The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-16
IT MAKES ARP
To Read Editorials Of Some OF U
Northern Papers.
Filings at the South Raise HIS
ChOler and He Has to Work II
or in the Gnrden-An-
swer to Enigma.

peace" Henry Grady never loved the
nation into peace for more than about
a 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
Press boasts that its circulation is
twice as great as that of all the re-
publican papers of New York and
Brooklyn combined, and it is increas-
ing every day. 1t is ably and bitterly
edited. Not daily issue but has
some fling or SANDER against the
south. / wouldn't care for what an
editor said if his readers didn't ap-
prove and indorse it, and it is reason
able to suppose that the million north
ern 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 deupty sheriff of Lake
Charles, La. because he lost his lie
in trying to protect negro from
mob" That is not so bad, but ne
continues his remarks and says we
should set up his statue in place OF
one of those erected to Calhoun ard
fancy and Davis, whom their own
followers admit were incurably wrong
in every question of their time and
the northern mind reads Paul Sloans
title to monument as clearly as John
Browns"
What is the use of trying to keep
calm and serene under such provoca-
lions. Chief Justice fancy and John
c. Calhoun were dead before our civil
war and l 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 overfiowing
with national lamentation. Even
Daniel Webster spoke with much emo
ton in his beautiful eulogy on Mr..
Calhoun. 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 dew
ilish errand. 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 the light withdrawn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 glory from his gray hairs gone Tor
evermore.
All else is gone; from those great eyes the
soul has fled
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 the right to secede from the
union when the compact was broken.
Nv father was from Massachusetts
and honored Mr.. Webster above all
men and was intensely indignant at
Whittier's fanatical puritanical verses
That triumvirate, Webster, Clay and
Calhoun, was his ideal of great men
patriots and statesmen. and it is
mine to-day. My contempt for ole
Whittier is very great and none OF his
slanderous illusions shall find place
in my collection of poems. l was
surprised to find a lot of them in VIII
liam Cullen Bryant's collection.
But am going to quit reading sucf
newspapers as destroy my serenity.
have to hurry out into my gardeI
and dig too hard and too often thi
hot weather to keep my choler down
I've been building woodshed, and
chicken coop with two apartments
one of which is for the Christina
turkeys, when the time comes. OIL
Uncle Sam did die sure enough, and
am now emphatically the boy-but
reckon it is good for me. My wifi
says it is. I've worn out my forke
hoe digging up the hard ground i
the hose beds for the worse-I al
insulted the harder l dig. 1 don
understand some things. Gen. Gordo
and Gen. Wheeler and some of on
orators and preachers go up mort
and mix up with those Yankees an
come back loaded down ald say
''Oh, they are all right, they are ha
monious," but notice that the Gran
Army wants to regulate our scho
books. and the editors dictate how v
shall manage our negroes. I'm doir
nv best to harmonic, but when
read their editorials l want to hire
cussin' man-one that can't be brol
of it-and I'll give him 50 day
use language on that editor.
wouldn't mind being cussed afar c
and maybe it would relieve my fee
inps. He knows that every follow
90 Touev and Calhoun still glories