The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-03

When AhaSuerus got so dreadlu Hiau
with Hannah he didn't do anything rash
and all of a sudden, but walked out IN
the garden to cool off-to let his choler
down. That's the way / am doing now
every day. and am thankful that I've
cot a garden to walk in.. When my
GOOD old father used to feel the rheuma-
tic pains coming he didn't sit down and
yrunt and look miserable, but seized
his hat and his cane in hurry and
started out to peruse the farm. In
an hour or so he would return all in
sweat of preparation and the rheuma-
tism was postponed for time. Walk
about some and commune with nature
when you feel bad. Almost every day
I take ON a new mad, fresh indigna-
ton at Mckinley, and if / didn't walk
in the garden and persue the roses and
posies or feed the pet rabbits and the
pea-fowls or pick lot of tomatoes for
dinner my choler wouldn't come down,
and ] would lose my appetite and my
serenity. Dogon him, confound him, dad
blast him! The good book says Cursed
be the deceiver," and if he hasn't de-
ceiyed us no man ever did. / never vot-
ed for him and I am thankful for it,
but / did have respect for him and be-
lieyed his sincerity and his national pa
triotism, but he has falsified our faith
and broken our hopes, and my personal
contempt for him is amazing. / didn't
know that my kind, gentle disposition
could generate so much contempt for any
man. We didn't know that he was a
South hater per Sc and had smOthered
it in his bosom all these years only to
be uncovered when he got us in his
power. Some say he is fool, some
say knave and some that he has been
hypnotized by Hanna; but my
conviction is that it is a
deliberate party policy to open the
breach between the North and the South,
to set the healing wound to bleeding
again.. They have despaired of captur-
ing any Southern State and now seek
TO raise hell between us and the negroes.
oh, my country! was there every such
heartless, reckless tyranny of official
power, such insulting humiliation? Let
me stop a few minutes and walk in the
garden. / see the beautiful flowers from
the window, the cannas, with their tur-
baned tops, waving in the evening
breeze; the zenias and dahlias and gera-
NUNS in all their variegated colors.
see the flocks of little birds picking the
sunflower seed. / am looking upon the
innocence Of nature, and / grieve that
man is the only creature that disap-
points and deceives us. Let me go out
among the flowers and ruminate and
calm my fretted thoughts and comfort
my 0lfactOries with sprig Of lemon
verbena and hellotrope. Well,
now think fell better. Let McKin-
ley proceed with his procession. The
Governor and the press will attend to
him. liked those headlines of the
Governor, "McKinley's Skirts Stained
With Loftin's Blood" That is fact,
and his party's skirts have been stained
with a good deal Of negro blood since tn
war-not a lynching has taken place that
was not the result of their teachings.
just look at the animus that seeks to
provoke a war of races in the South.
The New York Press, in splitting it's
venom at the South, says national gov
eminent should at once arm every col
ored office holder and prepare him for
the fight and back him up in it. Which
means, Of course, arms for his friends
and soldiers stationed near at hand and
an internecine strife and at last another
war between the North and South.
What is all this for? What necessity !?
Who is Loftin or Lyons or Dent that
they should put the South to such peril
The postoffices of all others belong to the
people of the towns and cities. They
are nearly as close akin to the color
line as the schools and churches. Nc
Kinley knows this and knows the tenn
per Of our people on this subject, and
he knows that it will not be peaceably
permitted. 1t will widen the breach not
only between the North an the South,
but between the whites and the blacks
But all this has been said over and
over again by the press and Senators
and Representatives all over the South,
and it has been felt by millions who
think much and say little. 1 wonder
il Hanna, Mckinley and Company,
think they can by force reform and
regulate the sentiment of great and
mighty people-a people who want peace,
but are not afraid of war when they are
trampled on or insulted. But l must
talk out or change the subject / be-
lieye l will go and see some of the little
grandchildren and play horse for them.
| like that. / had rather nurse and pet
the little chaps than to hate Mckinley.
1t pays better. But the greatest trouble
have now is in trying to keep my re-
spect for some Of my friends who still
stand up for him. / don't see how any
Southern man, except an office seeker,
can stay in his party. The average Of
flee seeker is a politician, and Shakes
peare says "a politician would circum-
vent God"
But here l have got back to the same
contemplate subject. Plague the Mig
GERS. wish that Bishop Turner would
lily up his transportation. This ever
lag fuss has been going one thirty
foul ears since freedom came and half
a cenyIEy before, and the end is not in
sight, al now half the Legislature is
in session rs a committee to determine
what to do With the three or four thous-
and colored COZ yiets and more to come.
II will cast the State million Of dol
lars before the new plan is carried out,
and the national government ought to
nav it or ship them away. The North
fret brought them over here from At