The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-12-22
Ip MAKES ARP MAD.
10 Read Edit5rials Of Some Of the
Northern Papers.


less I'd NEN peace WuGW bAtEE IS NO
peace Henry Grady never loved the
natien into peace for more than about
q week. Better take that inscription
on his monument. What alarms me
is the fact that the northern papers
that are most bitter against us are
tho most popular with their people.
This ia a bad sign. The New York
Press boasts that its circulation is
twice as great as that OF all the re-
publican papers of New York and
Brooklyn combined, and it is increaa-
ing every day. It Is ably and bitterly
edited. Not q daily issue but has
some fling or SANDER against the
south. / wouldn't care for what an
editor said If his readers didn't p
owe and indorse it and it is reason
able 70 suppose that the million north-
ern readers Of the Press hate us as
cordially as does the editor. / can't
account for this antipathy, for we are
not doing anything to them. In last
Sundays paper the Press says that
we should build a monument to Paul
sloan the deupty sheriff Of Lake
Charles, La. because he lost his life.
IN trying to protect q negro from a
mob That is not so bad, but he.
continues lbs remarks and says we
should up his statue in place Of
one Of those erected to Calhoun and
fancy and Davis, whom their own
followers admit were ~incurably wrong
tn every question Of their time and
the northern mind reads Paul Sloan's
title to a monument as clearly as John
Browns"
What is the use of trying to keep
calm and serene under such proYoca-
tions. Chief Justice fancy and John
c. Calhoun were dead before our civil
wal and I did not know that~any re-
spectacle citizen Of the United States
would dare to dishonor their great
m They were statesmen not
politicians, and the tributes and eulo-
gies paid to them by northern men
were fun of praise and overlooking
with national la-mentation. Even
Daniel Webster spoke with much emo
tion 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 dew
iiish errand The same malignant
howl that inspired John G. Whittier
to write Of Webster:
$50 faneni So LOST the light Withdrawn
which once he wore
The glory from his gray hairs gone Tor
All else Is gone; from those great eyes thi
soul has He'd
When faith IS lost and honor dies. the MAJ
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 Massachusett,
and honored Mr.. Webster above al
men and was intensely indignant a
Whittier's fanatical p%uritanical verses
That triumvirate, Webster, Clay anG
Calhoun, was his ideal Of great men
patriots and statesmen, and it i
mine to-day. My contempt for oil
Whittier is very great and none of hi
sianderous effusions shall find a plac.
in my collection Of poems. I wa
surprised to find a lot of them in Viii
liam Cullen Bryant's collection.
But I am going to quit reading sucl
newspapers as destroy my serenity.
have to hurry out into my gardel
and dig too hard and too often thi
hot weather to keep my choler down
I've been building a Woodshed, and
chicken coop with two apartments
one of which is for the Christina
turkeys, when the time comes. OIL
Uncle Sam did die sure enough, and
am now emphatically the boy-but
reckon it is good for me. MY wit
says it is. I've worn out my forke
hoe digging up the hard ground i
the hose beds for the worse-I an
insulted the harder I dig. I don
understand some things. Gen. Gordo
and Gen. Wheeler and some Of on
orators and preachers go up mort
and mix up with those Yankees an
come back loaded down and say
sOh, they are all right; they are hal
monious," but I notice that the Gran
Army wants to regulate IL scho,
books, and the editors dictate how "
shall manage our negroes. I'm doin
my best to harmonic, but when
read their editorials L want to hire
cussin' man-one that can't be broI
of ib-and Fn give him 50 a day /
use language on that editor. Z
wouldn't mind being cussed afar 0
and maybe it would relieve my fee
ings. He knows that every followt
of Taney and Calhoun still g%lories
their constitutional teachings. Z
knows that DR.. Andrews, who was IL
honored head Of the public sehoo
OF Chicago, declared in a public a
dress that every principle the soui
maintained and fought for had bee
decided in favor By the supreu
court Of the United States before Il
war and has been since the war co
drmed by the present court. T
knows an that and he knows all abor
Pana and Akron and New York city
treatment of the negro, and in face
all this he dares to spit out his We
ON at rs. ! don't understand hi
nor what manner Of man he is NJ