The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 18, 1920, Page 4, Image 4
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Volume 29. No. 12. j
Thursday, March 18,1920. !
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FUNERAL SERMON BY SLAVE.
"Ten Cent" Bill Delivers Oration
Over Master.
There were 30 old men, veterans in
grey, from the Confederate soldiers'
home in the undertaker's chapel for
the funeral of their comrade, Capt.
Thomas McColl Yopp.
There were ladies from the United
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Daughters of the Confederacy and the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
There were men in the blue
from the Grand Army of the Republic.
The chapel benches were filled
and many stood.
Two ministers spoke?words of
honor to the dead and of comfort for
* the living. A quartet sang and there
was prayer. But it was none of these
whose mission it was to pay the last
memorial tribute.
The former slave of the dead veteran,
a man whose heart is as whiie
as his wrinkled face is black, delivered
the final funeral oration in the
chapel, followed to the cemetery the j
- casket shrouded in the Stars and
Bars, and above the grave bowed his
head in sorrow and love of the masS|3g?.\
ter he had served for more than half
fe;' a century.
"Ten-Cent" Bill Yopp, himself one
of the fast fading company whose
comrades wait for them across the
: river, had been chosen to give the
funeral oration.
Holding Derby Hat.
He sat, holding his black derby hat
eKvv. in his hands, his frayed overcoat
tightened about his shoulders, on the
^ * front row of the chapel. By stretching
one hand he could have touched
the Confederate flag that draped the
A casket of his master. Behind him
gfe. were rows filled with veterans from
the home.
Some of them smiled at him or
waved a knotty hand, but, such was
V v the occasion, they were mostly silent.
Prom the rear you saw 30 pairs of
bent shoulders, 30 bowed heads, white
hair what seemed making a gentle
halo over each. In the dim light
pv flitting through the stained glass
. windows you could see their hands
, eupped behind their ears, while they
listened:
?'? On/thp nthpr sidp nf Jordan
|? In the green fields of Eden,
Where the Tree of Life is blooming,
IS:; There is rest for you . .
Then "Ten Cent" Bill rose in his
place and began to speak.
"My dear friends," he said, "I
p "thank you from the depths of my
heart for the kind compliment you are
are paying me and the kind permission
you have given me. Like the
? minister who spoke before me, I, too,
J wish to God that the same old feeling
\ existed today between the white and
h. black that existed in 1860.
"I have known Capt. Thomas McCall
Yopp, my former master, for 67
JpV- years. My mother nursed him, and so
his father, who thought so much of
him, gave my mothex* to him before I
was born. I know that he never spoke
an unkind word to her or to any of
his servants.
"Since 1856, when I was only a little
pickaniny in nothing but a cotton
r- shirt and he wasn't too proud to pick
me up and ride me on the back of his
horse we have been friends. We
: hunted together and fished together
all day long. I rode with him week in
and week out. We would eat our
lunch out in the woods and then come
home together. Every night before
ha wrmlri erc\ to hod ho would SO to
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on? servant's house and to another's
ite: and another's, and sit and laugh and
joke with them. By and by he would
say, 'Bill, I'm getting sleepy,' and we
would go back to the big house and
eat a little lunch before we went to
bed. I slept beside him every night."
Tells of the War.
Bill paused, a gulp in his voice, and
? then he began to tell of the war, how
he and Captain Yopp, joining the
? . ' army in Atlanta in June, 1861, went
h' to Lynchburg in a freight car and
took the field.
They slept side by side in the captain's
tent, he said, and when it was
very bad weather, Captain Yopp. with
a single blanket, between then); would
sav, "Cold, Bill? Then pull over!"
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Once Bill was sick and Captain Yopp
gave him a pass to Richmond and
$150, Bill leaving only on condition
that he could come back.
"He could not see one man imposed j
on by another," .said "Ten Cent Bill."
"He loved his soldiers equally, as he
loved his slaves. He was as brave as
a lion and as gentle as a wild flowrer
that grows in the spring. I have been
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over two-thirds of the world and 1
have never known a finer man than
Captain Yopp. <
"If his funeral were being held today
at the old home in Laurens county,"
continued Bill, "the streets would '
not hold the people. Only a thin veil ;
separates life from death. He has! ;
pierced that veil, but we shall join!:
him soon. Death has taken charge of ;
his body, but 1 know that God has
taken charge of his soul!" i j(
"Ten-Cent" Bill stopped, his head ;
bowed, his hand raised, and, with the;;
benediction, the audience stirred and i;
began to file out. 11
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Little Lesson for Agent.
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"Madam,'' he began as the door^
opened, "I am selling a new book on;1
Etiquette and Deportment." 1
"Oh, you are," she responded. "Go i'
down there and clean the mud from
your feet." 1
"Yes'm. As I was saying, madam, ^
I am sell?" x ^
"Take off your hat! Never address 1
a strange lady at her door without
removing your hat."
"Yes'm. Now then, as I was saying?"
"Take your hand out of your pock- i
et. No gentleman ever carries his 1
hand there." 1
"Yes'm. Now, madam, this work
on Eti?" . *
"Throw away your pipe. If a gen- <
tleman uses tobacco he is careful not
to disgust others by the habit.
"Wait. Put that dirty handkerchief *
out of sight and use less grease on 1
your hair in the future. Now you looa 1
a bit descent. You have a book on f
'Etiquette and Deportment.' Very
well, I don't want it. I am only the
servant girl. Go up'the stairs to the
front door and talk with the lady r
of the house. She called me a down-1 f
right, no doubt-about-it idiot this e
morning, and I think the book you
are selling is just what she requires." t
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RESOURCES OVE
YOUNG WOMAN OX TRIAL.
L'liarged With Killing Brother?Sell"
Defense Her Plea.
Greenville. March 11.?Amber
Robinson, the twenty-one-year-old
girl, who shot and fatally wounded
her brother. Jim Robinson, at her
home on Falls stret here, February
2.",, was placed on trial on a charge
of murder in the sessions court here
this afternoon. The first witness was
E. P. Rousemond, one of the two
young men who was with Jim Robinson
wlien he was shot by the girl.
The other young man, Ansell Ballew,
was not permitted to testify,
the defense proving that he had
been convicted some months ago of
obtaining money under false pretense.
Several other witnesses were
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The girl will make a plea of self-defense,
having declared shortly after
her arerst that her brother attacked
tier arrest that her brother attacked
him.
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Habit.
An ex-judge had been nominated
mayor in a French country district.
It soon devolved upon him to sanc:ion
a marriage ceremony.
"Do you consent to marry this
gentleman, young lady?" he asked
imiably.
"Yes," was the reply.
Then suddenly changing his tone
:o one of 'great severity, he said to
ler proposed husband. "And you?
lave you nothing to say in your (le-j
!ense?"?London Opinion.
Pretty Old.
Bacon?This paper says although
idiculed as a craze it is a scientific
act that sour milk conduces to longfvity.
Egbert?I guess that's right. I
asted some sour milk rtoday, and,
jelieve me, it was right in the longevity
class.?Yonkers Statesman.
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