The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-08-07
ARP ON THE BOYCOTT.
WHY HE THINKS THE SOUTH SHOULD
USE IT.
A Patriotic Appeal to tho Men and Women
of the Sunny South.

| Atlanta Constitution.
We'll boys, lots quit playing with
'm. They won't play fair and they
arr ;G,"ays fussing at us, and they
steal our balls and marbles, and
the less we have to do with en- the
better"
[ think that will be better for all
concerned. We won't nabor with en-.
| We can pass and repass like the fcllcr
did with his bull, but it's high time
to cut off all intimate relations. What
| tho South wants is to be independent
and self-sustaining. That is what
anybody and any community wants
The farmer who raises the mos, Of
everything that he needs is the best
OIL. We have paid tribute and hon.
age to tho North long enough Let
us all begin economy ut home and do
without the luXulies that our own
section can't furnish. Mrs. Arp says
sho will wait for carpet until I can
get her one at homc-wunts an az
minister, L recon. She knows how to
do without luxluies. IT she can grt
them she wants them, but If She
| can't she don't. She tried doing
without during the war when we had
to live on rye coffee and aasSafrns tea
and smokchOusc salt and lyr soap,
and sorghum and cOrHbrcad. and the
children wore shoes made of half
tanned leather. and their clothes and
hats were made Of scraps. 'Oh, yr3."
she said, we did it in war and Ircckon
we can do it in peace. Solomon saws,
Lat not the bread of him that hath
an evil eye. neither desire thou his
dainty meats. Well l would like a
little moro goldfish and mackcrcl and
cheese. but I will do without it. Cobc
says he's done quit even long ago for
the war left him with nothing but a
yellow mule and all he buys is coffee
and tobacker. He says he'll be dogged
II he Won eat roots and drink branch
water if it's necessary. Well now,
speaking seriously, the South can do
without the things she cannot make
or raise or import. She wouldn 1
suffer day for food or clothing.
Wagon factories and carriage and
| buggy factories and furniture fac
tories would spring up here like magic,
and give employment to thousands of
our young men. In few years there
would be thousands of small indus,
tries. We would mAnufacturc every,
thing from a hairpin to locomotive
and keep our money at home.
Friends, co,lntrymen, patriots, let
us do that. Let us form league
that will do something sure enough
and do it for all classes. Let the
North keep all that she has got and
run the government and shiny on
her own side and well shiny on ours
and quit plying with them until they
get friendly. We are tird- tired a
! continual dropping will wear away a
stone
/ wouldn't trust Democrat ten
steps who would stay in partner
ship with bloody-shilt Republican.
The New York Herald makes a big
blow about New York eoing fifty
thousand Republican majority if the
South boycotts her trade Suppose
she does Suppose they give hun
drcd thousand, what is that to us!
What is she doing for us now! Ever
since the war the South has given her
solid vote to help the Northern De-
mocracy, and what has that Dcmoc-
racy done for us? What is it doing
Tor us now! Amos Cummings is the
only man who depends upon princi-
pie. If a man is II friend, why don't
he Show it? Why don't the Northern
Democrats hold public meetings and
dcnouncc all this unholy war upon us?
| Why don't they quit tho church that
| allows it's preachers to abuse us and
tell lies upon us! Why don't they
do something OF move out of that
country? You can't take up a North
ern magazine that hasn't got some
malicious scandalous piece in it's
columns. The very last "Ccntuy is
still harping on Andcrsonvillc. and
has communication from II con
tcmptible cuss about our using blood
hounds to catch runaway negroes be
fore the war, and says it was com
mon thing. 1t was q very uncom-
mon thing, as every old-time negro
will tell him. But suppose it was,
what good can come Of such discus
sion now? What fair minded editor
would admit such things! 1t is all
for hate and venom, and the mystery
of it all is. what makes them keep on
hating us! 1t is said that Mrs. Can
fields husband was dreadfully morti-
fled about his wifc's letter being pub
hshcd. That's all. He was not NOR
titled that she felt that way, but be
cause her feelings got into thcparcrs.
Why don't he educate her to .ccl
some other way! The truth is, he
believed that way himself, or he
wouldn't have married such q vicious,
malicious woman. IF he was really
friendly to the white people of the
South, he should have made her stop
talking that way or quit her
What is the use Of tcmporizing
with such people! Let tho New
York Herald, and all the other Her
aids, threaten us with increased Re
publican majoritics. A hundred
thousand is no worse than hundred.
The result is all the same. What
good has our forbcarancc done! Are
not the relations between us getting
more unfricndly every year! 1t is
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