The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-03
ARP's EXCURSION.
He Faye Visit to the Palmetto state.
Atlanta Constitution.

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Atlanta C5nstitution.
A man can't keep down his memories,
and l don't think he ought to. There is
an old maxim which says "forgivo and
forget" Well,.it can't Sc did, that's all
| A sancti6ed man or good hearted man
can forgive, but memory hae nothing to
do with our hearts Or our wills. Memory
is a sort Of independent contrivance and
has ways of it's own. Memory speaks to
us in spite of ourselves and says now
stop and think and we stop. l 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 end Fickens
and their compatIinta were fighting for d
principle and how they lived on potatoes,
and went barefooted, and made every
sacrifice to help out them fellers 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 my miud, such as
Pinckney and Hayne and Lowndes and
Cheeves and Calhoun and Butler and
Huger, and hest of others who have
illustrated, aud whose descendants still
illustrate, that noble State. And mem-
ory came along dowr to later days, when
the vandais came with fire and sword
aud desolated the land and put an iron
heel upon her people, end how they Ell.
dured their humiliation and in silence
began to repair their shattered fortunes
and rebuild their homea, and how those
noble women did not forget their patriot
ism amidst all this wreck, but gathered
around the tombs of Washington on chill.
dren gather around parents grave, aud
went TO work TO 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.
thought of all this, and much more,
and wondered if the north, the mighty
north, Lad lost all respect for valor
and devotion and the love of country,
which Carolina had manifested ever
since she was State and had O people.
thought about the kuklux trials that
were going on there in Columbia under
the prejudiced power of an administra.
ton that prefers our hate to our love and
respect. A power that stocks the juries
like gambler stocks his cards and ex-
cludes every man whom they even sus.
pect of being patriot. democrat, or q
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 10 make us hate them and hate tho
government we live under.
The good ladies of Columbia wrote to
me about Mt Vernon, and wanted my
help and SO l went. Year after year
they work and beg and continue to raise
a 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 man over here
10 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. I have filial reverence
for the old palmetto for my good mother
was born upon her soil and l had rever.
ence for those noble women and noble
men and / 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 l
don't think he would have hunted for 1t
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 thoy 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
plsablo people who scorn meenpees and
hypocricyy in ali its forms. Talk about
your Vanderbilt balls, and suppers and
twenty thousand dollars worth Of flowers
and q million dollars in diamonds and
glittering gems, and when one of these
line costumes come along with woman
in it the old fellow points her out and
says, faint she snorter." When
read that account l couldn't help but
think about the gathering I witnessed
and attended the other night in Colum.
bia, whore there we're governors. and
judges, and ministers, and senators, and
aud AOt III OIL tu0 CiECIO
wOrshiper of mammon or q man or
woman who was not patriot and
Christian. To mingle with such people
in social intercourse elevates and refinee
q 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 me.
tropolis. The legislature is in session
and the Supreme Court and the Federal
Court, and notable men from all ps!ts of
the State are there. I 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
bsyoaeIs TO hrow5eat sna convict. 7
ssw that .he'legisls:.Ea had .apEoDE.=Ee;s
three quarters of million for the current
year and when I 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. I saw spit
toons that cost two dollars and half that
are worth about so cents and there were
mirrors that cost 81 500 piece and
everything else paid for in proportion
Just TO put ti- money in SOMEBODY'S pocket.
I+el! yea :soss radicals feathcrei their
nests while they had the power and they
had it good while and left load Of
debt and infamy behind them. But it ia
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