The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-02
BILL ARP HAS SWORN OFF.


I've sworr of again. These Boston peo-
pie make me so tired. It seems impossible
to make lasting impression upon them.
From time to time we have sent our best
men there. We sent General Gordon and
Colquitt and Henry Grady, and they we're
we'll received. and we thought our Georgia
missionaries had converted them, but in a
little while they had a relapse. Governor
Northen thinks he has converted all but
tho editors, but my observation is that
editors control the animus OF the people,
and IL they are against us their readers
will be. | notice that some of their edit
ors are easy on the governor, but none OF
them have apologized, They have got 10
repent and apologize before we viii be
satisfied with their conversion. This thing
OF going up TO the altar and shaking hands
is played out. They liked 10 have shook
Henry Grady's arm eff, but in a few
mCLths they took it all back and went to
abusing us again about the negro. 1t is
very discouraging TO a missionary to have
to keep on converting the same heather.
/ notice that one of their papers let's us
down sorter easy on sam Hose, but wants
to know what about the lynching of Lige
Strickland That's all right. Give us
something hard. Lige was a preacher in
! Merlwether county, and his father in law.
Aaron Watson, says he was the moanest
niger In the county, that he beat his wife
/ up scandalously and cut and gashed her
4 with a butcher knife and the members OF
/ his own church took him out one night
and gave him hundred lashes and told
/ him TO leave the county. Then he settled
down in Coweta and turned politician and
made himself generally a disturber of
public peace and good order. and finally
capped the climax by denouncing the white
people and defending Sam Hose. The
general opinion is that Lige got off pretty
well for they didn't burn him.
The Boston Transcript says we arc "a
generation behind the times, in fact sew
eral New England generations behind it,"
J How is that? Why it hasn't been 200 years
since New England was burning innocent
and harmless women for being witches. II
hasn't been fifty years since Boston mer-
chants were shipping rum to Africa 10
buy negroes to sell again to slave coun-
tries. Long after Massachusetts set hel
slaves free her merchants carried on the
slave trade. Joseph Story, the great jurist
charged the grand jury in Boston and
q said: The slave trade is still carried or
2 among us with implacabe ferocity. Avarice
has grown more subtle in it's evasions o.
the law. Its appetite Is quickened rather
than suspended. Our citizens are steepe(
UP to their very mouths in this lniquity.'
W. W. Story, his gifted son. says Tit
Boston newspapers denounced my rather
l and said that a judge who would dellVe
. such charge ought to be hurled from I'M
bench" and he says further, that the for
tunes of many men OF prominence were IN
vested in this infamous business. Wnei
slavery disappeared in New England IN
. African slave trade took on new life, an
- was winked at. A man might have pc
!. sltion in society aud be considered a gen
. ueman and a Christian, while his ship
~ were frelghted with human cargo an
- his commerce was in the blood and pal
u of his fellow creatures. Many OF the larg
est fortunes in Boston were the oloo
, money of the slave trade ana came lroI
n the sale of the wretched cargoes OF ne
L. groes that survived the horrors OF thel
10 TRANSFORMATION across the seas.
9 Yes we are behind that sort OF pushes
le several generations.
~
n But I've sworn off. The history of Mas
y, sachusetts tatigues my indignation. Hei
In are our negroes who would be happy an
ig contented If the Northern press would gu
no stirring up discomfort and telling the
lies. If old Mother Julia Ward Howe, WI
90 is now in her eighty first year, and ougl
f TO have an old womans sense, was to DIRE
he down here in Cartersville. she would St
~ some young bucks wrestling on the dep
a. platform while waiting for freight ar
VI she would hear the merry laugh OF SEQ
W. OF negro draymen who stood around. 81
would hear the sound of the colored scho
bell She would pass and repass neg
re women with a basket OF clothes on the
IN heads and o smile OF their faces. 81
t. ould see negro girls. clad in clean ga
Us mcnts nursing white children and waite
he iug them with tender care. II there W
'ss a funeral on hand she would see q hap
list gathering of women and girls, daushte
Of Zion, following the hearse and if the
was railroad excursion on hand the d
pot would be crowded with both sexes a
an sorts and sizes Then we would escC
~, her carefully 10 the baseball ground and
her see the young bucks play and he
them shout and give the negro yell
up victory.
dy BUT che is too old to be cured.
memberod when she published an aholti
IAN paper In 1S47. But, pshaw, 1t would
md do any good, so I viii swear off somebo
said that II woman was a fool az
-, she would be a fool until she died. A
~ somebody else said convince WON
- against her will and she Will be of
~ same opinion still. And the parable sa
If they will not believe Moses and
gar prophets. neither would they believe {
the one should rise from the dead" And
Ter, will swear OFF for good and let those h
gar ton pharisees die in their own conceit
tho The Massachusetts State board of CHI
tiles says In their annual report: -
,mv now we find that there is hardly coun
i'm. IN the civilized world where atrocious
,iDa fragrant crime is so common as in
ma sachuset,s." We'll. that settles t. GeoT
Ma has but two white women in her prise
while Massachusetts has 1874. In i
Georgia had 9t4 white convicts, wi
Tea Massachusetts had 44l9 and Mr.. Stet
per Says that in one year there were 90
70 arrests In the state, and that divoI
rm- ircrnaso there twice as fast as populat
: TO and not more than eight families In
have preserved tho purity and honor
by the marriage relation"
,lor How Is that for living in glass hou;
in Yes, I reckon that we are oenlnu u
lyal several generations. hope so. but
~. Bill Ar
N. Thought He Did.