The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-10-25
That Is When He Reads Some North
ern Papers.
SAY THEY SILL EAi- Us
Bill Gets So Mad at Some of the
Filings at the South and Goes to
Work.


nation into peace more than about a
week. Better take that inscription eff
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 Press
boasts that its circulation is twice as
great as that of all the Republican
papers of New York and Brooklyn
combined and it is increasing every
day. l. is ably and bitterly edited.
Not daily issue but has some fling or
SANDER against the South. l wouldn {
care for what an editor said if his
readers didn't approve and enforse it,
and it is reasonable to suppose that
the million Northern readers Of the
Press hate US as cordially as the edi-
tor. | 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 monment 70
Paul Sloan, the deputy sheriff of Lake
Charles, La. because he lost his lie
u IiIE5 W plOIcCI q ILcSlo lIOill u
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 cwn followers ad-
nit were incurably wrong in every
question OF their time and the North
ern mind reads Paul Sloans title to 4
monument as clearly as John Browns y
What is the use OF trying 20 keep
calm and serene under such provoca-
tions. Chief justice Taney and John
war and did not know that any re-
spectacle citizen of the United States
would dare to Gishonor 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 overflowillg
with national lamentation. Even Dan
iel Webster spoke with much emotion
in his beautiful eulogy on Mr.. Cal
houn. 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 deyilish
errand. The same malignant howl
that inspired John G. Whittier to
write of Webster:
$50 fallen. So lost! the light with
drawn which once he wore
The glory from his gray hairs gone
forevermore.
All 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
a state had the right to secede from
the Union when the compact was lro-
ken. My father was from Massachus-
etts and honored Mr.. Webster above
all men and was intensely indignant at
Whittier's fanatical puritanical verses.
That triumverate Webster, Clay and
Calhoun was his ideal of great men.
patriots and statesmen, and it is mine
to-day. Ny contempt for old Whittier
is very great and none OF his SIAN
derous effusions shall find place in
my collection of poems. was sur
prised to find lot Of them in VIII
liam Cullen Bryant's collection.
But | am going to quit reading such
newspapers as destroy my serenity. !
have ID hurry out into nv garden and
dig too hard and too often this hot
weather to keep my choler down. I've
been building a woodshed, and a chick
en- coop with two apartments. one OF
which is for the Christmas turkeys,
when the time comes Old Uncle Sam
did die sure enough, and | am now en-
phatically the boy-but | reckon 1t is
good for me. My wife says it is. I've
worn out my forked hoe digging up
the hard ground in the hose beds for
the worse-I am insultsd the harder l
dig 7 don't understand some things.
General Gordon and 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 notice that the
Grand Army wants to regulate our
schoolbooks, and the editors dictate
how we shall manage our negroes. III
doing my best to harmonic, but When
| read their editorials | want 10 hlre
a cussin'. man-one that can't be
broke of it-and I'll give him 81 day
to use language on that editor. He
wouldent mind lang cu5sed afar on
and maybe it would relieve my feel
ings. He knows that every follower
of Taney and Calhoun still glory in
their constitutional teachings. He
knows that DR.. Andrews, who is the
honored head of the public schools OF
Chicago. declared in public address
that every principle the south main
-, nnl fn,,nht for had haAn de-