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BILL ARP'S LETTER.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
"Say nothing unkind concerning
the dead speak no evil of the dead,"
is the translation of a Latin maxim
that is more than two thousand years
old. Nevertheless, history is made
up of the character and deeds of no
table and great men, and it is our
duty to study them and profit by
their example. That Latin maxim
was intended no doubt to apply to
our neighbors who had recently died
and not to the great public men
whose acts aud deeds made up his
tory. The world had a perfect right
to analyze and criticise the charac
ters of Alexander aud Caesar aud
Cromwell and Bonaparte and Bene
dict Arnold, but even these were not
settled until a century or more had
passed after their death. Bonaparte
is not settled yet and English, French
and American historians are still
hammering away at his character
and his deeds. That he was a scourge
to mankind and the age in which he
lived and a traitor to his devoted
wife and all to gratify his selfish am
bition, no reflective man can doubt.
The disposition to idolize great war
riors handicaps all young historians
and captivates tho people when one
of these fighting men offiers for office.
It was this that elected Taylor and
Harrison and Jackson. How Roose
velt will get along with his war rec
ord for killing bears remains to be
seen, but I reckon he is relying more
on being a historian and slandering
men after they are dead. Ho will
lose nothing up north by telling lies
vomaes nzm?
A reallv lipaitTiv wnvr.on v iu
I tie pain or discomfort at the
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t i. Greenwood, La., Oct. 14, looo.
1 . , , , j sujuu time,
was taken with a severe pain ia rny
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I fore 1 had taken all of it I was relieved
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j F oradYire and literature, ailr?; HiviiiL' smn.
I S?,1"' "T!ie La1'' Aliory 1 -j,nrtinnrit,' Tne
vuaiuun.a jicuijuio o., s-iihUuijooga, Ten:;,
on Jefferson Davis. He belongs to
the same school of historians that
Professor Goldwiu Smith does that
lying Englishman who wrote a his
tory of the United States that was
taught in northern colleges and said
that the first settlers of Virginia
were renegades from England most
ly convicts who were given choice of
the gallows or of exile to Virginia,
and strange to say they chose the
exile.
But I was ruminating about those
last words of Daniel Webster, who in
my opinion was the greatest man the
country ever produced, not the great
est, but the grandest the most god
like. He made many great speeches,
but the greatest of all was that de
livered at Capon Springs, where he
was brave enough to qualify all his
previous utterances concerning the
rights of the States and to declare
that any state had the right to with
draw from the union when it was
unjustly treated and that the state
was the sole judge of that. For this
he was denied the privilege of speak
ing again in Fanuel hall. For this
he was sacrificed in verse by Whit
tier. For this that speech was left
out of his puolishcd works the pub
lishers saying that it would greatly
damage their sale to have it in.
This brings me to the text I started
to write about, for I have received
three letters from cultured gentle
men who tell me that "I still live"
were not Webster's last words, but
there A'ere two more that tho editor
suppressed, and those two were
"more brandy." These gentlemen
concur in saying that Webster was
very fond of brandy and in his last
days indulged too much aud during
his last illness his physician kept him
alive on brand v. The morning he
died his physician called and, rind
ing him alive, but apparently uncon
scious, said to the attendant, "He
cannot live but a little while, but if
he should live until 8 o'clock give
hira some brandy." When the clock
struck 8 Mr. Webster roused up and
pointed to it and whispered, "1 still
live more brandy." The last two
words are left out of the biography
and may not have been said. Never
theless this yersion has paralyzed
much of my sentiment and all 1 cau
do is to leave it in doubt. 1 rem
ember that it was said of Mr. Web
ster that he was overfond of his
brandy toddies. Brandy was a gen
tleman's drink, whiskey was for the
common people and rum was for egg
nog and for theyankees to ship to
Africa to buy niggers with. Eveu
in my young days the gentlemen
drank brandy peach or apple, or
cognac. It was kept on the side
boards and was always offered to
visitors. When I was about four
teen years old John McPherson Ber
rien came to our little town of Law
renceville to attend court. He whs
considered a very great man.
was our United States Senator
He
aud
the
had been attorney-general of
United States under Jackson. After
I had swept out the store I walked
down to the hotel to get a glimpse
of him. He had just gotten up and
came out on the piazza in his shirt
sleeves to take a wash. After that
the landlord brought him out a bot
tle of brandy and some sugar and
the great man took a liberal toddy.
It was a revelation to me to see how
suddenly a great man could come
down to the level of common people.
But it must be remembered that Mr.
Berrien waa from Savannah.
Now here isanother letter in which
I take peculiar interest and commend
to the veterans of Georgia. For
years I have lamented that we have
no record roll of our Confederate
soldiers. I alluded to this not long
ago in one of my letters, and it has
provoked an old friend to write to
rne upon the subject and give me
encouragement. The letter is from
Hon. Walter Clark, Associate Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, and who wa3 recently nom
inated for Chief Justice. He has re
cently finished the lnstory of the
North Carolina .Regiments, in five
volumes, having been chosen for this
vork by the Confederate Veterans'
Association. These volumes are not
a roster, but a history of the acts
and deeds of every regiment (eighty
four in number). Tweny years ago
that grand old State published a
roster, in four volumes, wherein in
recorded the name of every officer
and private, and what became of
them. North Carolina was the ban-
To be continued on 7th page.
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