Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-05-08
Then lie DiscOurSes on a Sermon by
a Northern Preacher.
REPEATS WORDS OF ABUSE.
Barlow Philosopher Shows How
Some People Feel Toward the
South.


wicked devices To pass" There Is
good philosophy and much comfort In
that psalm. Its frequent perusal will
fortify us against trouble and leave us
calm and serene at least for time
But | don't believe that David had rs
many things to exaSperate him as Wa
do. Nctw here is a Chicago religious
paper sent 10 mo TO disturb my tran
guilty. 1t contains a sermon recently
delivered by the editor to large con.
gregation OF his followers and they
said amen and amen at every maledic.
tion that he uttered against our peo-
pie. j don't fret myself about what a
northern preacher says nor a northern
editor writes, but don't like that
amen from the saints, and it grieve,
me to realize that the more malignant
an editor is against us the more sub.
scriberS 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 dis.
trict and hang hundred OF them and
| would shoot q hundred. Worthy OF
cannibalS are the horrible things car.
ried on In the south. AS sure as you
live these eight million negroes will
one day burst loose If 1t IS to be
blood for blood. then woe to you in the
black belt. You southerners with your
rebellious pride SILL left you lynch the
poor negro for the vcry crime that
your fathers committed on their slaves
There is one voice that will speak II
all others are silent. (Applausc)
When the time comes We will do more
than speak. God will Judge you-you
whited sepulchers who strain at a Cnat
ana swallow a camel / have been
told that | have lost friends at the
south. l never had any. They were
never worthy Of my friendship. They
are neither Christians nor good citi-
1ens. hear the march of elsht nil
lion Ethiopians and 1t will be an awful
day when they burst loose in the black
belt
My wife says that had better take
the flowers out of the greenhouse and
maybe that will relieve me. see that
the first rose OF summer has come
forth in all Its crimson beauty. A pair
or tiny sparrows are drinking at the
fountain in the front yard. They a. O
yellow and black. akin to the canariaS.
A mocking bird Is singing in n neigh
bor's garden. Our 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 lazily on tho
blue gSasses and everything IS happy
that God has made except some mis-
cradle people who are never happy un-
less they are abusing something or
finding fault with their neighbors
But about those preachers who are
so distressed about the negro. I wish
To remark that the same paper that
gave DR.. GunSauluS's sentiments about
tho negro had in the next column in
Large headlines n press dispatch from
Connellsville at an account of fiendi sh
crime committed by eight negroes
upon Mr.. Mcmillan and his wife, shoot.
ing him and subjecting her to an out
rage worse than death and left them
Doth for dead. ] hope the posse has
got the negroes and lynched them by
this time Do you reckon would have
refused to help lynch the brutes IL
had been there and II that ChIca go
preacher had been there and refused u
helping hand I would have said Nov.
boys. lets hang him up by the legs and
give him time to repent-the cowardly
dog who would not avenge woman's
honor That's my faith and part OF
my religion. and I've been on that line
ever since these outnages began. re-
joice over every lynching OF brute.
OF the same kind. Governor Gambler
may purge his own record about lynch
Ing and denounce that PHILADELPHIA ed
itor who lied on him, but | am not
shot at and I am free TO say that a
man who would wait for the slow. un-
certain process OF the law and the
courts to avengc our wives and daugh-
ters Is no man at all and has my scorn
aud contempt. I think / had bettor
read psalm or 90 out and plant somo
more beans. for my wife says she
wants a succession OF crops OF all these
leguminous vegetables. | think that
Is what she called them.
II is that same purftanical 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 OF Mordecal is sitting at the gate.
Some of our writer's and orators declare
that peace and brotherly love now pre-
vaiis, but 1t Is like the game O. three
card monte now you see II and now
you don't see it. Henry Grady made
great speech in Boston and fairly
captured his audience but in less than
two weeks the Boston preachers were
beiittling his effort and bowling ~, the
south for Its bad faith to the hfteenth
amendment The race problem is still