The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06
an infant and who love me. We grew
up on the same plantation"
At this point the Governors voice
grew husky, and I thought he would
break out with

grew husky, and I thought he would
break out with
Way down upon dc Swaunee ribber,
Far, far away,
but he recovered himself and proceeded
"These negroes-they 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. If 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
cnlored Democratic Representative, and
we have six or eight in the House and
two in the Senate"
"But still, Governor it is charged that
you count out the colored VOTE" ! per-
sisted.
He called the colored janitor or order
ly: "Tel Colonel Manning want him" 7"
The Colonel, his private secretary,
came, a young looking man of blonde
comeliness.
"Give this gentleman all the doeu-
ments he needs" commanded the Gov.
ernor. "Now, sir" turning to me, ~
should be happy to talk politics to you,
but business is pressing and with a
pausc) besides Was candidate, and, to
speak honestly, do not choose to be
placed on the defensive"
"Good. day, Governor, and thanks"
said 7. and I left the potentate in the
hands of 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 as to prevent them
from having either the collie or the jaun-
dice. or both together. Her trains are
seldom if ever on time. Her hotels-I
speak of the country inns and railroad
atrocities-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 decently. cooked food would enable
him to sleep. 1t is odious. 1t is unbear.
able. No other people but the inhabi-
tants of "the South" would tolerate such
a 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
are as cold as barns; rats run ri0tin their
rooms. Cockroaches are thicker than
blue flies in the dog days; the niggers
lie in wait to blackmail the traveller.
You cannot get negro employed around
a Southern hotel. in city or country, who
will wait upon you decently without be:
ing feed. This system has been imported
from England, and has become positive
abuse. Woe to the man who carries
much baggage while travelling South
ward? He is sure to be swindled by the
grinnihg sou of Africa, who smells his
victim ont as accurately as carrion crow
does dead horse. The fee system has
become an unbearable 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
ern travellers do not leave the South with
favorable impression. The nigger has
been so demoralized by bribery that he
has become thing Of terror to the way.
farer. He lawns upon you for lee until
he becomes absolutely disgusting. The
exceptions are so few that l do not wonder
at the failure of the fifteenth amendment
to breathe q soul into this people. The
average Southern hotel niger would, |
verify believe, agree to serve a limited
apprenticeship to the devil for quarter.
1 may say for the Southern whites that
as a rule, I have not found them either
mean ormercenary, 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 all right il they only gave you
any kind of decent value for the money.
They charge, for example, half a dollar
for a log fire in country where to have
the wood out Of their way is doing them
genuine service. l don't know that ]
ever was accused of heing miserly. l
care as little for "the yellow dross" as
most people, I believe, but there is
limit to all things, and / voice the indig-
nation of hundreds of Northern travel.
ers that l have met in the foregoing ex-
plosion. More abuse Of the South"
will no doubt. be The comment of such
residents of Dixie as may happen to read
my remarks.