The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-14
SARGE PLUNkETT.
4 Remedy for the Great Strain That IL
Upon the People.
atlanta Constellation.

Suulu them aS YOU PASS dlouLIi 'tHu
you will be surprised.
There is entirely too much war talk
to suit Brown. When Mr.. Lincoln
was elected to the presidency there
were fully as many who thought that
confidence would be restored and mat
tcrs would move along in smooth rutS
again without bloolshcd as there arc
now who believe that everything will
be regulated amicably. Even in the
campaign for secession 4 great ina jorl-
ty believed that it would be pcaccablc
and the stump speakers swore they
would drink all the blood that WAS
split. Brown was one Of the fellows
who believed that we would be allow
ed to go in peace and he howlcd for
secession In the event that there
should war arise from secession these
people believed that it would be 4
small matter and the smallest man in
Georgia thought he could easily whip
three Yankees. 1t was the belief that
Yankees could never learn to ride nor
shoot nor march. Things turned out
so different to what Brown expected
that it makes him quivcr to hear any
war talk and he has already begun to
anticipate conscript officers and war
times generally.
The south would be peculiarly un-
fortunate in the event of war, though
it were foreign war. OF course the
negroes would enlist and be received:
and of course it would give them a
share of the glory if glory there was.
Any way, ii the United States were to
have foreign war the negro would
stand very different ever after in the
matter of social equality. There are
many reasons why the south should
never agitate war, buy rather We
should all 60 to work to find other
rcliefs. The abolition party would
never have been born had the freeing
of the negro been the only incentive.
Conditions had grown to be such in
the New England states that relief
must be had for the overburdencd peo
plc of that section. The abolition OF
slavery was agitatcd at first for divers
ion. The operatives of the manufact-
uring states were made to believe that
slavery would be their ruin and polltl-
clans protitcd by the agitation TIL
nothing but a war could settle the
question. The New England gold
bugs grew fearful of the south as a
manufacturing section with slave labor
at least they pretended to be fearful
and used it in their tariff arguments
or any other arguments to divert the
people from real conditions. All the
time the strain grew worse and worse,
the people grew poorer and poorer,
till slavery must be sacrificed to give
relief. Brown doubts il there was
ever war started except by the "rab-
bic upon the genuine questions in
volvcd. 1t may be wisdom to divert.
1t may be craftsmanship to lose the
people in things too great for them to
lind their way, but it would be wiser
to find other ways out of it than war
In very oldcn times, they tell me, that
there was what was known as a year Of
Jubilee. had forgotten about 1t till
Brown and drove up to church last
Sunday while they sang
"The wear Of jrhlep has com
The wear of Jubilee has come,
Return ye handsome sinners home"
Brown thinks that this year of jnbl-
lee would be great ching in this day
and time. lie tells me about all |
know in the matter, ard as he is a
pretty close Bible reader | accept what
he saws as the fact. 1t seems that in
those days the tension upon brain and
muscles needed relief just as it needs
it in this day, therefore, every seventh
year was set aside by law as year OF
jubilee, wherein the people were re-
lieycd from taxes or other burdens OF
government and made to rejolce. In
the same connection. every fifty years
was set aside as greater jubilee year,
wherein all Indebtedness was wiped
out and everything started new
Brown says revive this old custom
it would be better than war, he thinks,
and can t help from contemplating
what rejoicing there would be just
at this time if 1898 was g year OF jubl-
lee with us. As it is there is no relief.
From the cradle to the grave 1t is
strain, struggle and anxiety. We're 1t
not for the seventh day of rest. which
we had so far, there would not be a
sane human being. Every business
man, every professional man, every
workingman-all Of crcation-rccog-
uizc the wisdom outside Of Christian
reverence. in us having our day OF
rrst-onc in every sevcnth-is the way
Brown enthuses upon the subject. and
how happily, he says, wc could all JON
in jubilee year together singing
"rhp year IT jubilee has com y
But this talk Of Brown s is idle: |
suppose But none can deny but
what something must be done to re-
licyc the people. Will IL be the thing
50 commonly talked of just now-war?
The south knows the blight Of war. and
our peculiar condition as regards the
negro should make it Il patriotic duty
| of southern whites to cease this talk.
This talk we hear does not arise from
any patriotic motivc-it is simply self
iSh greed in some, in others it IS ar
r.ving in that condition where any
chance will lie received as relief.
1t is il public state of mind-g growing
every lay--that would tear down Il
republic or overthrow Il monarchy, as
the ease might be. Surely the people
40 mourn and some sort Of change
must take place. Brown nor do not
place the responsibility Of these con-
ditionS at the door Of any party or amy
class. 1T is general looScncsS.
Brown says, "thcnatura consequence
If too much progress. lie says
that the sranlcSt invention ever pat
cntcJ ut Washington ceases to bc
grand the very momen; 1t takes one
crust Of bread from the poorest child.
| The rrandcSt intellect that ever trcads
our shores ceases to be grand the mo-
mcnt it drops one speck of poison into
our moral code or religious faiths.
q! course. the south must keep mp
with the procession in the matter Of
progress. expect that the New Eng
land manufacturers would be more
.;,,,.,.r,. nov than they were i'm the