The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-02
ANDERSON S. c., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1893.

been real prejudice for centuries, and
yet they make no complaint and give
no trouble. Neither the courts nor
the jails are afflicted with them. With
the Anglo-Saxons they neither marry
nor are given in marriage. AS race
they are orderly, peaceable, yirtuous
| and charitable. Here are the Chinese,
who seem to have but one demoraliz-
ing passion4that-of gaming-and that
concerns none but themselves. They
do not steal, nor lie, nor cheat, and in
all their dealings their word is as good
as the white mans bond. Race traits
have to be studied and considered,
facts are better than theories. For
thirty years the negro has been delud-
ed with the idea that his is not an in
ferior race, and that he should be set
up side by side socially and otherwise
with the whites. This will never be
done. It is against nature and shocks
the sentiment of our civilization.
What concerns us is, how shall we
stop his progress in crime ?
BILL ARP.
Bishop Turner'S Letter.
ATLANTA, GA, July 22.-Mr. Bill
Arp-Dear Sir [ am regular reader
of your Sunday articles to the Consti-
tuition, when 1 am at home and even
when I am absent the papers are saved
SO that I may peruse them if time per;
mits. While concur in vast deal
that you say, it sometime happens
that l am compelled to differ, although
I regard you as IN honest, bold writer.
T fully recognize the fact that white
man in this section Of the country
must respect the popular prejudices
that exist against my race, or forfeit
his influence among the whites. No
man dares to speak in defense OF the
negro and command the respect Of the
whites. It matters not whether the
negro is entitled to it or not. You,
however, possess the courage to occa-
sionally say kind word in our behalf.
But in the Sunday issue Of the Con-
ststution you innocently, and I believe
conscientiously, but ignorantly, make
use Of sentence that is not wholly
true. Nevertheless I am not sur
prised at your lack Of better informa-
tion, because you have never had the
opportunity Of informing yourself to
the extent that would enable you to
speak authoritatively.
You say: j'sTheir inclination (the
negro's 81 to steal is natural" You
doubtless intend to convey the idea,
by using the term natural, that the
African races are instinctively given to
stealing; for if it is natural it is as
much their nature to steal as it is to
be black, to have curly hair, or to be
separate race in any particular.
Please allow one who knows as much
of the negro as any one who breathes
the breath Of life, and certainly knows
more Of him than it is possible for any
white man to know-one who knew
the negro as a slave, knows him as a
freeman, knows him in civilized At
RIGA and knows him in heather Africa,
to inform you that the negro races
naturally are the most honest speci-
mems Of humanity that tread the globe,
and the most virtuous. To find the
natural inclinations or instincts of the
African races you must so to heather
Africa; not upon the African coast,
where civilization and heathenism
commingle, but go back into the inte-
rior, as / have gone, and mingle with
the heather in their natural state and
condition, and you will find no such
thing as theft. You may lose your
watch, coat, hat, or anything regard
less Of it's value, and the first African
who passes by will hang the thing Of
value upon the limb of a tree by the
roadside and 10000 will pass by it and
not one will touch it, which can be
said for no other part of the globe that
I have ever visited or heard Of, after
forty-fve years Of reading. AS for
their virtue, I mean morals in general,
telling the truth, chastity among the
feminine sex, and the males as well,
outside Of polygamy, which is by no
means universal, they excel any other
uncivilized races upon the face of the
globe. In regard to the petty larce-
nies which exist in this country
among my race where their natural
inclinations have been distorted by a
series OF circumstances, which l shall
not at present. attempt to enumerate,
I shall say nothing.
If the wholesale charge you bring
against the negro in regard to petty
larceny be true, which l contend has
grown out of his abnormalized envi-
ronments associated with the wants of
civilization which his povertous con-
dition prevented him from supplying,
| am very grateful that you do us the
justice of restricting it to petty lar
ceny, for one white man will steal as
much at single grab as thousand
negroes will steal in forty years. This
has been verified within the last de-
cade by a number of State Treasurers,
who have pocketed over million OF
dollars.
If the American negro will steal
from the white people it is some con-
ISOLATION to know that he will take a
little and leave much. Comment
upon this point is unnecessary. JUS
tice and honor both compel me, how
ever, to admit that much you say
about the negro is too true; but | can
not endorse your position in condon-
ing the lynch mobs Of the land ; as
every man is innocent, according to
the theory and genius of civilized ma.
tions, until he is tried and found
guilty by jury Of his peers, equals
or associates.
Yours respectfully,
H. NJ. TURNER.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
o,,no+ roooh tho ua.t of tho disease