The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-09-14

| form IN heavens hight cne arcn OF
peace"
Isn't that fine? Could it have
been better said! Are We not all
f,r that-an alliance with grand old
England, our mother from whom We
have been long estrapged-a white
race who now asks for al alliance
with the white race of this country,
for the Christian civilization OF the
world
Our recent victories on sea and
land have done this. Old solid,
sturdy England has long had doubts
of our ability and our craftsmanship.
She has been prejudiced against our
republican form of government, but
is now convinced and converted, and
is forced TO admit that the people
Can be trusted to govern themselves.
BIT the stress and emphasis that
Mr.. Macintosh pays to a white
mans government must be a wither-
ing rebuke to Mr.. Mckinley, who
still seeks to Lumiliate our people by
placing the negro over US. The New
York Press is now the most infur-
lated organ of the republican party,
q Id in recent issue says: 1--WE
want no possession or control of the
Philippine islands or of any other
islands that have hybrid, mcngrel,
, lawless population. It would cost
US millions of money and century
of time to civilize them and educate
them to the blessings OF good govern
ment. Right here within our own
domain we find it impossible to con-
troll and regulate the conduct OF
some of our own people, for in South
Carolina and Georgia we cannot pun
ish the people for killing one negro
postmaster and manning another"
Isn't that funny? That party still
seeks to humiliate us with the negro
and to keep UP the strife. We were
hoping that this war would wipe out
all this bitterness, and if it did it
was war worth fighting; but it
looks now like politics is shaping it.
self to continue the sectional strife.
Mr.. Hemphill has been invited up
north to make speech on fraternal
union, and maybe he can stop this
agitation and help to give US frater
nal peace, but I am afraid not. Ifit
were left to the soldiers, we would
have a white mans government such
as Mr.. Macintosh desired, but
already the contention has begun
whose war is it-who killed cock
robir-what party is to have the
political benefit Of the glory?
But We shall see what we will see.
The smoke is not clea, ed away yet.
It may be that peace is still afar off,
and if the preachers who are writing
about the prophecies are not MS
taken the war has jast began. The
fifth vial of st. John is not near
poured out. The preachers amuse
me. When I was a young man
Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed
as the beast, and his number was
six hundred and sixty and six. They
found the number by giving nu-
erial value to each letter of his name,
and then added them all together
and actually did make their sum to
be 666. But now the Roman Cstho-
lie church is said to be the beast,
and this war will not end until the
pope and his church are all annihi-
lated and then comes the next vial
which is to be poured out on Turkey
ard that kingdom is to be annihi-
lated. I heard a preacher say about
the time our late civil war begun
that if it should turn out that the
Lord was not on our side be would
forswear his religion. But he lived
| to see his hopes blasted and did not
forswear his religion either. But it
humbled him and took away his con-
ceit. But whether the war must 60
on or not I will pray for peace, for l
know that peace is blessed thing.
Peace at home and peace abroad.
! We want no war for glory when 1t is
all mixed up with tears. Let US
stop it just as soon as possible, prop
hecy or no prophecy. Bismark is
dead and not long before he died he
said: Il take no comfort in any
thing that I have done. I have pro-
voked and fought three wars, in
which there were killed $4,000 men
and which brought rivers of tears.
+ | now believe these wars could have
been honorably avoided and [ have
no pleasure in the memory of them.
But have made my peace with God
and have his forgiveness