The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-11-01
HIIL ARP LOSEs HIS TltMPEk.
when He Roads Certain Mortimer"
Newspapers He Cots AwiuIIy VIA"
and Goes to Work

, AS Patrick IIenry said, "lt Is use
less to cry peace when there - no
peace" Henry Grady never tovcu thc
nation into peace for more than ABOUT
Il week. Better tnkn that Inscription
of his monument. what isInrms me Is
tho fact that the Northern papers lhat
are most bitter against us are the m"s'
popular with their people. This 10 II
bad sign. The New York Press boaSis
that Of mll the R'publicNn papers Of
Now YORK and Brooklyn combined, and
it ii increasing every day. it Is ably
and bitterly edited. Not daily issue
out has SOM hing or slnndcr against
the SOUTH. | wouldn't care !or what an
editor said il his adcrs Gidcnt approve
| and endorse IL, aud II Is reasonable To
to suppose that the million Northorn
| readers of The Press; hate us aS cordially
rs does the editor. | can / account for
| this untipHthy for we are not doing any.
thing to them. In last Sundays pupcr
The l'rcss says that we "shouId build
il monument 10 Paul Sloan. the deputy
sheriff OF Lake Charles, l.H, because
nc lost his HE in trying To protect u
| negro from n mob That is not so bad,
| but he continues his remarks and shy >
wH " should set up his statue in place
Of one Ul these erected 10 Calhoun Nnd
| Fancy nnd Davis, whom their own 70, :
| iU%rrf admit were incurably wrong in
| every question Of their time and the
Northern mind reads | 'nul Sionn's title
to II monument ns clearly AS John
| BrOwn's."
| What IS the nsU Of trying to keep
calm and serene under Au"h provoru.
lioua. Cnitl Justice fancy al Il John
&. Calhoun were dead before our civil
| war and , lid not know That ANY re.
! spuctH Hrtu citizen Of the lnitrG States
would dare To HishOnUr their great
| names. Thry were statesmen, uut poi!
ucians, and !hc tributes nuu vulu4irs
paid TO them 10y Northern men were
fail OF praise and Ovtril )wiUG. with niI.
Linnml Imncntntion. Even Daniel Web
stCr spoke with much rmuiiun in his
h"nutifuI Cul0Gy on Mr.. Cnlhuun. Bat
nov at this lntr day the same uId fa
nALiCHl cry /, heard that caused New
Eng land 10 send Joln Rro~n ON hi,
malicious aud devllish crrnnt The
same mnlgnaut howl that inspired
John &. Whittier to write Of Webster
So fallen 50 lost The ii.ht withdrawn
which once hu Wore
The Hlory from his &rAy hairs gnnc for
cNCrmurc.
\ else is gone; from those grca, eye. tn,
soul has He'd
| II
| is dead.
And lhis because he honor, Il Cal
noun and in his old age dared 10 say in
), his speech at Capou Springs that u
State had the right to scCode from the
CniUn when the compact WAS broken
= My faLhcr wae I ON Massachusetts an,
honorrd Mr.. Webster above All men
anA was intensely indignant nt WHIT
! tiers fanatICNl, ruri antc.N verses
: That triumvlr%tc Webster, ClDy Hnl
CUiH0uu was hts ideal o! great mon
{ pAtrlu'> and stHtp>mCn, and it Is min,
Il today. My contempt for old Whittic cJ
Il Is very great and none Of his ISLANDER
i Ui- Nu#iurs shall find 4 place in III,
!, collection Of poems. was surprised
to tiuu Il - OF them in William Cutler
brrnuL > collection.
But an going TO gait reading sue
II newspapers a. Il, stroy my serenity.
e have - hurry out in my ga. Il n an,
II dig too hard and too often this no
1t weather to keep my chnirr Gown. Nv,
Il been building Is wooush, Il, ANA a chi k
CT coop with Two apartments, one y
whiCh Is for the Christmas turkey
> when tnu tame come. Old / iclc san
did die sure enough. and | am now en-
phatically the hov but reckon il Is
good for me. Ny ~;f.' aiy5 il Is. I've
worn out my forkrI tus digging up the
nal Il ground In the rose beds, for the
worse | am iusuLrG the harder | dig
doE'L understand some things. Gen.
crnl Gordon atd & ncrA Wheeler and
| some OF our OraLOro and preachers 20
up North and mix up with those Yam
crs and come back loaded GO%n and
| say "O| thCy are ali right; they
| are harmOniOU".' but | notice that the
& anu Army wants u regulate our
sci ool Opks, aud the editors Gicta.c
tow We shall manage our negroes. Pm
doing my best to na' mOniZc, buL when
| l.. ad their editorials, want to hire a
ca ssin' mnn--OGc that cant be broke o.
It .Ind nil give him - Il day TO use
language on that udllO". He wouldcnL
mini being cus,cd afar on and may
ne IL wOuid rcii>vn my feelings. H."
Knows that every follower Of Tancy
and Calhoun still glory in their Goa
stituti0nnl tcacnin"s. lie knows that
Dr. Andre w, whu /, !hu honorcd huad
Of The public school OF Chicago de-
clarCu in a public address tnnt every
principle the South maintained and
fought for Ia. been decided in our
favor by the Slpr, ne Court OF the
United States y fore tNc war and has
been since the war confirmed by the
present court. He kno"> all that and
he knows Il ! aNCul l'nun and Akron
and New YORK ciLy's treatment OF the
negro and in see OF all thi. he darcs
to spit out lI.s venom AT n. ! don't
undcrstan him nor what manner Of
man he il nor row he can sleep in
peace or erjoy and digest his daily
food.
But we will get even next month
and then you will hear u howl. Good
gracious What a cOnstornation-
VIVA: weeping and wailing and gnash
ing OF tccth-Bryan and Stevenson :.
Both names end with Il big N and that
com bination has never failed yet.
Wcll | am working on that book
now, and my friends are sending the
name OF their favOritc poems from all
over the South. 1t is already interest
ing and curious to note the ones that
are most popular. ! shall publish Il
list OF them before long in the order in
which they stand.
And now about that Scriptural enig.
ma. | have received several letters