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So many voices have been hushed So many song have ceased for aye So many hands I used to touch Are folded over hearts of clay; The shallow world recedes from me I cease to hear its praise or blame; The mossy marbles echo back No hollow sound or empty fame , EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF HON. W. C. OATES OF ALABAMA ON THE F1TZ-JOHN POR TER RELIEF BILL. Mr, Chairman, in that great war which sacrificed a million of men and billions of money heroeB and statesmen were developed, but no Benedict Arnold. It is alleged by some that good taste suggests that none of the "rebel brigadiers" should pass judgment upon Porter's condut Why? Are we not American citizens, with all the righta, privileges, and immunities of any other citizens? Are we not here as representatives of the people of sovereign States? Can we with any sort of propriety abdi cate our functions as Representatives because forsooth it accords with the ideas of tasto of the gentleman from Ohio Mr. Taylor and the gentleman from Michigan Mr. Horr, and like humiliated cowards stand aside and witness their judgment upon the pending measure? Such a course upon my part would render me un worthy of the generous confidence imposed in me by the people who sent me here. I am not ashamed of my record. The war was the logical consequence of a great conflict of ideas which could be settled by no arbiter but the sword. I, in common with my comrades, made a hard fight, and made it honestly. The award was against us. Ve accepted it honestly, and to-day I am as true a friend and supporter of the Constitu tion and Government of the United Stales as any gentleman, on this floor, and will cast my vote on this bill with a proud consciousness of my right to do so, and as a Representa tive the peer of any other in this Chamber. Mr. Chairman, I shall vote for this bill, and will as briefly as I can state the reasons which impel me to do so. I belonged to "Stonewall Jackson's foot cavalry, as we were called. The whole country remembers how Gen eral Pope proclaimed his headquar ters in the saddle," and that he "had never seen the faces of the rebels, but only their backs," and that he never secured lines of retreat, and that he had no rear, that nothing but disaster and shame lurked in the'rear," on his assumming command of the "Army of Virginia." When Lee confronted him on the Rappahannock, 'about the 22nd or' 23rd August, 1862, General J. E. B Stuart penetrated to Pope's rear and captured his "headquarters' which happened to be out of the sad dle on that occasion, and came so near capturing all the quarters he had that he got General Pope's coat and important papers, by which General Lee learned that Pope's force present for duty was inferior to his own. Hence, on the morning of the 24th, Jackson, with his corps, consist ing of about twenty-two thousand men, crossed the river north of Pope's right and marched rapidly through Thoroughfare Gap around fo Pope's rear, reaching Bristoe Station a little after nightfall on the 26th. We marched sixty miles in two days, with no rations except green corn and half-ripe appled gathered by the wayside. My regiment then belong ed to Trimble's brigade, which moved on from Bristoe the same night and captured Manassas Junction, where we drew rations from the Federal commissariat. The next morning General Taylor's New Jersey brigade arrived from this city and advanced on our position,, but was .soon broken and compelled to retire. Trimble's brigade marched in pursuit to Cea treviUo, a distance oi seven milre, and returned the same evening to the Junction, where we lay that night. On the morning of the 28th A, P. Hill's (the Stonewall) division and all of Ewell's, except two brigades, with which that officer remained at Bristoe until he retired before Hook er's advance that afternoon, marched across Bull Run and turning north ward recrosaed at the Stone Bridge and went into position on pretty nearly the identical ground occupied by McDowell at the first battle of Bull Run. After Ewell arrived from Bristoe, and near sunset, I heard dis tinctly the cannonading Baid to have been Longstreet driving Ricketts out of the Thoroughfare Gap some fifteen or twenty miles distant. I saw a great cloud of dusl in the woods to the right and right rear of "Jackson's Jine just , when I observed . a heavy column of the Union Army moving down the pike across our front in the direction of the Stone Bridge. My apprehensions of a perilous situation were soon allayed by the arrival of an officer who brought to Jackson a message from Stewart that he was in position on Jackson's right. . The order was then given to Ewell. to ad vance. The head of tbe Federal column halted just east of Groveton, and as soon as