The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-08
ARP ON THE BOYCOTT.
WHY HE THINKS THE SOUTH SHOULD
USE IT.
A Patriotic Appeal to the Men and Women
of the Sunny South.

Atlanta Constitution. 90
"Well boys, let's quit playing with
EN-. They won't play fair and they
are always fussing at us, and they
seal our balls and marbles, and
the less we have to do with 'em the
better"
I.think that will be better for all
concerned. We won't nabor with 'em.
We can pass and repass like the feller
did with his bull, but it's high tipaa
tO cut va oil iutirnutorciuG1OnS. in What
the South wants is to be independent
and self-sustaining. That is what
anybody and any community wants.
The farmer who raises the most of
everything that he needs is the best
Off We have paid tribute and HON
age to the North long enough. Let
us all begin economy at home and do
without the luxuries that our own
section can't furnish. Mrs. Arp says
she will wait for a carpet until 1 can
get her one at home-wants an ak
minister, recon. She knows how to
do without luxuries. If she can get
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 sassafras tea
and smokehouse salt and lye soap,
and sorghum and cornbread, and the
children wore shoes made of half
tanned leather, and their clothes and
hats were made of scraps. "Oh, yes"
she said, we did it in war and Ireckon
we can do it in peace. Solomon says,
"Eat not the bread of him that hath
an evil eye, neither desire thou his
dainty meats" Well I would like a
little more Goldfish and mackerel and
cheese, but will do without it. Cobe
says he's done quit even long ago for
the war left him with nothing but o
yellow mule and all he buys is coffee
and tobacker. He says hell be dogged
If he wont 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 OF import. She wouldn't
suffer a day for food OF 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 manufacture every
thing from a hairpin to locomotive,
and keep our money at home.
Friends, countrymen, 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 shinny on
her own side and III shinny on ours
and quit plying with them until they
get friendly. We are tird- tired. "a
continual dropping will wear away a
stone"
1 wouldn't trust a Democrat ten
steps who would stay in partner
ship with a bloody-shirt Republican.
The New York Herald makes a big
blow about New York going fifty
thousand Republican majority if the
South boycotts her trade. Suppose
she does? Suppose they give hun
dred 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 Democ-
racy done for us? What is it doing
for us now? Amos Cummings is the
only man who depends upon princi-
pie. If a man is friend, why don't
he show it? Why don't the Northern
Democrats hold public meetings and
denounce all this unholy war upon us?
Why don't they quit the church that
allows it's preachers to abuse us and
tell lies upon us? Why don't they
do something or 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 Century" is
still harping On Andersonville, and
has communication from con-
temptible cuss about our using blood
hounds to catch runaway negroes be-
fore the war, and says it was com
mon thing. II was Q very moon
mon thing, as every old-time negro
will tell him. But suppose it was,
what good can come of such q discus
sion now? What fair minded editor
would admit such things? It is all
for hate and venom, and the mystery
of it all is, what makes them keep on
hating us? It is said that Mrs.. Gam
fields husband was dreadfully morti-
fed about his wife's letter being pub
ished. That's all. He was not NOR
titled that she felt that way, but be-
cause her feelings got into the papers.
Why don't he educate her to feel
some other way? The truth is, he
believed that way himself, or he
wouldn't have married such 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 temporizing
with such people? Let the New
York Herald, and all the other Herr
aids, threaten us with increased Re-
publican maiorities. A hundred
thousand is no worse than ahundred.
The result is all the same. What
good has our forbearance done? Are
not the relations between us getting
NJ fx.,n II ..