The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-02-13

athe Republican party deliberately de-.
clared that it was un rise, unconstitutional,
impolitic and impossible, to maintain tho
Southern State Governments by the
phyuical power of the Federal Govern.
ment."
CONDITION OF THE NEGRO. !.
Speaking of what is best to be done
about the negro and his rights, Governor
Chamberlain said:
What is the matter, I ask boldly, with
the negro now? I come from the South.
tonight. a business errand has again
taken me to the State which. was my
home for twelve years. I have mingled
again with the people whom I then knew
80 we'll. What do / find? / find that,
since 1876, both races in South Carolina
have prospered. I find the prosperity of
the negro has advanced pari passu, more
than pari passu, with the white man. I
find the negro more self.respecting, better
provided with schools, far better acquir-
ing property, more rapidly, more indus
trious, more ambitious for education and
property, than he ever was before 1876 /;
and have come here tonight, at not q
little Inconvenience, to proclaim thia in
the ear of Boston's philanthropy and
Boston's patriotism. L proclaim it because
it is true, and because if any man living
owes it to himself and to the country to
proclaim the truth in this matter, am
that man.
do not exonsrate' the white race at
the South from all past OF. present blame.
There are wrongs done there to the negro
now, but do say that the negro has
never known such an sra of advancement
and prosperity in all that BELTS citizen
and freeman as the period since 1876, and
if it be treason to say it, I reply, in histor-
ic words, Make the most Of It'll"
THE OUTRAGE MILL.
There are many base, violent murder
ou. white men at the South they hate
the negro. they wreak their hatred on
him in all ways. But, after all, such men
are not now, whatever may have been the
fact at aomG periods in the past, such man
are not now the one bundredth part of
any community I know at the South.
Oftentimes, such men are not denounced
and hunted down as they should be. But
in Kentucky and West Virginia, and
some other States, such lawless, violent
white men kill each other and the whole
State stands paralyzed before them. Why
should slaughter of negroes at Barnwell
Court House in South Carolina move the
country 80 much more than slaughter of
white men in some other Southern Stlte.
But in the one case it is taken as q matter
of course, arising out of a low stage of
civilization in The other case, it creates
race problem When Goodloe, Ken
tucky Republican, butchered Swope,
another Kentucky Republican, and Swope
butchered Goodloe In return, [ say the
affair was more brutal, MORE blood thirs-
ty, more discouraging as an indication of
social degradation than any outrage I
have known of az the South in which ne
groes were the victims within the last ten
years aud yet, il I remember rightly,
President Harrison sent his sympathy
publicly to one of these brutal Kentucky
murderers No race problem there No
resolution in the Senate BY Hoar or
Chandler for a national investigation.
No, gentlemen, these affairs, however
sad or disgrnceful, are but the natural
ordinary 0utbursts of men only half
touched by ciyilizing influences. They
can be prevented only by the general
progress of civilization. When they affect
negroes, do not let us call them race
problem !
LET THE NEGRO ALONE.
What, then,:is the duty of the North
10 respect to this problem, whatis Bos.
toms and Massachusetts duty, what is
the duty of all patriotic men2 answer
with my whole mind and conscience,
their duty is to let the negro alone! /
know no duty more imperative than to
apply the gag OF public reprobation and
contempt to the mouths of such ghoul
like demagogues as Chandler and ingalls,.
Can patriotic American concei7e of a
more unpatriotic aud infamous course of
conduct-infamous towards the negro as
we'll as the white man of the South.
than, without other than cold blooded
partisan aim, to arouse the hatred Of
both races towards each other, to set
the negro and white man at each
others throats, while they, in cowardly
safety, in New Hampshire and Kansas,
look on at the bloody results. And such
men, God save the mark are our Soma
tors and Republican leaders When
President Harrison calls for o "bugle
blast" OF Depew discourseS solemnly Of
our duty to defend a free ballot, let US
be brave enough and manly enough to
tell them that such thunderis stage
trick which has had its day Of success,
and that the real point of danger to
free ballot and to American institutions
lies in the means and methods which in
the last election carried New York for
Harrison.
The negro is o,day working out his
own salvation where be is, without your
help: He is doing infinitely better than
when you tried to help him, than when
you tried to protect him by bayonets.
You left him in 1876, In order to save
the Presidency for the Republican party,
to his fate. He has met that fate, and
met it we'll. You have done all you can
do for him. The only effective protection
be can have under our system of govern
ment is the protection of the stronger race
with which his lot is cast.
A TRIBUTE TO HAMPTON.
Ofthe plan proposed by some Southern
Senators and advocated By Senator
Hampton. I do ro. think It necessary to