Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-06-15
BY w. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON.
thing to have in the house, as Mrs. Toob-
les would say

mir. Arp are not the feelings OF your
people very litter towards tho North z"
II beg your pardon, sir, bnt you'll have
to split the question, or else III have TO
split the answer. Our people have ve,v
high regard for honorable men, brave men
noble-hearted men, and there's l;can a
EN- North' sir, and there's a heap of wiI-
ows and orphans there we are sorry for
but as for this here radical party, they
look upon 'em like they was hvcnas a
scratching up the acad for a Twin. It's as
natural to hate 'cm as !, is 10 kill snake
Its utterly Impossible for me 10 tell the
strean'h and length and hight, depth and
breath Of the Contempt for that party.
They look us,on radical as-as--as- well
as begaar on horseback buzzard sail
"a ro'lnd dead eagle-a such egg dog
c:cepin up to the tail of dead lion.
| They talk about hirin Drownlow to abuse
em, to use language on 'eu,, like he did a
few years ago when he spoke against
Prype. If they do hire Brownlow he'll
spatter 'em, he'll daub 'em all over, and
slime 'em and slobber on 'cm about right,
and it will stick, for the pores are open and
their morals spopgy. I'd like to stand oil
about ten rods and hear him spread him
self. 1t would be worse than squirt Gun
full of COW slop, and I have no doub,
would give general satisfaction"
"That's sufficient, SIR" says old Bout.
well. "1f it was in their power to do so,
would your people renew the fight?'
"Not nnless they could fight the radicals
all alone, and all the world agree TO Glands
off, Even then there wouldn't be no
fight for we couldn't cotch YOU"
"What do your people say upon the SUBJ
ject OF negro equality?"
"They say it's a lie, sir-it don't exist
by nature and never in practice. Folks
were not created free and equal. That
may be theoretical truth, but it's always
been practical lie. There's grades of
society everywhere. There's men 1 give
the sidewalk to, and there's men that cives
it to me. There's men that 1 vote, and
men that vote me, and the grades 90 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 niggars, and the RopuLG
cans and the radicals, and that's as low as
they run. There amt no equality and you
can't make one. Well vote the niggers
certain. III vote Tip, and Tips head
CENTER He'll vote about forty, Ind the
first thing you know we'll elect seven big,
black, greasy niggcrs to Congress. Wen
do it certain-seven of 'em ls cara;s
strong, with African musk. Tho 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 gale
ries and mix oders, and fan their scent
about promiscuous. Well give you full
benefit of your Civil Rights bill, see if we
don't. You 60 on-play your cards. We
are b'den our time. We are paying our
taxes and your duties and back rations for
1864, and licenses, and your Internal reve
nue., and obeyin your laws without bavin
any hand in maxim 'em, and We are cut off
from pensions, and public 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
hls ne'ghbors two years ago; and soon
you'll be sellin the land for the land tax,
and you're tryin your best to play the de-
vii 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 sonth 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 subs:de into obscurity, and your
children will deny that their daddies ever
belonged to such party. Excuse me,
gentlemen, but Pam a 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 pound on
Southern cotton-half it's average worth
and your folks will manage some way
or other to steal the other half. My ad-
vice to you is to quit this foolishness
and begin to travel the only road to
peace"