The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-04-05
WHAT BILL ARP SAYS.

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The Old Philosopher Tells The Gospel
Truth About Ingalls,, Sherman an'
The Hating Gang.
was Eliminating about Senator In
gals and his great learning and schol
arship and wonderful gifts a. an or
ator and thinker. l was wondering
how he could prostitute those talents
to the low-down, mean, contemplate
business of slandering the south and
manufacturing wilful and maliciou:
lies about our people. Then | thought
of John Sherman in the same connect,
ion and it seemed to me monstrosity
that men should have such brains
and the devil control their hearts
How is that? 1 asked little boy one
day what kind of dog that was fol-
lowing him and he said "that dog is
half terrier "What is the other
half?" said [. The boy looked sur
prised and hesitated as he said. moth
ing but dog, I reckon" And that is
the trouble with these great men who
are so mean. They are one-halt
terrier and the other half dog.
Mercury was the God of letters
and astronomy and eloquence and
music but he was at the same time the
patron of fraud and perjury. He
wore sandals to keep his footsteps
from being discovered. He stole some
oxen from Apollo and when the theft
was proved on him he went to play
ing on the Tyre aud his music so de-
! lighted Apollo that he let him keep
the oxen. Aud just so these modern
men like Blaine and Ingalls, and Sher-
man play-the liar and SO tickle the
people with their eloquence that they
let them keep the oxen.
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 Haman says: Call this availeth
me nothing, SO long as l see Mordecai
sitting in the kings gate" The solid
south is his "bete noir''-his evil gen.
ius. The solid south is sitting at
the kings gate. The south has a friend
at court. Uncle Sam is the king, and
Hannah is somewhere building a gal
lows. He has been building it long
time, and his great misery is because
Mordecai is sitting at the kings gate.
Never did people behave more
clvilly. more courteously, more con-
siderately than has the south since
the war. We have DETAINED nobody.
vilifed nobody at the north, have in-
dorsed every oppression and at the
same time rendered the olive branch
and begged for peace, and urged our
northern 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 actual
ly building gallows. Ingalls, and
Sherman have each got one fifty cubits
high in their back yards.
Let the comedy go on until the
tragedy begins. L was looking over
northern paper yesterday that
abounded in figures and statistics 1t
gave probabilities of the south, and
they ere astounding. The population
of the six New England states has in
creased only % per cent. in forty years,
while that of Texas has increased 26O
per cent. since the last census. The
south is coming rapidly to the front.
inst think of it 260 per cent in eight |
years, and the other southern states
coming along rapidly. 1t will be a |
great while before Haman hangs Nor
deci. He is still sitting at the kings |
gate and is biding his time. Grover
and Francis are all right. When |
Grover returned from his late trip |
down south, Senator Colquitt said |
"Well Mr.. Cleveland. what do you
and Mrs. Cleveland think of the south |
new?
Grover squeezed the Senator's hand
and said She is solid = and Mrs. |
Cleveland squeezed his other hand and |
said: Keep her so, Senator"
ana she Will Keep so. The north |
will keep her SO /, Ingalls, and Sherman
and their sort will keep her SO sland-
er and abuse will keep her SO. That |
is human nature. The boys in
Postum Trot may quarrel and fight |
with the boys of Pine Log, but just |
let any outsider abuse Bsrtow county
and Postum Trot and Pine Log
both will jump on him. The old
oman may abuse her old man, but she
won't let anybody else do it. When
Mrs. Arp threatens to whip her chill
drep nd feigns terrible passion, she
exclaims: II do wish 1 had switch |"
it won't do for me to step in and tell
her there is one on the mantle! piece.
That il talking too much with my
mouth. I never tried it, but once
and shant try it any more. But they |
say we ought not to speak unkindly |
OF the dead, and SO will say no more |
about Ingalls,. He committed suicide |
and Blackburn buried him, and Hen
ry Grady preached his fune. al. and |
we win let him rest.