The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-08-25
atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
After eight years, here am in Texas
again-the same great, wonderful State,
only with more railroads, more people,
more homes and more farms under cul-
tivation. Eight years ago l wanted to
come to Brownwood, for I believed it to
be good town with bright prospects,
and, as I had a little spare money, 1
wanted to put it there. I wish, that I
bad, but there was no railroad then, and
dident have time to ride 100 miles
overland. It then had sbout 1,5OO
people and now about 5000, and is
still increasing rapidly. 1t has a large
territory to draw upon southwark and
westward, and has a manifest destiny be-
fore it. The surrounding country is said
to be the best poor mans country in
Texas, and as it fills up with immigrants
the business OF Brownwood must increase.
The Georgiaus abound here, and they
flock around me to give me welcome
and to talk about the friends and kindred
they left behind, and they want to know
all about Georgia politics and what
the third party is doing. talk very
careful and conservative about that, for
don't knon who I am talking to, and
State politics is awful hot here in Tex
as. The Hoggites and the Clarkites are
very bitter, and the third party issaw-
ing wood, for there are thousands of
democrats here who swear that if Hoggis
nominated they will vote for Nugent, the
third party candidate. Everybody speaks
we'll Of Nugent. Hogg is very unpopu-
lar in railroad circles, such as Fort Worth
and Dallas, but 1t is generally conceded
that he will be nominated and elected.
found on the train that brought me
here from Fort Worth six men from
Murray and Whitfield coming out to
Cornanche to buy land. Every train
brings some from north Georgia. Young
men come by the score. The negro is
not in their way here, and if / was q
young married man I'd come myself.
The truth is, the negro is in tie young
mans way. There are not dozen ne
groes in the town of Weatherford, where
/ was last week-a prosperous, lively,
busy town of 5000 people-a town where
they handle 10000 bales Of cotton and
immense quantities of wheat and corn
and oats and vegetables; where every
dray and hack and carriage is driven by
clever, wide.awske young men; where
white BARRIERS shave you and white folks
do everythingsand are not ashamed of
it. know young white men in my
town Who are clerking for s25 month
who could make $50 or $50 running a
dray, but they won't do it because it looks
niggery. know poor girls who won't
hire to cook or to clean up the house for
the same reason. All labor is honorable
here. A young white man has just
made up my bed here in the hotel, and
he talked to me intelligently and pleas. !.
artly while he cleaned up my room.
He is canning honest money, and will
get better place after while. There
are but twenty-five or thirty negroes in
Brown county. There is but one in Co.
mauche county, that joins this. He runs
on the train, and said his name was
Newton Fields, and he had the honor of
being the only darky that was allowed
to stay. 1t seems that there were about
a ahundred in Cmanche county, and one of
them committed an outrage, and citizens
gathered and made them all leave the
county within twenty four hours. I be-
lieve it will come to that in Georgia.
Visiting summary punishment upon one
does not seem to do any good, and the
way to do is tc hold his kinfolks and his
settlement responsible. These Texans
use no timid measures about anything.
They are the most Independent and self
reliant people I have ever met. They
ask no favors. It does not concern them.
what the north will say, and as for the
negro he has to behave himself and be
humble, and he does. In our State We
help them in every way, and yet they
show no gratitude. We employ them as
blacksmiths and carpenters and draymen,
and at every election they vote against
US. You couldn't make them believe
that General Grant was slave owner
until Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation set
them free. A few weeks ago our school
board elected negro girl as teacher in
the colored school and her impudent,
insolent father said he would let his
daughter teach school, but none of bis
folks should cook or wash or nurse for
the white folks. Ifyou hire one she
quits when she pleases. No contract will
bind them. We have borne with all this
for peace, but there is growing aliena-
ton between the races. I didn't realize
bad it vas until I got here and seen for
myself how much better 1t Was to get
along without them. They are an ever
lasting worry at my house and among
my neighbour 1t costs twice as much to
live when you have negro cook. A friend
out here who was raised with the ne
groes and owned them said thst in almost
every family in Weatherford the father
and the boys helped the mother and the
girls in all the household matters, and 80
the burden was light-very light. The
family washing is all done at the laun'
dry, and the laundry wagon comes
round as regularly as the ice wagon.