Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-23
lUJHL AT HII1O.
HON0RS FOR GENERAL T0RBERT
Four States TO Participate in
His Obsequies.
LANDENBBRG'S LAST MILL GONE
A Journey to the Carolinas-- Two
Prominent Citizens in the South
--Entries for the Dover
State Fair--Exlt
M.S.R.A.
A NEWPORT PIKE ROBBERY
THE 1Wo CAR0LINAs.

THE TWO C3ROLfNIS.
Whnt IL WiimingtOni,in saw and
Heard in the Journey OF IL Week.
On Saturday, the 4th inst, Senator
Bayard and Hon. William g. Whiteley
left Wilmington on flying trip to Column
bia, South Carolina, returning last Mon
day. To JOURNAL reporter Col.
Whiteley talked freely of what he saw
and heard during his brief journey.
''We went to Baltimore, and from there
by the Old Bay Line steamer to Norfolk"
he said, From Norfolk we went by rail
to Weldon, North Carolina, passing
through three or four counties of South.
eastern Virginia. From Weldon, we went
by raj to Wilmington, from Wilmington
to Columbia South Carolina, from Column
bia to Andersonville, in the northwestern
part of South Carolina near the Georgia
line and thence, still by rail, to the Pied
mont Air Line, which runs from Atlanta,
Georgia, to Charlotte, North Carolina.
From Charlotte We returned to Norfolk.
Thus we saw II great deal OF the Carolinas
and d portion OF Virginia. Biyard spoke
on Tuesday at Columbia, on Thursday at
Andersonvllle and on Saturday night at
Norfolk"
"Was the trip pleasant one?'
A WELCOME TO HAYARD
I'm the highest sense of the word. One
of the most pleasing features to me, was
the reception accorded to Biyard through
| the whole route. Had he been the
| Presidential candidate or even President,
the people could not well have given him
grander ovation. AT every station the
people were there in crowds. Little
country stations, where you would think
hardly anybody lived, turned out rs big
crowds as they could get up, while in the
| important towns the reception was some
thing TO see. At Columbia the State
troops and large body of citizens turned
out to meet us at the depot at O'Clock in
the morning and escort us to the hotel and
| afterwards marched in parade to the
grounds where Bayard was to speak.
Everywhere we stopped they wanted
Bayard to speak. At about half the places
we p .ssed through they received him with
cannon salutes in addition to their cheers
and calls for speeoh This was tbs casa
from Norfolk TO Wilmington, (from viii
mingtOn to Columbia wetraveled by night
and from Columbia to Andersonvllle, it
@na the same thing Mt every station.
"At Greenvila they wanted Bayard to
turn out at midnight anu make a speech
We were stretched out in sleeping car
and sound asleep when the train reached
Greenviile, The crowd at the depot sent
deputaton into the car to wake Bayarti
up. He told them they rust excuse him as
the cars would not stop long enough for
him to say anything and the deputation
left the car satisfied, but the crowd out
side still continued to clamor for Blyard. "
"On our return to Norfolk, or Friday
night last, we were met at the depot by
an immense crowd. Bayard made little
speech to them md then they escorted
him 10 the place OF meeting amid the
firing of cannon, and fireworks and bon
fires aud music and, after the meeting,
they escorted him to the hotel
pUsKY DEMOCRATS.
81 saw it stated III some paper" said
the reporter that majority of Sen
ator Bayaid's auditors at Columbia were
colored people; was that the case 2"
mo; the majority al all the meetings
were whites There We're a great many
colored people, though, in tue audiences
at Columbia and Audersonville, and many
colored people turned out in the parades
at these places"
"Do you mean that they marched il
line and carried torches in Democratic
parades 7"
"The parades 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 40 acres and mule as
many of them do, told me he had come Ii
miles to see Bayard. Some white men
came as far as 40 miles. Bayard spoke
about an hour and half at Columbia and
Andersonville, and over two hours at Nor
folk. The meetings were large, at least
they would be called large here. At
Columbia and Andersonville there were
about $ 900 people; at Norfolk, between
4 900 and 5000.
"How did the audience impress you"
Every much ~ an audience of our owI
farmers; the people at the me eetipgs were
very much like those have seen at meet.
ings down in Kent and Sussex and on the
Eastern Shore. Some of them spoke
similarly of u.s. saying 'You look like
our own people. One man in particular
expressed some surprs. at thls Said
he: why B,yari aad you don't look
like Yankees ut all
''How about the 'Southern outrages,
Colonel?
SO far from seeing anything like il
treatment of the darkeys, | was struck
with the tortus of familiarity on which the
whites and blacks associated, both al the
meetings and on the streets. While
BAysrd was speaking circulated erount
in the audiences and talked TO many of tn,
negroes, / asked one darkey what he gave
for his mule, lie said 800"
"'Where did You get the money!
asked -
~ borrowed ii from my old master,
he said y M....
"'Do you own your land 2"
"'No; | rent it. | don't like 10 owl
land because there is 80 much trouble her,
about the title to land. My brothe
bought a tract and the title was defective
and he lost it, "
'''How do you rent your land 2
" Il rent it of my old master. The frs
two years had it for nothing, for clearing
it up and putting house on it. Sine
that time psy - 30 a year rent for eacl
} acre."
"'How do you crop it;''
az put 30 acres IL cotton aud on tht
$ other 10 acres / raise corn ard provision
to keep my family and my mule. / rails,
from II to 20 bales of cotton each year.
HE further said that he was doing yer
well, and every other cOlored man VIII
was willing to work could get land ard &c
credit, and could do well. / asked him
he was Democrat, and he said yes. "
"'Why are you Democrat ? l asked.
"'Because,' he said, the Democrat
treat me better than other people,"
1.-THE only trouble he had in being
Democrat, he said, Was that it cost hiI
more to get his cotton picked. The usu,
price for picking cotton is 40 cents pc
r hundred pounds, but, because he was
d Democrat, the Republican negroes charge
IS him so cents, and he could not get otht
q labor"
o "Why could he not get Democratic n,
/ groes to pick it ?" asked the reporter.
n because" replied Colonel Whitele,
It "nesrly all the Democratic negroes hs
Il" cotton of their own to pick That's II
3. way found it. The negroes who wor
g on the farms and plantations as hands, an
le those who are roo lazy to do any work
'e all are, as a class, Republicans the ente
le prising and industrious ones who carry G
a their own little farms or rent land and Ii
IN it, and there are many of them, are near
ie all Democrats
N '"rhis darkey," continued the Colone
er further said in reply to my question
as that he could not read or write, but that b
fe sons could do both. While we were tai
er ing up came another,a great, ,strapping b
4 negro, and he was also riding mule"
lie What did you give for your mule ?