Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-01-19
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Editor Williams, OF fho GYesnYilie
News, Grows interestingly s.
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The Groenyille News is very much
pleased at the sensible Emancipation
Dsy spooch thai Tom Miller made IN
Spartanbnrg last Monday, end in con-
sidering the speaker, Editor Williams
indulges In somo interesting roninis-$
cences of the past He thinks that men
and things, himself included, have
changed wonderfully in the past 81
years, and he is Of the opinion that the
change is FOR the better. And what he
seys is interesting. In fact it is as fol-.
lows s, N + ,5E55.., @ s; n
"IRseeading Re the speech over wo t,iroo ,io
moved to marvel over the changes the
years bring. Here is Tom Miller ad-
yising his people to q policy Of conoilia.
tion and submission. He was member
Of tho Legislature of 1876. @sG5 e; E53
"Lord bless US, that was % years ago;
and mon who were not born then afe3
voters now, and women who wore not
thought Of then are mothers of growing
families, and the nniversities and col
leges arc full of boys and girls who did
not arrive in this world until years after
that Tom Miller wore in those days o
light woolen suit with sack coat, In the
pockets of which She carried his hands
mlost Of tho time. Very likely he had o
revolvor in each of them. The editor Of
tho Greenville News sat for two days and
night with IL pistol tri,inoG on Tom
Miller and learned to know him we'll Is
was perhaps the most enormous pistol
over made-the barrel Of Remington
rifle sawed off and it's look fitted to o
pistol butt. It carried but one ball end
the editor of the Greenville News, then
reporter for q Charleston newspaper
which died long ago, adjusted it in the
drawer of his desk, at tho head of the
main aisle, and by mathematical diagram
and calculation and an improvised range
finder, fastened it with pins and cooked
it 80 that en- opening the drawer to o.
certain pencil mark and turning it loose
it would inevitably "fetch' tho Hon.
Thomas E. Miller, then member from
Beaufort, who, all unconscious of what
was waiting for him, was up and down
every minute Or so, apparently doing his !
best to bring on a row. DuriGg those
nerve-trying SO hours, tho editor of the
Greenville News studied and contenl-
plated the member from Beaufort and
speoulated as to how he would look and
feel as that Remington bullet took him
in the space bonoath his wish bone, and
surmised that he would smile kind OF
siokly smile and ourl up ON the floor, and
that the subsequent proceedings would
interest him no moro; which that same,
the editor Of the Greenville News, be-
lieved would occur to himself after o
very few of the long seconds which drag
their slow length along whilo fighting ia
In progress, and q gent is in momentary
expectation of being plugged; for he sat
Immediately beneath E. w. M. Mackoy
and Judge Wallace, the rival speakers,
and know we'll that tho shots of tho en-
thusiasts on both sides would be concep-
trated in that direction and, that some
body would shoot low. .... @
"But it all passed Off and nobody was
hurt; and now the rantankerous, cayort-
ing, red hot and no compromise member
from Beaufort rides about in q frook
coat and high silk. hat in carriages and
speaks Of Cancellation and submission.
The Ring Tailed Roarer from the Santee,
who threatened row every minute is
dead we beliove. Oliver p. Morton, the
wielder of the bloody shirt in tho United
States Senate, whom we all used to hate
80 bitterly, is dead and almost forgotten;
the black incondiary from Orangeburg,
~hoSc name we forgot, has passed out OF
sight; E w. M. Macloy is dead; Dan
Chamberlain is our very good friend;
tho Hon. John Sam Werner, who was q
wild man from tho mountains and used
to jump on his desk and wave his arms
about, la peaceful and decorus oitizon;
tho Hon. j. Lawrence Orr, who led tho
storming party and de0ed tho Sergeant
alarms, the State constabulary and the
United States, and smashed in green
baiZe door and incidentally an Irish
guard, with 2O0 pounds of weight, rein
forced by sig shooter, is now so law
abiding that he even returns his income
tax. The Hon. John G. Sheppard, who
regularly kicked his way in and out Of
the hall of tho House of Representatives
with tho aid Of two largo revolYers, 10
now o man Of peace who deprccates vio-
lence. a Republican President has como
down among us and set us all to hurrah-
ing with kindly words of the Southern
people and tho Confederate soldier, and
we who have in our time sworn great
oaths Of vengeance ard perpetual hate
are rcconciled and reconstructed and
thrill responsively whena the stars and
stripes arc hoisted."
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A few doses of DR., M. A, Simmons,