The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-08-14

was q right smart fool, Il can look
back and see that ! amt profet.-
Proffesy aint my fort. Me and preachers
was both mistaken. We thot we would whip
the whole Of the fte, but we only WHIPPED
two-thirds of it. We whipped it at the fust
and in the middle, but they WHIPPED us at
last. We never counted on havin TO fite all
creashum in front and Elk Brown and Joe
Stephens & Co. in tn, rear. 1t was un-
fair contest. IF was Yank wouldn't
never menshun this war as long liv'd. I'd
be ashamed to. Old Xcrxes. with his big
army, WHIPPED few Spartans, but histry
amt got no respect for him. Now I don't
want to hurt feelins After man has done
q men thing and bin cotch at it, amt the
individual to keep THROWN it up to him.
Ifthe Yanks are ashamed of their konduct,
I'm willin to drap it and make friends. The
pure breed of yankee never was fayorite
stock with me. When it's jewdishously
crossed it does very well, but even then thu
old Yank will crop out ever and anon and
show the skrub. There is rs much differ
enco in people as there is in horses The
pure Southerncr is blooded stock. With
him honor and fair dealin and family pride
are bigger things than money. The pure
Yank is philthy luker skurb. Money is
the big thing. Their chief end of man is
to keep all you git, and git all you can.
They like what other peepul have got better
than their own, and they go for it, and call
it speculatin. If they cant get it fast onuff
that way, they pass laws in Congress that
will get it by degrees Through the tariffs
and bounties and appropriashups they got
nearly all We had before the war, and have
stole all the ballins since. They look upon
us as foemen worthy of the steal. When a
Yank gifts rich and don't want any more, he
gifts sorter honest, and gives away sum 10
churches and colleges Then he lays down
and dies, and has white sepulkcr blt over
him, and goes about huntin for Abrahams
buzzum.
A pure Southerner don't keer for thrip,
but a Yank will git rich off of coppers. He
will buy nails at four dollars and 90 cents a
keg and retail EN- out 5 cents pound. Ten
cents and keg is considered a fair profit in
Konnetikut He will speculate on anything
in the world. | knowed one to buy his
wile's dover for two hundred dollars and
sell it to his dady-in-law for thousin. That
was cute way of maxim the stingy old cuss
give him sumthin before he died A reglar
Yank is per9mbulatin man. He out travels
all creashun when hunten roun for money.
lie don't mind goin from Maine TO Mississippi
no more than We mind goin TO the post offis.
lie insinuates himself into every land that's
got any thing he can git. He's smart, and
he's never left by the train. These is good
qualities, and ! wish our pcepul had en-
When Il clever Yank Gums down South and
mixes with our foaks, he. improves rapidly
bv contakt, and if he comes i'll his youth and
stays long enuff and marries in respectable
family he is apt to make good citizen. II
helps him and helps the family, especially If
its poor and proud This kind Of cross
generally does we'll and brings good froot
The of spring is apt to be lively and shifty
and have the love of money and the love Of
honor so beautifully mixed up you can't tell