The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-07-13
ARP and THE BOOKS.
Gill Says There is No Entertainment
as Cheap as Reading.
GOOD BOOKS A BLESSING
Bot Arp Does Not Think "uneie Toms
Caba' Blessing. Other Matters Dis
ClSSed.

Some notable rerson--1 believe it /
vas Lady Montague There ~
DO entertain inert so cheap M reading /
and pleasure Gs lasting" Especially /
IL this .-uc nowadays when there is so !
much TO read that il cheap, instructive
aud intcro,t.bg. In fact, reading Is |
now the beet part OF n liberal educa. !
ton. a we'll read person is wiser, hap 1,
pier and better fitted for the duties
aud trials Of life than the scholar Who
has graduated mt the top IN the arts
and sciences. OF course, ] mean good
reading such Gs history, ancient and
modern; biography, where VIC get both
example and precept; good story books
aud standard novels that teach good
morals; good magazine literature and
good newspapers, whose editors are
couscieDt!ous aud feel their response
biltify. 'Asa man sows, 80 shall he
reap and We might M truly sCy what
child reads 80 will his or her moral
aud emotional character be. The
schools educate the intellect only, but
reading affects the heart, the emotions
aud pm sions and establishes the chsrac-
ter of the young for good or for evil.
Man has been defined IT, be q bnndlo
oi prcjudices, and these prejudices
most generally come from the books,
mngazluts or newspapers that We read.
Little stories like "Androcles ana the
Lion" or damon and "Py thias" have
nodded tho character of Thousand OF
children, aud ja.t 20 has "Robnson
Crusop," tho Young Marooners" and
the "Swi~s Family Robinson" estab-
lished the characters OF children Of a
larger growth. Whether n man de-
spisea or lmires Napoleon depends On
Whether he has read Scott or Abbott.
Whether man was Wing or q Demo
crat in the old times depended on the
newspaper he took. As great man as
DR.. Miller. who was nn old line Wing,
had IA contempt for Thomas Jefferson
because no was per-se the founder OF
tho Democratic party. Jefferson must
have been very great man." said ].
''lor ho wrote the Declaration of indie
pchdonce." "And what is that" said
the docto-, "hut q series of ungran-
matlcul plsttudes that any schoolboy
might have written. The first sentence
IL ridiculous, for it says decent re-
spect for tho opinions OF mankind. A
decent respect Who ever heard of on
indecent respect? Why didn't be say
re poet for and leave out the decent, I"
aud hc scariied the whole document
from n wing standpoint.
Well, | was Eliminating about this
whilo reading Percy Gregg's high.
toned but mcrcilcsa criticism of Harriet
Beocher Stowe, "Uncle Toms Cabin. "
Gregg had sojourned in the South dur
ing slavery times and knew the book
was u lilo when il was written, and that
it was written to inflame the Northern
mind and procipitate collision. That
Beecher family was smart, unprincipled
and malignant. 1t was Henry Ward
Beecher who melted old John Brown
to his reckless deeds and daring and
who declared from his pulpit thai
Shnrps rifles were better missionaries
than Bibles. and that to shoot at .
slave holder and miss him was a sir
against heaven. 1t was that sam,
Beccbor who, while u preacher, seducet
the wife of tone of his members ant
broke up tho family, and after week
OF a mock trial got n withdrawing yer
diet from II packed committee.
BIT it was Illuminating about the far
reaching influence and effect OF tina
book and low it fred the northern
heart and the English heart against us
and how it was lie and wholly mis-
represented our people, and how tn
Lord cursed Shemaiah, one of tn
prophets, because he made the peopl
believe a lie, aud how st. John sal
no QUO should enter heaven VIII
loveth or makcth lie, and 80 I wa
wondering where the Beechers are now
But the trouble is they won't stop
Almost every mail Lrings me news
papers with marked articles denounc
ing rs and threatening us for thi
lynching business. and they all Pit
the fate of Sam Hose and weep owe
that incendiary scoundrel whom the
call that good, inoilensive old preache
Lige Strickland. May the Lord hav
mere upon us and keep us calm an
serene, 10 my prayer. My last come
from The Humane Alliance, of Ne
York, and says: "Three thousau
demons turned loose upon a helples
prisoner. They cut off his ears an
fingers and plucked out his eye bal
aud plunged knives into his bod,
His liver and heart W ere cut into sma
pieces and sold to the highest bidder
Not long before the mob took nil
negro prisoners from the guard AZ
SHOT them all to death save one. TIL
one was Sam Hose, who escaped
Crawford was one of the mob and Sa
Hose was only avenging the death
his friends when he killed Cranfo
After burning Sam Hose the m,
found an old honored negro pfeach'
named Strickland and lynched him
Thon comes the usual anathems, al
the article winds up with the assertio
that u race conflict is inevitable.
And now comes the Atlanta Age OIL
Wesley Pleger, the mulatto cdito
says, in answer to j. Pope Brown, "tl
negro is ready to go. There is n
one negro in ten that will not glad
welcome an opportunity t. go. T
negro longs to get away from Pc
Brown and his i!k. He wants the A
slo-Saxon race to buy piece
ground from China or anywhere IL
will enable him to leave Pope Bro,
and others who have robbed him
years. We are anxious to go--we q
ready. This crowd brought our mot
ers here aud debauched them and o,
ragged them till wa find 5000 900
mulattoes, kinsmen of this man Bro
and his friends. Let us go IS We
the children OF Israel from Egypt, a
harden not yonr heart when we {
ready to leave"
Then he copies Joseph Henderso
reply TO Governor North
which contains more lies to the SOU
inch than anything L have yet sc,
Henderson belongs to the Thor