The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-06-04
BILL ARP.


fought in the civil war from Dalton to
Jonesboro. Twice l have been president
Of these United States since the sur
render and have attended all the re-
Unions UP to date, but now they have
got me penned up here as a Tennessee
lunatic and won't let m e go to New
Orleans. l can't get a passport because
I am Jesus Christ. Can't you do some
thing for me? l want to go and rejoice
with those who rejoice and weep with
those who weep"
That poor fellow has my sympathy.
Maybe if they had let him go with the
veterans it would have restored his
reason. l know it frightened up our
boys and now they can't talk about
anything else. Was there ever such
glowing, growing patriotism? 1t looks
Ike the number increases at every re-
union and that without pensions. Tit
Grand Army Of the Republic has re-
unions, but it is mainly to keep up the
pension grab, the thing that Tom Ben
ton called the bottomless gulf OF char
tiles and gratuities."
l saw it stated the other day that 70
per cent OF the federal army were for
eigners or forcign-born and were
fighting only for bounty or booty or
buncomb, and they got it all and the
pensions thrown IN. Oh, that was a
grand gathering at New Orleans. 1t
seems to me that If l was a northern
man | would say: Look here, boys.
we can't do anything with those rebels
down south, and move we quit trying.
We've been working on EN- for nearly
forty years and have never converted
one yet" AS they marched through
New Orleans 100, 900 strong you could
hear that same old rebel yell from ST
Charles to Vicksburg. Old Father
Mountcastle told me it bursted every
telegraph wire south Of Mason and
Dixon's line and away up In Pennsyl-
vania the Western Union had to cut
down their polses for a hundred miles.
But I'm distressed about Mississippi.
Who is Governor Longino, anyhow!
His name Is not in any biography that
I've got. l reckon it wasent worth
putting in. I reckon he Is a foreigner
or he wouldent have invited Roosevelt,
the s%landerer, down to Jacksonville to
help lay the corner stone OF the sapi-
toll. Roosevelt said that JEFF Davis was
the arch repudiator and while governor
vetoed the bill that made provision to
pay the repudiator debt, and he has
never retracted nor apologized for that
lie. | wonder il Longino knows that
Governor McNut was the author OF re-
pudiation and gave as his reason that
the O was borrowed from Baron
R%othschild, in whose veins flowed the
blood of Judas and Shylock, and whose
mortgages would conflscate our cotton
fields and make serfs Of our children.
That's what he said in his message.
hut the legislature wouldent vote for 1t,
and it took five years to get the Dill
through. All the time Mr.. Davis wal
fighting for his country in Mexico and
got desperately wounded at Buena
Vista and had to use clutches for six
wears. He never was in the legislature
nor was he ever governor, and yet
Roosevelt. the s%landerer, lets the lie
stand and Longino invites him down
to lay the corner stone. Oh, my oun
try! When will all this teadyism ana
hypocrisy cease? Oh, Mississippi! Ho"
are the mighty fallen!
Now those utterances are my own
neither the editor nor any paper Is re-
sponsible for them. My feelings ana
emotions are all my own. | the
memory Of Mr.. Davis and have pro-
found respect for his widow, and there
Is no limit to my contempt for n
brute who put manacles on him or the
conceited historian who slandered hlni.
I: Is a comfort to despise them both.
And now, three cheers for Indiana,
the champion state for lynching ne
eroes when they commit outrages on
their women. Not a week passes u
there is a fresh case and the people
turn out and scour the country Tor the
brute. And now they are driving all
the negroes out of a county where an
outrage was committed. You see they
have no chain gangs up there and but
few negroes. L%ynching has almost stop
ned in Georgia because punishment IS
more speedy and there is a chain gang
in sight in almost every county, put
let q sure-enough case come up and a
sure-enough l~ynching will swiftly Ol-
low. There are more than 1000 men In
our state who have not bowed the
knee to Baal-and the Rev. Newell
Dwight Hills shouldn't sleep in a bed
in my house unless he was sick INTO
death.
But enough Of all this. 1t sounds like
I am mad with somebody, but am not.
We are all happy at my house tonight.
for our far-away boy Is on his way
home. We have just had a telegram
from him and he will be here tonight.
He lives in Mexico City and it has been
three long years since we have seen
him. This Is Carl, the youngest boy
the net of his mother-the n she
loves the best and prays the longest
for every night. He will stay with us
a few days and then go away again
and perhaps never see us any more
NV wife has been saving the spring
chickens for him and the flowers are
not to be cut till he comes, and the
strawberries are still bearing and the
cake is in the oven. Nothing is too
precious for Carl and he and LESSEE
will sing their q d songs and rehearss
4, II Ionn,, dove whom Ue 1iyed in the