The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-31

the nation into peace for moro than
about week. Better take that in
scription off his monument What
alarms me is the fact that the North
ern papers that are most bitter against
us are the most popular with their
people. This is bad sign. The
New York Press boasts that its circu-
lation is twice as great as that Of all
the Republican papers Of New York
and Brooklyn combined and it is in
crcasing every day 1t is ably and
bitterly edited. Not daily iosuc but
has some fling or SANDER against the
South l wouldn't care for what an
editor said if his readers didcnt ap-
prove and indorse it, and it is reason
able to suppose that the million North
crn readers of The Press hate us as
cordially as does the editor. | cant
account for this antipathy, for VIC arc
not doing anything TO them. In last
Sundays paper The Press says that
we "should build monument to Paul
Sloan, tho deputy sheriff Of Lake
Charles, La, because he lost his life
in trying to protect negro from
mob" That is not 80 bad, but he
continues his remarks and says we
"should set up his statue in place Of
those erected to Calhoun and Tanoy
and Davis, whom their own followers
admit ,ssre incurably wrong in every
question of their time and the North
crn mind reads Paul Sloan's title to
monument as clearly as John
Browns"
What is tho use Of trying to keep
calm and serene under such provoca-
tions. Chief Justice Taney and John
G. Calhoun were dead before our Civil
Wa. and I did not know that any re-
spec able citizen of the United States
would dare to dishonor their great
names. They were statesmen, not
politicians, and the tributes and eulo-
gies paid to them by Northern men were
full Of praise and ovorAowing with
National lamentation. Even Daniel
Webster spoke with much emotion in
his beautiful eulogy on Mr.. Calhoun.
But now at this late day the same old
fanatical. cry is heard that caused New
England to send John Brown On his
malicious and devilish errand. The
same malignant howl that inspired
John G.. Whittier to write of Web
ster:
$50 fallen! SO lost! the light with
drawn which onco he wore
The glory from his gray hairs gone for
evermore.
All else is gone; FROM those great eyes
the soul has fed
When faith is lost and honor dies, the
man is dead"
And this because he honored Cal
;houn and in his old age dared to say
in his speech at Capon Springs that
State had the right to secede from the
Union when the compact was broken.
My father was from Massachusetts
and honored Mr.. Webster above all
men and was intensely indignant at
Nhittier's fanatical puritanical verses.
That triumverate Webster, Clay and
Calhoun was his ideal of great men,
patriots and statesmen, and it is mine
to-day. My contempt for old Whittier
is very great and mono of his SANDER
ous effusions shall find a place in my
collection Of poems. l was surprised
to find a lot Of them in William Gull
len Bryant's collection.
But / am going to quit reading such
newspapers as destroy my serenity. 1
have to hurry out into my garden aud
dig too hard and Toe often this hot
weather to keep my oholcr down. I've
been building woodshed, and chick
en- coop with two appointments, one Of
which is for the Christmas turkeys,
when the time comes. Old Unclc
Scm did die sure enough, and l am
nov emphatically the boy but I
reckon it is good for me. My wife
says It'll is. I've worn out my forked
hoe digging up the hard ground in the
hose beds for the worse-I am insult
ed the harder dig. 1 don't under
stand some things. General Gordon
and General Wheeler and some Of our
orators and preachers go up North and
mix up with those yankees and come
back loaded down and say: Oh, they
are all right; they are harmonious, but
L notice that the Grand Army wants TO
regulate our schoolbooks, and the edi-
tors dictate how we shall manage our
negroes. I'm doing my best to har,
smonige, but when 1 read their editor.
ials I want to hire oussin' man--one