THE FOUNTAIN PEN
MOSES T. FOWLER CAMP #1721
SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS
407 N Weston Street
FOUNTAIN INN, SOUTH CAROLINA 29644-1627
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Summer Outing to Wrightsville Beach:
by an Old Confederate Sailor
An Episcopal minister of Wilmington, NC came strolling through the car and took a seat by me. He was an old friend, and was on his return from Gettysburg. He had visited the place where his cavalry had made a dash upon the enemy at Gettysburg. In a jocular way I asked him not to talk so loud, as some of General D. H. Hill's old infantry mighjt hear him, and they knew that General Hill had a standing reward of $100 for a dead cavalryman with his spurs on. He asked me why I did not go to Gettysburg, and I replied that if the meeting had been at Bull Run I certainly would have been there. After that battle everything looked so promising for the Confederacy that President Davis offered to borrow from the Rothschild's fifty million dollars. Rothchilds replied: “Mr. Davis, I will not lend you fifty millions, but will lend you five hundred millions; then you can buy all the ships you need for a powerful navy, and all the improved guns for your navy and army, and hire all the soldiers in Europe you need to vanquish your opponents. Then I will not only get my money back, but at compound interest..” (This Rochschild's offer is not found in the “War Records”.--Editor)
I found the widow of Stonewall Jackson sojourning with her granddaughter, Mrs. Preston, at the Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach. With her I had quite a pleasant conversation. Our naval brigade was attached to Stonewall Jackson's old brigade on the way from Richmond to Appomattox. Mrs. Jackson's mother was a sister of Governor Graham of North Carolina, once Secretary of the United States Navy.
(Summer Outing to Wrightsville Beach, by An Old Sailor, Confederate Veteran Magazine, October 1913, page 478)
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“I was raised by one of the greatest men in the world. There was never one born of a woman greater than Gen. Robert E. Lee, according to my judgment. All of his servants were set free ten years before the war, but all remained on the plantation until after the surrender.”
-- William Mack Lee, Robert E. Lee's black servant
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The Fountain Pen is a monthly non-profit publication of the Moses T. Fowler Camp #1721, Fountain Inn, SC. James Rodgers is editor and publisher.
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Also, in you are interested in obtaining an automobile tag with the SCV logo on it. Just go to the Highway Department and show them your ID card. This is a must. The tags are about $30.
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QUOTES FROM AND ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Below is a collection of quotes from the United States 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. These quotes have been divided divided as best we could, into topical categories, with little to no commentary added as they adequately stand alone in their meaning.
I hope you find this to be a good starting point for further research on the view and beliefs of this most famous of American Presidents.
Lincoln on Slavery and Emancipation:
We know that some Southern men do free their slaves, go North and become tip-top abolitionists, while some Northern Men go South and become most cruel masters.
When Southern people tell us that they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said the institution exits, and it is very difficult to get rid of in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse would possibly be to free all slaves and send them to Liberia to their own native land. But a moment's reflection would convince me that this would not be best for them. If they were all landed there in a day they would all perish in the next ten days, and there is not surplus money enough to carry them there in many times ten days. What then? Free them all and keep them among us as underlings. Is it quite certain that this would alter their conditions? Free them and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this, and if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of whites will not. We cannot make them our equals. A system of gradual emancipation might well be adopted, and I will not undertake to judge our Southern friends for tardiness in this matter.
I acknowledge the constitutional rights of the States, not grudgingly, but fairly and fully, and I will give them any legislation for reclaiming their fugitive slaves.
The point the Republican party wanted to stress was to oppose making slave states out of the newly acquired territory, not abolishing slavery as it then existed.
Lincoln in speeches at Peoria, Illinois
Lincoln on Secession:
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and to form one that suits them better. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may make their own of such territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority intermingling with or near them who oppose their movement.
Lincoln on the floor of Congress, 13 January 1848
Congressional Glove, Appendix
1st Session 30th Congress, page 94
Lincoln on Racial Equality:
I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the black races which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man.
Lincoln in his speech to Charleston, Illinois, 1858
I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Lincoln's Inaugural Addressing
Do the people of the South really entertain fear that a Republican administration would directly or indirectly interfere with their slaves, or with them about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears. The South would be in no more danger in this respect than it was in the days of Washington.
Letter from Lincoln to Alexander H. Stephens
Public and Private Letters of Alexander Stephens, p. 150
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GUARDIAN PROGRAM - I would like for as many as possible of the Moses T. Fowler Camp members to become Guardians. To become a Guardian you have to look after a Confederate Soldier's grave. That is keep it clean, flag on Memorial Day, etc. This is an honorable program and if any of you are interested in doing this, please see our Adjutant, James Rodgers, and he will have the form for you.
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