The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-09
Bill Apps Letter.
(Atlanta Constitution.)

Il am Jesus Christ, the carpenters on.
My mission IS to save sinners. L fought
III the civil war from Dalton to Jones'
bOrO. Twice I have been president of
these United States since the surrender
and have attended all the reunions UP to
date, but now they have got me pcnned
up here as a Tennessee lunatic and won't
let me go to New Orleans. l can't get a
passport because I am Jesus Christ. Can't
you do something for me? | want to so,
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 rea-
son. know it frightened up our boys
and now they can talk about anything
else. Was there ever such glowing, grow
ing patriotism? 1t looks like the num-
Ter increases at every reunion and that
without pensions. The Grand Army of
the Republic has reunions, but it is main
~ to keep up the pension grab, the thing
that Tom Benton called 1.-The bottomless
gulf Of charities and gratuities.'
| saw it stated the other day that 20
per cent. of the Federal army were for
elgners or foreign-born and were fighting
only Tor bounty or booty or buncombe,
and they got it all and the pensions
thrown IN. OH, that was d grand gather
ing at New Orleans. 1t seems TO me
that II | was a Northern man | would
say: Look here, boys, we can't do any
thing with those rebels down South, and
l 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,-
GOO strong you could hear that same old
rebel yell from st. Charles to Vicksburg.
Old Father Mountcastle told me it burst
ed every telegraph wire south OF Mason
and DIxor's line and away up IN Penn
sylvania the Western Union had to cut
down their poles 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 wasn't WORTH putting in.
[ reckon he Is a foreigner or he wouldn't
have invited Roosevelt, the slanderer,
down to Jackson to help lay the corner
stone of the capitol. Roosevelt said that
Jeff Davis was the arch rcpudiator and
while Governor vetoed the bill that made
PROVISION to pay the rcpudiated debt, and
he has never retractcd nor apologized
for that lie. l wonder if Longino knows
that GoevrnOr McNut was the author
OF reputation and gave as his reason
that the money was borrowed from Bar
on Rothschild, in whose veins flowed the
blood OF Judas and Shylock, and whose
mortgages would confscate our cotton
fields and make serfs of our children.
That's what he said in his message, but
the Legislature wouldn't vote for it, and
he took five years to get the bill through.
All this time Mr.. Davis was fighting for
his country in Mexico and got dcsper-
ately Woupded at Buena Vista and had
to use crutches for SIX years. He never
was IN the Legislature nor was he ever
Governor, and yet Roosevelt, the Sian
Gcrer, lets the lie stand and LONGING
invites him down to lay the corner stone.
5 Oh, my country! When will all this
toadyism and hypocrisy cease? Oh. Mis-.
sissippl. How are the mighty fallen!
f Now these utteranccs are my own
, neither the editor nor any paper is re
r sponsible for them. My feelings and emo
tlons are all my own. 1 honor the mem
CRY of Mr.. Davis and have profound re
: spect for his widow, and there is no limit
to my contempt for the brute who put
manacles on him or me eonceited his
o torlan who slandered him. 1t is a com
fort to despisc them both.
And now, three cheers for Indiana, The
, champion State for lynching negroes wheI
G IHty CoIilIHtt OulIdSeS OIL Inelf women
Not a week passes but there is a fresf
4 case and the people turn out and scoul
4 the country for the brute. And nov
a they are driving all the negroes out of {
county where an outrage was committed
You see they have no chain gangs u,
there and but few negroes. Lynching hai
almost stopped in Georgia because pun.
lshment Is more speedy and there is
: chain gang in sight in almost every coun
ity, but let a sure-enough case come III
and a sure-enough lynching will swift,
Z follow. There are more than 1000 mel
IN our State who have not bowed tn
knee to Baal-and the Rev. Newell Dwigh
n Hills shouldn't sleep in a bed in my hous,
d unless he was sick unto death.
d But enough of all this. It sounds like
am mad with somebody, but | am not
We are all happy at my house tonight
Tor our iar-away boy is on his way home
/ We have just had a telegram from hin