He sent to the suffering private in the hospitals the delicacies contributed for his personal use from the meagre stores of those who were anxious about his health. If a handful of real coffee came to him, it went in the same direction, while he cheerfully drank from his tin cup the wretched substitute made from parched corn or beans. GEN. JOHN B. GORDON October Fifteenth THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN Let the autumn hoarfrost gather, Let the snows of winter drift, For there blooms a fruit of valor that The world may not forget. Fold your faded gray coat closer, for It was your country's gift, And it brings her holiest message-- There is glory in it yet. VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE October Sixteenth This button here upon my cuff is valueless, whether for use or for ornament, but you shall not tear it from me and spit in my face besides; no, not if it cost me my life. And if your time be passed in the attempt to so take it, then my time and my every thought shall be spent in preventing such outrage. Let alone, the Virginian would gladly have made an end of slavery, but, strange hap, malevolence and meddling bound it up with every interest that was dear to his heart. GEORGE W. BAGBY (_Slavery_) _John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 1859_ October Seventeenth JOHN BROWN'S RAID Of course a transaction so flagitious with its attendant circumstances ... could but produce the profoundest impression upon the people of the South. Here was open and armed "aggression"; whether clearly understood and encouraged beforehand, certainly exulted in afterwards, by persons of a very different standing from that of the chief actor in this bloody incursion into a peaceful State. GEORGE LUNT (Massachusetts) "Saint John the Just" was the verdict of the Concord philosophers concerning John Brown. "The new Saint ... will make the gallows glorious like the Cross" was the sentiment of Emerson that drew applause from a vast assemblage in Boston. HENRY A. WHITE October Eighteenth I address you on this occasion with a profound admiration for the great consideration which caused you to honor me by your votes with a seat in the Senate of Georgy. For two momentus and inspirin' weeks the Legislature has been in solemn session, one of whom I am proud to be which. For several days we were engaged as scouts, making a sorter reconysance to see whether Georgy were a State or a Injin territory, whether we were in the old Un-ion or out of it, whether me and my folks and you and your folks were somebody or no body, and lastly, but by no means leastly, whether our poor innocent children, born durin' the war, were all illegal and had to be born over agin or not. This last pint are much unsettled, but our women are advised to be calm and serene. "BILL ARP" (_To His Constituents_) October Nineteenth