Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1897-08-13
ARP ON THE NEGRO.
Bill Declares That His Best
Friends Are The Southern
Whites.

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mills in South Carolina. Three
| fourtl1s Of the capital in the new
mills in Spartanburg is New
England money, and they have
never yet even suggested the
employment of negro operatives.
Indeed, it is new departure, if
Boston has suddenly fallen i'll
love with the negro, for all the
genuine yankees that l know Or
have known had little use for
him, except as base of politi>
cal operations. The new little
city of Fitzgerald, that is made
up Of Illinois yankees, won't
even allow him a domicile in
the corporation. I know a yam
kee. lady who was taken sick
here and she wouldn't eat any
thing they cooked, and liked to
have pe-ished to death during
her long illness. Kind neigh>
bors took nice things to her, but
had to tell her they were not
cooked by negros. 1t is curious
how they don't mix things up
north, for in one hotel you will
fud all colored walters and in
another all whites. There are
hotels in Florida where all the
walters are New England girls.
In the northwest no colored bar
bers are allowed. They would
lynch one just as soon as he put
up his striped pole.
There is really less prejudice
against the negro at the South
than at the North. There are
more trades and occupations
opened to him. But all this has
been said and resaid for thirty
years. ooh, bnt you lynch
them" they say, and the New
York Herald keeps an account
against us-over three hundred
in the last twelve months. If it
was three thousand we would
still ask, like Governor Oates,
"What are you going to do about
it," Lynching for that crime is
the law Of nature, and will go
on. When juries are organized
to try hyenas and wolves and
gorillas, maybe these brutes i'll
human form will be tried, but
not before. The argument is
exhausted, and We stand by ou1
wives and children. If the brute
who was recently burned at
Dallas had had as many lives as
a cat, l would have burned them
all. The tate Of that poor lit>
tie child has haunted me ever
since. And so let the negro
bishops and preachers and teach
ers and editors stop bewaiiiug
the lynchings and go to de-
nouncing the outrages and teach
to their people the enorlnity Of
the crime and its swift and sure
punishment. The emotions Of
the human heart are the same at
Urbana as at Dallas.
But the Anglo Saxon fears are
aroused prematurely. No white
children have yet been displaced
that | have heard of. The pa.
pers say that some wealthy ne
groes are about to build a cotton
mill in Alabama. That is all
right, of course, and they will
employ negro labor. Mr.. Ans
g.o-Saxon can't complain about
that, but he charges that Hon.
Hoke Smith in 1893 wrote an
article for The American Re-
view advocating the employ
ment of negro labor in Our cot>
ton mills as means of compel
ing with the Cinnamon. Well,
| don't believe that Mr.. Smith
wrote any such thing, for we
have no Cinnamon in that bust
ness, and if we had, how could
the negro compete any better
than the white race, I know OF
no trade Or occupation i'll which
the negro excels the white man,
either in skill or cheapness.
But this man is very mad with
us and actually abuses Frank
Stanton for writing poetry about
mules and Watermelons and VIC
lets and daisies while the white
people are threatened with the
direst calamity of thirty years.
Stop, Stanton, stop, and write a
poem about the black cotton
mills that loom up in the dis
lance.
But while on the subject of
the dusky race, my attention
was called by my wife to a pho
tograph and a sketch of Queen
Lii, that appears in the July
number of the Puritan. The
photograph indicates a hand
some woman of light Moorish
complexion and features quite
as English as Queen Victoria's.
The sketch gives her praise for
manners and her lavish enter
tainments and her moiesty of
department, 1t closes with