New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-07
promptness)-But l don't think I'm going to have it
very bad.
SELECTIONS FROM THE MAIL.
NO RIGHTS FOR THE NEGRO.
IN THE STATES OF NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH
CARnILNA AND GEORGIA..

IN THE STATES OF NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH
CAROLINA AND GEORGIA
10 the razor OF me Tribune.
Sir: recent trip through the States Of North
Carolina south Carolina and Georgia enables me,
southcrn-bred man. to speak of the condition of the
negro there. saw him in college in all these states
acquiring knowledge in the fields earning livelihood,
in the community as a pcaceable, lawabdinS citizen,
the highway passenger. In the conventions
as a Christian organizer and promoter OF morality.
In the cities he feels unrest because Of his political
and civil rights being abridged until lie receives no
recognition In the rural districts he feels unsafe 70
lie down at night after public gatherings, though no
has no free speech. There certain counties where
any one who has been graduated from college is not
allowed to enter and teach if he or she teaches his
her pupils wash their faces and comb their hair
daily To be polite 70 their own To say 1t -
their ignorance and politics that causes the treatment
negro Is the case for the negro is not Al
lowed 10 show the least that he IS improving But
he must feel that he is a slave and not as good as
pet dog. The cars in which he Is forced to ride
without discrimination on account OF his appearance
aud dcmcanor are simply dsgracctul and disgusting.
70 paying for irst-cass ticket it IS highway
robbery. The watnsrooms are not decent dog'
houses
saw persons who heard the cries Of Mr.. W. T.
Finley was beaten and his leg broken in May, at
Abbcvlle Court House, South Carolina, because he
applied for the POsoilice at that place. Wheh
asked why tncN Olu not ~ 10 Hl' Ic>Nuc' '"it
that the mob were armed with Winchester rifles, and
the city government and the entire white population
without hfty exceptions sanctioned such treatment
OF any negro thinking he had the right to ask for an
Office in that part of the state The son Of a Con.
gresham the leader In the beating he commanded
the crowd. asked why it was kept secret 50 long.
The reply that any one making IL known coma
not live In Ahbeyill7 County twenty four hours.
When the Government learns that things must be
settled right. and not shifted. then the negro problem
will down. and not until then Inc negro Is usSa S
fed. bat he cannot leave the >Onth II he would
The south +, learning to keep him poor and ignorant
hence the opposition to the Blair bill for education
Take the negro of the south and the HE Is taken
ont il. lie makes the cotton and runs all inc
industries As he did before the war. and gets less
than hc did then for now he must feed, clothc nm,
self and pay hi, doctor bills. and he IS not pild
sufficient I'm eight cases ont Of ten to do this but year
after year ne is brought ont In debt to the employer
shall not say word on politics for the negro
has no political rights at all. Think In Berkeley
County. south Carolina where the negroes are twelve
trrsteel W. II. HEARD.
Presiding Elder Of the Lancaster District in the
A. VI. f. Church, Philadelphia Conference
Philadelphia, Penn, Dec. 81, lisp.