The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-07
SARGE PLUNKETT.
The Old Mao Is Hilarious Over tho out
look for the Year-Everything Is
Brighter and Better.

from the Atlanta Corstitution.l
The wind is chilly and the day is wet
and gloomy, but feel like clapping
my hands and singing:
"Praise God from whom all blessings
fowr'
The sight of better times is brighten
ing, Everywhere you look and every
thing you hear points to a returning of
old time methods and of the old-time
brotherly feeling. I can count twenty
families who have moved away from
the towns to the country within the
last two months. T know Of three
young women who have returned to
housekeeping and gave their situations
in the stores to their loafng brothers.
These girls should have a monument
built to them for their good sense in
this matter, and other girls should, and
I feel sure will, follow their example.
It has taken but little experiment to
show that if the girls turn to and take
mems places in business pursuits the
household affairs will go to the eternal
bow-wows. Ninety-five per cent OF the
young brothers who have been crowded
out of positions by their sisters have
turned to be loafers and tcamps-you
may make good clerks and bookkeepers
out of girls, but you can't make cooks
and housekeepers out of boys. This IS
going to get right. The pendulum is
starting back and mighty soon you
will hear of more marrying, less divor--
ces and fewer suicides. The disposition
to have less of the sensational in reiig.
ious matters and of mixing religion
with ''isms" can be discovered in every
person you will talk to on the line.
There was one time in the. past few
years when I began to think that we
| would have to depend upon the lawyers
of the country to hold up the purity of
our institutions. but the good preachers
are getting right and I feel safe. With
the Sermon on the Mount" for their
| guide they can mold the masses to q
healthy condition and save the land
from anarchy and infdelity. There is
no more harping Of "the poor man
against the rich nsn," but brotherly
feeling and a helping hand is what you
see by watching them.
Only one complaint is prominent
now, as you pass among the working
peopie-the negro. The negro laborer
is hard to compete with, is what is
claimed. I feel as if this will be settled
in Gods own way. I used to believe
| in slavery and I thought the country
would be ruined to free them, but am
rs big an abolitienist now as ever old
Horace Greeley wss. I think that
pntting them into slavery was Gods
work
I It was only Gods great plan
To Christianize the African.
| God anchored them among the
Southern people, who advanced them
in civilization and turned them from
cannibalism. I don't think that the
climate had thing to dowith settling
slavery in the South. feel like saying
to- the Yankees that
The Lord soon saw it would not do
To anchor slavery among you;
The contact made the negro worse
And it was moved to save the curse.
| Gods hand is plain, it seems to me,
in the negro's history. The way they
stayed at home and worked during the
war was what no other race of people
would have done. The negro was
docile to the last, and even when Sher-
mans guns were numbering in his ears
he WAS faithful to his old master. They
were the very best of hands to hide the
provisions from the Yankees and they
hid horses and cattle in the swamps
: away from them and seldom betrayed.
This is what made it possible for them
to live among US after the war-the
| people remembered and appreciated
, these kindly traits, and it still stands
in their favor. But there is much COM
plant against the young generation Of
, them as competitors in the mechanics,
and I feel that the Lord will take them
,, away in his own good time. 1t may
be that the Hawaii muddle will result
in the negro going there. l am in for
their going, because he will grow more
:, and more to be bone of contention as
the Older generations who used to feel
: 50 kindly to each other pass away, The
Younger sets have no ties to bind them,
no memories to temper the passions
: and, all in all, think it about time fol
r the Lord to movet them from among US.
I am always reconciled to- the good
Lords movements, but if He will
! hurry up little in this matter I will
D throw up Dy hat and so will Brown.
: But am cheerful anyhow. Every.
: thing is brighter this year than it was
! with the old year. The faces of the
+ exposition officers in last Sunday.
e Constitution threw a halo of sunshine
into many household. When the peo
e pie looS upon such faces united in one
grand effort all thought Of failure
!, passes away. The interviews from the
= ladies were cheering aud it gave me
= chance to tell my old 'oman that
0 did not see anything from Mrs. Plum
= kett. It gave her the grins, but an
not near even with her, for very OTTER
she finds opportunity to remark tha
she don't see Plunkett mentioned in 81
u and 80.
o I don't know of any class but ont
y who should not feel hopeful and cheer
g full over the prospects. The exception
It is the class who are making for Florid: