The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-11-01
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Attacks on South By Northern
Papers RileS Barlow Man.
HIS INDIGNATION KNOWS NO BOUNDS.
To Restore His Laceratcd Feelings He
LaborS In the GarIen With
Great Vigor.

less to cry peace when there is no
peace" Henry Grady never loved the
nation into peace for more than about
week. Better take that inscription
off his monument. What alarms me
is the fact that the northern papers
that ere most bitter against us are the
most popular with their people. This
is bad sign The New York Press
boasts that its circulation is twice as
great as that OF all the Republican pa
pers Of New York and Brooklyn COM
bined and it is increasing every day.
1t is ably and bitterly edited. Not a
daily issue but has some fling or SLAM
der against the south. 1 wouldn't
care for what al editor said if his
readers dident approve and indorse it,
and it is reasonable to suppose that
the million northern readers of The
Press hate US as cordially as does the
editor.
l 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 monument to
Paul Sloan, the deputy sheriff of Lake
Charles, La, because he lost his life
in trying to protect negro from a
mob" That is not SO bad, but he
continues his remarks and says we
"should set up his statue in place of
one of those erected to Calhoun and
fancy and Davis, whom their own fol-
lowers admit were incurably wrong in
every question of their time, and the
northern mind reads Paul Sloan's title
to q monument Us clearly as John
Browns"
What is the use of trying to keep
calm and serene under such provoca-
tons? Chief Justice fancy and John
G. Calhoun were dead before our civil
war and I did not know that any re-
spectacle 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 overfowing
with national lamentation. Even Dan
jel Webster spoke with much emotion
in his beautiful eulogy or Mr.. Calhoun,
| But now at tits late day the same old
fanatical cry is heard that caused New
| England to send John Brown on his
malicious and deviiish erranG. The
same malignant howl that inspired
John G. Whittier to write of Webster:
$50 fallen! So lost! the light withdrawn
which once he wore,
The gloly f,ool his gray hairs gone for
evernore.
ALI 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 bad the right TO sccede from the
union when the compact was broken.
My father was from Massachusetts and
honored Mr.. Webster above all men
and wss intensely indignant at Whit
tiers fanatical puritarical verses, That
! triumvjratc, Webster, Clay and Calhoun
was his ideal Of great men, patriots
and statesmen, and it is mine today.
My contempt for old Whittier is very
great and none of his slanderous etfu-
sions shall ind place in my collection
of poems. was surprised to find lot
of thom in William Cullen Bryant's
collection.
But am going to quit reading such
newspapers as destroy my serenity. l
have to hurry cut into my garden
dig too hard and too often this 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 Christmas turkeys,
when tho time comes. Old Uncle Sam
is dead and gone, and l am now
emphatically the boy-but I reckon it
is good for me. My wife says it IS.
I've worn out my forked hoe digging
up the hard ground in the rose beds
for the worse-I am insulted the hard
er dig. I don't understand some
things. General Gordon ard 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 I
notice that the Grand Army wants to
regulate our school books, and the ed
itors dictate how we shall manage our
negroes.
Pm doing my best to harmonize, but
when l read their editorials l want to
hire cussin' man-one that can't be
broke of it--and I'll give him 50 day
to use language on that editor. He
wouldent mind being cussed afar off,
and maybe it would relieve my feel
ings. He knows that every follower
of fancy and Calhoun still glory in
their constitutional teachings. He
knows that DR.. Andrews, who is the
honored head of the public schools in
Chicago, declared in a public address
that every principle the south main
tanned and fought for had been decid-
ed in our favor by the supreme court