The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-08
BILL ARP HAS SWORN III,
No Use Trying to enIigh.en the
Northern People.
The NEGROES CONDITION.
Der Best Nee HAZE rsiAsd 10 the kestsa
People. Vet rssir Papers essisss 10
Absse the Sou,h.

sion upon them. From time To iime
Ne have sent our beet n~u there. We
sent General Gordon and Coiquit aud
Henry Crazy. and they weTe cell re-
ceived. s,d We thought O 2 6eorsis
missionaries had converted them, bat
In little vhile they hsd . relapse.
Governor Northern thinks he has con-
ve1tci ell but tho editors. bot my OBJ
serv.tion 10 that tho editors control
the animus Of the people. aud il they
are against ~ their readers >ill lie. I
notice that some Of their editors are
easy on our governor. hut none Of
them apolosized. They've GO, % re-
pent and apologize before Ne will be
satisfied with their conversion.
This thing OF going up 20 the
altar aud shaking hands is
played out. They liked TO have shook
Henry Grady's arm OF. but in . few
months they took il al back aud went
to abusing IA again abont the negro.
1t Is very Encouraging to a misslon-
ary to have to keep on converting the
same heather. i notice that ono Of
their papers lets us down sorier easy on
Sam Hose, but wants 10 know what
about the lyuchiug Of Lige StricklsHd.
That's oil right Give us meihing
hard. Lige was . preacher in M-ri-
wether county. and his-father-iu ia Law,
Aaron Watson, says he WAS the Liesn-.t
nigger In tie county, that be beat his
wife scandalously aud cut aud gashed
her with bGtchcr-kDif and the mem
bers oi his own church took him out
one night a3d gave him = hundred
!ashes. and told him TO leave the county.
Then he settled down in Cowets aud
turned politician and made himself
generally distnrber OF public peace
and order. and finally capped the cli-
max by denouncing tho white people
and defending Sam Hose. The general
opinion is that Lige got of pretty well.
for they didert burn him.
The Boston Transcript says VIC are
"a generation behind the times. IL
TACT several New England geDerst.ous
behind it" How is that Z? Why IL
hasent been 900 years since New Eng
land was burning innocent, harmless
women for being witches. IL h.sent
been fifty years since Boston rperchAnie
We're shipping rum TO Africs TO buy ne
groes to sell again 10 slave countries.
Long after Massachusetts, set her slaves
free her merchants carried on the
slave trade, Joseph Story. the great
jnrist. charged the grand jary in Bos-
ton and said: "rbe slave t.ade il still
carried on HtuuuY us WIN Inpuy.Usu
ierocity. Avarice has grown more
subtle in its evasions of the law. Its
appetite is quicEened rather than sus-
pended. Our citizens arc stepped up
to their very mouths in this iniqnity. +"
w. w. Story, his gifted son, says.
"The Boston newspapers denounced
my father, and sal 4 that judge who
would deliver such Q charge ought to
be hurled from the bench. and he says
further, that ''the foitnnes Of many
men Of prominence we're invested
in this infamous business. When
slavery disappeared in New England
the African slave trade took on new
life. aud was winked at. A man might
have position in society and be con-
-idered a gentleman and q Christian,
while bis ships were freighted with a
human cargo and his commerce was in
the blood and pain of his fellow Great
ures. Many of the largest fortunes in
Boeton were the blood money Of the
slave trade and came from the sale o.
The wretched cargoes OF negroes ths,
survived the horrors of their transpor-
tatIon across the seas. "
Yes, We are behind that sort OF brs
mess several generations.
But I've sworn CT The bis
tory of Massachusetts ia.
tigues my Imagination. Her.
are our negroes Who wonld be happy
and coutented If the Northern pres
wonld quit stirring up discomfort and
telling them lies. II old Mother Juiis
Ward Howe, who is now in her eighty
tirst year and ought to have an old NO
man's sense, Was to drop down here il
Cartersville. she would see some youns
oucks wrestling on the depot platform
while waiting for freighis, and sh,
would hear the merry laugh Of q score
Of negro drypen Who stood around
She would hear the sound of the col
ored school bell. She would pass anC
repass negro women With q basket o.
clothes on their heads and q smile or
their faces. She wonld zee negro girls
clad in clean garments, nursing white
children and watching them with ten
ier care. II there vns q funeral oi
hand she would see q happy gaiberin,
Of women and girls, daughters OF Zion
following the bearse, and IL there va
. railroad excursion On hand the depo
uould he crowded with both sexes an,
all sorts and sizes. Then ~e would 20
c,rt her carefully to the basebai
ground and LET her see the yonuR buck
play and hear them shout and give th
negro yell for victory. Bot she 10 to-
old to be cured. ] remember when sh
published an abolition paper in 1si7
But. pshaw, it wonldent do any good
40 I will swear of. Somebody said tba
II o woman Was TOOL ct forty sh
would be . fool until sbe died. An
somebody else fa:d convince q uoma,
.g1inst her will q shewillbe o: thcssn
,pinion still. Aud the parable says
IF they will not hciicvc Mosses an
he prophets, neiih-r would they he
- .h"' 80 .'.,--I1 -i.e '-.-- sa
dead" And 80 / will swear of
good and let those Boston pbsEoses
die in their own coneeit. The Macs
chuaetts state board Of charities 50,
in their annual report. And pov "
find that there Is hardly q country
the civilized world where strocious an
fragrant crime is SO common as in Ma
sachusetfcs." Well. :hst. settles j
Georgia tas but two white women
her prisoo.. while Massachusetts, h'
i34. In 1890. Grorgis had 2li uhi
| conyicts. while Massacb us eits lad 4. III.
and Mr.. S:e.son says that 10 one ye'
| there we're 65, 600 arrests IL the S'st
sud thst divorces iucsesso there twi,
- tesi = populss'op' asd BOT ee'