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VOL. V.
REUNION SONO.
[Composed and sung by Rev. —. —.
Smith at New Orleans in 1892.]
We’ve met again, my comrades bold,
To grasp each other’s hands
And talk ot times that tried men’s sonls
AH o’er these southern lands.
WaVe closer grown through floating years
Since we together stood.
And barred oar breasts to leaden storms
On fields baptized with blood.
Garland is filled with widows’ weeds;
We’ve heard the orphans’ sigh,
While comrades long since disappeared
Are marching through the sky.
We’ll write their names on fame’s proud scroll
As heroes in the strife.
And cherish those thev loved and left
As long as »• have life.
Our banner with its triple bars
No more on earth is seen,
The bat tie fields once red with blood
With waving grass are green.
No rude commands resounding now
Disturb the warrior’s rest.
Their farms asleep in camps of death,
Their souls are with the blest.
But though our flag lies folded now,
To kies the breeze no more.
And though no more we don the coats
We once so proudly wore.
We’ll not forget the vnlous deeds
Beneath that banner done.
Nor cease to talk of battie fields
And victories we have won.
And when all hate shall cease to live,
And truth shall grasp the pen
To write our country’s history down,
She’ll say tbit of our men;
That truer patriots never lived.
Nor filled more honored graves,
Than those who fell in freedom’s cause,
Our own confederate braves.
We’re not ashamed of what we did,
We battled tor the right.
And though by numerous foes o’erwlielmed,
We yielded to their might.
We walk again with freemen’s tre id
The land that gave us birth,
And glory in our sunny south.
The grandest spot on earth.
And while we do not brag, nor boast
Of how our comrades fought,
The pension roils, you know full well,
The facts of this havo taught.
And if these pension rolls be true
And none have said they lied,
We must have crippled all the world
And halt the coons beside.
Now my song I’ll close with homely phrase
That has a statement true.
Of bow the fight was ended and—
I’ll prove it by the blue.
The yankcos didn’t whip us, boys.
Nor let it ne’er be said,
But wc wore ourselves ont whipping them,
Then stopped for want of bread.
Then let us sing till heaven shall ring
To our departed braves,
Ahd let us pray each passing day
Among their silent graves.
That when our time to fall shall come
And we must pass away.
We’ll rise again with them to reign
In one eternal day.
VAN GERVOORFS CALL
He Warns the Nation Against
Papal Curse in This Country.
I have ju6t returned from a
to Wood and Van Zandt
the very hotbed and centre of
populism. At MineoLa lives
new presideut of the Texas
form Press Association, O. P.
and at Grand Saline that veteran
In out work, J. C. Rhodes, also
Goldsmith, Prof. Collins and
host of others true and tried in
the faith. Every one of the
dents of these counties
to our party is an earnest
of the road populist, aud many
them- aw- going to Nashvillo. The
whole- state has lined up
fully. Those who think the popu¬
list party dead in this state should
see the reports of the- meetings
belli, Every one of them
mous- for the conference and all
determined to inaugurate
grandest campaign ever made in
this state in 1898.
The- peoples'party can if they
are wise- add a great army to
grand host of enduring patriots. I
notice- that Wharteu Barker iu
American favors a new American
party. He thinks we can
get together. That the peoples’
party can never harmonize.
we eannot unite all the reform
elements under ou* banner.
I am inclined) to agree with
him. Grave doubts exist as
whether under our ballot laws
can get rid of our fusion
tees, that the friction- caused
the effort would divide and
tract our ranks so that we
never present a solid front.
ly all the raeu I have talked with
wonder how wo can
bow get rid of Butler and his
ocratic allies who have control
our party machinery. My
would be to elect a new
TiE^feECORD V m
Devoted to the Interest of Johnson County and Middle Georgia.
