Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1903-02-04
BILL ARP.


"A little more grape. Captain
Bragg" slid Geenral Taylor. at the
battle Of Buena Vista. And so we say
now 10 Captain Teddy. "A few more
nigSc7s TO Offices up north and a few
more to our southern poStoffiCes. Go
the Whole hog while you are at it,
Mckinley gave you a starter by ap-
pointing negro over white commu-
nity at HCgansvilie. and another at
Athens, the cultured college city of the
south. but he got alarmed and took the
back track. II was just such a case as
yon have now in Mississippi at In
dianola. for the people of Hogansville
wont miles to get their mail rather
than take ii from negro-a dirty poll
tciaa. Teddy has done no worse on
the postOfjce line. The postoffices are
the peoples not the presidents. They
3rH almost as near to us and as sacred
as is our preacher or our family ply
siciap. No greater insult. no greater
outrage uDOn our rights. could be per-
patrated by a tyrant than to appoint
II negro rs postmaster in "A white com
munijy The difference between Teddy
and Mr.. Mckinley is that the latter
pl: we'd fool for a while and quit but
Teddy keeps it up and grows more de-
fGnt Of southern opinion and southern
Indignation. Sometimes providence af-
tiic;S the people with a fool. and some
times with knave to tyranniZe over
them. but it looks like we are to have
both fool and knave in the same per-
son. But the Lord loveth whom he
chaStcnth.'
\ medical friend from over the line
writes me that he has growing sense
Of justice and abounds in sympathy for
our l0ng-suffering people. but that Ted
DIV 1pfnrmitV nnac from
original sin or total depravity. but
from physical defects in his anatomy
an,i says
II have studied his Uranium and find
that he has too small a cerebcllum.
His occiput goes straight up from the
meduila obisngata and meets the sin
ciput at right angels and leaves no
room for moral attributes. 4 perpen-
dicUlar hack head like Teddys indi-
GATES a fighting. bear. killing. athletic
and ioolhardy man. The aphryon and
the messiah plane are cramped together
and Teddy's back head is perpen-
dicu!ar plane without hill or dale. A
man with 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
ly rest on an enormous jawbone, or
as yod might say. the jawbone of an
ass. r Teddy had lived in SIMPSONS
day he would have rejoiced to have
been his armour-bearcr and carried his
1aWDOne some.
Just o-eXactly-not only so, but
also. ] understand il all now. and
thank my medical friend The lack of
cerebclium and medulla oblongata and
ccciput has made Teudy crazy about
bears and negroes and other black
wOolly things. But | should like to
know what kind of cerebellum that
fellow Crumpicker or Stumpsucker or
Dirtdauber has got. that makes him So
venomous toward our people. At
. Teddy's request he has introduced a
resolution to have n committee ap-
pointed 10 visit Indianola and see what
our people are doing to the colored
postmistress. OF course, he will be ap-
pointed chairman of the committee, but
I'll wager ten dollars he don't go He
is nothing hut a gas bag and a coward.
Mr. Thompson tried to get him to
come down to Alabama and see how
the negroes on his big plantation We're
getting on. He was invited and accepted
the invitation. but he did not come. lie
was afraid. And that is what discoW-
ages me about any growing sense OF
justice prevailing among the common
people UP north If they are getting any
kinder why do they send such ma
lignant man to congress? Hating the
south seems to be the stock in trade of
most of the northern members. The
brainy men, like Charles Francis
Adams, have modified very much OF
late. Forty years ago he was COM
manding a Niger regiment down here
for which / will never forgive him. but
lately he has made speech al
Charleston and another in New York
in which he says concerning the right
of n state to secede: If we accept the
judgment OF modern students and in
vestigators it would seem as If the
weight of argument falls into the con-
federate scale. The issue was settled
by might and not by right" Then 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 Chas Frances
Adams and now this Charles Frances
his son, and he is 20 years old and has
been forty years finding out that we
had the right to secede and they had
no right 10 free our negroes without
paying for them. Besides all that, this
Adams took charge OF n whole regi-
ment Of our runaway negroes to fight
It's with Lew Wallace did the same
thing. Yes he did worse. He was presi-
dent OF the court that tried Wirz and
convicted him and hung him on per
jured evidence. The longer | live the
more | am convinced that as gen.
cral rule the smartest men are the
meanest-especially the politicians
Think OF Henry Ward Beecher preach
ing 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 am
munition and told old John Brown tC
so ahead. But the niggers were loya
TO their masters and wouldn't burn