The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-11
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lnrRNv11lr, s.. OF, Sept. s, 1855.

| IN relatlon 70 gthe GreenV1ne HetsS-
tion. In said communication some
important items are left ont, perhaps
| not known TO the writer, which Il
will try to supply. It will no doubt
interest your readers in this section
of the State. 1 will take them up as
your first writer did. ' >'
The man Bishop is well known in
the upper portion of this District aud
Henderson County, N. c., where
some of the family have lived por-
ton of the time, and are renowned
for their hog and cattle stealing pro-
pensities. w. A. Bishop, the 80
called Legislator, has been singing
school teacher, and whining, smiling,
hypocritical Methodist, of the Brown
low order, until found out. During
the war he was an outlier and plum
derer, terror to that whole region of
country.
But it is of John B. Hyde of whom
I wish more particularly to speak,
and especially the cause of that fight
between him and his daddy. Let it
be known that John auould not 20
into the war. 1t is told by his
neighbors that he lay in the woods
80 long that the moss grew on his
back, so that he resembled an old
bag so much he thereby evaded de-
lection. But, to the fight. During
the war, John conceived the idea of
wheedling his weak minded old father
and mother out of the only milch
cow they had; as was his habit of
claiming everything on the place be-
fore his marriage, nearly denuding
the house of furniture on his re-
moval. He gave the old man a
yearling heifer and promised to give
5000, in Confederate money, for the
COW, to be paid in week. Well,
a week passed, two, three, four, and
more, and the 5000 was not paid.
The old man insisted on payment;
John became indignant; wrote an in
sulting note to the elder Hyde, or
some of the family. The note was
replied to by his sisters, (the old man
cannot write,) when the valorous
Johnny became still more indignant;
came up in person and commenced
abusing his sisters and, believe, his
mother; when the old man, who is
good game-though John has not in
herited any of it-hearing the rum
pus, came to the rescue. Rocks and
clubs were used; but Johnny, in this
war, like the one he aDouldnf go into,
concluded that "hiding out" was the
best policy, and took to his heels.
Rocks few thick and heavy from the
old mans outraged but strong arm.
A person who saw it said it remind
ed him of Sut Lovingood's daddy
playing "hoss," when the hornets
beset him and he took to the water.
1t was rock and "dip" would go
Johnny's head, until he "retreated"
out of reach, with warnings never to
put his worthless carcase on the pre-
mises again. But L understand the
old man was much elated at his son
Johns election to the Legislature by
niger votes. If so, he is no Demo
crat, and has blotted out all the good
he has ever done, and damned him
self and his posterity for all time to
come. Whether the COW has been
paid for or not, deponent is mum.
Judging from Johns antecedents, I
'tguess" not.
I have known John Blassingame
Hyde from his boyhood. He is
man of no integrity of character. He
has q great tact for making bigger
fools than himself believe that he is
"smart." Some of his idiotic friends
even go so far as to say that he is the
superior of Gov. Perry God save us.
He can read and write. and that is
about all; is great talker, and con-
sequently bulldog in crowd of
ignorant scalawags and niggers. A
marked feature in Johns boyhood
days, was his great fear of runaway"
niggers; hence his alliance with them
when grown up. He is great phre-
nologist, and made the remark just
before the election. that "ever since
he had been studying phrenology, he
did not believe niger had soul;
and since reading Ariel. he was con-
firmed in it." and still he allowed
himself to be elected to the great un-
lawful, by those persons whom he
believed not to have n soul The
poor deluded niger.
But l am not done with Johnny,
yet. I want to tell you what fight
ing man he has been, although he
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