The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-02-12

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He would force it upon US but lol
the hostility. How if he was Just
one man speaking for himself no
bcSv would care, but he speaks tol
thousau s and they hear pim ano
approve. 1t does look like most OF the
people 10 north are cranky aoeu'
! Something. 1t is no wonder that tney
are r anky on this question, for they
! haye been crossed and recrossed and
! mixed and small ,amated and bred IN,
and bred out so much, that it is 8 won
der thev have any established princl-
pies about anything The masses are
q mixture Of all nations. You Nigh;
| as well try to raise good stock Of
| horses by mixing the blood Of the ra>
Ger and the trotter, and the Perchero!
and the mustang, and the conestosa
and the Texas bucker aud Ba!aas 5 ass
combined.
You can't take up /. northern paper,
but what you see the ou;croppin&s oi
this dsgeneracy. The Puritan blood
has about petered out. In the days OF
the blue laws of Connecticut IT was a
penal ofense for 3 man TO kiss his wife
on Sunday, but now in some places
they kiss anybody and everybody
every day and every night at home
and abroad in the church and out Of
il. ii the following be true. 1t is taken
from a telegram to the Associated
Press from Taunton, Mass, sudis aead-
ed "Osculatory Christians"
The pezce Of the brick church ~
Dighton, has been broken up by tEs
promiscuous kissing and hugsinS tat
has been going on in the church at the
spelling bees that are held in the
sanctuary as nightly entertainments.
The new pastor, Rev. Mr. Dyer, was
shocked to fnd that males and females,
ripe spiusters, elderly maidens, and
blushiEg damsels, were engaged IL
these osculatory performances, ano
counting the number Of ZINES that
each had been favored and the church
had been turned into house for hug
ging and kissing, he dared to put his
foot down, and the result is pandemo-
nium. and persecution without end.
The Young men delied him and burnt
powder at the door of the church. ana
blew the smoke through the key
hole, and those who were inside left
their empty whisky bottles in the pews
as contributions to the church collecs
tions. The pastor had to send for the
sheriff to keep the peace; and as the
church officials wouldn't pay the sher-
ifs fee, the pastor had to pay 1t him
self"
Not much Furitanism about that, is
there. And here is another in the
Boston Herald OF last week, which
saws: The committee on pubic
schools Of Boston report that IN one OF
the schools dozen boys have within
q short time been arrested for stealing,
One bov struck his teacher such heav-
blow as nearly killed her. Another
boy fought his teacher With loaded
bludgeon two feet long. Three other
bows kicked their teacher, and another
drew revolver on her. Eight of the
boys belong to q band called the Forty
Thieves, who meet regularly and plan
stealing expeditions. And there are
three other schools that are worse
than than this one "
Now, we have right to inquire
when these osculatory and ursine per-
formances are going to be prohibited,
and when will those school boys be edu-
Gated up to the level ofrepublican man
ners. VIII Massachusetts, do it? You
may travel fran Virginia to Texas and
YOU can't find any thing to compare
with it. Isn't it strange that they will
presume to lecture US on morality?
McCauley says in his essays: The
Puritans hated bear bating-not be-
cause it gave pain to the bear, but be-
cause it gave pleasure to the specta-
tors" And so / reckon the north
abuses US about the negro not because
of any love or pity for him, but be-
Cause We make such a good use OF
him.
In a later letter to ths Charleston
Courier, DR.. Phelps is more consider
ate in language. and admits they made
great mistake in giving the negro
the ballot. He saysit struck nature
blow in the face, and what the end
will be God only knows. 1T would
not surprise me-" he says, "if it cost
the nation more blood than the civil
war" He says we have his sympa-
thy.
Thanks!-we don't care for sympa-
thy now. All we ask is to be lstalone
Just let the negro. alone; keep your
mouths shut and your hands off, and
there will be no blood. I wonder how
that fight is getting on at Alton-that
fight the negroes are making to force
their children into the white schools?
do hope they will whipit. The white
folks mixed that medicine for us-now
let them drink it. The hair OF thedog
is good for the bite. BILL ARP.