The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-19
BILL ARP'S. WEEKLY LETTER
BARLOW MAN GIVES EXPRESSION
TOHIS FEELINGS.
WANTS YANKEES" TO APOLOGIZE.
Declares North Has No Right to Dictate.
Lynchings Will Go
Right On.

am not happy. Some months ago
wrote to our yankee friends that if
they were gentlemen they would apollo
giZe for all they done to us during
that devilish war and after. never
received but one letter on that line |
and that was from native born Fed
eral soldier who said he was friendly |
and that if would write ont an apollo
gy and send it TO him he would sign
it. He seemed to he properly repent
ant. And now comes this editor Of
The New York Herald down here to
investigate our lynching business and
to philoscphize upon it, and he says
the north made n mistake in giving
the negro the right of suffrage, but he
doesent apologize.
He was one the prime leaders in the
whole business and speaks of it rs n
mistake. 1t was no mistake. 1t was
malicious ignorance, and why doesent
| he saw so? 1t hns taken him and
his folks thirty years to find out they
knew but little about us and nothing
about the negro. Senator Ingalls, has
got more sense and more candor. He
| came down to Texas ten years ago TO
! investigate and went home and wrote
a letter in which he said the negro was
not fit for the Eollot and that the north
had made an eEregious biunder III
giving it to him. He dident apologize,
but he came pretty near 1t.
Now, mistake doesent involve any
moral tulpitnde, but n malicious blum
der does The time has passed for
any more trucking. The stage of
desperation is upon the south and po-
litical humility to the north has pass
ed. We have never felt That humility
.."' Ei:";"rS ho~a PrNa"h~I it
and tried to get something from the
public crib by pretending we were
humble when we were not
The truth is that the noI,h is re-
sponsible for every outrage and every
lynching at the south. Here is The
Atlanta Age, n negro paper that is pub
, lished by W. A. Pledeer, that copies
: every venemons article from the New
York papers about the Sam Holt hnsi
, ness, and Plcdger writes to The New
York Sun that lie is shocked at Gov
/ ernor Candler's utternnces and h'
I says the good negroes Mt the south ar'
, | 80" ~ tH""" ~ Nv" ~"" ~ onr vo
4 men. The paper is pregnant Will
/. comment on the lynching. I recko,
e that is all right, for the liberty of tn,
press must not he restricted. Bu
! nevertheless these uttcrances from
iIedger's paper so through the edu
Gated negro element and settle it.
, convictions. and thereby comes som,
more outrages and lyhchings. New
York nlggers come out in their raper.
ana advise the shotgun and the torch
IN retaliation, and those things are
copied III the niger papers Mt the
, south.
But here is the comfort: Uncle Sam
IS still helping me in ny garden and
doesent know and doesent care anv.
thing about all this business. He saws
he was born n slave and for thirty
years has been freeman and has al
ways i"uni that if colored man done
his duly the white man done his.
tncic Sam has n large family and
'm"ngh these Republican influences
'hey nave hCen corrupted and demor.
"lZed AMI he has lot of grandchid-
ren who don't know their own father
an" the old man is grievcd.
was ruminating about all this and
now these negroes have all been fooled
about Grant and Lincoln being their
trends and were fighting TO free them,
Wheh there is not a word of truth in
". Neither of them cared continental
dlme Tor the negro and both of them
were more concerned about their own
successes than anything else. But 7
nave had great regard for Lincoln
tie was n much better man than his
party and his death was n calamity TO
IN" s"nth 1 have recently received n
nttie volume entitled "rhe Genesis of
Abraham Lincoln" 1t is carefuIIy
and affectionately written by James ri
Cathey, of western North Carolina
and Its unpreiudiced perusal will con.
vince any man that Abraham Lincoln
| was me son OF Abraham EnIoe onn
thnt Nancy Hanks was n good ornbon
Glrl who served in Enloe's family
lhe atidavits and other evidences
establish this beyond dispute. Old
| father Abraham Enloe was seconI
Abraham and poor Nancy Hanks n
second liagar and for the same reason
sie was sent away from the paternal
homestead to Eeep peace in the family,
ne father of her child had great re-.
gard for her and placed her with his
relatives III Kentucky, where she af.