The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06
ANDERSON s. c. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY g. 1881

up on the same plantation"
AT this point the Governors voice
grew husky, and l thought he would
break out with
| Way down upon dc Swaunee ribher.
| Far. far away,
but he recovered himself and proceeded :
| These negrocs-tley love US, bound
to us by so many ties. They know their
Interests are identical with ours. If they
are sick they come TO us for aid II they
want credit they come to us. They come
to us for everything. Some Of them vote
the Democratic ticket for
PURE LOVE OF Us.
From my County (Barnwell) there is q
c"l0red Democratic Representative, and
we have six or eight in the House and
j two in the Senate"
but still, Governor. it is charged that
you count out the colored vote" per-
| sisted.
lie called the colored janitor or order
ly: Tell Colonel Manning I want him !"
the Colonel, his private secretary,
came. young looking man of blonde
! comeiiness.
"Give this gentleman all the docu.
ments he needs" commanded tho Gov
ernor. "Now, sir" turning to me, "I
should be happy To talk politics to you,
but business is pressing, and with q
pause) besides WAS candidate and, to
speak honestly, do not choose TO be
!! placed on the defcnsivc.'
"Good-day. Governor, and thanks"
said ]. and left the potcn,ate in the
hands of a legislative mob who were after
him for favors.
Apart from her cities, she does not
know how to cook, wash, run hotel, or
diet her people so rs to prevent them
from having either the collie or the iaun-
dice. or both together. Her trains are
seldom II ever ON time. Her hotels-I
speak of the country inns and railroad
atrocites-are libel on civilization.
Dyspepsia sits cntroned at the heads of
their tables, and the traveller who reposes
within their gates rides the nightmare
during The hours when an easy digestion
Of dccently. cooked food would enable
Him to sleep. 1t is odious. II is unbear.
able. No other people but the inhabi-
tants Of "the South" would tolerate such
q state of things. Many of them know
better, but the devil of inertia is upon
them, and they 30 with the crowd. The
keepers of country hotels are not of the
best class of the inhabitants. and know
little OF human comfort. Their houses
arc as cold as barns; rats run riot in their
rooms. CncErnnchea ar4 thicker than
blue flies in the dog days; the niggers
iio Ill wait 10 blackmaii the traveller.
You cannot get negro employed around
Southern hotel. in city or country, who
will wait upon you 'lecently without be-
ing feed. This system has been imported
from England, and has become Il positive
abuse Woe to the man who carries
much bnggage while travelling South
ward! He Is sure to be swindled by the
grinnihg son of Africa, who smells his
victim ont as accurately as 4 carr;un crow
does dead horse. The fee system has
become an rnbearable tax, and travelling
men by the score have complained of it
to me. My individual experience, allied
with theirs, enables me to say that North
crn travellers do not leave the South with
favorable impression. The niger has
been so demoralized by bribery that he
has become thing Of terror to the way
tareF. He fawns upon you for a fee until
he becomes absolutely disgusting. The
! exceptions are 80 few that do not wonder
Mt the failure of the fifteenth amendment
to breathe n soul into this people. The
average Southern hotel nigger would, I
verify believe, ngree ., serve limited
apprenticeship to the devil for quarter.
may say for the Southern whites that
as rule, | have not found them either
mean or rmercenary. except the rural hotel
keepers, and they, in many instances, can
beat the sharpest kind of Yankee"
boarding mistress all hollow. And that
would be nll right il they only gave you
any kind Ot decent yulue for tho mnnev
They charge, for example, half dollar
inr log fire in n country where to have
the wood out of their way is doing them
a genuine service. I don't know that
ever was accused of being miserly.
care ms little for "the yellow dross" as
most people, l believe, but there is q
limit to all things, and voice the indig-
nation of hundreds of Northern travel
ers that have met in the foregoing ex-
plosion. More abuse of the South"
will, TO doubt. be the comment of such
residents of Dixie ms may happen 10 read
my remarks.