The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-06-09
BILL ARP
Discusses the Political Questions Of tho
Day.
atlanta Constitution.


This is presidential year, and I was
expecting that northern politicians would
raise the usual rumpus about the way the
South is treating the negro. We have
gotten used to that and have been COM
forting ourselves that it would blow over
and pass away with the November cleo
tion. The schemes and tricks of the pol
iticians are not alarLing to the veterans,
for ne know they are not sincere and are
only devised by them for temporary
purpose.
But there is just now q feature connect
ed with our relations to the northern
people that should give US great concern,
and that is the malignant attitude of the
northern preachers. When Joe Cook, of
Boston, made his attack upon Henry
Grady ne didn't pay much attention, for
he was only one preacher, and ne looked
upon him as a fanatic and fool. But is
1t possible that all the Methodist preach.
ere up North are fanatics and fools? DR..
Tigert was southern visiting delegate to
the Omaha Convention. he made a
friendly address and ventured to tell them
what the South was doing for the negro
and they groaued insultingly and hissed
him, and the press says the presiding
bishops joined in the kissing. Then they
passed resolution calling upon the gov.
ernment and the Church and the northern
people to use all means and agencies to
suppress the lswlessness and violence Of
the Southern people towards the colored
race. The press reports say this resolu-
ton was passed unanimously and by 8
rising vote.
The Baptists have not yet spoken in
Convention, but their leading paper in
New York boldly advocated miscenega-
tion as the only and best remedy for the
antagonism between the white and color
ed races.
The Presbyteriaus have not spoken, but
their press is outspoken in condemning
our methods of lynchipg negroes for GER
tain crimes, and late number of DR..
Henry's Fields conservative and friendly
paper heads an editorial with the ominous
inquiry, care ne Barbarians," the whole
purport of which is aimed and intended
for the South. The last issue has an arsi.
Gle by Rev. Samuel T. Clarke, who is
Southern born, and writes tenderly Of the
patriarchal institution, and is inclined to
sympathy with the views of bis southern
friends. But he condemns the Presbyte.
rian Church North and South for neglect.
ing the moral training of the negro. He
declares that "as rule the negro is con-
stitutionally mendacious, thievish and
uncbaste; but if he be made a conscien.
tious Christian his value To the Union ia
greater than all the wealth of the North.
In the army, in household service, in Ia
Dor he is simply invaluable. He is the
only foreigner We have who is not for
eigper. He has no memories, no alli-
ances, no socialistic taint. He is at heart
an American. Let the north become
Irish, German or Anarchist, the South
will remain American if filled with
Christian negroes. But emancipation
will produce a horrible tragedy if it's not
speedily supplemented by moral train
ing which will make the negro man and
not worse chattel than he WAS before the
war. An indictment is swelling against
the American people and the muae of his
| tory with her iron pen will so inscribe
that the future WILL summon the Ameri'
can Church and people to answer before
the bar of universal justice the charge oi
freeing and then running subject and
docile race"
Senator Hoar says that many of Us will
live to see 5O.O00,0OO Of negroes oozing
out of the cabins in our land. The North
American Review has recently declared
that all efforts to elevate the negro are
failures. The American Commonwealth
says that the negro question is the great
est of all American questions. The ne
groes of Boston have recently held
meeting and breathed out threatenings o.
dynamite in the dark hours OF the night
and Fred Douglass has been to Atlantis
for purpose we know not what.
Well, now, all this looks ominous o
evil, and would be alarming if our peo-
pie were guilty of any wrong to the negro
race. We do lynch them for certain
crimes-lynch them just like we would
white people for tie same crimes, and
do not think there is enough virtue in I
Governors proclamation to stop 1t in an!
Southern State. In proportion to the mum
Der of similar outrages lynching is JUS
as common at the north as it is in tht
South. The difference is that it is whitt
people who are lynched up there and ne
groes down here. Our white people arr
not guilty Of it, and as rule are far more
law.abiding than the white people of th'
northern States. Georgia has abou
100000 whites and only 1913 white con
yicts in our penitentiary, and not on'
white woman. Massachusetts, has 1000,
600, and one thousand seven hundred o
them are convicts, including 67 women
This same disparity is general between
the North and the South and yet tht
question is pointedly asked "Are We bar
barians ?"
Well, reckon we are in that sense
/ know that1 am and 80 are my nabors
if the foul crime ever comes home To US
which God forbid. The color would
make no difference to me, nor would
wait for as much proof as the law and the
lawyers demand. 1t is very proper fol
the Governor to issue his proclamation