Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1903-06-03
BILL ARP.
SxKNWNssNxs xssgs1s Z. E.sssNaxEMMNxNXs

OF these United States since the sur
render and have attended all the re-
unions up to date. but now they have
Eot me penned up here as a Tennessee
lunatic and won't let me go to New
Orleans. | can't get passport because
| am Jesus Christ. Can't you do some
thing for me? | 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 so with the
veterans It would have restored his
reason. | know it frightened up our
boys and now they cant 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 The
Grand Army OF the Rcpub lic has re-
unions. but it is plainly TO keep up the
pension grab. the thing that Tom Ben
ton called the bottomlesS gulf OF char
itieS and gratUiCiCs."
saw it stated the other day that 30
per cent OF the federal army were for
eigners or forcign-born and were
fighting only for bounty or booty OF
Duncomb. and they got il all and the
pensions thrown in. Oh that was
grand gathering at New Orleans. 1t
seems to me that IL | was . northern
man | would say: Look here. boys
we can't do anything with those rebels
down south. ANA move we quit trying.
We've been working on em for nearly
forty years and nave never converted
one yet" AS they marched through
New Orleans 100 000 strong you could
hear that same old rebel yell from st
Charles tn Vicilsburg. Old Father
McuntCastlc told me it bursted every
telegraph wire south of Mason and
Dixon 5 line and away up in Pennsyl-
vania the Wosterr Union had to cut
down their polses for hundred miles.
But I'm distressed about Mississippi.
Who is Governor Longino. anyhow?
His name is not in any biography that
I've got. reckon it wasent worth
putting in. l reckon he is a foreigner
or he wouldent have invited Roosevelt.
the slanderer. down to Jacksonville TO
help lay the corner stone OF the capi-
tol. Roos evelt 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 If Longino knows that
Governor McNut was the author OF re-
nudiation and gave as his reason that
the money was borrowed from Baron
KOthSchili, in whose veins flowed the
blood OF Judas and Shylock, and whose
mortgages would coniscatc our cotton
fields and make serfs o. our children.
That's what he said in his message.
but the Legislature wouldent vote for it
and il took five years to get the bill
through. All the time Mr.. Davis was
fighting for his country in Mexico and
got desperately wounded at Buena
Vista ANA had to use crutches for six
years. He never was in tho legislature
nor was he ever governor. and yet
Roosevelt. the slanderer. lets the lie
stand and Loneino invites him down
to lay the corner stone. On. my coun-
try, When will all this teadysm and
hypocrisy cease? Oh, Mississippi! How
are the mighty fallen.
Now those utterGnceS are my own
neither the editor nor any paper is re-
sponsible for them. My feelings aud
emotions are all my own. | honor the
memory Of MIR. Davis and have pro-
found respect for his widow and there
Is no limit 10 my contempt for the
brute who put mauacleS on him or the
conaeited historian who slandered him.
I; is a comfort to dcspise them both.
And now. three cheers for Indiana
the champion state for lynching ne
sroes when they commit outrages on
there is a fresh case and the people
turn out and scour the country for the
brute. And now they are driving all
the negroes out of n county where an
outrage was committed. You see they
have no chain gangs up there and but
few negroes. LynchinG has almost stop
ped in Georgia because punishment is
J more speedy and there is a chain gang
! in sight in almost every county. but
let a sure-enough case come up and
sure-enough lynching will swiftly fol-
low. There sTe 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 unto
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 farlaway boy is on his way
home. We ihave just had a telegram
from him and he will be here tonight
tIe lives in Mexico City and it has been
three long years since we have seen
l. i'm. This lis Carl, the youngest boy
the pet of his moth cr--the one she
loves the tpest and prays the longest
Tor every rhirNt. He will stay with us
II few days. and then go away again
sind perhaps never sec us any more.
MY wife HAS heen saving the spring
chickens for him end toe flowers are
mot 10 be ,cut till ne comes, end the
strawberries are still bearing ana the
cake Is in the oven. Nothing is too
precious for Carl and he and Jessee
will sing t,heir old songs and rehearse
their happy days wnen we lived in the
country OH the farm.
Z, Oh. the, happy. happy days on the