Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-31

the whole truth. Our people aint noticiu
you only out of curiosity. They don't ex-
pect anything decent, or honorable, or no
BILE from you, and they've gone to work dig
gin and plow;u and plantin and raisin boy
children"
Right here the man with a memorandum
scratched dowo garbled extract, and old
Boutwell, says he: "What do you mean by
hat, sir? What inference do you intend p
"I'm stain facts" says |, "You must
draw your own differences. They are rais-
ing boy children. Any harm about that ?
Any treason? Cant man raise boy chill
dren /? Perhaps you'd like to amend the
Constitution and stop it. Old Pharaoh tried
to stop it among the Israelites, but 1t didn't
pay He finally caught the dropsy in the
Red Sea. We are raisin boy children for
the fun of it. They are good thing to
have in the house, as Mrs. ToOdes would
say"
"Mr. Arp are not the feelings of your peo
pie very bitter towards the North %
81 beg your pardon sir, but you'll have
to split the question, or else I'll split the
answer Our people have very high re-
gard for honorable men, brave men, noble
hearted men, and there's heap of them
North, Sir, and there's heap of widows and
orphans there we are sorry for; but as for
this here Radical party, they look upon 'em
like they was hyeuas scratcbin up the
dead for livin. It's as natural to hate
'em as it is to kill snake. It's utterly i'm.
possible for me to tell the strength and
length and hight depth and breadth of their
contempt for that party. They look upon a
Radical as-as-as-well as beggar on
horseback buzzard sailin round dead
esgle-a suck egg dog creepin up to the
tail of dead lion They talk about hiriu
Rrownlow to abuse 'em, to use language on
'em, like he did few years ago when he
spoke against Pryne.' If they do hire Brown
low he'll spatter 'em, he'll daub 'em all over,
and slime 'em and sobber on 'em about
right, and it will stick, for the pores are
open and their morals spougy. I'd like to
stand off about ten rods and hear him spread
himself. 1t would be worse than squirt
gun full of COW slop, and l have no doubt
would give general satisfaction"
"That's sufficient, SIR" says old Bout,
we'll. "Ef it was in their power to do so,
would your people renew the fght?'
"Not unless they could fight the Radi.
Gals all alone, and all the world agree to
shands off, Even then there wouldn't be
no fight, for we couldn't cotch you -
"What do your people say upon the sub,
ject of negro equality"
"They say it's a lie, sir-it don't exist
by nature and never can in practice. Folks
we're not created free and equal. That
may be theoretical truth, but it's always
been a practical lie. There's grades of
society everywhere. There's men | give
the sidewalk to, aud there's men that gives
it to me There's men that vote, and
men that vote me, and the grades 60 up,
up, up, step by step, from my sort to Mr.
Davis and Mr. Stephens, and General 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 Republicans
and the Radicals, and that's as low as they
run. There aint no equality, and you cant
make one. Wei vote the niggers certain.
I'll vote Tip, and Tips head CENTER
Hell vote about forty, and the first thing
you know vel elect seven big, black, grea.
sy niggers to Congress Vel do it certain
seven of 'em Is carats strong, with Af-
rican musk. The other rebel States will
do the same thing, and you'll have about
Fifty of 'em to draw seats with, and you can
all stick your legs upon your desks together,
and swap lies and vermin, and be shampood
at the same shop, and the fair sexes can set
together in the galleries and mix odours,
and fan their scent about promiscuous
Wei give you a full benefit of your Civil
Rights bill, see if we don't YUu 60 on
play your cards. We are bidn our time.
We are payin your taxes and your duties
and back rations for 1864, and licenses,
and your in.ernal revenue, aud otcyln jour
laws without haVin auy hand in maxim 'cm,
and we are cut off from pensions, and pub
lie lands; and you sold poor mans still
in my county the other day because he
couldn't pay your tax on some peach brandy
he stilled for his neighbors 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 but you'll catch it in
the long run. See if you don't Talk
about Fenians When the good men Of
the North 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 subside into obscurity, and your
children will deny that their daddies ever
belonged to such party. Excuse me gen
tlemen, but Pm little excited. Five cents
pound on cotton will excite anybody that
makes it Tax on industrY-on sweat and
toll Protection tariffs for Pennsylvania
and five cents a pound tax on Southern
cotton-hulf it's average wUlth-and your
folks will manage some way or other to
steal the other half. My advice to you IS
to quit this foolishness and begin to travel
the on y road to peace"