Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-12-08

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tary despotism than a civilization in
ferior, degraded and corrupt. t$8.
This is the cause Of civilization.
The Southern people can stand
4-cent cotton ana poverty, but they
will not stand negro domination.
AS long as there is o decent white
man living he will be ready to Die in
defense of our women and our ciyili-
zation. ] think one Of the greatest
mistakes now being made is the me-
th6ds Of education of the negro.
He is being rapidly developed intel
lectaslly before he is prepared indus
trially and morally, The three
should 60 hand in hand, and the
process in the first is too rapid for
the latter to keep pace. On the
contrary, it is just and right, and alb
solutely best and wisest for both
races that the white people, who set
tied this country, and civilized it,
and made it the grandest country on
the globe, and who have done moro
for the negro race than all other peo-
pies, should govern it as whole and
in all its parts. 1t is their country
and they have right to rule it, and
they certainly will rule it. Every
intelligent person knows that it is
not only very foolish, but will be
absolutely suicidal and ruinous for
the negro to attempt to resist the in
evitable result.
In looking for the solution of
these race evils, we say at the out
set that it calls for the same solution
that of white supremaoy-that has
followed throughout the worlds his-
tory. The superiority of the white,
the inferiority of the black, is a prip-
oiple recognized by sociologists,
which no mere sentimental utteranoe
can obscure. 1t has been exhibited
in all ages, and the instances which
Egypt gave in early days are to-day
repeated in the advance of Anglo
Saxon civilization, under the ban
ners of the Sirdar, and the driving
back of the black hordes at Khar-
toum.
The right of the Caucasian to rule
comes from God. Where he is found
he governs. 1t is in his blood. His
commission is printed on his brow by
the hand of the Almighty, and the
record of his race is marked in all
tho histories of the past in all the
countries of the earth. Anglo-Saxon
civilization in North Carolina will
never retreat in face of a conflict
with an inferior race. Every State
in the South has had the same ordeal
to 60 through, but in every struggle
our civilization has been maintained,
and in every conflict it has ultimately
triumphed. The constitutions of
South Carolina, Mississippi and Lou
isiana tell the story.
1t has been fortunate for the Caro-.
linas, for the South, and for the coun-
try at large, that the recent demand
for Federal bayonets tosustain negro
domination was not carried out,
President Mckinley is o good man.
lie is better and stronger than some
of his advisers. He has been very
conservative in his South Carolina
appointments, and hope he will
not be influenced by unwise counscla
in the future. He should defer to
the sentiment of white supremacy
prevailing in the South, because
such supremacy does not necessarily
involve any hostility to the negroes.
Time alone can solve the complex
problom. A certain period of qui.
escence must elapse during which
the public mind will have time to re.
cover from the violence of recon.
struction and negro domination, as
recently witnessed in North Carolina
The negro will become moro gone.
rally diffused over the entire coun.
try, and tho haunting terror of his
domination thus become less. In the
meantime ho is developing morally
and industrialfy by contact with the
whit" He is well qualified for the
requirement of an initiative oiviliza.
tiop. All that he has came in that
way. BY nature he is peaceful, and
only dangerous from his emotional
and superstitious nature, which
makes him The prey of bad white men
Itis a pity that he hes TO suffer for il
the white man at his back is RESPONSE.
BILE moro than he.
All look with sorrow and regret
upon these radical outbreaks. Things
remain quiet for years perhaps, there
are aggressions, small troubles in
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