The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-05-24
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BILL ARP AND BOB.

Mrs. julia Ann Blossom living
close by who put on style, but Bob
is niger and knows it. Bob
talks like telephone and you can
hear his mouth all over the planta-
ton. Bob can read and write, but
he is no better for that. He goes
to meeting and enjoys power Of
religion, but my hens have quit
laying in the barn and crib since he
settled on my premises. Bob works
well but he don't take care Of any
thing-and will tell a lie with perfect
Indifference to discovery or conse-
quences. He borrowed my fine
plow, and broke it, and left it in the
field, and swore he hadn't had it,
or it was broke when he got it. He
borrowed a set of plow gear, and
denied getting 'em, and when it was
proved on him said he left 'em
over in the field by simmon tree.
The other morning / found three
of my mogul plum trees tore all to
pieces by the stock, and Bob had a
long story to tell how his mule got
out Of the stable and then out of the
lot and into the yard, and he was so
mad with old Bill when he found
him eating up my grape vines that
he throWed a rock at him and liked
to have killed him, and then with
an air Of hero says, ''Boss, please
give me some tobakker if you got
any" That rascal never fastened
the stall nor the stable gate, and I
felt like killing him when l looked
at my trees, and so I used language
on him-much language, but he
did'ent care one cent and in less
than an hour sent down for some
buttermilk and inguns for dinner.
Fret not thyself because of evil do
ers, but I'm afraid / will have to
kill Bob before the year is out, and
he would not care much if did.
They don't care for anything
chain-gangs, lynching, hanging, nor
nothing else has much terror for
the niger. Whipping is the only
thing that made good niggers of the
old set and tits the best thing for
the new. The old set are good yet,
but the new ones are going to the
dogs. You can't take up q South.
ern paper without finding an ac-
count of another murder or some
horrible outrage committed for mo-
ney or lust. Nobody feels safe
like they used to. 1t is getting to
be a dread and fear, for they are
worse than brutes when their pas
sions are aroused. A man run for
the Legislature last year in Ala,
bama, and to get the negro vote
said he should go for abolishing the
chain gang and putting up the whip
ping post in place of it. Well, it
made the niggers all mad and they
voted against him. They'd rather
serve ten years in the ohain.gang
than take a whipping. Since their
freedom they seem to be going back
to their original barbarism and they
will if let alone to their natural
instincts, They now commit ten
times as much crime as the white
folks according to population.
They are hung and they are lynch
ed and there are over two thousand
in the chain-gangs and On the pub
lie works of the State, but all this
seems to have no effect on
It is not ignorance and the race.
and it not whiskey that moves
them to crime but kind of
natural don't care cussedness that
nothing but fear of the lash will re-
form. The white folks are doing
pretty well and would do first rate
if it was'ent for whisky. That is
the cause of nearly all their trouble,
But the negroes don't drink much.
| He wants a master worse than he
wants anything, and he will have to
have one or do better. Our people
can't stand it. No family feels safe
from their brutishness. / never
come home without some appre.
hension, for there are as many yag.
abond black tramps in this section
as there are white ones at the
North and they have no more CON