The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-10-17
BILL ARP.
Arp has Something to Say About the Race
Question.
atlanta Constitution.

atlanta Constitution.
What would We do if we didn't have
the negro to write about and talk about
The newspaper and magazines are dis.
cussing the race problem continually and
doing their best 10 solve it. The people
are pondering over it at home by the
6reside. and all this shedding light and
spreading knowledge and preparing the
way for whatever may happen. But
still there is nothing done nor likely to
be done. 1t is too big thing to be hur-
ried by anything that man can do. By
slow and sure degrees it will work itself
out, and reckon we had better let it
alone for awhile and watch the workings
of manifest destiny. think that Gener.
al Stephen D. Lees brief reply to Mr..
Grady on the subject is the most sensible
thing that has been said or written. He
is not alarmed about the situation and he
lives in negro country. The appeal to
Pharaoh reads veil and is the result of
thought and research, but in this age
theories are rudely knocked aside by
facts. We theorize on the war and some
of our preachers said that if we didn't
whip the fight they would lose faith in
the providence of God. We theorized
about making cotton and said that the
white man couldn't make it and the
free negro wouldn't. Pharaoh says:
mo two dissimilar races ever lived togeth.
er in peace" When the fact is the
whites and the blacks have been living
together in peace here at the South for q
century. The last rs years the negro
has been free man and we are living
in peace yet; about as much peace as
could be expected-in fact more peace
than there ia between labor and capital
in the white race. He says there would
have been immigration 10 the South long
ago if the negro had not been here.
Then we ought to thank the good Lord
for protecting US from the anarchists
and communists and the scum and pau.
pers of Europe. We don't invite immi-
grants who are afraid of the negro. If
the negro has done us no other good, he
has ensured us good law. abiding, hom.
ogeneous patriotic population. He has
some bad traits, but we don't want to
swap him off for trash. His virtues are
too much nagnifed by the North, and
80 are his crimes ofthe South. As race
they are kind hearted, generous, docile
good natured, anu at the same time,
wasteful, careless-concerned for to day,
unconcerned for to morrow, and having
more religion than piety, more fear than
conscience. Bishop Galloway said in bis
great sermon at the tabernacle that Sam
Houston was once travelling over Texas
in diligence, and two robbers stopped
the coach and robbed him and his com.
panions of their money and watches, and,
worst of all, took their lunch of biscuit
and sausage, and one Of them unrolled
it and greedily bit Of half sausage,
when the other jerked it violently away
and said: "Don't you eat that, you
heather heretic-didn't I tell you this
morning that day was Good Friday,
and you mustn't eat any meat" He had
more religion than piety, and SO with
most of the negroes. a little stealing
does not conflict with their religion. If
you hire one it does not conflict with his
contract. We all recognize that eight
dollars month means eight dollars and
perquisites. The law presumes malice
when man commits crime, but there
is not bit of malice in negroes heart
when he pliers from you. He loves you
all the better for having something that
he can pick up. he takes it upon the
idea that you have gotit tospare and
won't MISS it, and he wants it-that's
all.
Another mistake that Pharaoh makes
is in arraigning somebody for ever bring.
ing the negroes here from Africs. We be.
lieve that it was good thing and wisely
designed by Providence. What would
the 100000 have been if their fore>
fathers had been left in Africa. About
thirty years ago there was cargo Of
negroes secretly landed on our coast just
below Savannah, and they were sold and
distributed among our farmers. / saw
some of them at Colonel Motts, in Colum
bus. They were working in his garden,
or trying to work. They couldn't speak
a word of English and had to be trained
by signs. They didn't want their meat
cooked, but begged for it with the blood.
But they were docile, and soon learned
to talk and got reconciled to wearing
clothes and eating like white folks.
They never pined away or grieved for
their kindred or their country. They
made excellent servants, and have no
doubt but that their children are now
we'll. behaved and civilized citizens. I
have long ruminated over this and my
faith is that our northern brethren ought
to send over there and get some more
and civilize them as we have done.
There is broad field for their philan-
thropby. Why don'tthose northern negro
preachers, who kicked up such dust at
Indianapolis the other day, go over there
and begin the missionary work. If the
other great nations had done as much for
the negro as the South has done Africa
would be civilized. But then there is
another serious question which Pharaoh's
advanced sheets have not discussed. If
the negro is sent away and colonized,
will he remain civilized, or will he relapse
into barbarism like they have in Hayti
and San Domingo. If history and OBJ
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