Show What a Georgian Says The following letter from a Southerner is so characteristic that it is worth reprinting reprint-ing This is written from Milledgeville of six the old capital of Georgia a town thousand people The Oconee river furnishes fur-nishes fine water power and the climate The lands are the best is healthy in s very the State one farmer made fiftythree Negroes fortyone acres bales of cotton on well whites on together and get < roes 90090 worth 80000 to The negroes own Schools are I of property in the county thelown the free to white and colored in whole Over four hundred scholars year build in attendance at the old capitol are ing Well the most of us voted for Cleveland Cleve-land We are about through parading confidence We feel better there is more I borrow a dollar now all can us among nickel before I where I could not get a will he after oflice but of our folks Some I Mr Cleveland is under I dont want any obligations to me for voting for him and I expect to keep him so It is a right beholden feeling to have the Presidont good to I am poor but have good en health you and make a living I lost seventy negroes by the war but I say now they are free and let them stay free My hand is hard and horny now butT love to grasp i hand of Dick Tom the hard and horny word for and Uncle Dan 1 have no unkind i Ii them and they have none for me But there is one thing that we cannotforget I brothers and fathers buried in Confederate our Con-federate States blanketsnor must the i North forget this But now will we bring I their flowers of joy and will to graves The old to them It is best whisper back in the We are I flag is our flag now old home And there will be borne on of the honored dead winds the tramp I the the and the step of the honored of thegray from and we will hear dead of the blue and I and McPherson and Jackson Kearney Lee the command Tall in l and the will step up by the side of the gray I blue the side of the blue and the by I and the order gray will be read All is well break I ranks forever 1 |