The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-23
colored people turned out in the paradcs

colored people turned out in the paradcs
at these places"
"Do you mean that they marched in
line and carried torches in Democratic
parades %
"The parade at both these places were
held in the daytime, and participated in
largely by negroes. Nearly all of them
were mounted on mules and wore red
shirts; the whites wore red shirts also.
One Of the negroes, farmer in small
way, owning his forty acres and mule,
as many of them do, told me he had come
fifteen miles to see Bayard. Some white
mon came as FIR as forty miles. Bayard
spoke about an hour and half at Colum-
bia and Anderson, and over two hours at
Norfolk. The meetings were large, at
least they would be called large here.
At Columbia and Anderson there were
about 5000 people; at Norfolk, between
1000 and 5000"
,"How did the audience impress you ?"
every much as an audience of our own
farmers; the people at the meetings were
very much like those I have seen at
meetings down n Kent and Sussex and
on the Eastern Shore. Some of them
spoke similarly of us, saying: You look
like our own people, One man in par.
ticular expressed surprise at this: Said
he: why, Bayard, and you don't look
like Yankees at all p"
"How about the Southern outraSes
Colonel?"
$50 lar from seeing anything like ILL
treatment of the darkies, was struck
with the terms of familiarity on which
the Whites and blacks associated, both at
the meetings ard on the streets. While
Bayard was speaking I circulated around
in the audience and talked to many of
the negroes. I asked one darkey what
he gave for his mule. He said Sl0O.
"Where did you get the moneys! l
asked"
"'I borrowed it from my old MASTER,
he said.
"tNo: rent it. I don't like to own
land because there is 80 much trouble
here about the title to land. My brother
bought tract and the title was defective
and he lost it, :"
"'How do you rent your land 2"
"sI rent it of my old master. The first
two years had it for nothing, for clear;
ing it up and putting house on it:
Since that time I pay $3.50 year rent
for each acre."
"HOW 90 you crop
"I put 80 acres in cotton and on the
other 10 acres raise corn and provisions
to keep my family and my mule. raise
from 10 to 20 bales of cotton each year."
she further said that he was doing very
we'll. and every colored man who was
willing to work could get land and get
credit, and could do we'll. asked him
if he was Democrat, and he said "yes."
"'Why are you Democrat7 ask
ed."
"sBecause,' he said, the Democrats
treat me better than other. people,
"The only trouble he had in being
Democrat, he said, was that it cost him
more to get his cotton picked. The usual
price for picking cotton is 40 cents per
hundred pounds, but because he was
Democrat, the Republican negroes
charged him so cents, and he could not
get other labor"
"Why could he not get Democratic ne
groes to pick it?" asked the reporter,
"Because," replied Colonel Whitley,
'snearly all the Democratic negroes had
cotton of their own to pick? That's the
way found it. The negroes who. work
on the farms and plantations as hands,
and those who are too lazy to 40. any
work at all are, as class, Republicans;
the enterprisine and industrious ones
who carry on their own little farm or
rent land and till it, and there are many
of them, are nearly all Democrats"
"This darkey," continued the Colonel,
"further said, in reply to my questions,
that he could not read or write, but that
his sons could do both. While we were
talking up came another, great, strip
ping big negro, and he was also riding
mule"
"'What did you give for your mule p
asked him."
ISL didn't give nothing"
"'How was that?"
"sI got him from my old master. l
went to my old master and asked him II
he would sell this mule to me and he told
me to take him along if wanted him,
and I did, This darkey also told me,
the same story about the so cents cotton
picking business
THE TERRIBLE BUTCHER OF HAMBURG.
"There was one little thing that hap
pened on our trip, that must tell you.
In our car were Democratic State candi-
dates and State officers, among them
Gen. NJ. G.. Butler, the man about who so
much has been said in connection with
the Hamburg massacre. About that
affair, by the way Butler told me that he
was not at Hamburg, and did not know
anything about it till it was over. When
we came to Anderson we found it to be q
little village Of about 1000 people. only
one hotel 1 think, and it was crowded on
account of the meeting The State Com
mittee had sent up negro servant along
with us, and the next morning said to
him, Jim, how did you get along last
night? I got on very WE'LL he said,
but I couldn't find any place to sleep at
first What did you do about that?
Il went to Gen. Butler and told him
about it, and he told me to bring my mat
Buffers room?' Yes sir; slept in
GEN. Buffers room all night 1 was
astonished, and thought to myself how
few Northern men of Buffers standing
would allow even white servant to
sleep i'm the same room with theIn."
II noticed everywhere we went the
general salts faction Of the working ne.
groes with their present condition; their
good-humored and well-fed look, their
mnles sleek and fat and themselves sleek
and fat. I am satisfied that if they were
| Just let alone they would all go to work.
Those that did work werc perfectly con-
tended and were treated in every respect
just as we'll as the white people,"
NO SECTIONAL BITTERNESS.
'"The feeling of the people towards the
| North has no bitterness in it. All they
want, they said to Bayard and me, is to
be let alone and ALLOW ed to go to work in
quiet and retrieve themselves. The Un
ion and the flag, whenever mentioned
by any of the speakers, werc cheered
more Justify that anything else that was
said.'
THE COTTON CROP.
"The fields of the eastern Carolinas
were white with cotton bolls, and the
picking of the crop had commenced
Most Of it was upland cotton; it grows
about Z! feet high. We saw no Sea Is