The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-17

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This 1 / say say in a tone 50 low that only the
long male ears Of this audience: can hear
me-, BuG It, IS SO. We have got also B
full line of the most bewitching widows
that ever lightened mourning and ,"ltook
notice." Also, we have some females
that are: not so pretty we do nothing
BY halves in Virginia .st9 apd when we 1 get
about pro oducing an ugly woman we, put
upon! the market an acute, pen etrating,
| idifdsigss spervasiye, acrid and. altogether
atmrnimfioniacal variety Of hideodsfess that
/ nothing earthly can touch. q Bit for
pretty girls and widows you can't go
amiss. They are SO thick in Richmond
|; that if fYoti venture On the street with an
umbrella under your arm, arm, and t'irn turn
around suddenly, you will knock down
two Or three Of them. They have been
waiting with the sweetest patience for
the kings and princes of!Edrope to. come
over and marry them, but. thes fools. over
there have gone to fighting, and ! am
afraid their patience and their few good
clothes, Wilt wear out together. And
when T think Of their bright eyes dim
ming, and the roses in their cheeks fading
in old-maid dsnhood, it almost. Kills me-
T can't marry them all would 70 good
ness chat T could-A2I have done all that
the law allowed me to do in this matter,
and now 7 want you to quit playing Cot.
tontot, get. rich quick, and come to Old
Virginia and help me out in the niatri-
imonial line. We have a fine set Of young
men growing up and already grown,
plenty old enough, to marry--blooded
tfe1iowsMthat have gone to work, and
like racehorses al. the plough, intend TO
break the traces, burst their hearts or
make deep furrow in this hard old
workday world. They would mot object
to marrying any mans rich sister, but of
iall mems they would prefer q South Car
|olinian's. Come, then, to the Old, ,DSo,,
lminion-a fair exchange is no robbery -
and BY the gods the next generation OF
two, " VII see: 3 race Of men compared with
whom Washington and Calhoun, Jefers
son and 2 Pinckqnyey NJ qyy were but 'e'9k teetkotupns
aHT There sse is;ons eothsr a#Eesaa,kling1 o Whom
Ii would like to pay my respects: mean
the South politician, who :fancies ne
can become d statesman BY rejecting the
accusations of modern science, the: ap.
ipliccation particularly Of biology tosoeial
problems, and, confning himself to the
old ruts, hopes to make a little ill-
ldigested history and tie speeches of 9
few eminent men Of by gone age serve il
the stead of those general laws, which
iembracing matter and mind alike, enable
us to forecast the. future, and to foresee
not what. We think we ought to be, but
what in Tie nature Of things must ineyiE.
Itably be. Time will not permit me to:do
more than allude to this subject; but,
coming down K, Immediate matters, I
should say that the supreme Southern
political fool is he who, in this critical
moment for his section, places confidence
lin any promises whatever made by his
party foes. ..a.3,.-., .a;.
faIn conclusion, let me thank you for in
yitingo me to- address your No comph-
mentl is! more grateful to a.; Virginian
than one that comes from the people OF
Carolina, for here he finds q passionate
devotion to the State which rivals if it
does not surpassshis own State pride and
love. Caroliniansl do you love i:your
mother!d Doessatmother dove her faf1ict-
led and stricken SOM, Does a son love
the, invalid taother for.,whomf he sacri-
fees his time; his pleasures and his hard.
wono earnings ?b ak6ve l!herlf He would
die for her. Yea more, he would live
for her;iwould 74lends her halfthis powers
to exc. heraiving out...1' And when The
painful night watches aresa1lhofer hnd
the patient sufferer is laid in that:narrow
bedfwhere there islno suffering, the
son comesbackt fromft the grave, bearing
wild, him an amulets that mo man may
ever. see, but which will keep; him I'M
harmed through life. Nay, thenceforth q
newer and,amore elevated, life, hallowed
by self.sacrifce, is his. So with you,
Carolinians. You-have suffered as no
cultured people i'm modern times. haYe
suffered, and, so .suretlas Heaven, the
steadfast love you have shown to your
murdered mother.will bringits exceeding
great reward: You have atrodden the
wine press alone. Here fell the utmost
fury ofyour enemies, and here came the
least sympathy Of your friends, for was it
not said (the idiots haYsFnot yet stopped
SAYING it that you "bfought on the war?"
The wine, pressIy Your State was the
wine press andyour souls the grapes on
whichif for twelve years 8 mob of jeering
devils, drunken with Iexcess of malice
and of.nhate,4 danced to the derisiye
laughter of half the nation. Twelve
years, four thousand days and nights Of
torture, aof, shame, of humiliation for
yourselves, your wives, your daughters,
your tenderachildren. -Four thousand
days and nights, and to the proud and
sensitive nature smarting under indignity,
every moment is an age. Burke and Pitt
lifted ;their voices in behalf lof the op-
pressed Colonies; the cloud cry. of
trampled Hindostan" awakened the elo-
qnence of Sheridan, sbut the Poland of
America ,.j.3.,i - 2 -aa 7e{' ] -. ~
GROUND nota gene rous friend. Pityihs fos,nj TO
Strength IL. her aT@s' nor mercy In serT0sra y:
.Naked and dssolate she stands .hs'9''ia; "a,
Her name by-wordin all landsp II a2s'Ia ''ii''
No man of commanding genius in Ell
ther branch oftthe National Legislatures
stepped forth to plead her.cause in words
that might have shaken both Continents
and be quoted for all time Not one of
the Northern poets-thoso gentle beings
whose hearts bleed at every wrong from
Tartary to 'Timbuctoo- could pen q line
for Carolina. Gordon, of Georgia, as
your friend, good and true, and at we
last your advocate and champion was that
press which men aforetime loved to call
satanicAthe New York Herald -and- the
poets who sang your wrongs we're of your
own rearing. ~ ',Il''i T. "a =,
Yes, Carolinians, you have been tried
as by fire, and by that fire the dross has
baani nurned aN,ayglad vino YnetaliOf proof