the Confederate ad vance began they gallantly advanced to meet us, and thus the bloody three days' battle began. A hard battle was fought that night with no decisive result. The next morning, Friday, the 29th day of August, 1S62, Jackson re adjusted his alignment, taking posi tion behind an old and imperfect railroad embankment, his right con sisting of Trimble's brigade, at a point northwest of Groveton, and ex tending east northeast to Sudley'a ford on Bull Run. During the fore noon there was no fighting except occasional discharges of artillery and picket firing. About the middle of the day I rodo out in the direction our right pointed, where I found General Early with his brigade of four Virginia regiments massed in a copse of woods, placed there by Jack son to guard against an attack on his right and rear. Riding on a short distance I found at a Bpring, just un der the bluff, quite a humber of men some of whom I knew to belong to Longstreet's corps. I inquired where their commands were located and they pointed in the direction indica ted as that held by Longstreet in General Grant's letter. When I returned to my command a battle was raging, which I suppose was about 2 or 3 o'clock p. m. Starke's Louisiana Brigade had been placed on the right of Trimble's, be hind an isolated piece of the railroad embankment, and it was assaulted by a Federal brigade which came up to the embankment on ther other side and planted their colors on the top, where I saw the stars and bars and the Stars and Stripes flapping togeth er in the breeze over two thousand American citizens in mortal combat, and each side apparently resolved to conquer or die. But Trimble's brig ado behind the embankment beyond the gap was not so hard pressed, and the right of it, the regiment to which I belonged, fired right oblique to aid the Louisianians, who were then so hard pressed that they laid down their heated and smoking arms and fought with the cobble stones which lay thick upon their side of the em bankment The contest was unequal, and the Federals retreated, leaving a large number of their comrades be hind them. Just as this brigade retreated another assaulted the front of Trimble's brigade, and a major leading his regiment charged his horso up the embankment and fell dead, rider and horee, upon the top of it. But this assaull was likewise repulsed. Some half-hour later an assault was made upon A. P. Hill's part of the line and kept up with only short intervals for two hours. This was tbatpart.of the field upon which the gentleman from Ohio Mr. Keifer quoted me as saying that on Sunday after the dead lay so thickty that 1 could not ride over it. This was true. There was much hard fighting done upon that field that day. ' But, nevertheless, . the allegation made in defense of General Porter, that there was no general battle fought by Pope's forces that day, is also true. The fighting was gallant and damaging, but it was done by detachments. I did not see a greater number than two brigades of the Union army engaged at one time. It is 6aid upon the other side that with out orders Porter should have march, ed to the sound of the guns and the roar of battle. Gentlemen to seem forget that the fighting was after Longstreet's arrival and when he was confronting Porter. Had. he thus marched he would have at once ex posed the flank and rear of his corps to Long6treet, and there would have been nothing then to have detained Longstreet from going into action at once. He used his teivthousand men to the best advantage so long as he occupied the attention and kept out of the fight more than double that number of his adversary's men. The last engagement that day was a second attack just after dark made upon Starke and Trimble's brigades ; or rather it began just before and continued until after dark, when Hood arrived with two or three brig ades from Longstreet's corps, and, taking the Union troops in flank, drove them some half mile and put a stop to the conflict that night. Starke and Trimble's men, worn down by fatigue and loss of sleep, and their ranks thinned by the fighting of (hat day and the previous night, still held their positions against fearful odds, but welcomed with shouts of joy the sound of Hood's guns upon the flank of their assailants. Now, the only charge against Fitz-John Porter which is worthy of serious considera tion in tbe liht of the evidence is the 6econd, to wit: His failure to attack Jackson's right aud rear as he was directed to do by the 4 30 o'clock or der, which did not reach Porter un til near 6 o'clock on the evening of the 29th. Suppose General Porter - f 4 - had obeyed that order, wljat would have been theinevitableconsequence? Had he marched directly to the front with his ten thousand men he would have driven his column squarely