The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-07-08

The following contains some |
truth and some falsehOod; We
publish il on account of its modi.
cum Of the former quality: !.
To the Editors of the Appeal:
Aberdeen, Miss, June 2i.-You
are always tiattering, compliment.
ing, sympathizing with aud petting
the "poor unfortunate SOUTH
and | most respectfully beg leave
to inform you that You are doing
them inealeulable injury. That is
not the kind of talk they need. II
is affectation on your part, ! think,
anyhow. You certainly must know
that the planters of the South are
the grandest set Of fools-perfect
ninnies-that ever owned land.
Will you be kind enough to tell
me why Southern farmers, twenty
years after the war, shouldn't be
as prosperous as emigrants In the
Northwest who have not been in
this country over five years' Now
don't get mad, but answer fair.
It is a fact-if you don't know it
I'll ltell you-that in the Northwest
immigrants whe have not been in
this country over five years, end
who landed with nothing, are en-.
tirely prosperous-prosperous in
the fullest and best sense Of the
word. They have fine farms, fat
stock, are out of debt, and have a
little money in the, bank. How ID
1t in the Southi Poverty fiat
plum busted, mortgaged, poor
poor, poor. Now to speak plainly
that's all d-d nonsense. Labol
in the North gets s20 month
and boards at the farmers table
In the South it gets Is montl
with o peck Of corn aud thre'
pounds of bacon per week, in
wretcked, tumble-down cabin
: These are facts. l know they ar
, facts. j know just what ! am tall
ing about. Now what's the use {
your hattering, complimcntinI
!, sympathizing with aud petting sue
a lot Of fools! If they are poo
it is their own fault. Don't te
y me the nigger won't work. l.,
been raised with the niger.
/, know all about him. He will wol
= IL paid for It and watched. 81
: he is neither paid nor watche
. Furthermore, he is hated, and !
knows it, and every election d.
he looks down into the barrel
u o pistol IN the hand Of a viii
q man. He don't love the viii
! man, either, and the white has n
= sense enough to gain his estee
and confidence. That he requir
y to make anything on his plant
9 ton. He swindles the niger Q
. cry chance he gets. Now wi
J. don't You tell these people in pla
J terms that they are o lot of dal
Z phools, or words to that effec
= Why don't you tell them, that |
stead Of sitting on the shady si'
of the street in the summer, al
, on the sunny side IN the winter,
the towns, they should go to wol
: ON their plantations themselves
: Why don't you tell them that II
war has been over twenty year
J and that they ought to be ashame
of themselves at this day to be {
confoundcd poor! Why don
you tell them to stop bellyachin
AMI 90 to work 4 Why don't 20
! tell them to raise their own cor
and meat, instead of buying
from the North, through mcrcl
ant that charges them four price
and twenty-five per cent. per al
mum interests! Why doirt you te
them to raise only half crops {
cottoni Why don't yon thunde
and beat into their pcrverse brain
that 25O pounds Of cotton at fiftee
cents brings three times the prof
of 800 pounds at ten centsi Go
bless my soul, sir! Why don't yo
make a political campaign of IT.
: If they must have politics." Flu
crops or "Half cropi"
NEW CONFEDERATE.