun itaelf. This career ended in the dense wilderness and low under growth only a few miles from the spot where it began—at the bloody battle of Cliancellorsrille—and ita period was of less than two years’ duration. So mag nificent in its splendor was it, however, that time itself will be but a reminis cence ere it is forgotten. I speak of the military career of “Stonewall” Jackson. Of southern blood and birth myself, born years after the death of this hero, still from history and no small interest in the affairs which have attracted the peo pie of the past, and with some study of the campaigns of commanders, I have always esteemed “Stonewall” Jackson the greatest soldier this continent has produced. den. Richard Taylor has said that whilst war has been carried on among the people of earth from the beginning until now, one might count the great generals the world has produced upon tho lingers of one hand. If this be true, I am sure that in the counting the name of Jackson would not be omitted. These thoughts and their expression come, from a loyal southern heart, at the instance of The TimesKkcokder,which kindly requested me to pay due notice to the manly, kind and able monograph upon General Jackson by the Rev, Henry M. Field, D. D., which appears in the November, 1891, issue of Harper’s Mag azine. Dr. Field is a northern man, and no doubt he believes in the righteousness of tho Federal cause in the war between the states; but, Dr. Field is a man whose breadth of mind allows him to rise above all passion and all prejudice. The article before me does credit to his intelligence, to his manliness and to his scholarship. At this, I am not sur prised. Dr. Field comes of a remarka ble family. Perhaps it is the most re markable that this country has ever produced. His brother, Cyrus W. Field, at once one of the ablost and most successful of financiers, a noted philan thropist, and daring mover in human progress. He it was that conceived and carried to its successful fruition the great plan of connecting the United States and Europe by the Atlantio cable, His brother, Stephen J. Field, for nearly quarter of a century was the only democratic justice of the supreme court the United States, and no once since the days of Roger B. Taney has reflected more honor and credit upon that august tribunal. His brother David Dudley Field is recognized by all lawyers, as “facile prlnceps” the bead of the bar of the state of Now Tork. For nearly half a century has this broad minded and progressive jurist battled for law reform, His civil code of procedure has been adopted In the main, from California to Georgia. Pr. Field himself is one of the most scholarly theologians. Of broad views Be has traveled from Ispahan to Labrador. The occasion for Dr. Field’s very trnthful and manly panegyric upon "Stonewall" Jackson was the recent publication by this soldier’s wife of bis biography. Dr. Field Is nothing If not enthusiastic in commending his char acter as a soldier, a husband and a Christian gentleman. Truly, does he say, "As a soldier some competent crit ics rank him as the first the war pro duced on either side.” Speaking of the rapidity of his execru- tion of movements he said, “he outdid even Napoleon himself, training his men to suoh a pitch of endurance that ha could rush them twenty-five miles a day, over a broken country and fight a battle as the sun was going down." But the history of Jackson needs no Finest Stock of pore Candies ever shown i n Americus. — 9 o 1 e Agent for W. D. BAILEY, The Leading and only Exclu sive dealer in Men's Weir, (Including everything for Men) Ansley’s Seal brand, Southwest GeC/Tm, I.fVnrnOTr’a PVlnnnln+^r. I TT -© Has just received and Lowney’s Chocolates, Goussett’s Chocolates All kinds fine hand made creams, at E. D. ANSLEY’S. Americus Souvenir Spoons, Hotel Windsor Souvenir Spoons, Battle of Gettysburg “ Seven days Battle “ G. A. R. Battle of the Sea, “ Monitor and Merrimack “ Fort Sumter “ Independence (July 4, 1776.) * « Spoon ! Spooney !! 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Suffice it to say that the wonderful valley cam paign in the spring of 1882, in wbioh he routed Banks, Fremont, Shields and Milroy, in detail, all of them with ar mies equal to his own, and some supe rior in numbers, and then rapidly threw himself upon the left flank of McClel land’s army before Riohmond, were achlvements that even the eloquent pen of Dr.Field had not the power to criticise with sufficient admiration. Bat, after all, the chief charm in Dr. Field’s article is his description of the personal character of this “God of War.” Ho says: "It will surprise many to learn that this grim soldier was noted in his family for his playfulness and the quiet humor that often rippled in a smile or a twinkle of the eye. At soon as he enters his door he puts off all milt, tary stiffness as he would lay aside his military cloak; the officer is obanged into a man, and the man Is changed into a boy. yielding to the natural reaction, he abandons himself to fan and frolio in a way that leaves far behind the dignity of the grave professor and the military officer. We are afraid If the whole truth were told that be sometime* indulged in sinful amusements, for bit wife confesses (alas, that It should be told of a blue- light Presbyterian) that at timet when there was nobody looking on he would draw the curtain so as not to aoandalize the neighbors and dance a jig around the room.” Jackson was evidently of a most de vout turn of mind. He believed in the atonement; he believed In the efficacy of >rayer. When he left hit home In Lex- ngton, to return a corpse, on the eve of bis departure he retired to his private room and opened his family Bible to this word of promise: "For we know that If our earthly bouse of this taberna cle be dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with bands, eter nal in the heavens.” He then prayed for his wife and for his country, and, rising from his keees, he went to join his command. Jackson has been said to have been a man of iron. He was not. In marked contrast to the vandals of the north, misnamed generals, at Harper's Ferry be captured 11,000 men, and, instead of treating them with great severity, he paroled them all. A* I have said, Jackson was a man of prayer. This simple faith in divinity was hit inspiration. "His negro servant said he always knew when there was going to be a battle, because hit master got up so many time* in the night to pray I And he at once packed his haver sack, for he knew that be would call for It in the morning.” To the many veterans who followed the rising fortunes of the south under Jackson, and who at stubbornly fol lowed their wane after b's death, who knew him only as the grim, ungainly, austere soldier, it will be a matter of surprise for them to learn that “Stone wall" Jackson in his letters to his wife displayed almost the tenderness of a Romeo to hit Juliet—calling to bia as sistance the smooth and loving words peculiar to the sun-nurtured men of Spain: “The bravest are the tendereet; The loving are the daring.” But epough. Naught that lean sav. naught that Dr. Field may say, oan add one ray to the brilliancy and grandeur of tbi* man’s character. The votive offering of his wife leaves us to say of him ss was said of him yean ago by Margaret J. 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