The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-01

Gambler, since the Bainbridge series
of lynchings occurred, has been asked
by newspapers in various parts of
the country to give his opinions on
the race question in the South, and
in reply to one Of them the Governor
has fully and freely expressed his
views rs to the cause Of tho conflicts
and the remedy therefor. The Gov
ernor belioves the present day cause
Of the uprisings is the intcrmeddling
with the relations Of tho whites and
blacks in the South by fools and IA
natics," who know nothing about the
situation, but he thinks the whole
trouble dates from tho day of eman-
cipation. Governor Gambler believes
that q restricted suffrage will remedy
the evil; that ballot be given only
to the intelligent negro. AS to the
disposition to be made Of the large
percentage of illiterate negroes the
Governor makes no su gestion. The
Governor begins his paper by refer
ring to emancipation, contrasting the
treatment Of negroes by the white
people Of tho South before the war
to that Of the "carpet- baggers" i'm
mediately after. He says:
"Before the ballot was thrust into
the hands of the negro unpreparod
for it, and utterly ignorant of it's
sanctity and Of the responsibilities of
citizenship, Notwithstanding he was
& slave, lie was happy and we'll con-
tented to occupy that subordinate
place in society to which his nature
and his condition assigned him. But
after his emancipation came his en-
franchisement, and with his emf an
chisement came hoard Of carpet
baggers, penniless adventurous, with
out principle or patriotism, who took
charge Of him when his former mas
ter and protector, with whom he had
lived for generations on tho most
friendly and ofton even on affection
ato terms, was decitizenizel by the
partisan reconstruction laws.
"Theso carpet -baggers, calling
themselves Republicans, but really
only band of marauders held to-
gether by the cohesive power of pub
lie plunder, swarmed all over the
South like the locusts in Egypt of
old, and falsely taught the negroes
that the Southern white men were
solely responsible for their enslave-
ment and were their worst and only
enemies, and that, therefore, it was
= +Ssir duty and their interest to vote
lls!asstl:em and their party, and
"sns' an & &s.nHthing they were in favor
of ofptI and fs favor 'e,S eyaa,y aaything they were
opposed to--in word, s. i'"se 'nel'
They taught thom that 'e0uon '.'
meant immunity from toll, tina, i'o
erty meant license and that tiny
were the "wards of the nation," and
would be protected by the General
Government, whose bayonets glis-
tened in every hamlet, whether they
were right or wrong.
"These evil teachings had but lit
tie permanent effect upon the grown,
up negroes, but upon the children,
the generation which has grown to
manhood since that time, the effect
has been most baleful These we're
tho prime causes of tho alienation Of
the negro.
"a moro Immediate cause is the
perpetual intermeddling with the re-
lations of the races in the South by
fanatics and fools who know nothing
aboat the situation. They call town
meetings and discuss imaginary
wrongs of the Southern negro which
do not exist, and denounce the South
ern whito people for crimes they
have not committed; they publish in
the newspapers greatly exaggerated
accounts Of such crimes as are COM
mitted against the negro in the South,
and omit any notice Of the crime
against the white woman which pro.
voked the retaliation; they write in
cendiary letters to turbulent negroes
all over the South, advising them to
arm themselves with Winchester