The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-06-03
Mr.. Arp Oh the Recent Sermon Of Broth
er Talmage and other Subjects.

er Talmage and other Subjects.
Better late than never, but it does
seem to me Brother Talmage has beer
long time finding out we were good peo'
pie down here. Fifteen years is about
sufficient for scholar 10 learn all about
the whole world and the rest of mankind,
including Asia and Africa and the Zu-
loos, but we've been living right here al.
most in sight of the tabernacle. Brother
Talmage has been over to Europe and
come back and just now begins to take
some interest in us. I'm glad of it.
He talks spendidly and enjoyed it. He
is doing us justice. One time there was
man who had wild boy, and one cold
night he told him to 60 out to the wood
pile and bring in a log to put on the fire.
The boy went, but he never came
back in hurry. He took ship as o sal
lor and went all over the world and was
gone fifteen years, but he came home
one cold night and looking through the
window, saw the old man at prayers. So
he hunted round the wood-pile and shoul-
dered a big stick, and when prayers were
over he walked in, and says he, Daddy,
here's that back log you sent me after"
Brother Talmage has brought in the back
log at last, but we might have froze to
death several times awaiting for him.
Our northern brethren are very poor
scholars. Every year or so some of EN-
comes down to make recognisance and
they 60 back and say we are all rig hit
great people-splendid people, have been
slandered awfully and so forth, aud right
straight we hold up our heads and Wag
our tails just like dog when he gets a
kind word from his master. Mr.. Beech
err come down, and Dr. Vincent come
down, and General Grant come down, and
General Sherman and several others, and
they 90 back and says, "Boys, there's
no harm in those fellers down south
they are all right" but bless my soul no.
body believes them, and we have got to
enlighten them one at time just like we
did Brother Talmage, and it's going to
take two or three thousand years to do
it.
Brother Talmage made the best talk
for us that's been made, and there's some
comfort in it, though don't see as how
it's going to do us any particular good.
We want our rights. We want our Grip
pied soldiers widows pensioned just like
them on the other side, and want some
great man like DR.. Talmage to get up on
stump and say it ought to be done. l
said it before, I'm going to keep saying
it, there aint't agoing to be any real peace
until we are put on an equality with 'em
in every respect. When an old man
makes will and cuts out some of the
children it always breaks up the peace
in that family, and though they may
compromise like Bill Vanderbuilt did
with Neil and his sisters, it don't restore
paternal harmony by no.means. We are
aorter like the niggers in the Atlanta con-
vention. We want our share of Uncle
Sans property. They can't put US off
with little long delayed praise. Mr..
Talmage says the north has not done us
Justice. Well, that's so; but We want to
know about what time they will do it.
There was darkey in the calaboose and
he sent for Judge Underwood and told
what he was put in there for, and the
Judge replied: "Well, Jack, they can't
put you in here for that. It's against
the law" "Is dat so, Mas John ?" said
Jack. "It is so, Jack, said the Judge,
"they can not put you in here for tha "
"But I is in here Dow," says Jack. "Mas
John, sho as you're born, is in heah
right now"
Somehow I can't help thinking of these
things whether they fit up exactlyor not.
Old man Isam came to me the other day
and wanted to know when Congress was
going to do doanything for the colored man.
He said he had been voting for 'em ever
since the war and they had promised to
do something but they didn't do nary
thing. Said he had done give up the
mule and 40 acres of land, but the white
folks were getting garden seeds from
Washington and they hadn't sent any to
him. l told him the darkeys had just as
we'll quit expecting anything more than
they had already got, for this was white
mans country and them III. folks up
yonder was fooling of 'em. | told him
how they done that negro at West Point
and advised him to let politics alone.
When I asked him who he wanted for
president, he said some of 'em was gwine
to vote for General Grant and some for
General Sherman. I thought there was
somebody fooling them niggers in Allan
ia, making believe ..at it was ole Te-
cump that WAS running. The way the
radical party fools the darkeys reminds
me of old John D1edIin. He was sharp
old shoe maker and loved whiskey, and
had more ways of getting dram without
paying for it than anybody. Johns cred
it was gone and his promises not worth a
cent. There was new grocery opened
in the little town, and so john meander-
ed round, and seeing some ginger cakes
on the shelf, he priced 'em and said
he would take one. The feller laid it
down on the counter and John handled
it while, and asked him how he sold
whiskey. "Five cents drink" said he.
So John asked him to take back the gin
ger cake and give him some whiskey,
which, of course, he did, and John drunk
it, and after remark or two about the
weather, started out. When the feller
reminded him that he hadn't paid for the
liquor, John looked at him like he was
astonished. ri give you the ginger cake
for the whiskey," said he Indignantly.
"But you didn't pay for thegingercake," F"
said the feller. "Why, you've got your
ginger cake" said John, "there it is on
your shelf right where you put it," and
he walked out muttering something about
fool.
Iwonder when them yankees will learn
any sense about the nigger. Don't they
know white folks are not going to mix
with 'em. Haven't they tried it in hotels
and railroads and churches. Did they
not pass all sorts of laws to make us
mix and t. cir own folks were the first to
break 'em? Ifthey want to make West
Pointers aud midshipmen out of 'em why
don't they establish branches Of that bus
mess and keep 'em separate. That's the
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