The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-02-13
He is considering the propriety of this

He is considering the propriety of this
thing, this unnatural union. We don't
know that he is hankering after negro
wife, but he is ready right now to pass
Law that would encourage the amalgama-
tion and make it legal. He would force
it upon us but for the hostility. Now if
be was just one man speaking for himself
nobody would care, but he speaks for
thousands and they hear him aud approve
1t does look like most of the people up
north are cranky about something. 1t is
no wonder that they are cranky on this
question, for they have been crossed and
recrossed and mixed and amalgamated
and bred in and bred out 80 much, that
it is wonder they have any established
principles about anything. The masses
are mixture of all nations. You might
as we'll try to raise good stock of horses
by mixing the blood of the racer and the
trotter, and the Percheron, and the
mustang, and the Couestoga, and the
Texas bucker, and Balaam's ass oombin-
ed.
You can't take up northern paper but
what you see the ou,croppings of this
degeneracy The Puritan blood has
about petered out. In the days of the
blue laws of Connecticut it was q penal
ofense for man to kiss his wife on Sun.
day, 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 it, if the following be
true. 1t is taken from a telegram to
the Associated Press from Taunton,
Mass, and is headed "Osculatory Chris
tians.''
''The peace of the brick church at
Dighton has been broken up by the pro.
miscuous huggings and kissing that has
been going on in the church at the spell.
ing bees that are held in the sanctuary
as nightly entertainments. The new
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Dyer, vas shocked to
find that males and females, ripe spinsterp,
elderly maidens, and blushing damsels,
we're engaged in these o,culatory perform.
mances, and counting the number of
times that each had been favored and the
church had been turned into house for
hugging and kissing, he dared to put his
foot down, and the result is pandemonium
and persecution without end. The young
men de6ed him and burned powder at the
door of the church, and blew the smoke
through the keyhole, and those who were
inside LETT their empty whisky bottles in
the pews as contributions to the church
collections. The pastor had to send for
the sheriff to keep the peace, and as the
church officials wouldn't pay the sheria's
fee, the pastor had to pay it himself"
Not much Puritanism about that, is
there. And here Is another 10 the Boston
Herald of last week, which says: "The
committee on the public schools of Boston
report that in one of the schools, dozen
boys have, within short'time, been ar
rested for stealing. One boy struck his
teacher such heavy blons as nearly killed
her. Another boy fought his teacher
with loaded bludgeon two feet long.
Three other boys kicked their teacher and
one drew revolver on her. Eight of
the boys belong to a band called the
Forty Thieves, who meet regularly and
plan stealing expeditions. And there are
three other schools that are worse than
this one."
Now, We have q right to inquire when
these osculatory and 'ursine performances
are going TO be prohibited, and when will
those boys be educated up to The le.el cf
republican manners? Will Massachusetts
do it7 You may travel from Virginia to
Texas and you can't find anything to
compare with it. Isn't it strange that
they will presume to lecture us on moral.
ily. McOauley says in his essays: "The
Puritans hated bear. baiting-not because
it gave pain to the bear, but because it
gave pleasure to the spectators" And
so reckon the north abuses us about the
negro, not because f.any love or pity for
him, but because we mako such good use
of him.
In late letter to the Charleston
Courier, Dr.. Phelps is more considerate
in language, and admits they made
great mistake in giving the negro the
ballot. He says it struck nature blow
in the face, and what the end will be God
only knows. "It would not surprise me-"
be says, "if it cost the nation more blood
than the civil war" He says We have
his sympathy.
Thanks I've don't care for sympathy
now. All we ask is to be let alone-just
let the negro alone; keep your mouths
shut and your hands off, and there will
be no blood. wonder how that fight is
getting on at Alton. that fight the negroes
are making to force their children into
the white school? do hope they will
whip it. The white folks mixed that
medicine for us-now let them drink it.
The hair Of the dog is good for the
bite
BILL ARP.
IN Iron Riyet in bis Neck.
ROME, N. Y, Feb. l,-Michael Finn,
who formerly kept the California House,