The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-30
ARP'S SUNDAY CHAT


have either stopped to rest or have
! bIowed out since Congress adjourned.
We haven't heard anything about the
poor darkey il some time. There is
Washington City negro preaching
through this region, and he knows how
to preach, and what to preach. His
name is Shields. He is born orator,
and could make some Of our candidates
for office ashamed of themselves. He
breaches in the church or out of it. He
comes as missionary to tell the ne
groes the truth and give them good ad-
vice. He preached in the streets of our
town last Saturday, and had quite
gathering Of colored people to hear him
tell how the northern people treated
! their race; how they were shut out
from all trades and occupations but the
lowest; how the white mechanics
wouldn't employ them nor work with
them; how the colored BARRIERS had all
been boycotted and run out of that
country; how the hotels that used to
have them as walters had substituted
foreigners. "Your best friends are
down here" said he, land it is your
duty to tie on to them and keep their
! good will by good honest work and re-
spectful department. Until you are
able to stand alone you will have to
lean upon somebody, and the Southern
people have proved themselves your
friends. They have given you work
and wages all the time. I see white
and colored carpenters and masons
working together on the same build
ings in every Southern town. I see
colored draymen, colored porters, COL
ored BARRIERS all about. UpNorth they
will call you Mr.. johnson or Mr.. Jack
son, but that is about all. Down here
they call you Tom and Dick and Bob,
but that is not ALL They will befriend
you and protect you. Now let me ad-
wise you to keep out Of politics. Some
ofyou have been voting and voting
ever since the war, and generally you
have been voting right against your
Southern friends, and it has never done
you any good. I don't advise you to
be Democrats nor Republicans, but
always vote for the man who stands
fairest in good works; vote for the man
who has the respect of the community
in which he lives; vote for the man
that good men vote for. You have no
time to devote to politics. Work,
work, work and save your money, and
before anybody knows it buy you alot
and build you little house and own
it, and plant trees and vines around it,
and you will feel more like somebody
than you ever did in your life. I am
proud to know that so many OF you are
doing that around Gainesville"
That preacher is doing good, and he
ought to be employed to travel all over
the State and talk that way. A thought
full gentleman remarked to-day that
Shields had more sense than half the
members of the American Congress,
and was doing infinitely more good.
I believe that the day is near at hand
when the Southern negroes will feel
identified with the whites in every
thing, including politics, and then
there will be no further discussion of
the race problem. Even now it is rare
to find one who proposes to vote for
Major Hargrove, the Republican can
didate for Congress in this district,
whereas he used to hold them solid.
Great changes are going on, both
North and South. National politics
are changing base, and finding new
centers. The tariff will divide the two
great parties in the next election. Nc
Kinley or no Mckinley will be the bat
+ tie cry, and both sides will find adhe-
rents above and below the line and de-
stroy sectionalism. Then the war will
be over and national fraternity be re-
stored. What a glorious picture! "Let
us have peace,n said General Grant,
but he died without seeing it.
This reminds ME of story that was
told me not long ago about Mr.. Rich
ards dream. Mr.. Richards is a genial
genius who superintends the water
works in Atlanta. He visited Boston
as delegate to the great waterworks
convention, where the superintendent
and engineers of the craft had gathered
from every respectable city in the
union. 1t was about the time that Mr..
Cleveland restored the rebel flags and
Fairchild and Foraker and company
raised such howl about it. The pres
ident had to take them hack and put
them away in the old garret again.
The bloody shirt was raised all over
the North and all the Republican
papers screeched amazing, especially
those in Boston. Nevertheless Boston
gave a banquet to the watermen, and
after the ladies had retired the gentle
men were called on for speeches and
talks and stories. BY and by Mr..
Richards was called upon to say some
thing Of Georgia, for Atlanta, or for the
South generally. He is q very modest
man and tried to excuse himself, but
as they pressed him, he said he was
not feeling yell and had a strange
dream last night that troubled him,
and he would be glad if some Joseph
could be found who would interpret it.
OF course they clamored for bis
dream, and he said: II dreamed that
I was dead, and had found my way tc
the gate of heaven, and there was ar.
! rnSta6 Inv fha rnar5c and asked fol