The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-08-03
The Gospel Of Hate and its Fruits.

The Gospel OF Hate and Its Fruits.
Some time ago We asked some phi,os-
opher to explain why people were 30
ready to cut. shoot and kill each other
these days. A citizen of the country
said last week that the habit of public
officers and candidates carrying pistols
around in satchels and valises encour-
aged other people to carry and use
them. Another one said that lawless-
ness begat lawlessness. When Attor-
ney and Adjutant Generals carry their
pistols around, and public speakers en-
courage all sorts of indecent bullying
and bowling at political meetings, it is
to be expected that a spirit of lawless-
ness will seize upon the reckless multi
tude. These opinions are both worth
something.
But back behind all that lies the rea'
aon. As love is the source and founda-
ton of all good, so hate is the root of all
evil. Two years ago, one portion of the
Stale was most efsctually taught that
the other portion was dishonest, tyranni'
cal, grssping and enemies of the best in
terests of State. Good, honest peo.
pl. learned the lesson we'll and they be-
lisved every word of it. The gospel of
bate was never more powerfully preached
than it was then. The seeds sown have
produced bountiful crop and the worst
aud most indicative passions have been
aroused, and men are ready to kill each
other on the slightest provocation. Tho
people, guided and influenced by the
spirit of love, "doth not behave itself
unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not eas.
lily provoked, thiuketh no evil, rejoiceth
not in eniquity. but rejoiceth in the
truth" But, when influenced and con.
trolled by hate, they mediate evil and
that continually. They contemn the
wise and good of the past and present.
They speak evil of their grand traditions
and BET up and worship shams and de-
ceivers. til impossible thus to arouse
the lower and baser passions of men and
then control them. i
SWhen the,sowing isadone the reaping
is sure to follow. The seed will produce
fruit, each after its kind. When men
were artfully, maliciously casting forth
tho seed of discomfort, hate, malice and
bitterness two years ago, they might, if
they had been wise, have expec ted o crop
Of strife, hatred, ,smurders and lynchings.
Such condition is the logical result of
the work that has besn going ou for the
last four years in our State. 1t connot
be stopped by mayors ordinances, police
clubs, Sherifs' posse or Governors man
date. People are not thus controlled. 1t
will take new gospel to work reform
alton, or rather the old gospel ofpsace
and good will to all men, and that love
whose fruits are righteousness, temper
auce, God likeness, must prevail before
violence and murders cease.
The people have been falsely taught
that for hundred years in this State
they have been the abject, badly abused
slaves of an oligarchy, aristocrats, rings
corporate and otherwise, and that resist
ance to such tyrants is their bounden du-
ty. Many of the people believed, this
gospel Of hate, and it would have given
them the greatest pleasure to see these
aristocrats and other so called enemies
suffer the direst punishment. It was an
nounced to them from every stump that
they, the people, were emancipated, had
achieved their liberty. and liberty under
such circumstances and conditions always
degenerates into license. Liberty, with
love as its hand.maiden, is the grandest
attainment of any people, but when hate
in its direst form accompanies the SEM
blance of liberty, it arouses the most
dev,ilish and brutal passions of the hu-
man heart. ~
Hence, for the last two years there
have been more crimes than usual. For
the slightest, or for no provocation, men
are ready to butcher each other. The
seeds so we'll and literally sown have
produced an abundant crop and the har.
vest is not near over. In single night
an enemy. Of his kind may SOW tares
enough to ruin several continuous crops
of wheat. So in the world. The seeds of
hate which have been 30 artfully scat
tered in the highways and along the
hedges, in high places and low places,
will continue to produce an abundant
crop of pickering, strife, malice, hardness
of heart, profanity, contempt for all
that is good and sacred, renvyiDgs, jeal.
ousies and murders long after the hand
that did the sowing is palsied by death.
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