The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-05-15
fof SaIe by The Laurens Drug Co, Laurcns. S. c

ana had better get ready to poison
lhem She says they arc almost as
| pestlicrouS as Yankee prea, .Icrs and
are much nearer to us. NV garden is
clay subsOil and bakGs very quickly
after il rain, and it keeps me movinT
quite lively toprcvcnt il crust that Will
h"I icI INC ltllc plants come up. 1t
mas always been a mystery to me how
a lutte tender plant can uphcavc Il 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 Or. GunSaulus'S sentiments
about the negro had III the next column
III la.ge headlines Il press dispatch
from ConncllSvillc, Pa, an account of
IA hcndlsh crime committed bv ciuht
negroes upon Mr.. Mcmillan and his
wife, shooting him and subicctiny her
TO an outrage worse than death and
left them both for dead. | hope the
posse mas got the negroes and lynchrd
them by this time. DO YOU reckon
would have refused to help lynch the
bruieS If had been there and if that
Chicago preacher had been there and
refused Il helping hand would have
sald NOW, boys, LET'S hang him up by
the legs to give him time to repent
the cowardly dog who would not aycupc
a woman's honor That's NV faith
and part OF my religion, and I'vr been
on lhaI line ever since these olL.u,rs
begun | rejoice over every lynchIny
OF IL brute and our woods arc full of
good citizens Of the same mind. Gov
crnor Gambler may purge his own re-.
cord about lynching and dcrounce that
Philadelphia editor who lied on hIm.
OUT am not goVcrn0r---and am not a
target to be shot at and | am free to
say that a man who would wait for the
SLOW, uncertain process Of the law aud
the cOur'S To aVengG our wives and
daughters IS no man at all and has INV
scOrn and contempt. | think | had
better read psalm or 90 out and plant
some more beans, for my wife saws she
wants succession of crops of all these
legumlnous vegetables | think that
is what she called them.
1t is that same puritanlcal set of
preachers who brought on the war and
we thought the next generation would
have more sense and let us alone since
slavery was abolished, but like fathers
like sons, and they are yet miserable as
long as Mordccal is sitting at the rate.
Some OF our writers and orators de-
clare that peace and brOtherly love
now prevails, but ii is like the game of
st three card montc,n now YOU see il
and now you don't see it. Henry
Grady made a great speech in Boston
and fairly captured his audience, but
in less than two weeks the Boston
preachers were beitlling his effort and
howling at the South for It's bad faith
to The fifteenth amendment. The race
problem is still their capita! stock and
IT has spread from New England to
Chicago and the great West. The &.
~. RS. have appointed Il committee to
write up history Of the civil war, and
| the next thing vii. be To force it into
;hc public schools. The G.. "A. RS.
are power IN the land and their creed
| Is to draw more pensions and bigger
ones, but can't understand how thcv
can look Confederate soldier in the
face and boast OF anything. If it took
| Tour OF us to whip one of them I'd
never bra9 about it nor ask for pen
sion, ana II 1t was given ne | would
conscicntously pour it back i'm the Jug.
When God created Adam He planted
Il garden for him and put him in it to
keep 1t and dress it and that was i'm
noccnt and manly, and 80 | will 90 out
and dig Scmc and turn the hydranl
loose, for it is awful dry. Wish |
could turn 1T loose on those preachers.
Since Bishop Gambler exclaimed IN bio
hca lines, son, for one more breath
, of Puristanlsm !" pvc been pcrusina
history. Of course he dident near
those lurtans who came to New
England and went to importing ne
groCs and robbng the Indians am
burning witches. Mr.. Stcdman ant
, Miss Hutchinson have eleven vol
: umcs American literature and IT,,
sccoLd is devoted TO those horrible
e witchcraft times when Increase Malhe
I and Cotton Mathcr and Samuel Scwal
: and other SAINTS had helpless womc
a arrested and triel and hung for witch
craft. The who'e procedure is in thi
It volume and it makes the heart sick I
It read how the poor creatures bcygc
IS for their lives aud III their last IN,
d mems on the galiows denied the
ic guilt How as many az cighl wei
~ hung at one time and many more
le various times, and how olG Jud.