The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-05-08

Dus lew l61C OF Cle Olu w esG O!uleio VI
either side. Johnston and Longstreeta and
Beauregard and Early and Kirby Smith
are left us, and some more of lesser note.
In few more years there will be nobody
to pension on our side, and maybe our
foes will be happy. The soldier boys will
all be dead, but their graves will continue
to be pensioned with flowers.
wonder if the north and south will
ever make friends. L am sure they will
not at long range, but If ne could know
each other face to face and hand to hand
I reckon we would. It is no trouble at
all to feel kind to the northern people
who mingle with us and accept our hos
pitality, and our hope is that this north.
ern society that is being formed in Geor-
gia will come boldly to the front as med.
iators and will stop all this elimination
and recriminatiou. I saw our country's
flag unfurled from housetop the other
day and it made me sad, for I could not
feel that we had much interest in it. 1t
was to me an emblem of power, but not
of protection. The fact is, there are
times when our people are afraid of it.
During Mr.. CleYeland's administration
we felt like we had some voice in the
councils of the nation, and the old flag
was an emblem of peace, and we loved it,
but we don't now. How can a government
expect to prosper when it purpoaely pro.
vokes the hate of one third of its sub.
jects? I re9d letter to- day that was
published in Vicksburg by the negro
postmaster at Port Gibson, in which he
says: Heretofore I have used policy
with these pale faces while under Cleve>
lands shc-s auI. wicked rule, but thank
God the bottom rail is on top iu the native
State of old Jefferson Davis, who ought
to have died before he brought on seces-
sion and war. We intend to have our
rights in Mississippi, and my wife and the
wives of colored men shall travel in the
same coaches and dine at the same hotels
and go to the same schools with white
women and children. We have the num-
bers and the will, and we are the equals
of the whites in al respects"
The poor fool had much more of stuff
like that and boasted of being assured
that he will be backed by Federal bayo.
nets-and I reckon he will. A respecta-
BILE, competent white woman was turned
out of that postofice to make room for
this insolent negro.
Since I wrote to Mr.. Newsomo have
had score of letters from just such dar-
keys-some Of them anonymous and
some not. The best written was from
Washington city and the negro defended
the Madison outrage and said those So
called outrages would continue until we
repealed our Infamous laws that made it
q crime for negro to marry white wo-
man. OF course we know that these bad
negroes do not represent the race, bat we
do know that the race is alienated from
us, aud for no cause and without reason,
while we are taxing ourselves every day
to educate them. Our people are getting
tired of this ingratitude. Under the
present Republican administration of af.
fairs the race problem is assuming an
alarming aspect. The alienation between
the two races at the South is spreading
and intensifying. In some localities it
would now take but spark to set COM
munity on fire and The flames would soon
spread far and wide and convulse the ma.
Zion. If the south could be let alone
there would be no trouble, but our enc.
mies at the north are exciting the negroes,
and we have in our midst scattered here
and there some designing white men who
for the sake Of gain OF office would pre-.
cipitate US into another bloody war. The
universal sentiment Of the south is that
the negro shall not rule US. The senti-
ment of the North is that be shall not
rule up there, but shall have fair chance
to do it hero. That is the situation now.
What it will be year from hence no man
can tell.
BILL ARP.