Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
Letter from so.lh Carelina.
CHARLESTON, Oct. l3, 1878.


MIR. Editor We are once more
trading the ''sscred soil'' Of the sunny
South. Our health and the health Of
the city is unusually good. They have
had a very hot summer, but no serious
epidemic, 50 common in this part Of
the country. As is usual in the hot
season, the city has been unusually dull
in every kind Of business except poll
tics. The struggle for Mayor and Al
derman has been terrific, but ended in
the utter route of the " unterri6ed."
Mayor Wagner, of Battery Wagner
fame stakes his hat and lebes berry
sudden" and Mr.. Cunningham takes
his place. In conversation with u
Southern man yesterday, | learned that
Mr C.'s great crime was that Of being
a Northern man who had invested con-
siderable money IN Charleston, and had
carried on the honorable Ito the South
business of butcheripg, but withal a
very honest man. 1t is really wonder
full, with the horrible corruptious and
divisions in political circles here, that
even such good man as Mr.. Cunning
ham could be elected. am sure our
municipal affairs cannot be made much
worse. Now that our city has once
more settled down to its cotton and
treason, we fondly hope that this mod
ern Peter may arise, slay and eat.
The weather here is salubrious. The
sun shines brightly-rOses still bloom
the trees have no scar and yellow
leaf-all things are fresh and balmy.
What pleasant climate the South has !
No doubt you are beginning to gather
around your warm stoves ia the North /;
we are glad to ra'se our windows to
catch balmy breeze.
Tie city is beginning to assume a
busy aspect. Citizens are returning
and King Cotton is making his annual
visit aud business is reviviug. Charles
ton is dull place IN summer, but quite
throng in winter.
Southerners are qnite glad to see any
one, even a Yankee, who has money to
spend. What would become of the
South we're it not for Northern money
and ingenuity and common sense. This
deceptive people will reach out one
haud for eur money, while with the
other they slap us in the face. l know
some churches in this city which have
SCENTS in the North begging money, and
are at the same time in a general way
matchmaking the very ones who give
them money. A member of one Of
these churches said to friend of riine
not long since, /" The Yankees are able
to be bled, are willing to be bled, and
We are going to bleed them just as long
as they will stand it !" My honest
conviction is, that the only worthy ones
IN this country to receive Northern
help are the colored people, who have
with aching heads and bleeding backs
made this country what it is. But alas,
for human depravity they who would
do nothing for our country but tear il
to pieces, anil now be pe.ted and pitied
and helped, while these poor black peo-
pie who have been crushed and almost
damned soul and body, but who have
ever stood true to the old flag, anG
would have gone down with her, had
God permitted the awful catastrophe
these poor people. though they beg pit.
eously, receive out crumb from the
rich mans table. Said an old color ed
man to me-"Did you ebber see rebe
nigga 2" "No," said | /; "did you g
Then with some warmth be replied
"l'se bid wild massa Dunn de wah ir
Norf State, fru Georgy, Florldah, Mis-
sissippy, an | nebber yet seed a rebeI
nigga. Dey sumhow or uider had a
hankerin' after de ole flag as eff dat wa:
de right ting r'
Really now. Mr.. Editor, can you tell
me why it was that you might kill a
colored person before he would turn
traitor and desert the old flag! / tell
you, sir, | know stories of some of my
own church people during the war, the
relation of which would be as interest
ing as a novel. and make the blood run
cold-how they hid in dens and caves
and suffered the pangs of hunger and
thirst-how some were lodged in jail
for weeks without food OF raiment, and
many of them lashcd until the blood
stained the ground at their feet-and
still they would not give up the old
fag. am told that four coiored men,
during the war, boldly asserted Union
sentiments on the streets of Charles
ton. They were seized, of course, and
tied, and then that human devil, the
"whlpper," commenced his hellish work.
At the end of twenty lashes the ques-
tion was put" Do you repent and
turn 2" The answer came from between
set teeth, "No." "Give them twenty
more," was the command. At the end
of the next twenty, the muscles of one
relaxed and he fell. "Will you repent
and turn - was the question. "Kill
me kill mo 80 was the feehla rasoopso