The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-10-31
Bill, ARP LOSES HIS TEMPER.
Newspapers He Cots Awfully Mad
and Goes to- Work.

anu SOeS I'D "Ork.
AS Patrick Henry said, 1t is use
less to cry peace when there is no
peace" Henry GlH Hdy never loved the
nation into peace for more than about
a week. Better take that inscription
OH his monument. What alarms me is
the fact that the Northern papers that
are most bitter against us are the most
popular with their people. This is u
bad sign. The New York Press boasts
that It's circulation Is twice as great as
that OF all the Republican papers OF
New York and Brooklyn combined, and
1t Is increasing every day. 1t Is ably
and bitterly edited. Not a daily issue
but has some fling or slander against
the South. | wouldn't care !or what an
editor said II b is readers dident approve
and endorse 1t, and it is reasonable to
to suppose that the million Northern
readers OF The Press hate us as cordially
as does the editor. | can't account for
this antipathy for we are not doing any
thing to them. In last Sundays paper
The Press says that we "should build
u monument to Paul Sloan, the deputy
sheriff of Lake Charles, La, because
he lost his life in trying to protect q
negro from u 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
Taney and Davis, whom their own fol-
lowerf admit were incurably wrong In
every question OF their time and the
Northern mind reads Paul Sloan's title
to o monument as clearly as John
Brown's."
What ia the use OF trying to keep
calm and serene under such prOv0ca-
tions. Chief Justice Taney and John
9. Calhoun were dead before our civil
war apd | did not know that any re-
spectacle citizen of the United States
would dare to dishonor their great
names. They were statesmen, not poll
ticians, and the tributes and eulogies
paid to them by Northern men were
full OF praise and Overlooking with ma
tional lamentation. Even Daniel Web
ster spoke with much emotion in his
beautiful eulogy on Mr.. Calhoun. But
now at this late day the same old IA
natical 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 Webster
$50 fallen! So lost. the light withdrawn
which once no wore
The glory from his gray hairs gone for
evermore.
All else is gone; from those great eyes the
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 tho 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 Whit
tiers fanatical, puritanical verses.
That triumvirate 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 SANDER
ous eifusions shall find q place In my
collection of poems. | was surprised
to find lot OF them in William Cullen
Brysnt's collection.
But am going to quit reading such
newspapers rs destroy my serenity. |