The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-06-20
BILL ARp'S APPEAL
In Behalf of tho Afflicted In Pennsylva-
MIA.
Atlanto Constitution.

When ne were cnllQreu Studying tue
old fashioned geography, the rude wood
cuts of earthquakes swallowing up whole
villages, and Mount Vsauvius burying
towns with red hot lava, thrilled us and
stilled us with awe and pity. The child.
ish mind is very susceptible to such
emotions. The pictures in Fox's book Of
martyrs haunted me- for years, and I used
to cry over the poor captiVes in Riley's
narrative; but a greater borrow is now
before us in our own land, and we cannot
realize it. We cannot feel it in propor-
ton to its intensity and its magnitude.
I wish that we could. Oh the pity of it,
the pity of it. Ten thousand happy,
thriving people, men, women and limo.
cent children, all hurried and hurled in
sudden agony to ahorrible death by flood
fire. The anguish of one victim, if it
could all be written, would fill book,
and there are thousands whose suferirgs
and terror would make pyramid high
enough to reach to Heaven. Would to
God that it has reached to Heaven and
they are now at rest.
What can we do for the survivors-the
bereaved-but send our sympathies and
our help. 1t is enough to put the nation
in mourning. 1t is enough to draw trib-
ute from the hardest heart. Now is the
time and the occasion for our people to
show their humanity. and their gratitude.
In our days of tribulation the north has
always been kind. Their press and their
people have abused us and oppressed US,
but when any great calamity has afflicted
Us the north has ever been generous.
She showered her money upon Charleston
aud Memphis and Decatur and Jackson
Vile. This is a noble peculiarly Of the
northern heart. They may overrreach
us in trade and in subsidies and protection.
They may get hundred millions year
for pensions and make us help to pay it,
but they are free givers to all in distress.
verify believe they will raise FIVE mil.
lions for Johnstown in q few weeks.
They will make good the loss Of those
who are in need. They gave Jackson
vile more than was needed and Jackson
vile now returns the surplus to Johns.
town. The north is the good Samaritan,
and that is right Now, will the south do
her parts To say that the north is rich
and has all the money will not do. A
kind Providence has blessed our people
abundantly. Georgia has recently raised,
without begging, near fifty thousand dol.
lars for our veterans. New, let US raise
good sum for those who have been af-
Aicted with an awful calamity-the most
awful in the nations history. Let US
show sympathy and friendship in prac.
ticsl way. Let US forget the past and re-.
member that we are brethren.
How strange is that cur emotions can
change so suddenly from love to hate and
hate to love. Sometimes we feel outraged
with the whole yankee nation. When old
Sherman refused to salute the South Car.
lima Company because they carried the
true centennial banner, the time honored
flag of Kings mountain, ] could have seen
him kicked from Broadway to the snow.
capped pinnacle of the Himalsya noun.
tains for being such fool aud such an
Ishmaelite. Just to think of it. Here
was centennial to commemorate the
birth of the nation and the descendants
of the patriots of Kings mountain saw fit
to march under the banner of their fore
fathers and old Sherman smelt treason in
the air and would not return their salute
nor lot General Harrison do it. Dogon
his old hide. I was trying to think we'll
of our president and have been talking up
for him, but if he is going TO let that old
yenoplous slsnderer hunt up insults for
him lie may paddle his own Tippecanoe
and I'll paddle mine. There isn't but one
way for the north to whip us and that
is with kindness. For that re will let
Illinois get her three millions of dollars
annually in pensions and Georgia il
take her little pittance Of thirty.seven
thousand and be thankful. For kindness
we will welcome their people to our
mountains and our plains and our genial
climate, but they musen't expect us to
give them all that we have got to induce
them to come. We want little for our.
selves. Ofcourse they want all they can
get. They have lived on subsidies and