The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-05-15
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tnem both for lead. hope the posse
has got the negroes and lynched them
by now. Do you reckon I would have
refused to help lynch the brutee if l
had been there and if that Chicago
preacher had been there aud refused q
helping hand [ would have said snow,
boys, let's hang him up by tho legs to
give him time to repent-the coward
~ dog who would not avenge a woman's
honor" That's my faith and part Of
'ay religion, and I've been on that
line ever since these outrages begun.
rejoice over every ;lynching Of a.
brute and our woods are full Of good
citizens Of the same mind. Governor
Gambler may purge his own record
about lynching and denounce that
Philadelphia editor who lied on him,
but I am not governor-and am not a
target to be shot at and / am free to
say that man who would wait for
the slow, uncertain process of the law
and the courts to avenge our wives
and daughters :s &C man az al aud
has my scorn and contempt. I think
l he'd better read psalm or go out and
plant some more beans, Cor my wife
says she wants a succession Of crops
OF all these leguminous vegetables.
think that is what she called them.
1t 10 that same puritanical set of
preachers who brought ON that 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 Mordecai is
sitting at the gate. Some Of our writ
ers and orators declare that peace and
brotherly love now prevails, but it is
like the game Of tthree card mon,e,"
now you see itand now you don't. sec
it. Henry Grady made great speech
in Boston and fairly captured his au-
dience, but in less than two weeks
the Boston preachers were belitting
his effort and bowling at he South
for its bad faith to the fifteenth
amendment. The race problem is
still their capital stock and is has
spread from New England to Chicago
and the great West. The q. A. RS.
have appointed committee to write
up q history of the Civil War and the
next thing will be to force it into the
public schools. The G. A. Rs. are a
poWer,in the land and their creed is.to
draw more pensions and bigger ones,
bat ! can s understand how they can
look Confederate soldier in the faee
and boast Of anything. IF it took
four or FIVE Of US to whip one Of them
Id never brag about it NOR ask for a
pension. and if it was given me
Hould eonscientionsly pour it back in
the jug. Whom GOD created Adam
Heplanted aEgarden for him and put
him in it to keep it and dress it and
that was innocent and manly, end 60
will go5out and dig some and turn the
hydrant leees, for it is awful dry.
Wish / could tnrn it loose on those
preachers. Since Bishop Gambler ex-
claimed in big head lines, ..Oh, for
one more breath Of Rufitanisml'
I've: been perusing history. or
course he dident mean those Puritans
who 9 came to New England and went
toimporting negroes and robbing the
Indians and burning witches. Mr..
Stedman and Miss Hutchinson have
eleven volumes Of American literature
and the second is devoted to those
horrible wiichcraft times when IN
|orease Mather and Cotton Mather and
Samuel SeWalland5 other saints hal
helpless women arrested and tried
and hung for witchcraft. The whole
procedure is in this volume and it
makes the heart sick to read how the
poor creasures.begged for their lives
and in; their last moments ON the gal
lows denied their guilt. How as
many as eight were hung at one time
and many more at various times and
how old Judge Sewall afterwards re-
panted and published theirrepentance
and asked God TO forgive their great
sin, etc. One woman, Mary Watkins,
who was q hired servant, white wo-
man, wastried, bat The evidence was
not quite sufieientt 10 convict, and so
they did not hang her, bat sent her of
TO Virginia 10 be sold as slave.
This is only q ecrap Of New England
history, and If any Of their descend
ants is ashamed Of it they have never
said SO to inc. Those Northern
brethren are awful Glow on apologies.
IRae I;inust 80 and stick the sweet
peas and sarry up ths fowsss FOR the