The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-06-23
BILL ARP'S TALK.
Tho South Is Sitting at the Gate, Biding
It's Time.
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I don't care much who they nominate.
"1t's all optiopary with me" as Cobe says
when he can't prevent thing from hap
pening and don't care much nohow. Let
'em rip. Blessed are they that expect
little, for they shall not be disappointed.
If a man is out of Jail he ought to be
thankful, and I am. I thought that may.
be Blaine was bigger, broader man than
his party, and would let the South alone,
but I see that his buglemen ara waving
the bloody shirt at US and have got the
niger in the woodpile, just like Harri-
son, and so I don't care who they nomi-
nate. It's all optionary with me. I wish
they would let the darkey rest awhile and
take up the Indians or the Chinese. I
wonder what makes them fellers up there
hate us so bad and 30 long, They remind
me Of Haman, who had all the riches and
all the power, but was not happy because
Mordecai-poor, proud, unbending Nor
decai-was sitting at the gate. They had
better mind-better not build that GAL
lows. Old Grover hung q man once, they
say, and the next one won't be Morcedai.
We are sitting at the gate. biding our
time. The dear old South is long suffer.
ing and patient, but she still trusts in
God. The dear old South still loves to
preserve the faith of the father and the
morals of the nation. That ia her desti-
ny. believe it as strongly as I believe
that live. The time will come when the
mighty North will look to us for help, for
protection from anarchy and revolution.
A kind providence has kept away from
Us the lawless hordes of Europe, and the
negro has in this way proved blessing.
We know him, and had rather have him
than to have the scurf of all nations
thrust upon him. New England is sick
sick unto death-sick morally, fell
giously and agriculturally. Every year
doubles the number of barrels of rum
that she ships to Africa. Rum for the
slave trade. Every year sees more abau.
doned farms, more of the native born
families going westward and more for
eigners coming in. We see it stated
that the Roman Church is now the
strongest in the New England States, and
President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, in
Maine, hos recently published an article
with the ominous title OF Impending
Paganism in New England" He declares
that in the rural districts the Churches
have 80 dwindled as to have on their rolls
only the names of few women with
hardly enough men to do the work of
Church organization.
Alas for cultured, classic, critical, ex-
acting Iew England. The seed that her
fanatics sowed is bearing fruit. President
Hyde says that out of 6,eS7 families in
one County 1850 attend no Church, and
that this is fair example, and that this
decline has been caused by the preaching
of barren theology and too great insist.
ence on theological doctrines. What
pity. Not one third of her families ever
represented in Christian Churches. I will
wager that four-ffths of the families of
Barlow County are represented at Church
service at least once month. have
made careful estimate, and leaving out
those who are too old or too young, or are
invalids, or have the care of the infants,
three-four.hs of our population in Car
tersville attend Church or Sabbath school
every Sabbath. DR.. Laferty delivered
lecture here the other night, which we all
enjoyed, and he asserted thatthe progress
of Christianity WAS to be measured by the
money contributions t. the Church and
her charities. I think that he is mistaken.
I believe there is more pure, unde6led
religion among the poor than among the
rich members. A Boston merchant who
makes $4,000 a year in the rum trade
can we'll afford to give 81 900 to Church,
and he does it to quiet his conscience.
The Lord gets large money from the rich
while they live and larger legacies when
they die, but they get no credit on st.
Peters books. The North pays their
preachers better than We pay ours, be-
cause they are more able, and they send
them on grand excursions to Omaha and
Oregon, but still they are not happy as
long as Mordecai is sitting at the gate.
Just think what world of money pours
into the pockets of her people from gov
eminent contracts for the army and navy,
and from supplies Of every kind. and
public buildings and rivers and harbors
and pensions and salaries, and thousand
things too numerous to mention. Itgoes
out of the public treasury in great slices,
and if little appropriation is made for
US they send their own men down here to
spend it, and their own material to build
with. And right now they are demand.
ing protection for infant industries that
are fifty years old, and making US pay
protection tax on everything from hair.
pin to handsaw, from jews harp to
Church organ. GLOW long, oh, Cataline,
wilt thou abuse our patience ?" No won
der our people are poor and kept poor.
The wonder is how we have progressed at
all in national wealth. No wonder the
toilers are restless and have banded to-
gether and formed alliances and third
party in the vain hope that they can do
something. They might as we'll try to
move mountain with a crowbar. The
third party is actually trying to join them
up yonder 30 as to get some of the crumbs
that fall from their masters table-some
of the gold that is in the pension plank.
There's nothing in It but few offices for