The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-27


seems, is not allowed to sit where be Is
annoyed and looked upon with contempt,
he Is restless, peevish, and sometimes
mourns, and is very unhappy.
It is this 1estlessness and discomfort
ment and a longing desire to force that
which he never can force, from which
springs all the social trouble between
these two elements at the South. Let the
colored man turn from all OF his imagin-
ary social happiness of mingling with
another race of people, who show in every
conceivable way that they do not wish
his company and get to work earnestly IN
acquiring the more permanent and sub
stantial things of life, and the great
problem is at once solved. The colored
people want new teachers down here
teachers and leaders who will point out
and instruct them in the way of peace,
prosperity and happiness; teachers who
will disabuse their minds OF this political
vanity, farce and humbug that are fast
leading them biindfolded into an indo-
lent shiftlessness, the result of which is
now being manifested by every criminal
courts record. And now, in the name
of humanity, ask those who are stand
ing at convenient distance to desist
from their diabolical attempt to incite
defenceless people to undertake their
own destruction.
John T. Shuften.
Orlando, Fla,
An English Opinion.
The London Spectator, October 26,
has an article on the relations of the
"Whites and Blacks in America" based
on statements BY the New York cores
pondent of the Manchester Examiner,
showing that not only are Southern
outrages" perpetrated on the negro, but
that in the Northern and Western States
equal social rights are denied the blacks
by the whitess. The Fred Douglass in-'
cident connected with the navy is given
as an example of the feeling of the couD.
ty. Boston retail dealers are instanced
as having refused to employ colored as
sintants in their shops; Christian asso-
Citations and congregations as refusing
negroes membership; President Harrison
as having dismissed black servants from
the Whi'e House; Chicago laborers as
opposing the employment of negroes,
and New York Irishmen as boycotting
them. The Spectator says in this con-
nection: "The gentlemen from Cork
will brook no interference or competition
on the part of the 'nigger.' Many in
stances are cited in the Western States
where negroes have been denied the or
dinary privileges of everyday life in
restaurants and shops and hotels" And
the articles 60 on to cite evidences or an
to expel and exterminatc the
race. A Georgia Senator is quoted as
having said: ''There is no room io this
country for the negro and the Yankee. !
care not what course the courts maE
take. But when the white man strikes
for home and freside I am with him."
Gen. Sherman is quoted as having ex-
pressed himself ar Cincinnati meeting
of the G. a. r. as ''prepared to admit
the disfranchisement of the negro. pro-
vided that the congressional representa-
ton of the South was reduced in proper
ton to the number of colored persons de-
prived of the vote"
Ou these statements the Spectator says
ssThough at first sight the expressions Of
such opinions by Northerners may seem
incomprehensible, we trust that the En-
glishmen will not run away with the no.
ton that the Northern advocates of dis
enfranchisement mnss necessarily be go
ing back from their old principles. In
the first place. it must be remembered
that the Northerners did not fight to give
the blacks the vote, but to save the
Union and put an end to slavery, and
with it the domination of a slave owning
slave-breeding slave-driving a-istocracy.'
If the abolitionists had been allowed to
free the blacks by peaceful means, they
would almost certainly, as IN the case of
the Indians and Chinese, have refused
the them franchise. The result of the
of the full citizenship on the
blacks has shown that this policy would
have been the true one. Ir the South
ern States the negroes have, as rule
been practically deprived of all political
power and are the mere tools in the
hands of the whites" The Spectator con-
cludes tuat the whole question bristles
with difficulties, but expresses confidence
that the trouble will be vesthered because
the people of the United States are En-
glishmen and do not succumb to any
political troubles however great. In
justice to the American people, the Spec
tator says that while outrages and lynch
iugs of negroes are abominable and not
to be condoned, "we must not forget
that in many parts of the South no white
woman can 60 out alone without re-
volver" The Spectator concludes the
article as follows: "Uneuestiouably q
portion of the negroes of the Gulf States
are still licentious savages, not yet eman-
cipased from the hideous denominations
of the Obeah, nor from the persistent
inclination towards evil always existing
il uncivilized mankind. If We lived
within sight, as it we're. of q population
whose grandparents were Guinea svages,
we should fnd it no easy task to think
and act calmly and justly in regard to
the negroes"
private Daizeli SaysHis Say
IN ramused to see how the able
edito eI xplain the recent Republican
disasters and leave Hamlet out of the