The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-07-24
"Hang the nigger," " said I.
R1odpet smiled.

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struction period, and Brown winked
at Blodget and as good as admitted
that he had been a red-hot kuklux in
his time.
eyes, said Blodget, slowly, as he
pinched his mustache, ''you look like
two good democrats. "
"You bet," said Brown, and "You
bet" said I.
f" But said Blodget, 81 am a
republican and the one-armed man
is General Lewis, of the Federal
army"
We didn't wait for no elevator to
take US out of their headquarters,
but since then we have found that the
two gentlemen hold nothing against
us and that they mix and mingle with
co-workers in the exposition, men who
are veterans of the Confederacy and
democrats of democracy, and that none
Of these things come into their busl-
ness transactions.
Since the first day we have been
chasing up recommendations" and
toning down our aspirations. You
can do nothing without ''recommen:
dations," and We are still in search Of
"recommenders." If any man, wo.
man or child of influence should read
this and feel willing to recommend US,
they will please drop us line where
to find them and stay till we get there
Our shoes are gone, worn SO running
over the rocks Of Atlanta after one
fellow and another, to find when we
arrived at their place that they had
just left for some other place and
upon flying there, found that they had
"just gone" Our shoes are tied ur
with little pieces of wire from this
racing. Browns big toe, on his right
foot, is peeping out at the passers-by
aud the small boys and the girls giggle
as they squint at it.
Brown blames a myth called
President Collier with his shoeless
condition. His shoes we're new when
We came to town and he took the job
Of finding President Collier while
hustled for recommendations. Brown
give up finding the president, and
swore there was no such man-he's 9
myth. T abused Brown for want Of
energy and went with him. Since
Joined Brown in the hunt for Presi.
dent Collier we have never been a
minute and half behind him, but we
have walked 750 miles over the rocks
and yet-and yet.
Our first idea was to accept" a
position with the bureau Of printing.
as we had figured little on that line:
and as Mr.. w. G.. Cooper and Mr.. j.
K. Oil are prominent in that depart.
ment, and had heard of our efficiency.
| We hunted up Mr.. Cooper and he re.
turned US to Mr.. Oil with sealed
note. I cannot say what was in the
note, but after Mr.. Oil had broke the
seal and read, his eyes wandered over
the person Of us two, especially at
Brown's big toe. After so long time
he cleared up his throat and Informed
us that he would try US, but advised
us that we "spruce" up little and
get the hayseed out Of our hair. II
was easy enough for us to do the
"sprucing' with good position star.
ing us in the face, and us with dol
lar and half yet in our pockets. We
rushed and got a shave, then to the
store and Brown got new shirt, then
to the wagon yard and dressed and
back with a rush for fear Mr.. Obi
would be "just gone when we ar
rived.
We had no trouble. Mr.. Oil was
at his desk, where we left him, and
was jabbing his pencil up through the
pretty roach on his head in thoughtful
mood when we entered. AS we stood
before him his pencil hand twitched
and twirled the pencil as he scanned
US. 1t did not take Mr.. Ohl's eagle
eye long to discover that there was
something wrong in Browns toilet.
The fool had put on his shirt wrong
side front.
Brown had never had a shirt that
opened behind him before and he was
not so much to blame in putting the
open side in front. Everybody laugh
ed and the more they laughed the
more right they had to laugh, for
| Brown grew more and more picture
! of complete detection. He changed
from one foot to the other, wiped the
pcrspiration from his brow, first with
his right hand and then with his left
he was lost, crushed with the dry
grins, for he knew that something
about his person was causing the mer-
riment. We left, and were glad when
we got away and We resolved, as /
helped Brown to skin off the new shirt
and turn it around, that We would
not accept" position on the
bureau Of printing just yet awhile
not yet.
Strangers were already arriving in
anticipation of the exposition. Yes
terday Brown and | met man all the
way from the great city of London,
and he asked us many questions about
the old days of slavery in the South.
He wanted to know about the "brands y
we used to punish the negroes with,
and when we told him there had never
been any burning of negroes in Geor:
gia as means of punishment he said
that he had learned that such was
practiced from reading Dickens.
Brown did not know any more who
Dickens was than I did, but he at
once raised himself to his full height
and pronounced Mr.. Dickens liar.
II was an overseer," said Brown,
"and what / don't know about niggers
is not worth knowing. There were
some bad niggers and there were some
mean masters, but there was never
any branding in Georgia, and never
any wearing Of collars that [ ever
knew"
We satisfied the English gentleman
that Mr.. Dickens had written wrongly,
and thousands of others will be salts
fed before the exposition is ended.
Brown and l are just as strong aboli-
tionists now as any of them, but we
are glad to feel that all the world will
yet understand that such books as
"Uncle Tom Cabin, " Dickens Am
erican Notes" and others, were over
drawn and misrepresented Georgia and