The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-01
ManninS, 9. o.
Wednesday, May 1, 1895.
Darcan Advocates a Black Draught!

ASSS SO2OAOA - % 0~NO
what he honestly thinks is right, but
that he is mentally of his base. We
were among those who believed that
way, but from his recent utterances
we are forced to believe there is
method in his madness" and our
reason is that it is an almost con-
ceded fact the Republican party will
succeed to the national government.
Now, the eloquent Colonel has his
weather eye open to q good snug
berth from that party, and has as.
sumed leadership for class ol
people who have no State berths to
bestow but, if the Republican
party gets control OF national affairs
their leaders are most sure to be
rewarded.
The history of political parties
show that the most successful to Sc
cure good positions are those who
make themselves conspicuously OBJ:
nozious to the vanquished party, and
this is what Colonel Dargan appears
to be doing. In his speech to the
negroes at Charleston last week, il
the News and Courier reports him
correctly, he delighted his hearers
with saying number Of things
which he knew were very distasteful
to his own race, and finally capped
the climax with the following re-
markable statement
Colonel Dargan said that his house was
for people of such color as he preferred,
and in that every man had a right to be
Judge. It was low and contemplate, how
ever, he said. for white men to talk of be.
ing superior to negroes. True nobility OF
soul seeks to elevate and not pull down.
He then quoted o passage of Tennyson s,
transposing the lines afterward to read
kind hearts are better than white skins.
Continuing, Colonel Dargan said: i ex-
pect to be frowned on for going to the col
ored people"
A few years ago people from
abroad came to this State and
preached a similar doctrine, the re-
suit being, that for years the heel OF
oppression was on the necks of our
people. South Carolina was despised,
and bushes would mantle the cheeks
to acknowledge as hailing from this
State. It was dangerous for our
women to travel on the streets or
highways, lest they would be insrlted
by some negro who had been taught
to believe the way to show their
freedom was to be as obnoxious
as possible to the white race. But
why go on to revive the old mem
ories? Suffice it to say that our
people preferred prisons-yes, death
to a continuance of such horrible
state of affairs, and, with remark
able heroism-such as no people ever
before displayed-rose and crushed
the hydra-headed monster. They
look upon the past as a horrible
nightmare, and woe be unto the man
or set of men who again attempts to
force that old condition upon us.
Il Colonel Dargan feels that it is
and contemplate for white men
TO fEAof being superior to negroes" :"
let him go to some place where such
thoughts are palatable. The white
people will talk of being superior to
negroes, and will maintain their su-
periority at whatever cost. The fears
that we entertain of Colonel Dargan
in inculcating such doctrine into the
mind of the negro is that the poor
deluded being viii bring trouble to
himself, and when he looks for his
guiding star it will have vanished.
There is no use mincing words. The
white people of this State are going
to rule it, and all this gust OF wind
to the galleries to catch the applause
of the Northern people-that SYM
pathize with the negro of the South
for his vote-can not prevent it.
IF Colonel Dargan is mad he should
be looked after, because his con-
duct is dangerous to himself and to
the community at large. The State
provides an institution for such un-
fortunates. But, if he is not mad
and is endeayoring to arouse the
base prejudices of the negroes that
he may profit thereby, he should be
reQasSsd 70 desist.
We have no confidence IN the sin
csrity of this man, for we well re.
member his outburst of Indignation
when a certain newspaper published
10 his town permitted a colored
preacher to write over his own sigma
ture in its columns. Dargan fairly
tore his hair out by the roots in de-
nouncing the proprietor of that
paper, and now he comes forward
and appeals to the colored race to
make him their Moses. We also re-
member his attitude towards the
negro in 1876. Why, this man who
now says it is low and contemplate
for white men to talk of being su-
perior to the negroes was so ag-
gressively violent that his friends had
fears of the results.
F. The negro to-day is not what he
was when the carpet-baggers and
scallawags beguiled him into their
confidence. He has through white
mans government become educated,
and Colonel Dargan-or any other
man-need not nurse the idea that
If the negroes again control the bal
lot in this State that they will be
foolish enough to intrust that power
to any but their own race. They
trusted white men cnce who were
enemies to their own race, and they
reaped a bitter result therefrom.
They have learned from sad expert
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