The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-16

number of others who acknowledged
him.
But these Mormons who are sojourn-
| ing in our land declare that polygamy
| is now abolished and that they arc not
proselyting to that faith, though it was
the faith of Abraham and Jacob and
David and Solomon. Well, our people
don't want such men fooling around
their families and dcmoralizing weak
men and weaker women in every COM
munity. A moderate chastisemcnt
would have IS sanitary influence on all
such tramps.
Fanatics and tramps have their nur-
scry in New England. We see that
the bones of the seven licutenants OF
old John Brown have recently been
removed to North Elba and arc to be
rcburied with honors, and that Nc
Kinlcy was invited. That shows the
animus of thatpeoplc. They still make
a dcmigod of that old fool John Brown,
whom Giddings and Beecher and Car
rison made a cat's-paw of to incitc the
slaves of Virginia to insurrcction and
to provoke them to murder and arson
and rape. They furnished him with
$500 in gold and all the rifles aud am
munition he wanted, and so he took up
his residence near Harper's Ferry and
for two years lived there and planned
his bloody and reasonable scheme.
Fred Douglas visited him there and
advised him to wait, for the fruit was
not ripe. But the old fanatic believed
the Lord was with him and wouldn't
wait any longer, and so one dark night
he and his little band of twenty-five
delnded followers surprised and over
powered the guards and took the arse
nal and then calmly awaited the up
rising of the negroes. But the negroes
would not rise. Most of them were at
tached to their masters and their faml-
lies and would not join the traitors.
| They soon came to grief. John Brown
was wounded, his son was killed ana
most Of his followers. For forty long
years the graves Of seven Of them have
been unmolested, but John Browns
soul. they say, keeps marching on and
so it does seem to, with the second and
third generations of those who have
hated us so long and so bitterly. They
sent Brown to Kansas during the dark
and bloody days and there he and his
followers, among other outrages, called
five leading southerners from their
beds one dark night and assassinated
them. Brown said it was Gods will.
For twelve years he never lost sight OF
his chief aim, which was to start an
insurrection in Virginia and let it
spread all over the south, until every
Shareholder was murdered. And this
is what the north made a martyr and a
demigod of him for.
Our own Robert Z. Lee, United
States army officer, officiated at his
trial. Jefferson Davis and John NJ.
Mason, of the United States Senate,
were appointed 4 committee to make a
report upon the invasion and declared
it of no significance except as showing
the animus Of the north toward the
south.
"A friend writes me who wishes to
know where he can get true history
of John Brown and his Virginia raid
and execution. Nowhere! No southern
man has written his history. Three
have been written from a northern
standpoint by enemies of the south.
The fairest account will be found in
"Appleton's Biographical Encyclopc-
dia," but even this one, which was
written by Higginson, is tainted with
the same old animus that justifies
everything an abolitionist ever did
against the south. 1t does look like
that forty years Of time and the freedom
of the negroes ought to have modified
our enemies and retired old John
Brown and his followers INTO oblivion,
but it has not, and now they arc trans
fcrring their bones to- more congenial
soil and will have grand ceremonies
over their burial.
Mckinley has been invited, and as
two of the seven were negroes, reckon
he will go. Maybe the devil has got
them keeping postoffice somewhere in
Hadcs. Bill. ARR.