Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-02-20
THE ourRAa d MILL.

Ihere are many base, violent,
murderous white men at the South,
they hate the negro; they wreak
their hatred on him in all ways.
| But, after all, such men are not now,
what ever may have been the fact at
some periods in the past, such men
are not now the ono hundredth part
of any community l know at the
South. Oftentimes, such mon are
not denounced and hunted down as
they should be. But in Kentucky
and West Virginia, and some other
States, such lawlcss, violent white
men kill each other and the whole
State stands paralyzed before them.
Why should slaughter of negroes
at Barnwell Court House in South
Carolina move the country so much
more than a slaughter of white men
in some other Southern State2 But
in the one case it is taken as a matter
of course, arising out of low state
of civilization; in the other case, it
creates a race problem. When
| Goodloe, Kentucky Republican,
butchered Swopc, another Kentucky
Republican, and Swopc butchered
Goodloe in return, say the affair
was more brutal, more blood thirsty,
more discouraging as an indication
of social degradation than any out
rage | have known of at the South
in which negroes were the victims
within the last ten years; and yet, if
| remember rightly, President Har-
rison sent his sympathy publicly to
one of these brutal Kentucky mur-
derers No race problem there
No resolution in the Senate by Hoar
or Chandler for national invcstiga-
tion!
No, gentlemen, these affairs, how
ever sad or disgraceful, are Tut the
natural ordinary outbursts of men
only half touched by ciyilizing in
tluences. They can be prevented
only by the general progress of civ
ilization. When they affect negroes,
do not let us call them race
problem
LET THE NEGRO ALONE.
What, then, is the duty of the
North III respect to this problem,
what is Boston's and Massachusetts
duty, what is the duty of all patri-
otic men? | answer with my whole
mind and conscience, their duty is to
let the negro alone l know no
duty more imperative than to apply
the gag Of public reprobation and
contempt to the mouths of such
ghoul-like demagogucs as Chandler
and ingalls,. Can a patriotic Ameri-
can conceive of more unpatriotic
and Infamous course of conduct
Infamous towards the negro as well
as the white man of the South
than, without other than a cold
bloodcd partisan aim, to arouse the
hatred of both races towards each
other, to set the negro and white
man ut each others throats, while
they in cowardly safety, in New
Hampshire and Kansas, look on at
the bloody results. And such men,
God save the mark are our Senators
and Republican leaders! When
President Harrison calls for "bugal
blast," or Depew discourses solcmnly
of our duty to defend free ballot,
let us be brave enough and manly
enough to tell them that such thun-
der is a stage trick which has had it's
day of success, and that the real
point of danger to free ballot and
to American institutions lies in the
means and methods which in the
last election carried New York for
Harrison.
The negro is to-day working out
his own salvation where he is, with
out your help. He is doing inf
nitely better than when you tried to
protect him by bayoncts. You left
him in 1876, in order to save the
Presidency for the Republican
party, to his fate. lie has met that
fate, and met it well. You have
done all you can do for him. The
only effective protection he can have
under our system of government is
the protection of the stronger race
with which his lot is cast.
TRIBUTD TO HAMPTON.
Of the plan proposed by some
Southern Senators and advocated by
Senator Hampton, I do not think
it necessary to say more than that it
seems to me visionary and impossi-
bic, except that its advocacy by
Senator IIamDton reminds mo that