The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-11-30
SOME PLAIN TALK.
Caustic Comments on the New
York Meeting.
A SLANDERER REBUKED.
A She Monster Makes an Unseem-
ly Exhibition of Herself by
Lieing on the Women
of the South.

of the South.
No better justification of the white
revolution at Wilmington, n. c., could
be furnished from a hostile quarter
than was afforded by the spirit which
characterized the colored mass meeting
held in New York recently to protest
against so-called Southern outrages. "
The attitude Of the Negro as illustrated
at meeting supposed to be representa-
tive of the best colored elements, is de-
monstrated to be that of bitter hostility
toward Southern white people and OF
savage desire to humiliate and crush
them. 1t was the same spirit as that
displayed when the Negroes we're in
the ascendency at Wilmington, and
which lead them to heap insults and
contumely upon the white victims OF
their misgovernment. ltwas the spirit
which rendered the situation at Viii
mington intolerable and made revolu
tion necessity. While it may be con-
ceded that their attitude is mainly at
tr;butable to the political adventurers
and fanatics who have indamed their
minds and played upon their passions,
it is clear that it is an attitude which
not only justified, but demanded heroic
measures such as were adopted at Viii
mington, and which will render it ne
cessary to maintain a firm hand upon
them until they have reached far
higher condition of civilization than
they have yet attained. The false
teaching of the past thirty years has
done infinitely more moral harm to the
Negro than all the generations Of slav-
cry through which he passed. Slavery
found him savage, and IN multitude
Of cases made him a Christian and IN
many instances gave him the refine
ment and good form which were deyel-
oped even in dependents by the high
social standards of the old South. The
political education which he has re-
ceived from New England sources since
emancipation has confused his brain,
perverted his heart and corrupted his
manners, and instead of really progress,
ing, there is danger, under the baneful
influence of the morbid and unprinci-
Piled guidance to which he has been ex-
posed, that he may revert to the origin
al hyperion which slavery rescued him,
except that this renaissance of barbar-
ism in him will be accompanied with
the vices Of civilization aDd the power
for mischief which civilization confers
upon those who are in it, but not of it.
IF the Negro is to avoid this danger
and develop into higher citizenship,
be must free himself from the evil in
fuences and teachings under which he
has been degenerating since the war.
As long as he suffers himself to be
abused by bad counsel and kept IN
false attitude toward the Southern
white people, just so long will he con-
tinue to retrograde in character and re-
spectability. He has seen the effect Of
thirty years Of fanatical political edu-
cation. Let him turn away from the
school of hate, defiance and distrust IN
which he has been trained and try
thirty years of good will toward and CO.
operation with the white people OF the
South. If he does. he will rise to
higher stature and higher degree OF
prosperity than ever before. His home
and biding place is in the South, and he
should recognize the fact that his in
terests are bound up in the prosperity
and progress of that section and are de-
pendent upon the relation in which he
stands to the dominant classes there.
While the Negro is to be rega- led
more with pity than with anger, be-
cause the victim of a pernicious sys en-
| Of political philosophy and pretended
philanthropy, it is impossible to find in
the English language words sufficiently
strong to properly describe the white
hypocrites and political criminals who
have mislead him in the past and are
still endeavoriag to fire his heart
against the South. Such wantoD, ma
licious and unspeakably abominable as
persions against Southern women as
we're uttered at the New York meeting
by one Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis could
spring only from a heart as black with
hate as the foul and shameful slanders
which she sStered. The New York
Sun describes her remarks as imprint
able. An extract from her address
was as follows:
II am only here tonight to represent
womanhood, said Mrs. Grannis. I'VE
all know that the white women and
white girls Of the South are full OF col
ored blood. | stand here for colored
women and colored girls the same as l
do for white women.
At this wild uproar ensued. The
colored men and women jumped up in
the aisles to cheer. Many laughed and
gave vent to hysterical exclamations.
Others mounted their seats and waved
their hats.
The pure and true women Of the
South can afford to treat this llbeler
with the contempt with which they
would regard the rawlings Of foul
minded maniac, but her utterances IL
lustrate the spirit of sectional hate to-
ward the South which still prevails in
some quarters Of the North and which
apostles Of humanity like Mrs. Grannis
are continually endeavoriug to fan into
general fame. They stop at no SLAM
der, no lie, no villiica.ion, no matter
how gross and detestable, if it gives them
the opportunity to spit out their ma
lignant venom against the South.
They are the pretty and vulgar political
descen, ans of that wholesale libeler,
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had
more imagi~ alton and just as little re-
gard for truth as her imitators of the
present day. The wrong aud injury
which "Uncle Toms Cabin" inflicted
upon the country incalculable. That
wrong and injury still live, and, like
John Browns spirit, seem to be march