The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-02-13
ARP'S PHILOSOPHY.
PIE GEORGIA SAGE DISCOURSES
IN AN ERUDITE MANNER.

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Newspapers, | mean.
The newspapers that make us mad
or sad. Sometimes | think q man had
better swear oil aud read no politics
! no murders or other horrible things
liz domestic scandal--no hangings OF
lynchinga H1thing about tho race
problem, or the lariiT. or w,inan's
rights--nothing th&t viii excite his
indignation or keep him from feel
ing calm and ssronc. Sometimes [
meet n clever, hard working cou0t :
MAJ, who ha mt heard the newa, nnd
| envy him One asked me tho other
-llay If Congress had begun to ship the
niggers TO Afriky. But hen we must
keep UP with the times, or we will get
behind. 1t seems like We arc living in
an enemy'H HcOuntry, and must keep
posted and fortified. The newspapers
are our Scouts, our auutinelS. They
hoist the danger signals, and some
body must rcnl them, or the enemy
will slip up on us. | thought that we
were getting along pretty well with
the yankees since Henry Grady made
his Boston speech, and I still believe
we have gained some ground, if we
can hold it. But it begins to look like
the most of our northern brethren were
more in love With ihe boy than with
what he said. Most all Of hem praise
Grady, bnt very few indurse his syuti-
ments. 1t is just like an carncs;, elo-
quent lawyer pleading for his client
until the tears are seUn falling from
the eyes of the .jm!men, but they re
tire and convict his client all the same
| thought that as the South was on
trial she was about 20 be acquitted
when Grady spoke, but alas, for us, he
dident have tho conclusion. Admira-
tion is short lived, and prejudice is
long. Even Ingalls, praises Grady,
while he abuses the South and winds
up with the dagger and torch. But
there is bigger sign than Ingalls,.
The northern press has alredy settled
down 10 its usual business--not only
the Republican press but the religious
press.
Editors o. great papers either mold
the opinions Of their readers, or they
reflect them some Of them do both
The preacher editors generally mold
them. They are bold, aggressive
class, and hence the danger if they sc
wrong. DR.. Phelps is the president
Of Andover college. He is "a learned
and notable man, and whatever he
writes for his paper, The Congrega,
tionalst," is taken by New England
as the law and the testimony. His
readers viii sWear A,y .2pis 20nVi2tiong
In n late number of his paper No ar
raigns the South and makes demands
IL ~ Il Il IL
as the "eloquence Of the banquet" as
remarkable succession ef irrelevan-
ccs," as the "tickling with feathers
of only feathers weight" With the
coolness and the arrogance Of king
he tells us that we should "refuse the
negro no place by reason Of his
color" And then he adds: SIS Geor.
gia doing this, we have right
to ask? Is it her civil and hcr So
ciaI policy to educate colored citi-
zens up to the level Of the republican
bnllot?n
WAS there ever such ignorance and
impudence combined ia q great man.
| Educate the negro to vote the repubi.
can ticket Good Lord and master,
| why don't you educate Grover Cleve-
land and Governor Hill and all the de-
mOcrats up North to do that?, WHY
dident you educate the negro b2tn. {
you gave him the right to vote Yes,
you may inquire, and you can Ec. p on
inquiring, and Georgia will k.c,, on
attending to her own business. The
ReY. DR.. Continues his impertinont re-
marks and says: "Having educated
| the negro to the level Of the republi--
can ballot, will you count the vote if it
will elect?" Now, ne really believes
that the negro vote is not counted in
Georgia. He won't believe us when
we tell him that it is. He wont be-
lievo even the negroes when they tell
him SO. | have been Watching and
wondering for twenty years to see o
negro inundated at the polls either
directly or indirectly, and have mover
seen one-l have never seen his vote
miscOuntcd o. failed to bo counted
But we would like to inquire why you
suppressed and miscounted Samn J
Tilden's vote and stole The presidency
from him.
But wnat is the use in quarrcling
With sucm fanatics? Here is The ne
gro, the happiest creature upon earth
and the most cOntented, and away "
in New England you can hear the
hyp0critical "NOte, vote yOte"- won
educate the negro to vote the republi
can ticket His precious vote is al
they are concerned about. 1t hasen
been but iorty-four years since Rhod
island wouldn't let anybody vote un
less he was the oldest son and wa
worth $134. That is what Appleton
says in his biography OF Thomas G
Dorr And because Dorr called con
VentiOn to change the constitution ant
extend the franchise, they arrest
ed him and put him in the pcnitcntiary
But the reverend doctor says that y,
must not refuse the negro any place
civil or social. He would invade tn
sanctity Of our io:c"s and frcsidos viii
philanthropy. He docs not seem t
know or believe that the white reLub
licans OF the South are az much shock
ed at his demands as we are. He doe
not know that the white people of tn
South arc a unit on the color line-th
separation Of tho races ir schools ar,
churches, and hotels and theatre
ll0ro in my town are republicans Wit
whom we affiliate and associate in on
churches, in our city councils an
schOolbOards. They are bankers anC
merchants, and lawyers and manufac
turers, and we are mutually tOleran
and eonsidorate of each others politi
, cal preferences, but you can't find on