The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-02-20
BILL AND THE GRIP.
The "Preyaillng" Attacks the Phl1oso-
pher.
atlanta Constitution.

La grippe, Ia influenza, la catarrh, Ia
epizoot, nose and mouth and throat and
chest-la ten handkerchiefs q day and
one under the pillow at night-la blow
and sneeze and cough and expectorate,
and nobody wants your company and you
want nobody's company. When will this
thing stop? The ragged edge is worse
than the beginning the tail is worse than
the comet. Take quininel Done taken
it, and my head aches and there's roar.
ing in my ears. Take some coug b syrup.
Done taken it and it makes me sick at
the stomach. Put some turpentine or
kerosene oil on a strip of flannel and:ap-
ply it to your throat and breast. Done
done it until am burnt raw and smell
like drugstore. Maybe you had better
take Dover's powder and 60 to sleep,
which I did, and dreamed of fighting q
black snake that was trying to make me
swallow it, and I wouldent, and finally I
got choked with the Shiny thing, and
woke up and cleared my throat in the
foot tub. But I am convalescing now,
sorter, and cross enough to spank grand.
child if the mother wasent 'about.
T ehink would enjoy small fight with
somebody. I would like to try Tom Reed
! if he was in reach and wasent too big. I
reckon its all right to fight Tom Reed
and to abuse him and denounce him, and
raise as big a rumpus as possible, but for
the life of me, I can'tsee what good it
does. Tom Reed is only the mouthpiece
of his party. His tyrannical rulings
have already been agreed upon. They
have got the power, and where there is a
will there is a way. Why not give them
rope and let them run the machine for
three years longer. We don't care about
the offices, nohow, but what does trouble
me, is that the administration is manifest
| ly against the south, and does not want
peace. Mr.. Harrison has disappointed
us. We had hopes Of him as a Christian
gentleman. He had an opportunity
glorious opportunity-to make peace and
harmonize the sections. We thought
that be wasent a politician, butt a pure
man and statesman, but he seems to be
small and selfish and vindictive. He
wants the southern Republican vote in
the next nominating convention. That
means the vote of the negroes, and 80 he
must throw them bone or two to pick.
Buck tells him that Matt. Davis must
have the postohice at Athens or else Matt
will kick and Matt is high kicker.
There are score of clever white Repub-
licans in Athens who would like the Office
and are fit for it, but Buck says they can't
control the negro vote aud 80 Athens
classic, refined Atheus-must be insulted1,
A negro is to have the postoffice-an Of
fee that brings him in daily, hourly CON-
tact with six thousand white people. Ah,
my country-somebody hand me the
cologne-my head aches and my eyes are
running water.
Now, General Harrison knows that the
surest way to make race trouble at the
south is to appoint negroes to such Offices.
Our people will not stand it. We have
enough to bear without being insultcd.
1t is enough that we pay our part every
year of one hundred millions of pension
money to northern pensioners. That we
pay our part of the public debit grew
out of the war. 1t ia enough that our
land was swept with fire aud desolation
and our negroes set free without compen.
sation. And now ne are taxing ourselves
to educate these very negroes and their
children, and we tax ourselves to pension
our own invalid and MANNED soldiers.
But the time will come when our people
will rise up as one man and say: thus far
shalt thou go, and no farther. Please hand
me the camphor bottle, somebody oh,
my long suffering nose.
Yes, boycott him. Let every southern
merchant boycott John Wanamaker. He
has proved himself m unprincipled,
unrelenting enemy. He has been en-
treated to give Athens white man,
and will even give respectful answer
Now, if Buck is moving him, then let the
people of Atlanta boycott Buck. Don't
speak to him. Ostracise him. !Rule him
out of all respectable society. Let him
feel what it is to insult our people with
his appointments. This is not party
question-why even in Missouri Judge
Field has just nonsuited a negro who sued
for damages because be was not allowed
to ait in the dress circle with the white
folks. All honor to Judge Field. Yes
boycott him-I wouldn't buy a.hat or 9
cravat from merchant who would trade
With Wanamaker. Let the south stane
firm on the color line. The north does
not understand US on this question ane
never will until they come down and stay
long enough to see 1t just as it is. Gen
!. Grant knew all about it, and hence ht
declared that be was not fighting for thu
negroes. There are thousands of north
ern people who don't know yet that Gen
Grant was a slave owner when the wa
began. I was talking to Boston mai
the other day aud he smiled smile o
utter incredulity when I told him abon
it, and I had to getAppleton's biography
and read old Jesse Grant letter to him
the letter that the old man wrote to Gen
Grant Wilson in 1868, and told him ho7
Ulysses broke down in ST.. Louis in 1860
and couldn't make living, and 80 III
sent him to Galena to clerk for his broth
er Simpson at $500 year, and told hin
that he must live on that and the hire o
his slaves in st. Louis.