against Longstreet with twenty-five thousand. He would consequently have gained nothing, but would have been repulsed with considerable loss. Some contend that although this might and most likely would have been the case, that nevertheless it would have prevented the re-enforcement by Hood of Jackson, over whom Pope was about to gain a victory, ijvt to. In the first place the assump tion is wrong, for Pope was not any where in the neighborhood of gaining a victory over Jackson. The two brigades named as engaged on the night when Hood arrived ere well nigh exhausted, but such was not the case with Jackscn'p whole corps; and doubtless he would have releived or supported these with others of his own troops had ho not known that Hood would soon arrive. In the second place this reasoning is un sound in supposing that Porter, however vigorously ho might have assailed Longstreet, could with his ten thousand men have kept employ ed and detained Longstreet's twenty five thousand men, so that Hood could not have gone as a re-enforcement to Jackson. These gentlemen who reason thus se m to forget that Robert E. Lee, the ablest military chieftain that America ever produced, was present and commanding in per son, and that he knew that Pope had but forty-three thousand men while he had over forty-five thousand Was Lee such a tyro in the science of war as to have permitted Porter to thus baffle him and enable General John Pope to win a victory over Jackson? Why, Pope believed when he issued that order to Porter to at tack Jackson's flank that Longstreet and Leo would not arrive before the evening of the 30th, twenty-four hours later than he issued the order, and in point of fact nearly thirty hours later than they did arrive. Again, suppose Longstreet had not arrived and had not been in Porter's front when he received the order and had obeyed it to the letter and promptly. Ho was two and a half to threo miles away. He could not have reached the-point and made his dispositions for the attack before nightfall. In rear of Jackson's right, less than a quarter of a milo, are the creek and the Bull Run Mountains, and the ground so rough and unoven that the best troops could not pre serve an alignment on it in daytime. Early's brigade would have instantly formed a line from Starke's right to the bluff and Porter could not have driven Jackson from his strong posi tion that night. ""But as it is not per missible to indulge in supposition in face of the overwhelming proof that Longstreet was at the place now assigned him on the map of the field, what would have become of Porter and his corps had he promptly obeyed Pope's order? To have attack ed Jackson's right would have left Longstreet in his rear. In military tactical phrase, he would have placed his command in a cul de sac and capture or utter rout and destruc tion would have been inevitable. The opponents of this bill, however, say that Porter's case is not improved by Confederate testimony. They say that he did not Knew that Longstreet with a superior force ;' was in front of him. This presents sharply the real issue in this case, that is the animus of Porter the motive which influ enced his non-action on the 29th. Was it an indifference as to whether the army under Pope was defeated or not? Was this the spirit which caus ed him to remain. on the defensive merely? If so, then he is not entitled to the benefit this bill will confer.nor indeed to any reiief whatever. Those who haveSS-icamined the great volume of testimony differ in their conclu sions on this point. Before he could legally have been adjudged guilty, the proof before the court martial should have been so clear, strong.and convincing of his guilt as to havb dis pelled every reasonable doubt. To begin with, we must indulge the humane presumption of innocence until it is otherthrown by proof of his guilt. It is a maxim of the law, of univer 6al applicability to human affairs, because of its reasonableness, that if upon an established or admitted state of facts you can with equal propriety impute a good motive or a bod one for the performance or non-performance of an act constituting the basis of a criminal charge, that you are bound to attribute the good motive which makes the party guiltless. General Porter was in a better posi tion to know what was in his front than any or all of his subordinates: Every ' channel of information was open to him, and the presumption is that he did have sufficient informa tion to justify the course he took: That the coarse adopted was, in the light of all the evidence now before us, wise and judicious scarcely ad mits cf question. The evidence, I take it, when coristrued most strong ly against him still leaves the matter in doubt as to the extent of his infor mation as to the numbers and posi tion of