Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1880-09-30
NORTHERN VIEWS OF OUR STATE
What Senator Bayard's Companion
Saw, Heard and ught--Peace,
!, Prosperity and Loyalty-A Remi-
y nIscence Of Greenville.

ed tne lion. w IN. VI. Whllely, Wh'
accompanied Senator Blyard on hi.
recent trip South. lie said:
One of the most pleasing features
to me, was the reception accorded Il
Bayard through the whole route. Hac
he been the Presidential candidate
or even President. tde people conlC
not we'll have given him srandel
ovation. At-every station the peo
pie were there in crowds. Little
country stations, where you would
think hardly anybody lived, turne'
out as big crowds tss-they could ge
mp, while in the important towns the
reception Was something to see. AT
Columbia the State troops andIa large
body of citizens turned oa. to meet
US at the depot al 6 o'clock in lh'
morning and escored us to the no
tel, and afterwards rnarched in pa
rade t, the grounds where RAyard
was to speak.
Everywhere we stopped they
wanted Bayard 10 speak. At about
half the places we passed through
they received him with cannon sa.
utes in addition to their cheers and
calls for a speech This was the case
from Norfolk to Wilmington, (from
Washington to Columbia we travelled
by mighty and from Columbia to An
derson, it was the same thing at eve
ry station.
"At Greenvle they wanted Bay
ard to tnrn ont at midnightand make
a speech. We were stretched ont in
a sleeping car and sound asleep when
the train reached Greenville. The
crowd at the depot sent deputation
into the Car L, wake Bayard up.
He told them they must excuse him
as the cars w.uld not stop long
enough for him to say anything AM
the deputation lett the car satisfied,
but the crowd outside still continued
to clamor for BAyard.
son our return to Norfolk. on Fri
day night last, we were met at the
depot by an immense crowd. Bay.
ard made little speech to them and
they escorted him to the place Of
meeting amid the firing Of cannon,
and fireworks and bonfres and music,
and, after the meeting, they escorted
him to the hotel.
II saw it stated in some paper,
said the reporter, THAT m ,lor.ty
of Senator Bayard's auditors at Co
lumbia were colored people; was that
the case ?"
"No; the majority at all the meet
ings were whites. There were a great
many colored people, though, in the
audiences at Columbia. and An Ter
son, and many colortd people turned
out in the parAdes.. at these places.
'Do you mean that they marched
in line and carried torches in Demo
cratic parades p
The parade at both these places
were heldin the daytime, an plrtici'
cipated in largely by negroes. Near
ly all of them were mounted on mules
and wore red shirts; the whites wore
red shirts also. One of the negroes,
a farmer in small way, owning his
forty acres and Il mnle, as many of
them do, told me ne htd come fifteen
miles to see Bayar.l. Some white
men came as far as forty miles. Bay
ard spoke about an hour and a hall
at Columbia and Anderson, and over
two hours at Norlo k. The meetings
were large, at least hey 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
yon??"
"Very much asan audience Of our
own farmers the people at the meet
ings were very mnch like those ]
haze seen al meetings down in Kent
and Sussex and on the Eastern Shore.
Some of them spoke similarly OF MS,
saying: You look like our own reo
pie. One man i'll particular express.
ed surprise at this. Said he: why,
Rayard and You don't look like Yln-
KEGS at all ! "
How about the Sonlhern ontrages,
Colonel 2" {.
$50 far from seeing anything like
i'll treatment of the darkies, I was
struck with the terr.s Of familiarity
on which the whites and blacks as
sociated, both at the meetings and on
the streets. While BAyard was SPEAK,
ing circulated around in the audi
ence and talked to many Of the ne
groes. ! asked one darkey what he
gave for his mule. He said 800.
."'Where. did You get the money"
I asked. as
81 borrowed it from my old mas
ter" lie said.
"Do yoa own your iand?"
"No; I rent it. I don't like to
own land because there is 80 mneh
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 ?"
~ rent it Of my Old master. The
first two years I had it for nothing,
for clearing it up andputting house
on it. Since that time pay s. so a
year rent for each acre"
How dc you CROP
81 put so acres in cotton and on
the other 10 acres / raise corn and
provisions to keep my family and my
mule. raise from 10 to 90 bales of
cotton each year."
"He further said that he was do
ing very we'll, and every eolored man
who was willing to work could get
land and get credit, and conld do
we'll. ! asked him ii he was Dem
ocrat, and he saia yes,
why are you Il Democrat? !
asked"
because, he said, the Democrats