Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-24
VOLUME XII NO 43.

cile and soon learned to talk and got
reconoiled to wearing clothes and
eating like white folks. They never
pined away or grieyed Tor their kim
dred or their country. They mado
excellent servants; and I have no
doubt but their children are now
we'll behaved and civilized citizens.
Ihave long ruminated over this and
my faith is that our Northern breth-
rem ought to send over there and get
some more and civilize them as we
have done. There is broad field
FOR their philanthropy Why don't
those Northern negro preachers,
who kicked up such dust at In
dianapolis the other day, go over
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
there is another serious question
which Pharaoh's advanced sheets
have not discussed. If the negro is
sont away and colonized, will he re-
lapse into barbarism like they have
in Hayti and San Domingo? If.his-
tory and observation prove anything,
they prove that close contact with
the white man and dependence upon
him is absolutely necessary for the
prosperity ana happiness Of the ne
gro. don't mean slavery nor scrf-
dom, buj mean u dependent asso-
citation. Thousands of them are in
that condition now, and they are the
best and happiest of their race.
They are at work every day and
earn their daily bread and give no
trouble. Our colorcd townsman,
Gasset, struck tho key note in his
card to the Constitution. Let the
negro go to work and attend to his
business and he will have no trouble
with the white race. 1t is idleness
that is making all the fuss.
But there is enough thoughtful
conservatism in the thinking mon
the leaders Of both races-to keep
down a conflict. Such negroes as
Taylor and Turner and Prince and
Gassett will control their race for
peace and the best interests of all
concerned. If the time comes for
them to go it will be because. Pro-
yidence has willcd it. said this to
Mrs. Arp while she was sewing some
buttons on the boys garments and
she said she wasn't ready for them
to go yet. She didn't want Sicily
Mimms to go at all; nor Aunt An
gelina Peacock, for when she can't
get one of them she can get the
other, and Angelina makes the best
I, silver cake in the world, and Sicily
il the best all-round cook in the
world, and just goes along SO quiet
and gives her no trouble. A big
mouthed drayman came to the back
door for a trunk this morning and
walked big into the kitchen and took
his tobacco out of his mouth and
took drink out of the kitchen dip.
per, and Mrs. Arp saw him just in
time and used language on him
language, nouns and adjcctives and
Z, interjections. I'll bet he don't conc
here any more. Mrs. Sicily Mimms
says its just such impudcnt niggcrt
as him what gets up all the fuss
{ The other night my wife and 1 wore
coming home from church and over.
took a dude darkey, who had the
arm clutch on his girl, and they
crept along at a lovers pace, which
is about half mile an hour, and
the sidewalk was very narrow with q
, deep ditch OIL one side, and they
wouldn't let us by nor turn out, but
just spread themselves out in an ag.
gravating way, and we had to crcer
along until we got to a cross street
and my wife says it made her SC
mad that the preaching didn't dt
her a bit of good. There are some
lazy, tritling negroes about and they
ought to be vagrantcd, and there
are some white folks who seem tc
think that it is ungentlemanly tc
work: The funniest thing is to sec
these educated negroes going about
with fans in their hands. and um.
brellas raised on cloudy day when
there is neither sunshine nor shower.
They are trying to initiate tho white
folks and just overdo it a little
that's all. A negro girl is as fond of
finery as an Indian is of beads. She
will pick cotton all the week in tho
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