his enemy.. How far was his non-action influenoed thereby? His criticisms of Pope showed that he had a pretty correct idea of the abili ty of that officer; but he was one of Pope's corps commanders, and being suchhU criticisms we.e ill-timed and censurable. He looked on Pope pretty much as every one else did. Federal and Confederate. He had but little confidence in him or respect for him as the commander of an army, and he did not blindly obey Pope's orders with that alacrity and zeal that he would have obeyed the orders of McClullan or any other general in whom he had confidence. This is a lattitmle not strictly ilowa ble by-military law; but it is in ac cord with human nature, and in the civilization of modern times, in gov ernments cot wholly monarchical, is never punished more severely ttianl suspension from command. This is the worst that can be said of Porter's conduct by an impartial judge. This did not make him a traitor. Kleber was never adjuded a traitor by a court or historion for giving expres sion to his utter contempt for Lech elle, whose order to his army was to march into action "majestically and en masse' 1 have referred to his high soldierly conduct previously to tho date of the charge. How was it and what was subsequently? General Pope knew early on tho morning of the 30th that Porter had not obeyed his order tho evening before. Did he arrest him then and there f No, but ordered him into action, and Porter went and fought with his accustomed gallantry and intelligence, and lost a greater number of men that day- than any corps of equal size in the army. A traitor leading ten thousand men in battle under the eye of the command ing general 1 There is a spectacle for patriots to behold, and a problem for philosophers to solve. He retained command of his corps, and seventeen days afterward at Antietam and Sharpsburg led iton the perilous edge Of battle. McClellan was removed from command of the Army of the Potomac. Pope had lost a great battle, and tho responsibility must rest either ou him or some of his lieuten ants. An official head must fall; a victim was demanded to satisfy the country. Should that victim be of the McClellan party or. anti-Mc Clellau? The latter was in favor with the A-dmintrntiOh. Porter selected, and although the mem bers of the court were doubtless honest, yet were swayed by the ex" citement of war, partisan bickerings, and . jealousies to an extent that turned all the presumptions of inno cence into presumptions of guilt. Mr. Chairman, such force is given to the argument in favor of Porter by the opinions not only of the Schofield board, but of two of 4he most success ful of commanders of armies, Grant and Rosecrans. Now, it is said by the opponents of this measure that to pass it is to reverse history and cen sure the men who composed tho court. Well, . if history is false it ought to be reversed. This bit of history sa3'8 that Fitz John Porter was a traitor and a coward; I believe both to be false, and; as a lover of justice desire to see the truth author itatively asserted. General Porter may not have been entirely blameless, but it i3 tho judg ment of the majority of this House and this country that his punish ment has been far greater than his conduct ever merited. It therefore gives me pleasure to vote for this as an act of justice long delayed. Tt ists and- livings. "My brethren," shouted Dr. Tal mage on one bright autumnal Sun. day, "here is a lesson from the corn field. God has arranged that tho ear and the husk shall be parted. Every rheumatic pain is but a thrust of the husking peg, and every neuralgic twinge is only a twist of the bus ker." . Possibly but nobody want3 to be busked, for all that and natiire teach es us to resist the process. Therefore we accept with gratitude whatever helps us to suppress those very twists and twijges. From his pleasant home, Green mont, near Sing-Sing, N. Y. , M. A. Baer, a French gentleman, writes. "I have suffered almost Intolerable torments from rheumatism for many years. Of the numerous remedies which I tried, none benefited me. But Parker's Tonic gave me great sat isfaction. I certify with pleasure that it restored my health. You are weisaxpaj publish thia and tu toy name." Messrs. Hiscov & po. call special attention to the fact that this prep aration, which has been known as Parker's Ginger Tonic, will hereafter be advertised and Bold simply under the name of Parker's Tonic. As un principled dealers are constantly de ceiving their customers by substitu ting inferior preparations under the name of ginger, and as ginger is really an unimportant ingredient, we drop the misleading word. There is no change, however, in the preparation itself, and all bottles remaining in the hands of dealers, wrapped under the name of Parkers Ginger