The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-11
CULPEPPER'S RECOLLECTIONS
OF OLD.TIME .4TH OF JULY DAYS

watermelon or something or some
how or diluted It below the strength
withdrew" from him. That was be-
fore l got in or he would nave mad y
friend. think he went to heaven
from the Methodist Church. and though
The old negro who. Tor years and
years sold us ginger cakes and beer.
was John Hambrick, who got such an
infusion OF Jackson and Jefferson In
slavery days that he was a confirmed
devil got him and voted Coming from
below regularly at every call of the
partly in as many precincts a. the ex-
igency demanded. 1t Is curious now
political parties Except the Populist,
bless the LordD He has made himself
the main question in politics for a long
time and the central figure of lypch-
ings Indeed he has been so persistent
in the latter respect that he has made
the lynching of a niger not only pos
sible but popular in every section OF
the country. Certainly the South is to
an on G nsisaed that ns ass ehaste
was three-f1fth of a man. The North
is to blame for adding two-fifths to
the miserable mistake and making the
blame for making him mulatto-tha,
was the worst mistake OF all. As long
as he was coal black he had a racial
pride that kept him out Of Presidential
drawing room and dining room. except
as proud waiter. No real black ne
gro will condescend to social equality
with a white man. He can't overcome
his innate contempt for the white man
who seeks to elevate himself to equal
ity with a nigger-social or political
Sea, has fastened himself upon the
two leading parties. till It's shameful.
He seems to think that National Con-
ye ven ions ar. are held Just to consider him
on each. He makes all he can out of
the Chicago Convention incident of
Niger boy and white girl. He thinks
the parade Of Jefferson's picture in the
vote for didn't Jefferson write that
miserable stun about free and equal?'
When I demonstrated with my hired
the pillow his wife int ter t with the he
explanation that ''Mr. Brady sont him
word to come to the reunion" re-
piled. with an intimation that Mr..
Brady must be running out of employ
hand In my business This suggestion
seemed to give offense and from one
word to another" we used language Eat
shoes" His amiable spouse said
What do you want with your shoes
you blamed OLD fool" 7 want to stop
all nu this Cd e DID, ID , fuss about me- I'm
wish the niger would stick to the
plough and stop all this id fuss
the Democrats and Republicans are
the niger can't be stopped in any 9th
err way. let all white men join the Pop
ulists and vote for Tom Watson. Do
you know. ! have a brotherly feeling
for that man? The niggers used the
Democrats to keen that
Congress- would mention another
good man who chafes under a like
treatment from the niggers, but modes
ty forbids.
I'm glad. however. that Tom Watson
has been nominated for President
When he's President every niger will
know his place, and no niger will dare
to recommend Democrat or Repub-
Niggers won't get into office at all
when Watson's President for he wont
follow Democratic or Republican pre-
cedent
But. to get back, Buck" vinson was
likely to be in evidence at every Fourth
of July. Buck was the "buii Of the
S.r s. In all IT. that country When so,
unsophisticated gentIeness. When
drunk he was the opposite otherwise
think he was never whipped before
the civil war After the war his spirit
or two occasions since. ne. like Lee
and other great soldiers, submitted to
the inevitable, though truth compelled
rather than whipped. on independence
Day he was at his best and always
''fout. fair" There was one noble trait
In him-he wouldn't strike a fellow
pack his eyes full of sand. He never
liked to go home without whipping
every fellow who wouldn't voluntarily
acknowledge him to be the best man
tn. tsnv h.
finally came ! thought we could take
Buck and a few others like him and
whip all the Yankees above Mason
and Dixon's line. I always liked him
a Democrat In the course of time he
got to be "Old Buck" which is a famil-
iarity that intimatos that age and
S Wiekedness a are getting up a loving
appeals alike to those who look at the
rising or the setting sun. 1 liked "Old
Buck Then as the years rolled on he
became Uncle Buck" somehow. ]
one has not only to be old but very
good to get to having everybody for
niece and nephew, but / don't want such
extensive relationship, at the expense
wiekedness. But, 1 suppose one cannot
help the approach of years and good
ness, and old Buck" by force of 1nev-
Baek He is vns vet Sae and
ty at more than 30 years He has quit
fighting. He took to the Mormon faith
in religion. i think all the fellows he
whipped in the old days, and "gouged''
and "sanded" have preceded him to
the Spirit land. He, no doubt, often
thinks of the Fourth of July of ante
bellum times and his victories there
and, perhaps, he has noticed. as have
that the times are different. the people
different the day different and that the
old times and the old people were the
best.
You may not know 1t. but it was at
a Fourth of July barbecue Just after
the civil war that / finally surrendered
to female charms. 1t may be that ig-
nominious flight would have saved me
from all the horrors and tortures of
matrimony, but l reckon not, for after
she had me hard and fast she i'm
parted to me the fact that 1t was a
heaven made match and that as she
lived in another State 1t took a great
political upheaval TO bring us together.
/ wouldn't admit II at first, for Ii was
shifting the whole burden of Lincoin,s
election, secession. war. reconstruction.
neglect of Fourth of July and Long
street. the rise and fall of Populism and
everything else right on me and the
angels that, Cupid like. picked me out
for her. had to conclude that she
was worth it all, that heaven was
July is the biggest and the best day in
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