The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-25

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NJ siSisiss. Just IL heaven Z & : cad 8
be that the-world's work cannot be done
without hate as we'll as love and as much of
one precisely as the other? Bah These
analogies are misleading-it's all stuff-the
lRaRs crazy. Say you so Then are we pre-
pared to come fat and plump to something
practical viz, the Southern fool
The first Southern fool whom I shall no.
tice is the worst, for he is more knave than
fool, hound whose hide intend some day
to tear off and hold his quivcring carcass up
to stink in the nostrils of both sections 1t
is he, who, having gone North and acquired
money by hook or by crook, mainly by crook,
proceeds to take unto himself all tho glory
and the fame of the South, disowns her
shame, evades her suffering, and over
whelms us with his advice. His advice,
quotha Why doesn't he come down and
put his shoulder to the wheel? Advice
Upon nJ word, seuttvmvu, 6r"s= s=rityrvuo H,f:
vice from fool Of this sort is the acme of
all meanness. 1t is the very, inversion of
generosity, which naught impoverishes the
giver, but makes us poor indeed. Will a
beggar give me handful of his rags? The
figure is coarse, horribly coarse, but not so
COARSE as inc 1act.
1t was shoal of this kind of cattle (is
that Irish enough for you p of these advice
givers (Northern born though) who swooped
down upon us after the war to teach us how
to grow cotton and tobacco with machinery
and free labor They would hear nothing,
for they knew all things. The last nincom-
poop Of them failed ignominiously, and in
my State not few of them discovered that
in the simple matter of cheating any Vir-
ginia clodhopper was moro than match for
the shrewdest Yankee. He made him pay
three prices for his worn out farm, one third
scash, md in a year;or 80 took back the farm
for the deferred payments. The more fool
the Virginian for this goosc.ripping policy,
but none the less fool the Yankee.
Prior to the war the Southern fool made
his wishes the measure of political events,
and sentiment served him in lieu of scuse.
He believed in Bell and Everett U voted
for them-none of my people shall be big
ger folls than myself) in Fillmore, John
Cochranc, Butler, Sickles. Bah AS if the
designs of an army could hediseoycred by
the attitude of the chaplains, the teamsters,
suffers and bummers in the rear, instead of
by watching the. movements of the van
guard. Is the Southern fool doing any bet
ter row Does experience teach anything !?
Very little individuals, to nations moth
ing.
When the war broke out the Southern
fool began by undertaking the strength of
his. enemy, by looking down upon the Yam
KEGS as the Southern. bays had done at
Princeton. Coming to Richmond, alter the
g ,v;t ho hnlx Of do
comradc, was told that great Southern
statesman was in town. fastened to him
ut once, for l wanted to see ahead. "Mr.
X" said I, "the papers tell us that Lin
coin has called for 100000 men," He
laughed low laugh, leaned back little,
and said chcerily. "Oh, ycs, the Chinese
raised million, with gongs and stinkpots
according, and ten thousand allies marched
straight to Pekin." l was greatly comfor-
| ted.
This Chinese idea prevailed at Montgon.
cry, where, am told, the first order for
arms was for nine thousand, possibly ten
thousand stand. Passing over the minor
follies of retaining proved incompetents al
the head of grand armies and elsewhere
passing over Lees extreme weakness in moi
holding his lieutenants up to the sternes
accountability, come to the capital mistake
of tho war. 1t was natural the Southern
fool should make il. A handsome gentle
mani can see him now we all remember
him above the medium height suit o
black broadcloth, black satin vest, felt hat
gold fob chain, gold headed cane and high
heel, high top boots-a gentleman who die
4 nothing with his hands and good deal will
his tongue, thereby making himself yer.
agreeable to himself But there was on
redeeming quality about the fellow-h'
wouldn't take the lie, and he would fight
would snuff out your eephalic wick at tel
PAGES, or fight you with anything from
toothpick to columbiad. A fight to hin
was Ave minutes affair, and if. enough lif
was left in himself or his enemy to shak
; hands, he was ready to make friends, AM
, ther. an end ont. What more natural tha
, that he should believe that war meant fight
, ing.
II It was fatal mistake, the cardinal crro
of the whole struggle. War-pine-ten
: of it, at least, as Alex. II. Stephens said q
the time-is business, the plainest possibl
r matter of fact business, just such busine:
! as is done every day here on your wharvt
, and streets, only with more energy. Di
Q any CT you enter the Yankee lines at th
r close of the war I did, and what did | SCI
I saw in succession team of mouse colore
mules team of cream. colored mules, and
|, team of snow white mules, six to a team, an
t all seal fat, ,(specimens Of the train) the wa:
Il ons brand new, and the wagon cloths
: deal cleaner than thA shirt was then wea
l. ing. A little further on saw corps
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