Tonic, contain the genuine medicine if the facsimile signature of Hidcox & Co. is at the bottom of the outside, wrapper. ' - - - . r . A 3Iodcrn Ile!urrctlorv. A JTmiOLg THAT TOK PI-ACE IN OUR MIDST rSXSOW.N TO TIIE PUB LIC THE IETAIL8 IN FILL. One of tho most remarkable occur rences ever given to the public, which took place here in our midst, has just como toour knowledge and will undoubtedl- awaken as much sur prise, add attract as great attention as it is already in newspaper circles. The facts are, briefly, as follows: Mr. William A. Crombie. a young man fomierly residing at Iiirfjiipg ham, a suburb of Detroit, and now living at 287 Michigan Avenue in this city can truthfully say that . he has looked into the f uturo world and yet returned to this. A representative of this paper has interviewed him up on this important subject and hij ex periences are given to tho public for the first time. He said; ''I had been having most peculiar sensations for along while. My head felt dull and heavy ; my eye eight did not seem so clear as formerly; mj appetito was uncertain and 1 was tin accountably tired. It was an oflort to arise in the morning and yret eI could not sleep at night. My m-juth tasted badly, I had a faint all gono sensation in the pit of my stomach that food did not satisfy, while iny hands and feet felt cold and clammy. I was nervous and irritable, and lost all enthusiam. At times my head would seem to whirl and m j heart palpitated terribly. I had no energy, no ambition, and I seemed indiffer ent of tho present and thoughtless for the future I tried to shake the feeling off and. persuade myself it was simply a cold oralittlo malaria, but it would not go. I was deter mined not to give up, and so time passed along and all tho time I was getting worse. It was about thia time that I noticed I had begun to bloat terribly. My ; limbs were swollen so that by pressing my fin gers upon them deep depressions would bo made. My face also began to enlarge, and continued to until I could scarcely see out of my eyes One of my friends, describing my appearance at that time, said: "i is an animated something, but I should like to know what." In this condition I passed several weok.s of the greatest agony, "Finally, ono Saturday night, tho misery accumulated. Nature could endure no more. I became irration al and apparently insensible. Cold sweat gathered on my forehead; my eye3 became glazed and - my throat rattled. I seemed to be in another sphere and with other surroundings. I knew nothing of what occurred around me, although I have since loarued it was considered, as death to those who stoodby. It was -to me a quiet state although one of great ag ony. I was hepless. hopeless and pain was my only companion. I re member trying to see what was be yond me, but the midst before my eyes was too great. I tried to reason but I had lost all power. I felt that it was death; and realized how ter rible it was. At last tho strain upon my mind gave way and-all was a blank. How long this continued I do not know, but at last i realized the presence of friends and rocog nizod my mother. I then thought it was earth, but was not certain. I gradually regained consciousness, however, and the pain lessoned. I found my friends had, during my un consciousness, been giving mo a prep aration I had never taken beforo, and the next day, under tho influence of this treatment, the bloating began to disappear from that time on I steadily improved, until to-day I am as well as ever before in my life," have no traces of the terrible acute Bright's disease, which so nearly killed me, and all through' tho wonderful in strumentality of Warner's Safe Cure the remedy that brought mo to life after I was virtually in another world." "You have had an unusual expe rience, Mr. Crombie," said the wri ter who had beeu breathlessly listen ing to the recital. "Yes I think I have, and it has been a valuable lesson to me: I am certain, though, there are thousands of men and women at thi3 very mo ment who have the tame ailment which came so near killing me, and they do dot know it. I believe kid ney disease is tho most deceptive trouble in tne world. It comes like & thief in the night. It has no certain symptoms, but soemodto attack each one differently. It is quiet treach erous, and all the more dangerous. It is killing more people to day, than any other one complaint. If I h.aa the power I would warn the entire world against it and urge them to remove it from the system before it is too late." One of the members of the firm of Whitehead & Mitcheal, proprietors of the Birmingham Eccentric, paid a fraternal visit to this office yesterday and in the course of conversation, Mr. Crombio's name was mention ed. "I knew about his sickness," said the editor , , 'and his remarkable re covery. I had hisohitury all in type and announced in -tbe Eccentric that he could not livo until its next issue. It was certainly a .most wonderful case." .. - Itev. A. R. Bartlett, formerly pas tor of the M. E. Church, and now of Schoolcraft, Mich. i'n refponso to a telegram, replied .