The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-05-16

maybe that will relieve mc. see that
the first rose of summer has come forth
IN all It's crimson beauty. a pair of
tiny sparrows are drinking at The foun-
tam III the front yard. They are yet
low and black, akin to the canorics
~ mockingbird is singing in a ncrh-
boris garden. Gu, flock of pigeons is
sailing around IN graceful curves. The
peacock is slrnltiny and spreading his
magnificent tail and is happy IN his
| vanity. The dog lies laZily on the blue
grass and every thing is happy that God
has made except some miserable peo-
| pie who are never happy unless thcv
| are abusing something or finding fault
| with their nciyhhors. What Slack.
trough the South is TO that class up
North. They can differ with each
other in politics and the tariff and re-
liSlon and the Philippine war, but when
lhcy get tired Of quarrcling they say,
wen, now, let's hold up awhile and
abuse those ni9ger killers down South.n
That's harmonizcl. Another preach
er, Dr. Gunsaulus, delivered the ora
ton III Galcna in honor of General
Grants birthday and made II appear
that Grant was the author and tiuiShcr
OF emancipation and negro Suilrauc
and 1t would be sacriiCgc to permit the
ballot to he taken away from him while
the shadow of that monument Is over
the nation. Oh, my country What
an idiot! Everybody who reads his
tory knows that Grant was a slave
owner AMI lived Off the hire of his ne
groes up to the ve:y day OF their free
dom-and he uniformly declared he
was not lighting for the negro, but for
the union. Let the reverend ucnllc-
man read in Applctot.'s Cvclopcdia
OF American Biography where Gen.
cral Grants old father wrote TO him nj
81. Louis in May, 1850, that if he
couldcnt live of the hire Of his NEGROES
he had better move 10 Galcna and
work III the lanyard. But | will take
Il brlcf rest again in the garden, for my
Wlic says The potato bugs have come
and l had better get ready to ,.oison
them. She says they are almost as
ncStllcrous as Yankee preachers and
are much nearer to us. My garden is
clay subsoil and hakcs very quickly
alter rain, and it keeps me moving
quite hVcly toprevrnt Il crust that Will
not let the little plants come up. 1t
has always been mystery to me how
a little tender plant can uphcavc Il clod
that will weigh half a pound.
'ut about those preachers who are
go distressed about the negro. wish
to rcmalk that the same pancr lha,
gave DR.. Gunsauus's Sentiments
about The negro had IN the next column
in large headlines Il press dispatch
from Connellsvillc, Pa. an account of
llcndlsh crime committed bv eight
negroes upon Mr.. Mcmillan and his
wife, shooting him and subiccling her
TO an outrage worse than death and
LETT them both for dead. hope the
posse has got the negroes and lynchcd
them by this time. DO YOU reckon
wolld have refused to help lynch the
brulcs if had been there and if that
Chicago preacher had been there and
lcluscd a helping hand | would have
sad SHOW, boys, lc!'s hang him up by
The legs to give him time to repent
the cowardly dog who would not avcnrc
Il woman's honor" That's my faith
and part of my religion, and I've been
OF that line ever since these outravcs
begun. rejoice over every lynchlng
of Il brute and Our woods are fun of
good citizens Of the same mind. Gov
ernor Gambler may purge his own re-
cord about lynching and dcnouncc that
Philadelphia editor who lied on HIM.
but | am not gOvernOr-and am not a
target TO be shot ut and | am free to
say that man who would wait for the
slow, uncertain process of the law and
the courts to HVengc our wives and
daughters is no man at all and has my
scorn and contempt. | think had
better read psalm or 90 out and plant
some more beans, for my wife says she
wants succession of crops of all these
lcguminous vegetables. | think that
is what she called them.
1t il that same puritancal 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 abohshed, but like fathers
like sons, and they are yet miserable as
long as Mordccm is sitting at the gate
Some Of our writers and orators dc.
clare that peace and brothcrly love
now prevails, but 1t is like the game O
"thrcc card montc," now you see i
and now you don't see it. Hcnr,
Grady made great speech in Boslol
and fairly captured his audience, bu
in less than two weeks the Boston
preachers were bclitlling his effort anc
bowling at the South for lts bad faitl
TO the fifteenth amendment. The race
problem is still their capital stock anc
it has spread from New England tC
Chicago and the great West. The G.
~. RS. have appointed committee t'
write up history of the civil war, an'
the next thing will be to force it into
the public schools. The G.. y. RS
are power IN the land and their creed
IS to draw more pensions and bigger
ones, but | can't understand how they
can look Il Confederate soldier in the
face and boast of anything. If it took
four OF us to whip one Of them III
never braS about it nor ask for Il pen
sion, and If it WAS gwen nc | won'd
cOnscicntiOusly pour it back in the jug.
When God created Adam He planted
q garden for him and Dut him in it tO