WRIGHTSVILLE, GA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1897.
and secretary and execu¬
committee aud call ou our
to reorganize them. The
would be that until the
state committees were
they would recognize But¬
ler and as he has back of him the
fusion congressmen and senators
it would be difficult to rally again.
men are determined to de¬
liver us to democracy. They have
of several -stated They
have au army of officeholders.
have a goodly uurnber of pa¬
pers who are fed at the pie coun¬
ter. All these will stand solid for
1 new fusion deal. Their selfish
interests demand it aud they will
sell principle, party and manhood
to hold their positions. I love
the name of the peoples’ party. I
love the rank and file, the editors
of our papers who stood by the
faith. But there’s nothing much
in a name. The peoples’ party
name lias been dragged in the dust,
its organization prostrated. Its
convention became an auction
block for the betrayal of the party
its candidates. \Y r e need nev¬
er abandon one of our cardinal
principles. We step out of the
murky air bred by corruption aud
fraud, into the clear day of a new
future. The same principles have
been upheld by the greenback and
union labor parties. Three times
the men who upheld this move¬
ment have changed the name of
the party. If at Nashville we
should decide to be known as the
American party and start out with
bran uew committees and form a
new organization in every state,
we could oarty all our papers and
our true members with us bodily.
They see the difficulties surround¬
ing us now so plainly that they
feel it will he difficult to reorgan¬
ize. Fusion leaders control all
our machinery in the north and of
the national committee. We could
leave these men with a mere side
show if we took this new departure,
and we would thu9 avoid all the
breakers and have time by 1900 to
secure a place on.every state ticket
under our ballot laws. And we
could add at once 2,000,000 voters
to our ranks. We are opposed to
British domination. We are in
favor of a government of the peo¬
ple. We believe in a true Ameri¬
can policy for alt the people. I am*
opposed to all the- influences that
tend to place this country uuder
foreign dictatiou. There is a mere
deadly and sinister influence in
this nation than either the British
or the Rothschilds.. It is leagued
and linked with both. All history
shows that it has been the curse of
•very government where it was
permitted to live.
It has been aboiisbed by tbe
pope of Rome. The ablest writers,
in that church have piled up evi¬
dence mountain high against its
iuiquity. Nearly every Catholic
country on earth has driven its
from place aud power in.
the administration of the affairs
of the church, until today, outcasts
from nearly every Catholic nation,
they are driven to the United
States to entrench thomselveu in
the eitadsL of a socalled free gov¬
ernment. It is the Jesuit organiza¬
tion that I allude to. This whole
#
power has been transferred here,
They controlled Cleveland. They
control McKinley. They have a
delegate who- acts as pope in North
and South Aigerica and is as abso¬
lute a ruler as the pope himself.
Our whole people seem to be
under a spell. They are afraid to
mention this silent power. They
are afraid to lift a hand to stay
the tide that is meuacing the very
existence of this nation, Mexico,,
Italy, Germany,, the very hotbed
and sanctuary of the Catholic
church, has overwhelmed this
organization; but America-stands
silent with its millions of majority
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A New One On Bill.
BY M.QUAD.
We were waiting at the Air Line
junction for the Southern express
—fifteen or twenty passengers—
when we saw a man come running
along the country highway with
his hat in his band. As he drew
nearer to us he waved the hat and
shouted, but no one could make
him out until he reached us. He
was a man of 50 years and very
much excited, aud he had to wait
three or four minutes before he
could say :
“Geutlemeu, my sou Bill has
broke loose and will be here in
ten miuutes!”
“What’s the matter with your
son Sill?” asked one of the pas¬
sengers. 4
He’s the awfullest fighter in all
this state P was the reply. “He’s
fit and licked everythin’ fur 200
miles around, and fur the last
week I’ve had him tied up in the
barn, ’cause he was achin’ to fight
him. He was bustin’ the ropes
when I left, and he’ll chaw this
crowd up as a cow eats cabbage.
Thar’ he comes now!”
O 11 the crest of a hill half a
mile away wo saw a man who wa6
headed our way, and the passen¬
gers asked of the excited father:
“What do you think we had
better do in the case?”
“Git inside and lock the doors!”
shouted the old man, “and mebbe
I kill coax Bill not to do you any
damage! If I had a chunk of
raw beef I think I could git him
to- fellow me back home agin. See
him cum! He’s achin’ fur death
and destrueshun!”
“He isn’t foolish or crazy, is
he?”
“Not a bit, sir. He’s jest a rip
roarer of a fighter, aud if he lights
ou this crowd sunthiu’ aw¬
ful will happen. What you goiu’
to do?”
“I’m goiu’ to meet your sou
replied* the man, as he threw
his coat and pushed up his
“But he’ll make cat’s-meat, of
iu two hoots aud a holler!
fur heaven’s sake git
while I see if I can’t coax
to spare your lives.”
