The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-12

Is now convinced and converted, ,, 9y
is forced to admit that tho 1%g1yes %,p.'
!, can be trusted to govern t1HLtn1 t11HLot M
But the stress and emp55HHita MANS
Macintosh pays to w;theriog "a.
70 government must st4kEnley, who still
Duke Duke, TO 20 MR., n'v xto our people by
seeks 10 nIgro over us. The New
n placing w. now tho most infnriatod
Of YORK ptho Republican party, and
of ofgFccnt issue says: ave want no
30, .6sessioT or control of tho Philip
ypine Islands or Of any othor islands
that have II hybrid, mongrol, lawless
population. 1t would cost us mil
lions OF money and IL century of time
to oivilize them and educate them to
tho blessings OF good government.
Right here within our own domain
we find 1t impossible to control and
regulate the condnct Of some Of our
own people, for in South Carolina
and Georgia wo cannot punish tho
people for killing one negro post
mastor and manning another" Isent
that fnnnyH That party still seeks
to hnmiliato us with the negro and
to keep up tho strife. Wo wore hop
ing that this war would wlpo out all
this bitterness, and If it did it WAS a
war worth fighting; but it looks now
liko politics ia shaping itself to con-
tinue tho sectional strife. Mr. Hemp.
hill has been invited up North to
make speech on fraternal union,
and maybe he can stop this agita-
ton and holp to give us fratornal
poace, but / am afraid not. If it
were loft to the soldiers, wo would
have white mans government such
as Mr.. Macintosh desired, but al.
ready tho contention has begun-
whose war is it-who killed cock
robin--what party is to have the
political benefit Of tho gloryp
| But wo shall 500 what wo will 500.
The smoke is not cleared away yot.
1t may be that peace is still afar off,
and if tho proachcrs who gro writ
ing about the prophecies aro not
mistaken, the war has just begun.
Tho fifth vial Of st. John is not near
poured out. The proachNrs amuse
me. When | was yonng man
Napoleon Bonaparto was proclaimed
as tho boast, and his number was six |
hundred and sixty-six. They found |
tho number by giving Il numerical
value to each lotter of his name, and |
thon added them all together and |
actually did make their sum to be
GG0. But now tho Roman Catholic
church is said to be the boast, and
this war will not end until the pope
and his church arc all annihilated
and then comes the next vial which
is to be poured out on Turkey and
that kingdom is to be annihilated. I
heard a preacher say about tho time
our late civil war begun that if 1t
should turn ont That tho Lord was
not on our sido he would forswear
his religion. But he lived to SEQ his
hopes blasted and did not forswear
his religion other. But it humbed
him and took away his conceit. But
whether the war must so on or not
l will pray for peace, for I know that
peace is blessed thing. Peace at
homo and peace abroad. We want
no war for glory when it is all mixed
up with tears. Lot us stop it just as
soon as possible, prophecy or no
prophecy. Bismarck is dead and not
long before he died he said: 81 take
no comfort in anything that l have
done have provoked and fought
three wars, in which there we're
killed $4,000 mon and which brought
rivers of tears. I now believe these
wars could have beon honorably
avoided and | havo no pleasure in
the memory OF them. But | have
mado my peace with God and have
his forgiveness"
What an admission for an old
man, a great man, to make. How
| different from that of Gladstone.
BILL ARP.