The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1866, 1866-06-15

on 'cm abont right, and it will stick, for
the pores are open and their morals
spongcy. Id like to stand off about ten
rods aud hear him spread himself. 1t
would be worse than a squirt.gun full Of
cow.slop. and have no doubt would
give general satisfaction.
That's sufficient, sir" says old Bout.
well. "Ef it was in their power to do
so, would your people renew the fight %
"Not unless they could fight the rad
icals all alone. and all the world agree TO
Hands off, Even then there wouldn't
be no fight, for we couldn't catch YOU"
"Whut do your people say rpon tue
subject Of negro EQUALITY e. G.
They say ITS q }'e' sieat dat lsSlss: ssss
-lt,.-.''.ss ,S TT sPFa01cs
Folks were not created free and equal.
That may be a theoretical TRUTH. but it's
always been . practical lie. There's
grades'of society everywhere. There's
men give the sidewalk to, and there's
men that gives it to me. There's men
that vote, and men That vote me, aud
the grades SO up, up, up, step by step,
from my sort to Mr.. Davis aud Mr..
Stephens, and Gen. Lee, and Howell
Cobb, and Ben. Hill, and their sort, for
they are the highest in the nation: and
then, again, it goes from me down, down,
down to the niggers, and the Republi
cans, and the radicals, and that's us low
as they can ruu. The,c aint no equality
and you can't make one. Well vote
the niggers certain. III vote Tip, and
TIPS Head Center. he Gifi vote aUouc-
forty, and>the first thing you know we'll
elect seven big, black, greasy niggers to
Congress. Well do it ccrtain-seycn
of them eighteen carats strong. with AT
rican musk. The other rebel States will
do the same thing, and you will have
about fifty of them to draw seats. with.
and you can all stick your legs upon your
desks tegcihcr, and swap lies and ver,nin
and I've slIampocd at the same shop, aud
the fair sexes can set together in the gal.
leries, and mix odcrs and fan their
scent about proniscuous. Well give YOU
a full benefit of your civil rights bill, see
f we don't. You 60 on-plav your
cards. We are bidin our time. We arc
payin your taxes and your duties aud
back ralions for 1864, and licenses, aud
your Internal revenue, and obeying your
laws without 1ax!3saz 4a!sA !9 |,sy5 @sIj;s
and public lands; and y1u sold a poor
mans still in my County, tie other day
because he couldn't pay your tax on
some peach brandy he stilled for biz
ueighbor two years ago and soon you'll
be sellin the land for the land tax, and
you're tryin your best to play the devil
generally; tus you'll catch it in the lorg
run. See if you don't. Talk about Fe-
mans. When the good men Of the
Ncrih and the South all get together,
they'll walk over the track so fast that
you won't have time to get out Of the
way. You'll subsde into obscurity, and 1
yonr cLiIlren!will deny that their dsdtlies
ever belong to such party. Excuse
me, gentleman, but am Little excited
Five cents pound on cotton will excite
anybody that makes it., Tax on indus
uy-uu sweat and toil.Protection tariffs
for Pennsylvania and five ccuts pound
lax on Southern cotton-balf its aN cHagt
worth land your folks will manage some
way or other to steal the other half My
advice TO You is to quit this foolishncss
and bcpiu to travel the only road to
peace"
Old Blow couldn't keep ur with his
garbcd extracts,
What makes the President 50 popu-
lar ii, tho South ~
."Contras., sir--contrast. The more
he amt like your party, the murc popn-
lar he is. lie would treat us about right
reckon, # you would let him alone, bur
ycu bcde,I him 80, that sometimes he
don't understand himself. | don't think
he lsncw for while whether his peace
proclamation restored tho writsof: hbeas
.sosspus.es,not.7stHutss 6 tsseu ssea*
iidpoach him, and thai will bring matters
to focus. III bet yon'd be in Fort Dc
laware in week, and the Southern mem
bers pe hele in their seats, and they'll
look round at the political wreck and
ruin and plunder and Stealage that's been
going on, and they might exclain, in the
language of the poet,
"Whose pin here since Tsh pin gomez
"Mr. ARP: suppose we should have a
war with England or France, what would
the rebels do2'
They'd follow Gen. Lee, and Gen.
Johnson, and Longstreet, and Bragg and
old Bory. NY opinion is, that Gen. Lee
would head the Union army. and Gen.
Grant would be his chief of staff, and Gen.
d.. Ill .ua..ld snnl. nninhtu h;nh and y