The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-08-01
THE NEGRO I'M THE souTH.
An Extraordinary View or His Dee
tiny-Staftling Visions OF socia
Equality,

An Extraordinary View or His Des.
tiny-Staftling Visions Of social
Equality.
The Richmond Christian Advocate,
one Of the leading organs OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, has
created q sensation by the following
editorial on the negro question. It Is
written by DR.. j. J. Lafferty, and in
his most pungent and incisive style:
"The Southern Methodist Advocate
has this incident In a village of the
cotton belt, q big, burly black rode up
to a store and said to the owner: Let
this man pointing to a poor white la
borer) have 50 worth of goods, and
charge 1t to me? This transaction
may fret the reader, but it has q wide
significance. .
Northern people, during the war,
were drawn towards the plantation
p~easantry of the South. The lot of the
fat and fun-loving n~egro--the happiest
pictured as bitter bondage, and the
slave was represented as longing for
freedom, and during the al praying
through the nights for the coming of
the national troops. These moving
through mistaken f~ancies, and much
more OF the same sort, stirred the phil
a%nthropic heart of cotton thread mil
lionaires, and rich army contractors
turned virtuous. A great sum was
sent South for the education Of the ne
groes. Its expenditures in the main
helped the negro. 1t was wisely d.
rected that these Ndonations should
outcome? We find in nearly every
Southern State negro boys Of the
brighter sort in the training schools.
In the meantime, the negro reported
in the census is growing rapidly as q
citizen, with q home and u decent in
come, q thrifty member of society.
Moreover, the Southern common
wealths began after the war to tax
white property holders heavily to edu-
cate the sons of the non-taxpaying ne
gro.
1.-The negro laborer received as
much money for his coarse work as the
sumed more of his earnings in house
rent, clothing and food; hence he
could not spare his son at school. He
needed the boy at the pillow to aid in
bringing up his family. The negro
boy first learned in the free schools to
read and write, then he learned in
these technical schools how to make
fine shoes, buggies, saddles, etc. The
newspapers recently reported that the
private secretary to Hon. Mr.. Blout
of Georgia, representing the United
States in the Hawaiian Islands, would
shortly marry the daughter of q rich
young gentleman, and of social stand
ing, seeks an alliance with an ~excoolie
pig eyed pagan.
Who will dare say that olive-color
ed octaroons and ~quadroons, bright mu
l~attoes, heiresses of wealthy men o.
mixed blood, will not be sought in the
next century by thriftless young mer
of the white race? Negro maidens
are seen at. certain colleges for womer
of high degree in the North. Where
unto will this grow?
Consider the future of the friend
less and fatherless boy of the white
hundred dollars to attend Stevens In
s~titute, in New York? Can he com
mand money for board and raiment
while q student at any State school
with u small annex of tools and shops
He has not money enough to buy {
railroad ticket to such q college.
Grandchildren of warlike men will
historic names, who made the South
ern army synonymous of courage, ar
drifting towards the Helot class, ant
in the century dawning there will
come to pass social conditions tina
would stir the corpses in jackets o
grey.
"No man has seer the harvest from
the sowing after Appomattox. States
men of the United States robbed tn,
ex-soldiers of Lee to educate the blacl
competitors of his children. Northern
~millionaires, in hatred of paroled citi
zens, have endowed colleges of tool
and machines to equip the ex-slave t.
surpass and subjugate the sons of Con
, federate soldiers in the struggle TO
the best pay and position in skilled
trades. 1t is a condition, and not
/, theory, that cOnfronts us. Thoughtful
men do not contest the fact"