The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-11-28

make them unhappy. They hare more
fun, more jokes, more frolics in the camp
or in the field, or by The freside, or on an
excursion, or at the church, than anybody.
It does not suit him or fit him 10 hold of.
fee, and he will never hold it in these
parts. If their leaders in the Nashville
convention want Office they will have to
migrate to some other country and set up
government. Talk about not getting
their share OF the school fund. Right
here in this town they get ten times their
share, according to the taxes they pay.
Here is free school with eighty scholars
and it is supported by the white folks.
Nine.tenths of the money comes from
them. When they want to build church
the white folks are the subscribers-when
house burns down they go round among
the white folks for money to rebuild and
they get it-when one dies the kinsfolks
will beg the grave clothes from their
kind hearted white friends, and they will
have the biggest kind of wake at the
funeral. Here is that big mouth John
who drives a delivery wagon worrying me
right now to stop my pen and hunt him
up pair of my old pants and coat, and
I'll have it to do, reckon, to get rid of
him. He gets fifteen dollars month for
riding around, snd be spends every cent
of il in frolicking, and gets his clothes by
grinniDg and begging among his white
friends. Here are these able.bodied,
happy, greasy, shiny darkies, who work
ia the mines and drive the teams, getting
their dollar day and spending it every
night. They could save half Of it if they
would, and get rich. twenty-five cents a
day will feed him, and less than that will
clothe him. There are hundred thous-
and able bodied negroes in Georgia and
Alabama earning dollar day. Ifthey
would save half of It'll they would accumu.
late fifteen million dollars year, and in
ten years have one hundred and fifty
million dollars. Just think oft. Think
what they could do if they would. But
then they wouldn't be happy, SO let them
work and laugh and spend it if they want
to- Old Uncle Sam is perfectly happily
in his simplicity. respect him. I ven.
crate him. BE works for me aud is a
pure, unadnlterated niger, and is always
calm and serene. I wouldn't give him
for hundred of the new sort. Yesterday
he was holding plank for me to saw so
as to put another shelf in that flower pit,
and I couldn't see the mark very well
without my glasses, and the old darkey
said: "Dar de mark, dis side; you dun
gwine away from it," "Uncle Sam" said
], chow can you see that mark better than
can? You are fifteen years older than
1 am" "Never strain my eyes, sir, read
in and writin' and looking at dem little
things-neber try hard to see anything
smaller dan dime-dats it Ireckon-de
Lord sends some good wild de bad.''
What in the world does Massachusetts
man know about the negro /? He won't
come down and see for himself. They
won't send a committee down, but they
stay at home and read political lies and
brood over them, aud take up collections
and some of them will actually lay down
and die prematurely SO as to leave for.
tune for their relief and education. One
would think that the prosecuted darkies
would fly up north at once and take re-
fuge in the arms of their deliverers, but
here they are still. The good book says
it is more blessed to give than to receive.
So let them keep on giving. But the ne
gro says it is more blessed to receive than
to give, and 80 it all works together for
good, I reckon, hope so.
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