The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-03
ARP,s EXCURSION.
40 Pay. a visit to tho Palmetto State.
atlanta Constitution.


atlanta Consultation.
A man can't keep down his memories
and don't think he ought to. There is
an old maxim which says "forgive and
forget" Well,.it can't be did, that's all
A sancti6ed man or good hearted man
can forgive, but memory has nothing to
do with our hearts or our wills. Memory
is sort of independent contrivance and
has ways of its own. Memory speaks to
us ia spite of ourselves and says now
stop and think and We stop. ] was ru.
minating about this on my trip to South
Carolina. looked at the pleasant homes
and thriving villages along the line from
Augusta to Columbia and memory took
me away back to revolutionary times
when Marion and Sumter and Pickens
and their compatriots were fighting for a
principle and how they lived on potatoes,
and went barefooted, and made every
sacrifice to help out them felers in Bos.
ton who threw that tea overheard. /
thought about the battles of the Cow.
pens, and Kings mountain, and about
old CORVALLIS, and then those glorious
names came up in n..' mind, such as
Pinckney and Hayne and Lowndes and
| Cheeves and Calhoun and Butler and
Huger, and host of others who have
illustrated, and whose descendants still
illustrate, that noble State. And men,
ory came along down to later days, when
the randals came with fire and sword
and desolated the land and put an iron
heel upon her people, and how they en-
dured their humiliation and in silence
began to repair their shattered fortunes
and rebuild their homes, and how those
noble women did not forget their patriot.
ism amidst all this wreck, but gathered
around the tombs of Washington as chill:
dren gather around parents grave, aud
went to work 10 repair it, and adorn it,
and preserve it from those very vandals
who had forgotten that there was Mount
Vernon upon the bank of the Potomac.
I thought of all this, and much more,
and wondered if the north, the mighty
north. had lost all respect for valor
and devotion and the love of country,
which Carolina had manifested ever
since she was State and had people.
T thought about the kuklux trials that
we're going on there in Columbia under
the preiudiced power of an administra-
ton that prefers our hate to our love and
respect. "A power that stocks the juries
like q gambler stocks his cards and ex-
cludes every man whom they even sus-
pect of being patriot, democrat, or a
gentleman.
have been raised to think that those
who rule should try to court the love of
their subjects and make them love the
government, but for twenty years these
rulers have put on their most winning
ways to make us hate them and hate the
government we live under.
The good ladies of Columbia wrote to
me about Mt. Vernon, and wanted my
help and 80 I went. Year after year
they work and beg and continue to raise.
fund for that purpose, and they succeed
in spite of poverty or oppression. The
letter said, now Mr.. Arp, your good old
State has recently sent a man over here
to abuse us, and we want her to send an
other to amuse us and keep us in good
humor and make US all calm and serene
and balance the account between Georgia
and Carolina. 1 have ilial reverence
for the old palmetto for my good mother
was born upon her soil and / had re7er-
ence for those noble women and noble
men and I have thought that if our
republican government should ever be.
come monarchy and wanted material
for knights and earls, and lords and
barons it could be found in Carolina.
But if General Grant was the king I
don't think he would have hunted for it
much in that direction, nor any other
hardly outside of his kindred. South
Carolina is still under the ban but she
don't care. Her people are proud and
ask no favors. They have long since
learned how to suffer and be strong.
They have seen the bottom of the cup
and drank its dregs and now they are on
rising ground. Columbia is built up
again and abounds as in beautiful homes
where live the true lords and ladies of
the land-a sociable, dignified and hos.
pitable people who scorn mesnness and
hypocricy-in all its forms. Talk about
your Vanderbilt balls, and suppers and
twenty thousand dollars worth of flowers
and million dollars in diamonds and
glittering gems, and when one Of these
.Gne costumes come along with a woman
in it the old fellow points her out and
says, Saint she a sncrter." When l
read that account / couldn't help but
think about the gathering l witnessed
and attended the other night in Colum-
bia, where there we're governors, and
iudgrs and ministers, and senators, and
representatives, and not in all,the circle
worshiper of mammon or a man or
woman who was not patriot and a
Christian. To mingle with such people
in social intercourse elevates and rehnes
a man, but what avails it to 60 to Van
derbilt's ball-what moral lesson does it
teach to the rising generation
Columbia is fast recovering her former
beauty as city and her trade as a me-
tropolis., The legislature is in session
and the Supreme Court and the Federal
Court, and notable men from all parts OF
the State are; there. did not attend the
Federal Court for dident want to see
that prosecution and persecution going
on. thought of Ireland in the days of
Philips, and Curran, and Grattan and
Emmi, when public informers we're paid
and bribed to betray and hireling prose.
cutors were sent from abroad backed with
bayonets to browbeat and convict. ]
saw that the Legislature had appropriated
three quarters Of million for the current
year and when l inquired what all that
money was for they told me that half OF
it was to pay the interest on the public
debt-a debt created mainly by radical
rule and radical stealage. | saw spit
toons that cost two dollars and half that
are worth about so cents and there were
mirrors that cost s., 900 piece and
everything else paid for in proportion
just to put big money in SOMEBODY'S pocket.
Itell You those radicals feathered their
nests while they had the power and they
had it a good while and left a load of
debt and infamy behind them. But it is