The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-05-15
BILL ARP QUOTES A PSALM
He Discourses on a Sermon by a
Northern FanatiCa1 Preacher

I" Fret not thyself because of evil.
doers. Fret not thysclf because of
him who prospeleth in his way and
bringeth wicked devices to pass"
There is good philosophy and much
comfort III that psalm. It's frequent
pcrusal will fortify us against trouble
and leave us calm and serene at least
foi time. But l don't believe that
David had as many things to cxaspcr-
ate him as we do. Now here is n
Chicago religious paper sent 20 me TO
disturb my tranquility. 1t contains
sermon recently delivered by the editor
to large congregation of his followers
and they said amen and amen at every
malediction that he uttered against our
people. | don't fret myself about
what a Northern preacher says FOR a
Northern editor writes, but | don't
like that amen and amen from the
saints, and it gricvcs me to realize that
the more malignant an editor is against
us the more subscribers his paper
gets. Now this Chicago editor says in
his sermon:
If l were president when the next
lynching takes place in the South |
would put Gordon around that district
and hang hundred of them and !
would shoot a hundred Worthy of
cannibals are the horrible things carried
Oh in the South. AS sure as you live
these eight million negroes will one
day burst loose. If it is to be blood
for blood, then woe to you in the black
belt You Southerners with your re-
bellious pride still lett you lynch the
poor negro for the very crime that your
fathers committed on their slaves.
There is one voice that will speak if
all others are silent. (Applausc.)
When the time comes we will do more
than speak. God Will Judge you-you
whitcd scpulchers who strain at Il gnat
and swallow camel | have been
told that | have lost friends at the
South. never had any. They were
never worthy of my friendship. They
are neither Christians nor good cili-
zcns. | hear the march of eight NIL.
lion EthlOpians, and it will be an awful
day when they burst loose in the black
belt"
My wife says that 1 had better take
the flowers ont of the greenhouse and
maybe that will relieve lnc. 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-
tain in the front yard. They are ycl-
low and black, akin TO the canaries.
A mockingbird is singing in Il neigh
bOr's garden. Gu, flock of pigeons is
sailing around In graceful curves. The
peacock is strutting and spreading his
magnificent tail and is happy IN his
vanity. The dog lies Iazily on The blue
grass and everything is happy that God
has made except some miserable pco-
pie who are never happy unless they
are abusing something or finding fault
with their neighbors. What slack.
trough the South is to that class uI
North. They can differ with each
other in politics and the tariff and re-
ligion and the Philippine war, but whcl
they get tired of quarrcling they say
" We'll, now, let's hold up awhile anC
abuse those nigger killers down South. ,
That's ha' mOnizei. Another preach
er, DIR. Gnnsaulus, delivered The ora
ton at Galena in honor of Genera
GRANTS birthday and made it appea
that Grant was the author and linishe
or emancipation and negro suffrag
and it would be sacrllege To permit th
ballot to he taken away from him Will
the shadow of that monument is owe
the nation. Oh, my country Wha
I an IDIOT! Everybody who reads hi,
tory knows that Grant was slav
I owner and lived off the hire of his nC
groes up to the ve:y day of their fre,
3 doin-and he uniformly declared h
e was not fighting Tor the negro, but fc
The union. Let the reverend Hcntl
II man read in Appletou's "Cycloped
l. of American Biography" where &c,
n eral Grants Old father wrote TO him
ST. Louis in May, 1860, that ii
IS couldcnt live off the hire of his negro
II he had better move TO Galcna al
&c work in the lanyard. But ! will ia
r. a brief rest again in the garden, for Il
'u wife says the potato bugs have COZ