The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-06-23
rrE souTH's ENEMIES.
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1t is curious how our thoughts -uu
away and meander around and then
come back and take a new start. They
will do this in spite of us and we won
der how they got away off from the
ratter we were thinking about. But
there is always some provocstion or
they wouldn't go. / was Eliminating
about Senator ingalls, and his great
learning and scholarship and wonder
full gifts as an orator and thinker. 1
was wondering how he could prostitute
those talents to the low-down, mean,
contemplate business Of slandering
the Sclth and manufacturing willful
and malicious lies about our people.
Then thought of John Sherman in
the same connection and it seemed to
me a monstrosity that men should
have such brains and the devil control
their hearts. How is that? I asked
little boy one day what kind of dog
that was that was following him and
he said "that dog is half terrier"
"What is the other half?" said l.
The boy looked surprised and hesi-
tated as he SAID. "nothing but dog. !
reckon" And that is the trouble with
these great men who are so mean.
They are one-half terrier and the other
half dog. l was travelling not long
ago with Sanford Bell, the reverend
veteran of all conductors, and some
consequential darkies demanded that
the white men should be expelled from
their car. Sanford said. swell. that
is all right. They must go if you say
SC" and so he politely invited us all
out and we acquiesced with q good
grace; but there was curious
looking, measley-pided. ginger-cake
fellow. who didn't vacate. and one
of the darkies hunted up Sanford and
complained that there was still one
man left. Sanford went back and in
spectcd him. He looked inquiringly
at his face. and the back of his head,
and the shape of his feet and finally
addressed him and said: my friend,
are you white manP" "Naw," said
the mongreL "Wel. what are your"
said Sanford. me mudder Portugee
and me ladder nagar," he said. Sam
ford turned solemnly to the darkies
and said: "How's that?" and they sub
sided.
There are some strange mixtures in
our humanity. Talents go long ways
to atone for rascality and meanness.
and always will 1 reckon. Lord Bacon
took. brides. and so some of the great
est minds in the nation have stopped
to iniquity that would send common
man to the chain-gang. .s
Mercury was the god of letters and
astronomy and eloquence and music.
but he was at. the same time patron
of fraud and perjury. He wore sandals
to keep his footsteps from being dis
covered. He stole some oxen from
Apollo, and when the theft was proved
ON him he went to playing on the Tyre.
and his music SO delighted Apollo that
he let him keep the oxen. And just so
these modern men like Blaine and
Ingalls, and Sherman play-the liar
and SO tickle the people with their elo-
quence that they let them keep their
oxen. s-
But the late assaults of Ingalls, and
Sherman seem to come more from hate
than policy. We can understand why
the ignorant people of the North still
hate us. but why an intelligent, WELL
informed man should do SO passeth
all comprehension.
Now, there is Senator Ingalls,, who.
next to the President, holds the high
est position in the Nation. He is
brainy. polished and rich, and yet like
Hannah says; 'All this availeth me
nothing, so long as see Mordecai sit
ting at the Kings gate" The Solid
South is sitting at the Kings gate.
The South has friend at court I'M
Gle Sam is the King. and Hannah is
somewhere building gallows. He
has been building it long time. and
his great misery is because Mordecai
is sitting at the Kings gate. ss
Never did a people behave more civ
lily, more courteously. more consider
ately than has the South since the war.
We have DETAINED nobody. vilified no
body at the North, and have Endorsed
every oppression and at the same time
rendered the olive branch and begged
for peace, and urged our North
ern brethren to come down and
see us and share our hospitality, and
yet they continue to elect to Office the
most venomous of all our enemies.
Now we can hardly believe that the
North wants to hang Mordecai. but
the men they elect to Congress are
actually building gallows. Ingalls,
and Sherman have each got one fifty