The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-03-06
ARP ON THE NEGRO.
THE NORTH'S IGNORANCE OF
TIE SOUTH.


long it would take him and his family
to be como acclimated, and what was
tho safest time of the yoar to make
the change, Ifhe had ever been South
no would not havo asked such ques-
tions. Most of the Northern people
associate the South with malaria aud
bad, sickly weather. They look on
the map and see the parallels OF laIi-
tude, and 30 form their opinions.
We'll, there is some malarial couu.ry
away down South somewhere, but up
here in Georgia we talk about going
to Florida to spond the winter, just
like the Northern people do. The
only difference between Georgia and
Virginia is that our winters are shorter
and mildcr, and our summers longer
and cooler. The climate is just vigor-
Gus and bracing.
Now, it is fact that the Southern
people know great deal moro about
tho North than their people know
about us. Tho tendency Of tra"el is
northward, aud has always been so. A
hundred travellers would go north to
where one came south. business and
pleasure called them there. Until the
great army of drummers came into OK
istence, the Southern merchants went
north twico n year to buy their goods,
their spring stock and fall stock, and
they became well acquainted with the
people and their manners and customs
and politics and religion. For seven
wears was y merchant and mingled
with them from Boston to pllilaIcl-
phia, but mono of them came south to
mingle with mo. Before the war we
sent hundreds Of our boys to Northern
colleges, but they never send any to
ours. We have always taken their
newspapers and magazines, but they
have never taken ours. Thousands
of our wealthy people visit their
watering places and thoir great cities
every summer, but they never visit
ours, and so they are still unacuuaint-
edwith US. In recent years II good many
af their nnbobs and invalidS take Il
straight shoot for Florida every via
ter, but they 30 in Pullman slcopers
with the curtains down, and whc Il they
get thcro they huGdlc together il q
fine hot cl at iivo dollars day and
don't get acquainted with the natives
and don't want to. They como chock-
full Of the prciudiccs Of = century,
projudices that arc part Of their re-
ligion and they don't want 10 lose
them. You might as we'll try to get
BAPTIST, or n Methodist, or a Jew, to
change hia religion. There is but one
channel open to removal OF prejudice
and that is through the pocket. The
only hope Of promoting peace is in get
ting acquainted, and the only hope of
gotting acquainted Is through business
channels. Russell Harrison camo down
to Atlanta to banquet and he be-
haved like q gentleman, aud l expect
he is a gentleman, but he has Eono
lack believing that our people are
killing and prosecuting the negroes
and robbinE Republican postmasters
~ a general business, Al Kind ofalnusc-
ment. But our climate and our mine
raj treasures are drawing their good
people down here pretty fast. They
arc investing their money and they
stay to watch it, and the longer they
stay the better they like us. Their
deep concern about the negro soon
passes away and the race problem
bugbear vanishes inUo a myth. The
truth is, there are too many alarmists
about the negro, even in our own sec
ton. There is plenty Of room here
for white and for black, and will be for
century to come. l can't sec any vol
cano nor hear its muttcringS.
The race problem has already been
solved in other countries. / was talk
ing to Il traveller few days ugo-a
man who has seen enough of the world
and humanity and government to can
Gel all his p,cjudices, and cause him
to look upon everything with the eye
of philosopher. Not long ago he
took trip to tho Windward islands,
the little Antilles, and spent some
weeks upon them. He visited ST. Kits
and Dominica and Antigua and Bar
BADGES and Trinidad, and found the
English people in charge, and although
the population was mostly negroes,
there was no trouble anywhere. There
was no social equality, nor any other
equality. England makes their laws
and they have to obey them. The
English rule is kind and humane, but
it is firm and absolute. In those
islands there arc about thirty thous-
and whites and three hundred thous-
and negroes. Those negroes wcro
emancipated in 1S43, and they arc now
pretty much what the were then. Some
AhNu'p1 aoNiS1 p'hhS ipES Soiitc NOStl-
bonds, some beggars, but all dependent
upon the white man and happy in
in that dependence. They have plenty
Of religion and are content with the
present and havo but little concern
with the future. They cultivate tho
lands and make all tho sugar and mo-
lasses. The lands arc owned by En-
glish landlords, who live in London.
The governor-general is appointed by
the crown, and he has enough officers
and agents to enforce the laws and
keep the peace. Negro policemen arc
appointed to keep order nmong the
negroes, and they do It. Now, what is
the matter with this picture? Nothing.
1t is just the same pictuce that is here.
Right here in this community we have
some honest industrious negroes who
work regularly every day, and are
clever, law-abiding citizens. We have
others VINO work when they feel like
it and steal when they don't. About
half the boys from ten to eighteen are
gtreet vagaoonds, who run the streets
and th3 depot platforms, and are ready
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