The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-21
LETTER FROM THE COUNTRY.

| WALTERDoRo', May 17tlI, 1866.
Messrs. Editors :-Fceing satisfied that you en-
tertdln profound interest Tor the negro in gencr-
al, and tho tow2 of Watorboro' in particular, I
take tho liberty Of giving you and your numerous
| readers aome information regarding the impor-
tant events transpiring in this section of the
| world, and wish and hope that it may be tho
| means Of preventing, to some extent, similar oc-
ourrences in other sections. I therefore beg to
| mako you the modium OF passing him ar ound
This great lille town, has been selected by a acci-
dent, and a designing rascal, the scene of
most startling ovent, which, while it provoked an
| irresistible laugh from the white population
with one melancholy exception, by the by),
caused mighty upheaving among tho colored
folks In fact, tho latter individuals have had an
awful fall thoir pillar of granite, upon which
| they have been leaning with such confiding trust
has popped of short, and dropped them in a most
humiiating position, the irritation of which is
by no means diminished by tho discovery that in
stead of being, they fondy believed really sup
ported by the afr said pillar, they themselves were
playing the part Of Atlss, and in their fond devo-
ton and is88eg nY love were imparting polish Which
they have since discov6rBtS; ia work not paid for.
But you shall have tho story. .. ..''.'
Some three months since white nS dual
hailing from the great State of cvz ation, PeIi- d.
sylvania, presented himself to tho citizens of this
enlightened place. The white portion, with that
instinct and abhorronce OF reptiles wh,ll a lner-
clful ProVldenceihas bestowed, could find nothing
congonial about him; but being from that land
from which, nothing but good can come to the
negro, he took with the colored people amazing
ly. The reciprocity Of feeling WAS! decidedly
marked on his part, and he at onte established
himself as a guidepost,:to point them. tho way to
education, college, and civilization in general
in finn tr
was unceasing, even to the consumption Of those
hours Of the twenty four usually given by most p O.
pie to rest, but by him devoted to- assisting somo
OF his friends OF the most ebony dye in tke dis
interested laboriof sustaining tho weight OF their
blankets-magnanmousy declaring he was above
sr1ch trites as notions and nose, but others
shrewdly suspectsd he was not above saving ex-
penses at any cost,
He claimed to be discharged soldier in search
Of honorable employment and was said to be &c.
cognized as such by the Frcedmens Bureau
After weeks sojourn lie conceived the idea that
he was particularly suited to the labor OF incining
the colored twigs and teaching their young ideas
intellectual gunnery, at much per twig, casl, in
advance, and at once set himself to it. Among the
twigs presenting them. elves for inclination were
somo pretty stout saplinss, and whether this pro-
aucod tho after-tiIouSht, br his plans had been
should do iJr tho cottop-bush what he WAS doing
for tho twigs-only with slight difference in the
process and profits. Therefore, after a half hour
of most severe intellectual application each morn
ing, during which ho would declare thoy were
making most rapid progress, he would adjourn
them to assemble in tho field near his house,
where he at once commenoed extensive farming
operations, with the cotton bales in the perspec-
tive.
=, Fl ad the, fellow possessed rs much stability as
shrewdness, he might have made capital thing
OF it, with bis labor. necessities, and luxuries
costing him nothing: for ihe negroes in their
blind credulity would haYe gone on being fooled
by him to the end of the year, and he had mp
wards of. one 'hundred scholars Zone hundred);
but he seems to have been vacillating genius,
and concluding he was-wasting his sweetness, de-
termined to make bold strike for e. raise, AID
change the climate. Ho Immediately, therefore,
set himself to work to-. borrow all tho money he
could from white and black, and in any amounts.
and by any means possible He, moreover, con-
yerted some furniture. loaned him by good, amia-
bio old otizon (whose pfenffses, by tho BY he WSs
renting, and of course neglected to settle for)
into cash. and on the morning after pay day in his
school, went out to take the air upon horse be-
longing to Of his loving disciples, and from
some singular abstraction Of mind continued on
tho Charleston road until be reached that city.
He relieved the monotony Of his ride by little
incident quite characteristic Of his rascality aud
tHs gullibiity OF the p6op deIuded people he set
himself to improve. Thinking that two horses
would sell for more money than one, he rode up to-
a house with a plausible tale about his wagon
begging, and wanting horse to pull it out Being
a. Yankee, he, WAS Of cpurse not denied, and he
soon had another horse bearing him company to
the city. - 80.
There, to top the climax of his villainy, he met
,formerj slave or isI Aniabe old landlord of this
place. ahd with some false Tale from this negro's
wife and master, succeeded in getting his watch
anI some money. The next morning he turned
up missing, having realized from the horses and
all sourccsa very comfortable sum, and will go
elsewhere to repeat the same operation,
You may readily believe the operation will not
be repeated hero in hurry, and That Yankee
|schoolmpetersl are not in demand, though this
psfticular fellow hvery much; aud doubt iii
would be conducive to bis health to, return
These incidents, / tam. &ftaid, are Of too fire.
quent occurrence, and, OF course tend vastly to
tho civilization Of the poor negro, who, between
the rssoalty Of such REPRESENTATIVES OF Yankee
| dom and their rreIudicss Of their former master