The passenger leaped off the
and went down the road
few yards to meet Bill, who com¬
011 the jump and yelliug every
he lifted his feet from the
He was a chunky young
man about 25 years old, and as he
up he made straight for the
passenger.
“Hold on, Bill—don’t kill him
kill him!” shouted the
father as he rushed forward, but
he was too late. Bill had rushed
at the passenger with his arms go¬
ing like flails, and something had
shot out and landed on his jaw
and laid him on his back. He
lay so quiet that some thought him
dead, but after a dash of water hr.
his face he opened his eyes- and
s&t up, and the father queried of*
the passenger:
“Mister, what did you do to my
son Bill?”
“I landed on his jaw,”'was the
reply.
“And: is he a licked man?” - *
“He is. He is sighing to go
to his mother.”
“Yes, he looks like it. Say,
Bill, the aiefch has tipped, up and
»r- . rip.ro.rer..
home to ma,
And Bill slowly got up, looked,
around as if he had lost some
thiug,.and leaned heavily on his
father’s shoulder While the pair
walked down the dusty highway
and never looked back.
“I find it impossible to kill the
serve,” exclaimed the dentist in a
troubled tone. “What can it
mean?” “I’m a drummer,” with a
ring of pride in his voice.
NO. 21
Her Consolation.
“George,” exclaimed Mfb-. Law
son, according to the Cleveland
Leader, “let me see that paper a
minute. There's something nr
Fugleman’s advertisement on the
last page, about giving something
away to every customer.”
Mr. Lawson handed the paper
over to his sweet little wife, and
went on eating his breakfast.
“I hope they won’t all be gone,”
she said aloud, as she read the an-'
noirncemerrt, “before I can get
there.”
“What are they going to’ give¬
away?” her husband asked.
“A beautiful tea caddy to every
purchaser of a dollar’s worth of
goods or more,” she excitedly re¬
turned. “I wouldn’t miss getting
one of them for anything.”
“What do you intend to- buy? 1 ''
he inquired’.
“Oh, I don’t know yet. But
there are lots of things I can find'
to make up the dollar's worth. A
tea caddy’s the very thiug I’ve
been wanting this long time, and?
I wouldn’t miss the chance for m
good deal.”
He kissed her and went away,,
but when he got home again, at 1
night, he found in place of the
happy wife he'had left that morn¬
ing a little woman who was the
picture of woe.
“What’s the matter?” George
Lawson asked.
He had forgotten* about the tea.
caddy, and feared that bad news
of some kind had preceded him.
“I shall never buy another,
cent’s worth of anythingvhvF-ugte
man’s store as long as I live,” hie.
replied.
“Oh,’' he said*. remembering the
in tlie raoruiug pap—
“didn’t they give you a tea
after all?”’
“Yes,” she replied in scornful'
tones, “they gave me one. But
look at it!”
Theu she handed out a little
jar with a nick in it, that,,
it had been perfect, might have
worth 8 or 10 cents.
“Why didn’t you make thenr
you a good one?’’ he asked,
her cheek, and trying to.
her believe that he sympa*
with her.
“I did ask for a good one,” Bhe
“but what do you.think,
impudent clerk said?”
“I haven’t any idea. If it was
disgraceful I’ll go and.
him.”
“He asked me if B wanted* the
the weeping woman de—
“Ob! he did, did he?”
“Yes, and there I’d just bought*
a dollar’s worth of goods that B
suppose I’ll ever ueed !’’•
“The wretch!” hissed George
Lawson.
Theu he told her not to care,
aud kissed her, and made her
think that he didn’t object to the.
squandering of the dollar at alf,.
aud at length her* gloom disap-*
peared.
A's they sat down to tea she sud¬
denly said, witlv a gladl look upon*
J| er •
“I’d feel awfully bath about it^
if I hadn’t seen the caddies,
that some other women got. They
were all cracked-, or damaged ini
some way.’’
But her husbaud made no reply ( .
He was thinking.
It was at a receut meeting o£
women and a number of delegates
had made earnest addresses, when,
a little woman in the rear of the
am tired- of so many squeaky sop*
ranos;. I want to hear a man.”
A Pittsburg woman has invent-
ed the odd profession of breaking
in shoes. She commenced by per¬
forming this service for a very
wealthy friend, who wears the
same size of shoes which she does
herself. Within a few weeks the
increase of orders has made it nec¬
essary for her to employ several
young women who wear different
sizes of shoes.