- "Mr. W. A. Crombie, was J mem ber of my congregation at the time of his sickness. The prayers of , tbo church were requested for him .on tw o or three occasions. I was with him the dny he was reported by his physician as dying, and consider his recovery a. miracle." . Not one person in a million .ever comes so near death as did Mr. Cronv ; bio aud men recover, but the men and women who are drifting towards the same end, are legions. To note the slightest symptom, to realize their significance and to meet them in timo by tho remedy w hich has been t-hown to be most efficient, W a duty from which there. can be no,; escape. They are fortunate who do tins ; they are on the sure road to death who neglect it. Detroit Free Prcsn. Djing of 'IhirNt. "Did you ever suffer extreme hunt ger or thirst?" was asked of n Ken i tucky colonel who had been relating some solid stories about himself, ''eli," he replied, "I never suf fered what might be called extrcmo hunger, but no man knows how to endure tho agonies of thirst bettor than I do. "I remember the time well," bs continued, retrospectively. "I tu . on a fishing excursion and becam? lost in tho woods. For three days not a drop passed my lips. My legth en absenco finally caused alarm and a party was sent out in search of jno. They found mo lying in an uncon soiqus condition on the brinks Of a lit tle trout stream, and it was hours be fore any hopes o saving mo woro en tertained." "Was tho trout stream dry?" ask ed ono of the interested listeners. "Dry? Certainly not. How could I catch fish if tho stream was dry?" "Well, I dont see how you could suffer from thirst with a stream of .water close by." , f L "Water closo a$ hand?" ; repeated ' the Kentucky Colonel. "And what has water got to do with a man's boL intr ilATHtyV'rhiJaddphia Lvenn(j Call. I Tho best tynic mediciho ono that is net composed .mostly .of alyhohol , or whiskey is Brown's Iron Bitters. Itisquaranteod'to be non intoxicating' and will absolutely kill al! desire for j whiskey and other 'intoxicants.' It has' been thoroughly tet-ted and - pro ven itself in overy instance a " never faiiingcure for dyspepsia, indiges tion, billiousnesH, weakness, debility, overwork, rheumatism, neiralgia? consumptive disease, liver complaint, kidney troubles, etc. HowKhe Would Do It. Mr. Jones "I wonder why in tho world Congress don't do 'something at once to stamp out polygainy?'' Mrs. Jones "Because Congress is composed of men, and men don't know anything., I could kill1 polo gamy with ono blow." Mr. Jones "Oh, indeed and how could you doit?'' I . ' Mrs. Jones "I would gb to 'Salt Lake City and start a millinery store there." I "What are you. Crying about?" asked a kind-hearted stranger frf a lad who was standing in front of -a newspaper office . weeping as if his heart would break. "Oh, dad's gone up stairs to lick tho editor." 1 'Well, has ho come down jet?" pursued the gentle Samaritan. "Pieces Of him have," exclaimed the boy j indulging in a fresh outburst of tears! "and I'm expecting the rot. t every njiimite." ifrooWiyn EuqIc. There is a gang of scoundrels in and about Asheville, largely if njot altogether composed of. ex convicts, who devote themselves to tricks and, at times, open highway robbery, us a means of living. Threo of the, crowd, Bon Jones, Erwin Cummins, and John Campbell, all negroes ami ex-convicts, have been convicted and tentenced to the penitentiary--Ashe-ville Citizen. j Mother, think of the battle that is being waged by worms, against tho life of your child. There is no night of rest with them : they fight to kill. Shriner'a Indian Vermifuge will au nihilata them. Only 25 cents a bot tle. As an article for the toilet, Ayer's Hair Vigor stands unrivalled. It cleansed tho scalp and preserves it from scurf and dandruff, cures itcfi ing and humors, restores faded Wr gray hair to its original dm k color, and promotes its g owfh. j From a postal curd from Dr. J. II. White, we learn that ; a destructive fire broke out in Elizabeth City nt 10.30 o'clock Sunday night last. Four buildings were burned; sup posed to be the work of an incendiary. Scotland Neck Commonwealth. 'The disfiguring , eruptions on the face, the sunken eye, the palid com plexion4 indicate that there is some ting wrong going on within. Expel the lurking foe to health. Ayer's Sarsaparilla was' di vised for that pur-, pose; and it docs it. . ! ;
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Feb. 21, 1884, edition 1
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