The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-22
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stak,s saniparinS .ndtesS Ssboutt Columbia
and Columbia people. Most of his
5 sknowSedge, 1t is needless to say, was too
deep for me, being too far back for my
knR q Hoe conld and did, however, In
qlife regarding the children and de-
scenasuts iof those; whom shay had known.
He seemed TO have q restadmiration
for Gofdrnor. Hampton, whom he says
Z he remembers perfectl ysas Nyoung man:
Hefe1tsd with great glees several
REan,SsGENcEs OF HIss ExoEILENoY,
among Others, one of Lis administering =
severe castigation to q champion who
was On h;s MUSCLE, and insnlted him.
The incident the remembrance of which
ssssmsd give Him the greatest delight
thohg6, was the Goyernors purchasing q
horse which its owner was riding over
everybody on, and Dragging about, and
|. giving Ito his servant to ride to market
on He laughed most tIheartily over this
last anerdote, and remarked that he
would never; forget to his dying day how
{ s.tcut MP tha former; owner of the horse,
had l6ckedsso q When shown o. photograph
of thik Go7ernnr, heseHinced So much.
pleasure that gave it to him. He has
arcumalated@a comfortable fortune at
sltgsfl lrlan6ng, and is preparing 10 retire
fromK KasiReas having e handsome house
IN If6rs fSrection at MonroTia. His
WE'VE or AMERICAN POLITICS
differ aissts MI siTa1IY Efon q "a t6oss of the gem
: eral run OF Liberians, his idea being that
Z the negro can most safely trust his. in-.
tareats in the hands ofhis former master.
The average Librarian derives his ini:t
prssions Of -Ai6erfca1 life and politics
5 from the National Rspubscas and the
Z Toledo Blade; as the tNe,os and Courier is
only, taken for It's superior. information
regarding the semigstipn scheme. Il.
know too much about newspapers to
think ph saying anything against one,
ifst ss $hSg1lmak akerd da always the most
careful in handling firearms, It can
hardly be denied, however, that the Re
:;;pubE Ecfn aud the Blade are q sleetlen in
cihsd t5 Repnb biicsn nisnn in their political
pfocliSiiisS, aud their ntterancesd do much,
towards shaping sentiments here in that
direction. The Eiberians seem to have
ageneral idea that nobody in the South
calh.apagrn anything .but 8. .-aad.-d-nig--
GER Sor at best Them niggersp thatthe
cdEofa1 EsitEeH fhRbitda1lY; resides in
,caY@k kdels and other fastnesses, that he
Is habitnally hunted at the point Of the
revolver inst foSS fun, and that he has no.
rights whatever before the law or any
where else. A1s tail ing With one 0ft6el
most intelligehs cititshs and discussing
the causes Of the decrease Of the eolored
population of tho United States, he said,
perfectly seriously and earnestly = well,
then, I suppose some ten thousand are
killed every year" ,tNotes of admira-
tiontl at; the readers EXPENSE An
other seemed somewhat astonished and
incrednlous when / told him that I did
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and hsd:neyer.done q acolored brother to
death, he apparently believing that every
male citizen south yof Mason and Dixonis
line was member 0f chat = 6iganfzation,
and only acquired o standing in the COM
munity by performing that feat. When
nf6pihsd that I belonged to one of those
horrible 5iHe. clnhs,no - the females. of an.
other family gazed on me with apparent
IySthe same feelings as those with which
they would contemplate Gagged cannibal
!! in a circus. I fear that the 1AEors pas
-sengers, having such sympathetic listen
5.ers, will tell some terrible. yarns ALI
this is the moro sdfp fprfsing from the fact
that most of the more wealthy citizens
hare travelled That ;is one feature of;
Liberian life worthy of conrmendation.
As soon as. they acquire means, they,
seem generally to go out to enlarge their
ideas By travel and observation. Many
of those whom I met had been to, and
gepecaily through, England and Amer
icaa and several aliover, the Continent of
Europe. Itis hard to imagine how any
one could 60 TO Europe, and be con-
tentea to- come back and live In Liberia.
It Ia said, however, that "the Laplander
loves Ills home (for that reason I have
always regarded the Laplander as an ass
None of Hs Iy6ahger men seem ever to
have gohe down South much. This is
natural, as they have no ties there to in.
ducs them to brave the dangers which
they believe beset- the patti of every col
ored man who gets Ayour side Of Bali-
more. BeGdeas this, they have sasocial
recognition and associations, in England
and in places on the Continent and in
the United States, which they certainly
could not expect in the South. One or
two who have been there expressed them
selvea isslhtck disguised and disappoint..
ed BY fhe general poverty and ignorance
Of their race.
- TEE GENERAL LIFE
OF the older and wealthier planters along
the st. Paups resembles in many par
ticalars- that, Of the Southern planter.in
the GOOD old days Having 8 good
brick house built, and his coffee, or sugar
plantation we'll under weigh, the tiller of
the soil generally takes his ease, wears
good clothes, and smokes, only exercising
a supervision of his affairs. The spirit
or wine decanter is almost Invariably at
/, the service Of his guests, and when he
goes visiting or to Monrovia, he steps
into his canoe, calls his crew together,
and travels comfortably and sedately.
AS the present generation is growing old,
the children take charge after the return
of eheir from nis schooling and "fn-
ishing tour" In view of all this, it is
ridiculous to -uppose that the Liberians
are relapsing into. barbarism. On. the,
contrary, II issapparent that each genera;
tion is6rihghty Itcm steadily nearer to per-
feet civilization. While these old lords
Of the soil in their conscious or uncon-
scious aping of their former masters
former lives, present occasionally ludi-
crous contrasts to their models by igno-
rance aud lack of culture, their sons and
daughters are growing up better edu-
Gated, trained and supplied with the re-
quirements of intelligent men and MO-.
men. / saw the Liberiany Especially
the younger ones) brought into contact,
and consequently contrast, with the
-Azor's Immigrants. II showed there and
then that whether the negro is capable
of.attaining the white; mans level or not,
;she is capabl Of ecoming much nearer q
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