The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-01-05
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Last fall while l was 10 Boston. I
heard o colored preacher make this
statement: II Iong to see the day
when the girls aud womeu vii! leave
the kitchen and cook pots of the white
people e" A white mao, who was sit
ting by my side, said TO me: eve
here 10 Boston are trying to get our
girls to 60 to the kitchen to wasb aud
ison, but I see the negroes are trying
to get theirs from IL. We are incliu-
ed to be too aristoratic. after the order
of the old time southern people-bus
We are too poor. Work, work. work.
follow the plow. take up the Ratchet
aud saw, push the plane. Make the
country bud and blossom as the rose.
Build school house by every church
and make home happy.
AS TO POLITICS.
l see no good for you IN politics, bat
| see plenty of harm. The colored
population gets excited every four years
over the presidential electioo, and many
leave the farm and other profitable
business, to sis around aud wait for 40
appointment to come cfice. Some
have rot worked since Mckinley vas
made President, and their feuilies are
approaching starvation. Let ue tell
you this startling truth: The people
who do tue business of the country.
white or black. will control The Offices
Of the government, be they Democrats
or Republicans. and the sooner you
learn this lesson the better. We have
got so write the majority of the busi-
ness letters before We can demaod and
manage the postofices White Repub.
licans and Democrats will yet the Offices
if shey do the business.
Colored men. it is not your color thas
causes this Discrimination, but your
past and present condition, for which
the white people are largely respoa-
sible. We are poor and ignorant, and
the masses have not moved one iooh
since the war. I believe if we bad had
the present Suffrage laws 10 South Car.
olina (properly admiuis.ered) 80 years
ago, We would have more money, laud,
bones aod education Il is blessing
in disguise. though it was Conceived
10 sin aud ioiquity" f" Politics have
ruined us aud put us back many years.
LIVE ON FRIENDLY TERMS WITH TIE
SOUTHERN WHITE PEOPLE.
If we are here to stay. It will be sc
our advantage and best interest to live
on friendly terms with the best element
of the southern white people. Help to
fight sin and crime. Do not harbor
the thief. robber, murderer or rapiss.
Help to run down and bring to speedy
justice any and every man who commits
rape. Such 6ends, white or black,
should be given immediate trial and
suffer immediate death. We should
have no sympathy for these destroying
angels. Do your part as citizens aud
be ready to protect and defend all vo.
men with your life, aud We will have
manhood among our race that We will
be proud of. IL this way we can stop
lynching. We can do work on this
line that the governor canuot do.
Oh. my countrymen /! We live 10
glorioos age, iD good cocptry-the
south. You should love it. Your
dead are buried here; you helped to
build it up. You converted it from
wilderness into a garden. It's soil is
crimsoHed with the blood Of our fore
fathers
Do not think Of goiug to Africa 90 {
less you 60 as teachers and mission
aries or with sense aud means to de-
velop that cortisens. Do pct thiok O.
leaving the white man uutil you have
caugh. on to his spirit of progress. pat
riotism. adventure aud posh Live ia
peace with all men. be ready 10
extend helping band to all mea
who oeed your help. white or
black, as far as you are able Do
not come to town to live unless yea
have means or good prospect Of a job
shas will give you living Let the
white people have the cities, towrs and
the labor 10 the cotton factories. Bv
and by you can furnish the money 10
build facsories where the race can bs
employed We need money COW.
Watch the Germans and Jews; see
how they toll TO make money. They
are not politicians, but workers and
mescbants Your material, intellectual
and moral welferc is 10 your bands.
Work it out With all your might I
have great hope for my peoplc if they.
follow after righteousness and have
good and Conservative leadership. Hot
heads and fools will bring upon ue
shame. trouble and poverty. dedi-
cate all have-miud, body. heart asd
soul-'o you ard my God I am yours
to serve