The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-02-05
BILL ARP.

"A little more grape, Captain
Bragg" said Geenral Taylor, at the
battle Of Buena Vista. And so we say
now to Captain Teddy. "A few more
niggers to Offices up north and few
more to our southern postoffices. Go
the whole hog while you are at it.
| Mckinley gave you a starter by ap-
pointing a negro over a white comnu-
nifty at Hogansville, and another 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 miles to get their mail rather
than take 1t from negro-a dirty poll
tician." Teddy has done no worse on
the postoffice line. The postoffices are
the peoples not the presidents. They
are almost as near to us and as sacred
as is Our preacher or our family ply
sician. No greater insult, no greater
outrage upon our rights, could be per-
pe:rated by a tyrant than to appoint
& negro as postmaster in white COM
munity. The difference between Teddy
| end Mr.. Mckinley is that the latter
played foo! for a while and quit, but
Teddy keeps it up and grows more de-
| hant of southern opinion and southern
indignation. Sometimes providence af-
ficts the people with fool, and some
| times with a knave to tyrannize over
them, but it looks like We are to have
both fool and knave in the same per-
| W I Nd
| chastenth."
| A medical friend from over the line
writes me that he has growing sense
of justice and abounds in sympathy for
our long-suffering people, but that Ted
dys deformity does not come from
original sin or total depravity. but
from physical defects in his anatomy,
and says:
Il have studied his cranium and find
that he has too small a cerebellum.
His occiput goes straight up from the
medulla obbngata and meets the sin
ciput at right angels and leaves no
room for moral attributes. A perpen-
dicular back head like Teddy's indi-
Gates a fighting, bear-killing, athletic
and foolhardy man. The aphryon and
! the messiah plane are cramped together
and Teddys back head is a perpen-
dicular plane without hill or dale. A
man with a very small cerebellum is
peculiar. and it will be found on in
! spection Of the sinciput or forehead
! that the nose and cheek bones general
| " rest on an enormous jawbone, or,
| as you might say. the jawbone OF an
ass. If Teddy had lived in Sampson S
day he would have rejoiced to have
been his armour-bearer. and carried his
! jawbone some
! Just so-exactiy-not only so, but
also. | understand it all now, and
thank MY medical friend. The lack OF
cerebeliun and medulla oblongata and
ccciput has made TEDDY crazy about
bears and negroes and other black
woolly things. But | should like to
| know what kind of a cerebellum that
fellow Crumpicker or Stumpsucker or
Dirtdauber has got, that makes him so
yenomous toward our people. Al
Teddys request he has introduced
resolution to have committee ap-
pointed to visit Indianola and see what
our people are doing to the colored
postmistress. OF course, he will be ap-
poiuted chairman Of the committee, but
I'll wager ten dollars he don't go. he
is nothing but gas bag and coward.
Mr.. Thompson tried to get him 10
come down to Alabama and see how
the negroes on his big plantation were
getting OF. He was invited and accepted
the invitation. but he did not come. he
was afraid. And that is what dlscour-
ages me about any growing sense OF
Justice prevailing among the common
people up north. IL they are getting any
kinder why do they send such a ma
Iignant man to congress? Hating the
south seems to be the stock in trade o.
most of the northern members. Inc
brainy men. like Charles Francis
Adams. have modified very much OF
late. Forty years ago he was COM
manding a niger regiment down mere
for which | will never forgive him, Dut
lately he has made speech at
Charleston and another in New YORK,
in which he says concerning the rlsht
of q s+afe TO secede: IF we accept the
Judgment OF modern students and III
yestigators it would seem as II the
weight of argument falls into the con-
fedetate scale. The issue. was settled
by might and not by right" Then why
don't they pension our soldiers ana
nav us for the property they destroyed
and ask our pardon besides. Four
generations! Old John Adams, John
Quincy Adams, his son Chas. Frances
Adams and now this Charles Frances,
his son, and he is 10 years old and has
been forty years finding out that we
had the right to secede and they had
no right to free our negroes without
paving for them. Besides all that, this
Adams took charge OF whole regi-
ment Of our runaway negroes to tight
us with. Lew Wallace did the same
thing. Yes he did worse. He was presl.
dent of the court that tried Wirz and
convicted him and hung him on per-
iured evidence. The longer ! live the
more I am convinced that as gen
eral rule the smartest men are the
ueanest-especiaily the politicians
1,h,n,, - Henry Ward Beecher preach