Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-10-24
ARP LOSES TEMPER.
That Is When He Reads Some North.
ern Papers.
SAY THEY STILL HATE US
Bill Gets So Mad at Some of the
Filings at the South and Goes TO
Work.

AS Patrick Henry said 1t is use
less to cry peace when there i no
peace" Henry Grady never lovcd the
nation into peace more than about
week. Better take that inscription off
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 bad sign. The New York Pre- IS
boasts that its circulation is twice a;
great as that of all the Republican
papers of New York and BROOKLYN
combined and it is increasing every
day. II is ably and bitterly edited.
Not daily issue but has some fling or
slandcr against the South. wouldn't
care for what an editor said if his
readers didn't approve and cnforsc il,
and II is reasonable to suppose that
the million Northern readers Of the
Press hate rs a corlia " as the edi-
Tor can account for this antipathy
Tor We are not doing anything to thcm
IN last sundays paper tho Press say
that we should build Il monument -
raul Sloan. the deputy sheriff OF Lake
Charles. La. because he lost his lie
trying to protect negro from mob.
That is not so bad. but he continues
his remarks and Iys We should set
up his statue i'm pla 'c Of one of those
erected to Calhoun and Taucy and
Davis. whom their own followers ad-
mt were incurablY wrong in cvery
question of thcir time aud the North
'rn mind reads Paul Sloan'S title To 4
monument "S c!ci,lr rs John Browns"
"a. l,.
calm aud serene under su Ii urOyOci-
tions. Chcl Justice rauey and John
{. Calhoun We're dead before our civil
war and did not know that any re-
s0ectabio citizen OF the United States
would dare To di homo. their great
names They were statesmen. not
politicians, and he tributes and culn-
EloS paid to them by northern mon
were full of praise and ovcrGowirg
with national lamentatiOn. Even Daa-
ie! Webster spoke with mu IN emotion
in his beautiful culoSy on Mr.. Cal
noun. But now at this late dlv the
same old fanatical cry is heard that
caused New England To send John
HTown on his malicious and de ilish
GRAND The same malignant howl
that inspired John &. Whittier 10
write of Webster:
so fallen! so lost! the light with
drawn which one" he woIc
The glory from his gray hairs gone
forcvcrmogc.
All else is gone; from those great ewes
the soul has Gcl
When faith is lost aud honor dies the
man is dead"
And this because he honored Cal
houn and in his old age dared to sav
in his spc oh AT CaYoH Spring; that
stat" had the right to sCced7 from
the Union when the cOmp."t was bro
ken. My father was from Nassachus-
ctts and honoIcl Mr. Webster above
all men and was intensely indignant at
Whittcr's fnuatical puritlnical verses
That triumverate Webster. Clay and
Calhoun was his ideal of great men.
patriots and statesmen. and II is mine
to-day. My contempt for Old Whittier
Is very great and none OF hisf Sian
dcrous cflusionS shall find u place in
my collection Of poems. was sur
pr.sHd TO find Il lot of them in Will
liam Cullen Bryant's collection.
But am going to quit reading such
newspapers as destroy my serenity. !
nave to hurry ont into NV garden and
weather to keep my chOler down I've
been building IA Woodshcd and chick
on COOP with two apartments. one of
which is for the Christmas turkeys
when the time comes O'd Uncle Sam
did die sure enough. ana am now en-
phatiCally the hCy-bTt ! reckon it S
good for me. Ny wife SAYS il IS. ",
worn ont my forHCd hoe digging up
The ard ground in the hose beds for
the worse am iusutcd the harder !
! dig. | don't understand some things.
General GO,don and General Wheeler
ana some Cf onr orator. and preachers
30 up north and mix up with tho g
Yankees and come back loaded down
ana -ay: Oh, they are ali right: they
are harmonious. bat { rotico that the
Grand Army wants To regulate our
s'hoolbOoks. and the cIitOrs dictate
how we shall mauagc our negroes. I'm
doing my best TO harmon'zc. but when
! road their editorials I want TO hire
,ussin man one that can't be
broke of it and III give him 81 a day
10 use Language ON that editor He
wOuldcnt mind <Dg cuSaed afar 1if
and maybe IL would relieve my feel
ings. He knows that every follower
of Taney and Calhoun still glory in
their constitutional teachings. lie
ltnows that Or Andrc VS. who is the
Eopored head of the public schools Of
Chirae declared in public address
that every principle the south main
tanned aud fought FOR had been de-
c.dcd in our favor by the supreme
court OF the United states before The
war and has been since the war con
drmed by the present court He knows
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