The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-04

have injured us q? just look at these
battered hats and patched coats and
brecches. you purple and fine linen
dudes! While you have been sitting
down on your tlowery beds Of ease,
MS happy as frogs in frcshct, we
have been bearing the heat and bur.
den OF the day. trying to make our
living by the sweat of our brow-or
the sweat OF the nigger's brow which
amounts to the same thing. And
the half has not been told yet. Why
have you not legislatcd in the in.
terest Of bigger. cotton crops, and
better prices Why have you al
lowed our corn cribs and meat
houses to remain so far from home ?
Is it your love for the darned yam
kce And then look at that part of
our physical anatomy by which the
factor holds us with our heads be.
tween his legs; yes, we say look at the
enormous interest he charges, his
high commissions, besides his stcr-
age, his sampleage and his stealage.
Why is this thus? Why have you
not remedied these great evils !?
Why have you not given us our
needed reforms The" Lord knows
we need something and we'd take al.
most anything we could get. And
again it has been said that when you
go to the Legislature you do all the
talking, and our farmer representa-
tivcs have to take back seats, and the
only sound that is ever heard from
them is the popping Of pinders, and
the only time they ever open their
mouths is when they throw one in
and chaw. And they have even
been compared to that servant which
the husbandman sent into his field
to hoe cotton, and, verify, because
he was not watched, he did shirl1 his
work and do nothing generally. But
we propose to send another batch
this time, and if they don't do better,
we'll instruct them to organize them.
selves into joint stock company
and "corner" the pinder market.
And now we feel it our duty to
rise up in our might and do some
thing to relieve us of this terrible
burden Of oppression The poor
farmers Of the State must have their
taxes reduced and their expenses in
every respect lightened, and in order
to the accomplishment of this great
and good object, we propose to begin
by building an Agricultural and Me-
chanical College-cost autat 1t q,uv.
And we here intend to educate only
those sons who promise to tread in
the same furrow their fathers trod;
and no son Of II professional" shall
ever find an entrance there. Yes,
we intend to build it if it takes thirty
years to finish it; and though the
most Of us may be buried under
the sod and our farms buried under
mortgages and the nails driven into
their collins by the sheriff's hammer,
still We'll leave it as monument to
our good intentions. And then our
children will rise up and call us n
blessed-pack of fools.
Well the jury have agreed upon a
verdict and they find you guilty, and
not only guilty of holding all the
offices, and running the government
but you have been running it in the
interest Of the whole State, and not
of us rs a class, which greatly aggra.
Yates your oflense. We therefore
condemn and sentence you to be
hanged up entirely out Of the reach
Of Office on the fourth day Of next
November, and may not a farmer in
the State have any mercy on you.
Wayward brothers, go in peace.
Farewell, sad farewell.
You have been wanderers from the fold,
Wen now leave you out in the cold.
TUNOSIrES