The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-14
SARGE PLUNKETT.
A Remedy for the Great Strain That Is
Upon the People.
atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
It is surprising to find how many
people there are who would welcome
a war as a relief for the hard times
sound them as you pass around and
you will be surprised.
There is entirely too much war talk
to suit Brown. When MIR. Lincoln
was elected to the presidency there
were fully as many who thought that
confidence would be restored and mat
ters would move along in smooth ruts
again without bloodshed as there are
now who believe that everything will
be regulated amicably. Even in the
campaign for secession a great majori-
ty believed that it would be peaceable
and the stump speakers swore they
would drink all the blood that vas
split. Brown was one Of the fellows
who believed that we would be allow
ed to go in peace and he howled for
secession. In the event that there
should war arise from secession these
people believed that it would be a
small matter and the smallest man in
Georgia thought he could easily whip
three yankees. It 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 quiver 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 awar, 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, if 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, but rather we
should all go to work to find other
reliefs. 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 overburdened peo
ple of that section. The abolition of
slavery was agitated at first for divers
ion. The operatives Of the manufact-
uring states were made to believe that
slavery would be their ruin and politi.
clans profted by the agitation till
nothing but 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 if there was
ever a war started except by the "rab-
Bile" upon the genuine questions in
volved. 1t may be wisdom to divert.
It may be craftsmanship to lose the
people in things too great for them to
ind their way, but it would be wiser
to find other ways out Of it than war.
In very olden times, they tell me, that
there was what was known as year OF
Jubilee. I had forgotten about it till
Brown and 1 drove up to churcA last
Sunday while they sang
GThe year Of jubilee has COM,
The year ofjnhilee nas come,
Return ye randsome sinners home"
Brown thinks that this year of jubi-
lee would be great thing in this day
and time. He tells me about all !
know in the matter, and as he is
pretty close Bible reader [ accept what
he says as the fact. It 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 a year OF
Jubilee, wherein the people were re,
lieyed from taxes or other burdens Of
government and made to rejoice. In
the same connection, every fifty years
| was set aside as a 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 1895 was a year Of iubi.
lee with us. AS it is there is no relief
From the cradle to the grave it is
strain, struggle and anxiety. Were il
not for the seventh day Of rest, which
we had so far, there would not be
sane human being. Every business
man, every professional man, every
workingman-all of creation-recog
nize the wisdom, outside Of Christian
reverence, in us having our day Of
rest-one in every seventh-is the way
Brown enthuses upon the subject, ano
how happily, he says, we could all Jolr
in a jubilee year together singing
"The year of jubilee has comt"
But this talk Of Browns is idle,
suppose. But none can deny but
what something must be done to re-
lieve the people. Will it be the thing
so commonly talked Of just now-war!
The south knows the blight Of war, anc
our peculiar condition as regards the
negro should make it a patriotic duty
of southern whites to cease this talk
This talk we hear does not arise from
any patriotic motive-itis simply self
ish greed in some, in others it is ar
r:ving in that condition where any
change will be received as relief
It is public state of mind-growint
every day-that would tear down
republic or overthrow monarchy, al
the case might be. Surely the people
do mourn and some sort OF change
must take place. Brown nor l do mo-
place the responsibility Of these con
ditions az the door of any party or any
class. "It is a general looseness,
Brown says, "the natural consequence
of too much progress. :" lie says
that the grandest invention ever pat
ented at Washington ceases to be
grand the very moment it takes one
crust of bread from the poorest child
The grandest intellect that ever treads
our shores ceases to be grand the mo
ment it drops one speck of poison into
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