The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-16
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Barlow Man Wrought Up Over
Sermon By Northern Preacher.
GE QUOTES WORDS OF A PSALM
Repeats the Abusive Language Used BY
People Who Feel Indignantly
Toward the South.


who prospereth in his way AID bring
eth wicked devices to pass" There is
good philosophy and much comfort in
that psalm. Its frequent perusal will
fortifv us against trouble and leave us
calm and serene at lease for time.
But don't believe that David had as
many things to exasperate him as we
do. Now here is Chicago religious
paper sent to me to disturb my tran
quality. 1t contains sermon recently
delivered by the editor to large con-
gregation of his followers and they said
amen and amen at every maledictlon
that he uttered against our people. I
don't fret myself about what north
ern preacher says nor northern ed
itor writes, but I don't like that amen
and amen from the saints and it grieves
rue to realize that the more malignant
AN editor is against us the more sub
scribers his paper gets. Now this
Chicago editor says in his sermon:
eff l were president when the next
lynching takes place in the south L
would put Gordon around that district
and hang a hundred OF them, and 1
would shoot a hundred. Worthy Of
cannibals are the horrible things car
ried on in the south. AS sure as you
live these eight million negroes will
one day burst loose. If it is to be
blood for blood, then woe to you III
the black belt. You southerners with
your rebellious pride still left you
lynch the poor negro for the very
hot fol ttpI IN
their slaves, There is one voice that
will speak if all others are silent.
(Applause.) When the time comes We
will do more than speak. God will
Judge you-you whited sepulchers
who strain at gnat and swallow
camel. 1 have been told that I have
lost friends at the south. l never had
any. They were never worthy of my
friendship They are neither Chris
tians nor good citizens. l hear the
march of eight million Philippians,
and it will be an awful day when they
burst loose in the black belt"
My wife says that had better take
the flowers out of the greenhouse and
maybe that will relieve me. 1 see
that the first rose of summer has come
forth in oil its crimson beauty. A
pair of tiny sparrows are drinking at
the fountain in the front yard. They
are yellow and black, akin to the
canaries. A mockingbird is singing
in neighbours garden. Our flock OF
pigeons is sailing around in graceful
!, curves. The peacock is strutting and
esaspreading his magnificent tail and is
9happy in his vanity. The dog lies
- laziiy on the blue grass and every
thing is happy that God has made ex-
cept some miserable people who are
never happy unless they are abusing
something or finding fault with their
neighbors. What slack-trough the
south is to that class up north. They
can differ with each other in politics
and the tariff and religion and the
Philippine war, but when they get
tired of quarreling they say, "Well,
now, let's hold up awhile and abuse
those niger killers down south. !"
That's harmonizer.
Another preacher, DR.. Gunsaulus,
delivered the Grafton at Galena in
honor of General Grants birthday and
made it appear that Grant was the au.
thor and fnisher of emancipation aid
negro suffrage and it would be sacri-
lege to permit the ballot to be taken
away from him while the shadow of
that monument is over the nation. Oh,
my countryl What an idiot! Every
body who reads history knows that
Grant was a slave owner and lived on
the hire of his negroes up to the very
day of their freedom-and he uniform
le declared he was not fighting for the
negro, but for the union. Let the rev.
erend gentleman read in Appleton 8
Encyclopedia of American Biography"
sWhere General Grants old father
%rote to him at st. Louis in May, 1860,
that if he couldn't live off the hire of
his negroes he had better move to Ga
lena and work in the lanyard. But l
will take a brief rest again in the gar
den, for ny wife says the potato bugs
had come and I had better get ready
to poison them. She says they are al
most as pestiforous as yankee preach
ers and are much nearer to us. My
garden is clay subsoil and bakes
very quickly after rain, and it keeps
me moving quite lively to prevent a
crust that will not let the little plants
come up. 1t mas always been mys-
terry to me how a little tender plant
can upheave clod that will weigh
half pound.
But about those preachers who are
so distressed about the negro. wish
to remark that the same paper that
gave DIR. Gunsaulus' sentiments about
the negro had in the next column in
large headlines a press dispatch from
Cornellsville, Pa, an account of a
fiendish crime committed by eight
negroes upon Mr.. Mcmillan and his
wife, shooting him and subjecting her
to an outrage worse than death and
left them both for dead. I hope the
posse has got the negroes and lynched
bhem by this time. Do you reckon I
would have refused to help lynch the