The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-16
BILL ARP
Has been Reading Work on the Ne.
gro Problem.
atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
Bishop Turner lectured here last
Sunday night on "Afrioa.'' He has
been there and went for purpose. It
is on his mind and in his heart that his
people in the South must sooner OF
later go back to the land Of their
fathers, and he went out to see what
kind of land it was. His narrative
sounds like Munchausen tale to those
who have not read Livingstone and
Stanley. The clark continent is
looming up and is now attracting the
attention and the wonder of the civil
lied world. Bishop Berkely said :
WESTWARD the tide Of empire takes
its way" and it did when he wrote,
but now tits rolling back to the east.
DR.. Henry NJ. Field, the gifted editor
Of the, New York Evangelist, is now in
northern Africa and the weekly letters
of his travels are full of interest. All
that beautiful region on the coast Of
the Mediterranean is filling up with
the best class of.French: German and
English civilization. The historic
land, where Carthage was and where
Hannibal and Hamilcar marshaled
their mighty armies, is.now the peace.
full, prosperous home of Protestant
Christians. After athousand years Of
sleep, northern Africa has been awak-
ened by new birth and in the grow
ing city Of Borie, that was the ancient
Hippo, a magnificent cathedralis being
erected in memory Of St. Augustine,
the last great man'of Africa.
Some years ago DIR. Field travelled
over that country and rode hundreds
Of miles on camels andsslept with the
Arabs in the desert, but now rides in
palace cars to Jerusalem and rests in
hotels along his journey and all along
the line are towns and villages and
cultivated farms, and allthis wonder
full change is the fruit of Christian
civilization. The inscription on the
statute of the good St. Augustine in
the new cathedral explains it all
eff do not perish I owe it to my
mother" His father was pagan,
but his mother was Christian, and
her constant prayers and pleadings and
teachings made him the wonderful man
that he was-the most wonderful, per
haps, who ever lived, considering his
lifework and the result of his labors'
But for the negro, the Congo region
seems to be designed by Providence
for permanent home. Itis described
by all the travellers as the most fertile
basin in the world-having 200, 900, 600
of square miles as fertile as the valley
/ of the Mississippi and the hill coun-
try adjacent abounding in copper, tin
and iron mines. General Sanford says
it is destined to become the granary Of
the world and Bishop Turner declared
the climate, to be exactly suited to his
race.
Well, now it is becoming more and
more apparent that they must and
will go somewhere. The conflict be-
tween them and US is irrepressible.
1t is widening and deepening as the
years roll on. There is no rest, no
abiding place, no security for the
negro in the United States, neither
North nor South. : It is idle to discuss
whose fault it is. The duty of our
thinking men, white and black, is to
look the facts straight in the face and
take some bold and decisive action.
There is a race trouble now in North
Carolina that has required the militia
to suppress. The negroes who recent
ly were sent from Birmingham to the
N >rthwest to take the places of the
strikers were not allowed to stay.
From several towns in Ohio and Indi-
ana they have been banished. Even
in Atlanta, the cosmopolitan, conser.
vative city Of the South, complaint is
made in the newspapers that the ne
groes monopolize the sidewalks and
will not give way, and are growing
more and more insolent and aggressive.
Every day papers publish new outrages
and the usual 1ynchings that follow
them.
have been re-reading "An Appeal
to Pharaoh" by Carlyle Mckinley and
am more than ever profoundly impress,
ed with it's truth, it's argument, its
philosophy. The author is one of the
most advanced thinkers of the age and
deals with the race problem in such a
fair, candid and considerate way that
until his name was disclosed it was
impossible to surmise where he lived
whether North or South or in England
or America. I am pleased to know
that he is by birth and, education q
Georgian. BY some it was attributed
to Hinton Rowan Helper; by others,
to Senator Morgan, Of Alabama, and
by others to Rev. Josiah Strong. II
is book fit to be read and pondered
by every patriot. Mr.. Mckinley
proves every proposition as he goes
along, and does it SO tenderly and
kindly and modestly that the reader is
obliged to fall in love with him, and if
not convinced, he admits that he can
not answer it. The negro must 60, 60
somewhere, not in a hurry or at the
point of the bayonet, as did the Cher.
okees, but he will 60 willingly and
gladly when the ways and the means
are provided. It may take ten years
or twenty years, but it is no very great
matter so far as the cost is concerned.
During the ten years just passed, over
100000 of pauper foreigners have
been brought here from Europe and it
will be nearly as easy to take 5000, ,OOo
of negroes away Ten millions Of
dollars year will do it, and that is
but triae compared with the peace
and prosperity of the races. Just let
the ships be ready in the ports and
the money be provided to plant the
families in Africa, say $l00 per capita,
and they will flock to the seashore at
every port. They are troubled and so
are we. We used to think that it was
slavery that kept immigration away
from the South, but now We know that
it was not. It was the negro and is
still the negro and will continue to be
the negro. 1t is the negro that keeps
up the alienation between the North
and the South, that makes solid
South, and hostile North and will
perpetuatc the ENHANCEMENT as long
as he is here.
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