The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-31
July 3l,1S79.

the morning following the first Wild
OF the John Brown raid nearly all the SS"ng4T>
ern students congregated at rho ,4rIh-
Patterson llkewlse came, and tool lp""''
upon a log, surrounded bv a crow ~ sea,
emily his mail was brought, and = Fe,-
else had a paper, he read the brief elo oae
stating that Brown with a party of 2e >
men had captured Harpers Ferrv =, - p
railroad bridge, and fortified the town a1HHie
he was holding gallantly against the a, nun
of the Virginians. The exultant t" ",@;A
which Patterson read rather Detrlej ~ y
Southern boys, and they expressed tboua'
selves quite vehemently ON the sub;oa.
Patterson retorted sneeringly-''The chIysL
old man" They will give him rar
and tackle, attached to a tree -2pe
soon as they get ready-anl b,,N
all who sympathize with him will sbara !,
1T will take more timber than YOU ye =.
in Virginia to hang all Of John Brow.
friends, and - But the sleek .IoIr
never finished the remark, for '.old .I,a"
c., (as we all called him. a %gigantI. 81.
bamianr whose dark angular tcatr."
straight black hair, and small coal L,.t
eyes might have suggested a strain of Ina
ancestry sprang in front of him. erowEn..
Not another word We don need free.
"We've got plenty Of men down South l..
enough to pick up such fellows and bdI
them up by the heels till they choke r.
death with their own niggerloving black,
Republican blood!
Patterson grew very red in the face. turn.
ed without reply, and walked up the hin
But when near his own gate he paused
doubtless remembering the eyes Of >eveal
of his constituents were upon him. and
called out: IF your shareholders do win
John Browns party the day will come when
they will have the whole North to fight"
'All right - Bring on your miIish ~
lar cries went up from the Southerners. who
were boyishly stirred to intense rage. One
remark was, unknowingly, prophetic; viz
"yhat .teAoW erer comes South he riU come
to STEAL not to .fght!" How little any Of
us foresaw the future Scarcely single Year
elapsed ere the South had indeed "tbc
whole North to fight And Patterson
Was not at the front! He remained in the
Legislature as long as possible; obtained
soft place" on the staff of Gen. Williams.
and closed his military career in the same
rank he began with. But he was more ia
miliar with another species of"steaI," and
lost no time in practicing upon the unhappy
South Carolinians. Railroad bonds, rail-
road tracks, Superior Courts, Supreme
Courts, Conventions and legislatures. all
were manipulated by him, with the aid of
the most corrupt gang of white and black
r~ascals who ever preyed upon a helpless pee
pie; and on the 4th of March, 1873, he
boldly took the seat in the United State
Senate, left vacant by the no-less-scoun
drelly carpetbagger, F. A. Sawyer, who at
forwards was appointed by Grant to be as~
tant-secretary of the Treasury, and brought
disgrace upon the nation by a continuation
of his South Carolina villainies. Both Pat
tersOn and Sawyer are now in obscurity,
lodging the officers of the law, and regard
ed with contempt by all decent men. New
ertheless Tor ten years they We're among the
most honored Of those who fought and rob
bed the South.
TO BE CONTINUED.