The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-08

a.. ,;,,,e more grape, Captain Bragg
.o,d General Taylor, at the battle OIL
p,ona Vista And so we say now TO
rontain Teddy: "a few more niggers 10
of6ces nm North and few more to our
southern postoffices. Go the whole hog
while YOU are it. Mckinley gave you Il
starter by appointing negro over
white community at Hogansville, and an
other at Athens the cultured college city
of the South but he got alarmed and took
the back track. 1t was just such case
as YOU have now in Mississippi at In
dianola, for the people of Hogansville
went 4 miles to get their mail rather
than take it from a negro-a dirty poll
tician." Teddy has done no worse on the
post office line. The postoffices are the
peoples. not the Presidents They are
almost as near to use and as sacred as
is our preacher or our family physician.
No greater insult, no greater outrage
upon our rights, could be perpetrated by
tryant than to appoint negro as
postmaster in a white community. The diff
ference between Teddy and Mr.. Mckinley
is that the latter played fool for a while
and quit, but Teddy keeps it up and
grows more defiant of Southern opinion
and Southern Indignation. Sometimes
providence afflicts the people with fool,
and sometimes with a knave to tyran-
nize over them, but it looks like we are
to have both fool and knave in the sane
person. But 1.-The Lord loveth whom he
hasteneth.'
medical friend from over the line
writes me that he has a growing sense
of justice and abounds in sympathy for
our long suffering people, but that Ted
dy's defornrity does not come from origin
al sin or total depravity, but from phy5i
cal defects in his anatomy and says:
Il have studied his Uranium and find
that he has too small a cerebellum. His
occiput goes straight up from the medul-
la oblongata and meets the sinciput at
right angles and leaves no room for
moral attribute. A perpendicular back
head like Teddys indicates a fighting
bear-killing, athletic and foolhardy man.
The aphryon and the messiah plane arc
cramped together and Teddy's back head
is a perpendicular plane without hill or
dale. A man with very small cere-
bellum is peculiar, and it will be found
on inspection of the sinciput or forehead
that the nose and cheek bones generally
rest on an enormous jawbone, or, as
you might say. the jawbone of an ass
If Teddy had lived in SIMPSONS day he
would have rejoiced to have been his
armour bearer, and carried his jawbone
some"
Just so-eXactly-not only So but also,
/ understand it all now, and thank my
medical friend. The lack of cerebellum
and medulla oblongata and occiput has
made Teddy crazy about bears and he
groes and other black woolly things
But l should like to know what kind OF
a cerebellum that fellow Crumpicker or
Stumpsucker or Dirtdauber has got, th9t
makes him so venomous toward our peo-
pie. At Teddy's request he has intro
duced a resolution to have committee
appointed to visit Indianola and see what
our people are doing to the colored post
mistress. Of course, he will be appointed
chairman OF the committee, but I'll
wager ten dollars he don't go. He is
nothing but a gas bag and coward. iir.
Thompson tried to get him to come down
to Alabama and see how the negroes on
his big plantations were getting on. He
was invited and accepted the invitation,
but he did not come. He was afraid. And
that is what discourages me about any
growing sense of justice prevailing
among the common people up North. If
they are getting any kinder why 90
they send such 2 malignant man TO
Congress? Hating the South seems 20
be the stock in trade of most of the
Northern members. The brainy men, like
Charles Francis Adams, have modified
and modified very much of late. Forty
years ago he was commanding a niger
regiment down here for which l will
never forgive him, but lately he has
made a speech at Charleston and an
other in New York, in which he says
concerning the right of a State to
secede: eff we accept the judgment o.
modern students and Investigators it
would seem as if the weight of argument
falls into the Confederate scale The
issue was settled by might and not by
right" They why don't they pension our
soldiers and pay us for the property they
destroyed-and ask our pardon besides?
Four generations! Old John Adams,
John Quincy Adams, his son Charles
Francis Adams, his son, and he is 20
years old and has been forty years find
ing out that We had the right to secede
and they had no right to free our
negroes without paying for them Be-
sides all that, this Adams took charge
of whole regiment of our runaway ne
groes to fight us with. Lew Wallace did
the same thing. Yes he did worse. He
was president of the court that tried
Wirz and convicted him and hung him
on perjured evidence. The longer / live
the more / am convinced that as a gen.
.eraf rule the smartest men are the
meanest-especially the politicians.
Think of Henry Ward Beecher preaching
from his pulpit that Sharp's rifles were
better than Bibles to convert the slave
owners of the South. and so his people
bought the rifles and the ammunition
and told old John Brown to go ahead.
But the niggers were loyal to their mas
ters and wouldn't burn nor kill nor de-
stroy. And hence Lew Wallace and
Adams and many others armed all they
could muster up and Joined the grand
army and marched them down upon our
helpless women and children. At that
time there were 10000 runawarys VI
north-fugitive slaves-the meanest OF
the race and nobody but an unprincipled
dog of a man would have led them
against us. Down further South the ne
groes mixed with gentlemen and were
true and faithful during the war and as
nrnI III ID T.