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* THE ? * ?. LATE UNPLEASANTNESS." . * -*_ . * All Historical Comparison ot * * tirant ?nd Lee. ? -*- * * Dy J. Russell Wright. * ? _._ * * Written for Tho Keowce Courier. ? ******** * * * * * * * We read an article, ably written, some time ago, by a professor from North Carolina, In which ho cal's tho great civil war between the States "The Late Unpleasantness." He would, it seems, make it appear to be a vt ry small affair. We say without fear of contradiction that lt was the biggest thing the \mertcan people ever saw dr felt, lt shook the con fluent from center to circumference for four long years. This professor also says that "every Confederate and every Federal soldier, and all their children, will have to die be fore a corroct history of the war can be written, nud that by some other nation; and then he says the subject should not be aired too much. You see at a glance that this pro fessor has very little confidence In the truthfulness of a soldier who fig ured in this war. We believe there are men living to-day-some who wore the gray and some who wore the blue-who would and could write a correct history of the civil war. We are Informed that this man is a na tive of North Carolina. Does he know that North Carolina furnished I2.r>,ooo soldiers during this "unplea santness," ns he calls it, of whom .10,000 died either in battle, bom wounds, in prison, or in hospitals? Does he know that North Carolini ans, led by one of her sons, Gen. Wil liam R, Cox, delivered the last charge made by the Confederate army under Gen. Lee? And that Major-Gen. Robert F. Hoke, with 14,000 North Carolina heroes, held 60,000 Federal soldiers at bay for three dreadful days at Dennettsville? lt ls also stated as an historic fact that North Carolina furnished one-fifth of the entire Confederate army, and at Ap pomattox one-half of the muskets stacked for capitulation were from North Carolina troops. And yet he soya th? subject should bo aired but very little! No; let lt be told from Dan to Beers!* iba and from Beershe ba back to Dan. This professor stated that in some history he saw that there were so many pages contributed to Gea. Lee and only one or two to Gen. Grant. Everybody North and South knows that there was a great deal more to Ix? said of Gen. Lee than of Grant. If Gen. Grant had been pitted against Gen. Lee at tho beginning of the bloody struggle, he would have gone where Scott, McDonald, Banks, Burn sides, Hooker and a host of others went. We admit that Gen. Grant was a great man. What did he say at Appomattox, when the Federals began to puna their artillery to Hud a salute? "Stop it," said Gen. Grant, "you have nothing to salute for. You have been four years with over 100, 000 men trying to capture these 30, 000 Confederate veterans." The truth of the matter is, the South Just wore herself out whipping Yan kees. And it ls a fact that cannot be denied that the Federal army never did gain a decided victory in Vir ginia. The South made a light that echoed around the world, and the Southern soldiers made for them selves a name that ls Immortal. You have but to remember the gal lant deeds of (?00,000 men in gray who, without an arsenal within the limits of the country, with every sea port closed, narrowed and hemmed in by land and sea, with no resources save our mar-riven land, fought two million seven hundred and fifty-five thousand men for four years, and had victory wreathed with chaplets of glory on their banners In nine bat tles out of ten. And you say, "Tell it not." No; Iel tho marble stones that mark tho resting place of every Confederate soldier crumble Into dust before the deathless devotion of the Southern soldier be forgotten. I wish to prove to this professor that there is a great deal more to be said about C ul. Robert E. Lee than about Gen. (?rant, and we will only examine two witnesses, our enemies themselves being the judges. 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Mr. Shalonberger, of Ohio, said: "Has Bhe not hurled your bleeding army back In rout upon your capital, and haB she not de stroyed another army that would al most reach around the world In marching columns':" Why not tell us of the battle of Spottsylvanla, and of The Wilderness, when the Rebels re sisted an assault for some days, and Grants loss was 8,774 killed, 41, 150 wounded, and ?3,254 missing 64,178 in all-more than twice as many as hai ever been killed, wound ed and missing in any battle on this continent. This was achieved by an army of Southern gentlemen, direct ed by the best generals lu the world. That is what the witness from Ohio testifies in regard to Gen. Lee and tho Southern soldiers. The next witness ia President' E. B. Anderson, of Brown's University. He did himself honor in the tribute paid to