The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-22

ton on tho Sam Hose case, and have
had hundreds OF thousands Of pamph-
lets printed that contain that lying
detective story, and are selling them
all over the North. They don't care
cont II 1t does cause moro lynchings.
And this thing has got all over Eng
land. A friend Of mine who lives near
London, sent mo late copy Of The
London Chronicle, q paper as inauen-
tial as The Times, and the editor
copies batch Of lios taken from the
last United States Howard association
report which says that slavery has
been virtually rs-established in the
Southern States, especially in Georgia
pictured In "Unclo TOMS Cabin" have
been revived.
That tho illegitimate children born
in tho convict camps are kept In per-
pctual slavery, and that The female
convicts are outraged by tho camp
officers ut pleasure, and that q girl Of
seventeen who, ran away to avoid it,
was caught by bloodhOunds and strip
ped and llOgged amid jeers. Tho report
says thoro wero 2S6 lynchings of me-
groes last year, and fOrty-sevcn up to
April of this year, of whom all were
negroes but eight. Ofall these, thirty
OF assaults on white women, fourteen
for defending themselves, two for i'm
pudcnco aud thirty sevcn for no crime,
and twonty-th 'eo for being trouble
some.
The editor then says that tho future
OF tho colOrcd race Ia the gravest prob
lom that America has to face, GER
tainly as grave as tho extension OF her
empire over Cuba and the Philippines,
and that the United States is paying u
heavy debt for the sins OF her fathers.
Tho Howard association appeals to hu-
manity to avert the solution by national
disaster, and says the negro trouble has
become so great that IT Is feared the
difficulty cannot be settled but with
blood. Woll, now let's pause awhile
l must go out into my garden and lot
my choler down. will pick tho boans
for dinner will throw rocks at my
neighbOrs' chickens; will hire q cussin
man. or oil the fools on Garth al
English fool Ia tho biggest. Whose
fathers Is that fool editor talking
about? England mover freed her own
slaves until 1916, but that editor doesent
know they ever had any. Our South
orn fathers never imported any thcy
bought them from the Yankees. Trad
crs from England and Massachusetts,
who kept up the slave trade in part
ncrship until 1867. The last SLAYER
bought was an American vessel with
a mixed crew on the coast Of NADIA
gascar.
A man told mo he heard Chicago
drummer say, not long ago, that
another drummer told him no heard
Of II Boston banker who wrote to Il Chi
cago broker and asked him If he didn't
want to put s0mo moro money In New
England rum to ship to Africa. |
expect they are st 1t yet. Why it was
q worry respectable business both In
Englaud and Massachusetts Just rs
long 40 they could find market for
tho slaves. John Newton, tho poet,
the sweetest Of all composers Of hymns,
tho man who wrote
Amazing grace, how sweet tho sound
That saved n wretch like me-"
was a slave trader, and made big money
out OF it. Ono thing is certain, Now
England rum is still made in Boston
from Cuba mOlasscs In large quantities,
| and | would like to know where thoy
| ship 1t to and what for. South America
| is still buying slaves from snmoLody.
But, pshaw, VIC are all brethren now,
and sectional lines arc blottcd out
Just so--let us have peace. How sweet
and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity-I'm loving every-
body now-oxccpt sOme-l'm going to
lovo that fellow banners and french
and old motiler Julia Ward Howe by
proxy If can tinl the proxy. Maybe
Joe Wheeler will take the job.
| BILL ARP.