The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-05-09
ARP QUOTES PSALM
Then he DiSCOurses on a Sermon by
a Northern Preacher.
REPEAiS WORDS OF ABUSE.
Barlow Philosopher Shows How
Some People Feel Toward the
South.

Fret not thyself because OF him who
pnospereth in his way and bridgeth
wicked devices to pass" There IS
good philosophy and much comfort in
that palm. It's frequent pC.uSal VIII
fortify us against trouble and leave us
calm and serene at least fer time.
But | don't believe that David had rs
many things 20 eXaspeEate him as We
do. Now here is Chicago rellg Gus
paDer sert to me 10 disturb my Ira@-
guilty. 1T contains d sermon recently
delivered by the editor t. a large con-
gregation OF his followers aDd they
said amen and amen at every ma.@1.c-
ton that he uttered Ggain.t cur pao-
pie. | don't fret myself about what
northern preacher says ao7 northern
editor writes, but | don't like that
amen from the saints, and it grieve5
me to realize that the moro malignant
an editor is against us the more SAB
scribers his paper gets. Nov this
Chicago editor says in his sermon:
'If were president when the mex,
lynching takes place in the sJu.h /
would put a Gordon around that dis-
trict and hang q hundred O. t2e.n ard
would shoot a hundred. W1r ny OF
cannfhals are the horrible thir&s car
ried on in the south. AS sure as You
live these eight milli.a neG12@S Will
Cne day burt loose. If it Is 10 be
blood for blood, then woe to YOU N the
black belt. You sOEherncrS with you"
roSailicus pride sill left you lynch III"
poar negro for the VerJ criTe tat
your fathers committed on their saves.
There Is one voice that will Spc K Il
al Others are silent. (ApplHuE"l
When the time cones we will do ?o'e
than speak. God Will Judge you-y"a
wh;led sepUlchers who strain a. sat
acG swallow a camel. l have bc'n
tod that have lost friends at tHa
south. l never had any. They we're
never worthy OF my Friendship. Th2y
are neither Christians nor good cit
zens. I hear the march Of eight MI
lien Ethiopians. and 1t will be an aWiiI
day when they burst loose in the b!aeE
belt"
Ny wife says that I had better take
the flowers out Of the greenhouse and
maybe that will relieve me. see tina
The first rose Of summer has com"
forth in all its crimson beauty. A pair
Ct tiny sparrows are drinking at tha
fountain In the front yard. They e
yellow and black, akin t. tie canGriei.
A hooking bird is singing in neigh.
boris garden. Our fock OF pigeons IS
aailing around in graceful curves. Toe
peacock Is sTutting and spreading $
1ragnifcent TAIL and is happy in MS
vanity. The dog lies lazily on 1'e
blue gSasses and everything IS happy
trat God has made except some mis-
cradle people who are never happy un-
less they are abusing something tr
finding fault with their neighSors.
Put about tho?e preachers who are
20 distressed about the negro. | wish
to remark that the same paper that
gave Or. Cunsauluss sentiments about
the negro had i'm the next column III
large headlines a press dispatch from
ConnellsYille at an account OF tenGiSh
crime committed by eight Negroes
upon Mr.. Mcmillan and his wife, shoot.
tng him and subjecting her to an out
rage worse than death and left them
both for dead. | hope the posse haa
got the negroes and lynched them by
khis time Do you reckon I would have
refused to help lynch the brutes If |
had been there and II that Chicago
preacher had been there and refused
helping hand would have said NOW
bows. let's hang him up By the legs anc
give him time TO repent-the coward y
dog who would not avenge woman :
honor" That's my faith and part o.
nv religion. and I've been on that line
ever sine, these outnages began. re-
joice ovLr every lynching Of brute,
of the Same kind. Governor Gambler
may purge mis- own record about lynch.
Ing and denounce that Philadelphia cd.
.tor who lied on him, but | am not
Eovernor-and am not target to be
shot at and ] am free to say that
man who WHUld wait for the slow. un.
certain process of the law and inc
courts 10 avunga our wives ard daugh-
ters is no man a. ell ard has my scorn
and contempt. think | had be:'oI
reed a psslm - 90 ont and plant some
more beams, for NY wife says she
wants a snccssiaa Of crops Of all the e
ieg,minous vegetables. | think that
Is what she called them.
1t is that same puritarical SCI 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 Of MordecaI Is sitting at the gate.
Rome Of our writer's and orators declare