Gen. Lee. While be harbored prejudices and antagonisms against the South for several years after, the war, President Anderson says: "When we consider what other gene rals, famous in history, have accom plished, and with kingdoms at their command; when we consider the millions in men aud money that were at the command of Napoleon, of Caesar, of Grant, and other great generals, we must stop and wonder If In all history there was ever a gen eral called upon to do so much with so little, and who proved himself so truly great In his opportunity, as did Gen. R. E. Lee. It was not un til the Federal army stood almost at the very doors of Richmond," says President Anderson, "that Gen. Lee was sent to tho front. He out witted McClellan, whipped two ar mies much larger than his own,' stopped their advances, drove back the Federal armies, saved Rich mond, and was famous In a day. The world had never seen such gen eralship, and was nstounded at lt. Gen. Lee successfully defeated, out generaled and routed the best gene rals that Washington could send against bim, and it was not until the immortal Grant, with the finest army of veterans that the world ever saw, took the field against him, that Lee's marvellous accomplishments received a check. Even against Grant he fought probably as no other general ever fought, and against odds that would have driven Napoleon to dlspair." "It was the death f '.niggle when Grant faced Lee, and then he kept together that thin gray line of ragged, hungry men, growing thin ner and hungrier each day. His courage, his wonderful presence and strong personality, kept that little band of tattered and emaciated men in battle array, and fought to the last ditch, surrendering only when he realized that lt would be murder to keep up the strife. Gen. Lee's cause," continues President Ander son, "ls not lost. All that Is good remains and all that was bad has been wiped out. Our country ls better and grander to-day because the relation of the several States to the Union has been intelligently de fined, and perhaps we owo at least that much to Gen. R. E. Lee." This is what a great educator at the North says of Gen. Lee. We hope the day will soon come when a history of the great civil war will be written by a Southern man and taught in the Southern schools, that the children in generations to come may know of the service, courage and deathless devotion the South gave during the four years from 18G1 to 1805 for liberty and justice; that they may ever remember how the South taught her sons how to live, and how to die. We rep lat, the Southern soldiers made a name that is immortal, and they are the admiration of the world to-day. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, and let my right hand for get ber cunning, before I forget the soldiers In gray. And we will tell lt in Oath, anti publish it in the streets of Askeion. 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The Due is now in New York, where he bas been since the arrival of Mrs. Shouts and her daughter from Eu rope several mounts ago. but will s ill for France to-day. The persistent com p" of the Due covers a space of over eighteen months and bas been most fervent. Ile mel .Miss Shouts In Paris and fell in love with her shortly after her presentation at the court of King Edward. Thc Due conics from the oldest of French nobility and is pos sessed of vast estates, though they are said to bc embarrassed with debts. Miss Shouts is a splendid linguist, pretty, ?iud 20 years old. Her mater ial grandfather was the late Gover nor Drake, of Iowa. Cured of Bright's Disease. Robert O. Burke, Elnora, N. Y., vrltes: "Before I started to use Fo ley's Kidney Cure I had to get up 'rom twelve to twenty times a n'rrht, md I was all bloated up with dropsy md my eyesight was so impaired I tould scarcely see one of my family tcross the room. 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Alabama . 761,138 8,437 Florida. 3o,656 2,377 Georgia . 1,375,111 ?',439 N. Carolina. 401.852 B,603 Oklahoma . 491,274 ? 024 S. Carolina. 847,4?S 3,119 Virginia . 3,674 83 The distribution of Sea Island cot ton for 1907 by States is: Florida 14,492, Georgia 22.68i, South Caro lina 5,535. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portions of the ear. There is only one way to ou re deafness, and that ls by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of tho mu cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect heur lng, and when it is entirely closed, deafness ls the result, and unless the Inflammation can be take-i out and this lube restored to its 'mal con dition, heaving will bo dc .. >yed for- j ever; nine cases out of ten aro ?HUS- ; ed by catarrh, which ;s nothing out un inflamed condltl >.i of the mucous surfaces. 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