Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-02-13
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
The Sage Discourses On John
Marshall.
SAYS he WAS A FEDEpALIST
But That Fact Does Not Detract From
the Lustre of His Name or Dim His
judicial Reputation.

Much ado has Of late been made over
John Marshall. That ne was & federal
Isl mas long since been Well establish
eu' Dut lhat takes to lustre from his
name or fame. Nearly all CT the great
patriots OF tsat day were fedel alists--
so was Washington. Hamilton. Madi-
son. ard Charles Cotesworth p nclney.
OF South Carolina. Our most prudent
statesmen feared TO risk the people of
the States with the reins of govern
ment. but wanted strong central
power. Not until 'efferSon's day were
their apprehensions modified and tho
people declared to he masters of the ST
uation. John Marshall could hardly
help being federalist, for history sa-s
MS father and all the Marshall f,m'iy
were federalists, He grew up with the
idea that no government was safe that
uld not have power and money aud
troops and navy to defend mad pro:oc:
1t, and 1t would not do to rely on the
states separately when war or conflict
came. No. there never was a greater
1ullst or purer patriot than Johl
Marshall, and Lam proud that he was Il
Nirginan
| was considering the list OF tho e
VINO have already heen chosen for
those gentlemen who got up this show
did pretty well considering, the point OF
view. Up TO date believe thirty have
been chosen and our Robert E Lee
stands eighteenth on the list He re-
celved siXty-nine votes and outranked
eleven who received less. The list be-
gins with Washington nj nnety-sevCn
votes, Then comes Lincoln, Webster.
Franklin, Grant. Marshall. Jefferson,
emerson, Longfellow. Fulton. Irving
Jonathan Edwards. Morse, Farragut.
Clay, Peabody, hawthorne, Robert T.
Lee, Peter Cooper. Horace Mann, eli
Whitney, Henry Ward Bcecher. James
Kent, Henry Story John Adams, Chan
ming, Audubon, Gilbert Stuart, and Asa
Gray. The last named was botanst os
good repute and received 81 votes.
= No soldiers OF the civil war are. in save
Lee and Grant and Farragut Only fivo
presidents are In, Madison, Monroe and
Jackson are strangely left out. Henry
Ward Beecher rs strangely put in.
don't know what he ever did that was
great or good. He Is the man who said
that "Sharp's rifles were better than
Bibles TO send TO Kansas and il was n
sin against high heaven to shoot at a
Shareholder and miss him" He is the
man whose coniugal creed was what
McCauley said of Lord Byron, Hate
your neighbor and love your neighbor's
wife" II will be observed that twelve
OF these men chosen are from MaSsaa-
chusetts, five from New York, four
from Virginia, two from Connecticut
two from Rhode Island and the others
scattered around
Well, if had vote I think would
strike out ten from that list and in
their places / would insert Andrew
Jackson, John c. Calhoun. Dewitt Clin-
ton, Alex Hamilton, Patrick Henry
Stonewall Jackson Sam Houston
Agassiz, Edison and Crawford Long.
don't know whether l would strike
Grants name or not. He was a good
hearted sort of man with n bulldog
tenacity Of purpose. but he was no gen
cral. Any man who took four years
with nearly three millions of men and
billions OF money to subdue 266 00G
ragge" confederates is no general. Bat
he behaved we'll after the surrender
and said: Let lis have peace" | Wa:
cOnversing not long since with a north
ern lady. a mature lady Of culture and
refinement, and when I remarked that
Grant did not fight to free the slaves
for he was a slave-owner and lived of
their hire. she was amazed and said
We'll what upon earth was he hgh .ire
for? | thought the war was abou.
slavery and nothing else" And so
had to explain. and told her how Lin
coin issued a proclamation setting the
slaves free IN January, 1863, but he eX
cep;e ed Missouri and Kentucky. and So
Grant held his slaves until January
1860. and kept on hiring them out and
Kept on fighting us to make us let Ours
frn JIa 1r' 10 20 u.
pcssibe?" she said: Surely You are
mis- taken" The truth is the history Of
this war is just beginning to leak out
Those yanks have abused us so long
that some Of our people have got dis.
couraged and begn to confess judgment
some OF them are even apoligizig 70,
that malignant book called "Uncit
Toms Cabin" l was delighted 10 read
John Temple Graves reply TO Hell,
Wattorsou. II was the truth. ever
word Of It, and our good people ;hanh
him for Il. Those impudent rascals w
north have had it drramatizcd and
stuck under our noses for nearly TWEEN.
ty-ive years and LOIS of our fool folk
go to see it and swallow it down
was eliminating about these ISLANDERS
and wondering what made these people
hate us so; when | came across ali eX-
plantation in an old book OF mythology
which said tha. when Jupiter first
created man he hung two bags on his
neck, one hung before and contained
all his faults and little sins: the other
hung behind and contained all his
neighbor's flurts and shortcomings
The man got very sick In n few dave
and Jupiter couldn't tell what was ;he
matter He was afraid the man was
going to die so he sent for Pluto. who