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

colored people turned out In the paradcs
ut these placca."
"Do you mean that they marched IN
iine ana carried torches In Democratic
pnrades?"
"Tho parade at both these pleces were
held In tho daytime, and participated In
largely by negroes. Nearly all OF them
were mounted on mules and wore red
| shirts; the whltoa wore red shirts also
One OF the negroes, 4 farmer t., small
way, OWNING his forty acres and mule,
as many OF them do, told mo ho had come
ffteon milos to see Bayard Some white
mon cano as far Us forty miles. Bayard
spoke about al. hour and half at Column
Dia and Anderson, and over two hours at
Noriolk. Tho meetings wero large, at
least they would bo called largo here
At Columbia end Anderson there were
about 5000 people at Norfolk, between
1000 and 5000"
| iiOw did tho audience impress you ?"
| VERY much as an audience OF our own
farmers; tho people at the meetings were
very much like those i have seen ut
meetings down in Kent and Sussex and
on tho Eastern Shore. Some OF them
| spoke similarly of us, saying: You look
IKE our own people, Ono man In par
ticuiar expressed surprise at this. Said
he: Why Bayard, and you don't look
like Yankees at all ="
"Iiow about the Southern outragtD
| COlOncl?"
$50 far from seeing anything like i'll.
treatment OF tho darkics, was struck
will. tho torms OF familiarity on which
the Whites and blacks associated, both at
tho meetings ard OH tho streets. While
Bayard was speaking circulated around
In tho audience and talked to many OF
tho negroes. asked ono darkey What
ho gavo for his mule. lie Rald 800.
Where did you got tho monoy7' /
asked"
"'I borrowed it from my old MASTER
hc said
"'Do you own your land?'
No; 1 rent II. / don't like to own
land because thero IL 30 much trouble
here about the title TO land. My brother
bought tract and tho title was defective
and ho lost IT,"
How do you ront your land ?"
"'I ront It OF my old master. Tho first
two years had it for nothing, for clear.
ing 1t up and putting a house on It,
Since that timc pay $3.50 year rent
for each acre."
"HOw do yOu crop?"
II put 80 acres In cotton md OH tho
other 10 acres raise corn and provisions
to keep my family and my muie. raise
from 10 to 20 bales OF cotton each year"
''IIe f,irthor said that he was doing very
well, and ovory colored man who was
willing to work conld get land and get
credit, and could do we'll. 1 asked him
II ho was Democrat, and ho said "yes."
"'Why are you n Democrat? I ask
Cd"
"'Because,' ho snid, the Democrats
treat mo bottor than other people,"
"rhe only trouble ho had In being n
more to get his cotton picked. Tho usual
prico for picking cotton Is 40 cents por
hundred pounds, but because ho was
Democrat, the Republican negroes
charged him so cents, and he could not
got other labor"
groos to pick it7" asked the reporter.
BECAUSE" replied Colonel Whitoiy,
"ncarly all tho Democratic negroes had
cotton Of their own to picks That's tho
way found II. The negroes who work
on tho farms and plantations as hands,
and those who arc too lazy to do any
work ut all are, as II class, Republicans;
the entcrprlsing and industrious ones
who carry OH thoir own littlo farm or
rent land and till it, and there arc many
OF them, ere nearly all Democrats"
This darkey," continued tho Colonel,
"furthor said, In reply to my questions,
that he could not read or write, but that
talking up came another, q great, strip
ping big negro, and he was also riding
mule"
".What did you give for your mule p
1 asked him."
II didn't give nothing.''
"'How wns that?''
~ got him from my old master. l
went to my old master and asked him II
ho would sell this mule to mo and he told
mo to take him along II l wanted him,
and / did, This dnrkoy also told me,
tho same story about tho so cents cotton
picking businoss.p
THE TERRIBLE BUTCHER or HAMBURG.
"There was one little thing TINT hap
poned on our trip, that must tell you.
In our caT w5T5 Gainouiasio State candi-
dates and State ofIiccrs, among them
Con. NJ. G.. Butler, tho man about who 80
much has boon said In connection with
tho Hamburg massacre. About that
affair, by tho way, Butler told me that he
was not Mt Hamburg, and did not know
anything about 1t iii IL was over. When
wo came to Anderson wo found 1t to be a
one hotcl think, and 1t was crowded on
account of tho meeting. Tho State Com
mittce had sent up negro servant along
with us, and tho noxt morning said to
him, Jim, how did you set along Inst
night?' i got on. worry woll,' ho said,
firat.' what did you do about that?'
:! went 20 Gen. Butler and told him
about it, and ho told mo to bring my mat
tress into his ROOM You slept l., Gen.
Buffers rOom? Yes SIR; / slept in
Gon. Butlor's room "a; night was
nstonished, and thought to myself how
few Northern mon OF Buffers standing
would allow even white servant to
sleep In the same room with them"
'I noticed everywhere we went the
general aatis faction of the working no.
yroes with their present condition; their
good-humored and well-fed look, their
mnles sleek and fat and themselves sleek
ami int. l ain satisfied that If they were
just let alone they would all go to work.
Those that did work wero perfectly con-
tended and were treated in every respect
just as we'll as the white people,"
no SECTIONAL DITrERNEss.
"rho feeling of the people towards tho
North has no bitterness In 1t. All thcy
want, they sald to Bayard and me, is to
BIO let alone and allow ed to go to work In
quiet and retrieve themselves. The Un
Ion and tho flag, whenever mentioned
by any of tho speakers, ,vero cheered
moro Justify that anything olso that was
said"
THE COTTON CROP.
"Tho fields of the eastern Cnrolinas
woro white with cotton bolls, and tho
picking of tho crop had commenced.
Most of It was upland cotton: It grows
about 2t feet high. We saw no Sea Is
land cotton, our route lying too far In
land but wo saw on the poorer ianda
| good deal Of what thoy call "bumble
bee cotton" which grows about 10 inches
| high"
1t was about this kind of cotton that a
Southern COnpresSmaN told n Norfhprf,