The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-06-12
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Reunion at Memphis was a Great Gathering
Of Brave Men.
Atlanta Ceastit,.sio,..


never complain. They fight back and
defend their honor, but, like the sons
OF Alnomok, they never complain.
Surely they are great people. They
snffer, and ere S::ToSs, aud whhcu sui
diers were wanted for Cuba and the
philippines they came at the first call.
Brethren. let's stop all this anti
Southern sentiment and make our
preachers and editors stop it. There
is no good in rubbing an old sore.
WMo don't know what may happen, and
We may need those boys to save the
country. The old veterans are dying
out, but their CONS are the same old
stock. The South is fast coming to
the front, and is destined to be great
po:fer in the land, and if we keep on
aggravating them with abuse, it is
possible they may get fighting mad
some of these days and get up another
civil. war and-and-and-whip US
again, or come pretty near it. That's
what I would say if wasent a fool.
These are alarming times. Ware,
fires, foods. Awful calamities on
land and on the sea, explosions in
mines, wrecks on railroads, murders,
I.suicides, robberies, abductions Of
children, and worse than al, there
seems to be no stop to these horrible
outrages of brutal negroes. Then
there is the insubordination Of stu
dents in our colleges and che infamy
of haziug is still going on. Il dis
tressed me to see among those expell-
ed from West Point the names Of two
Southerners-one from Alabama and
one from Texas. Education and dis
oipline seem to be divorced. Time
Was when Mr. Beman boosted that he
had subdned every big boy in his
school-subdued him by the rod. Old
man Isham did tho same thing, and SO
did DIR. Patterson thresh out the
worst boys at our Manual Labor
school; but now it is the boys who
rule the teachers and make demands,
and the consequence is our colleges
have no discipline and hazing seems
to be as popular as ever. I Thought
that this hazing business was mod
ern invention, but in the second vol
ume Of American Literature" I find
g letter OF John Lawson, Scotchmap,
who lived For years among the North
Carolina Indians. He is writing to
his folks at home in 1714 about the
customs Of those Indians, and says.
the way they make warriors Of their
young men is TO husquenaw them in
early manhood. They are shut up in
g dark log house for six weeks, and
kept half starved and made to drink
deocction Of pellitory bark, which
renders them raving mad. They make
the most dismal. hellish cries and
howlinge. ever heard. When given
little meat it is mixed with nasty,
loathsome, filthy stuff. After six
weeks they come out as poor and mis-
cradle IS creatures ever become. Some
Of them die under this diabolical
treatment, and some young men run
away to avoid it. The savages told
me that this hardens them to the
fatigues Of war and kills of the weak
and infirln and cowardly vino wouli
bring diegrace upon the nation. Hus.
quenawing! That's it; that's where
hazing started, and West Point is
where it matriculated and Aourishedl
This characterization of college boys
| seems to have crert into our own
Southern institutions, and has we'll
nigh demoralized Oxford and Tusca-
loose. What does it mean2 We had
nothing like it in our day. We fear.
ed our fathers and we feared and re.
speoted the faculty. The Tech boys
caught the infection not long ago; but
that don't matter very much, for if
those boys do anything elss besides
play ball, the newspapers don t pub.
| l;sh IL. Ball seems to be the only