The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-18

she said: "No, ma'am; he never says
anything about it." The unwilling fact
is that the negroes do not think it very
much of crime. And they believe the
other side just as the Yankees do.
Ida Wells made big money out of her
lies years ago, and now she and her
partners have got up another speculation
on the Sam Hose case, and have had
hundreds of thousands of pamphlets
printed that contain that lying detective
story, and are selling them all over the
north. They don't care a cent if it does
cause more lynchings.
And this thing has got all over Eng
land. A friend of mine who lives near
London, sent me a late copy of the Lon
don Chronicle, a paper as influential as
the Times. and the editor copies a batch
of lies taken from the late United States
Howard association report which says
that slavery has been virtually re-eStab-
lished in the southern states. especially
in Georgia and Florida. and that all the
horrors pictured in Uncle Toms
Cabin" have been revived.
That the illegitimate children born in
the convict camps are kept i'll perpetual
slavery. and that the female convlcts are
outraged by the camp officers at pleas
ure, and that a girl of seventeen, who
ran away to avoid it. was caught by
bloodhounds and stripped and logged
amid jeers. The report says there were
2S6 lynchings of negroes last year, and
forty-seven up to April of this year, of
whom all were negroes but eight. vi
all these. thirty-twO were accused %
of murder. sixteen of assault on white
women. fourteen for defending them
selves. two for impudence and thirty
seven for no crime, and twenty-three for
being troublesome.
The editor then says that the future of
the colored race is the gravest problem
that America has to face. certainly as
grave as the extension of her empire
over Cuba and the Philippines. and that
the United States is paying heavy debt
for the sins of her fathers. The How
ard Association appeals to humanity to
avert the solution by national disaster,
and saws the negro trouble has become
so great that it is feared the difficulty
cannot be settled but with blood Well,
now let's pause awhile-I must go out
into my garden and let my choler down
Il will pick the beans for dinner: | will
throw FOckS dl lily HelSuDoIS thiNnN
I will hire a cussin man. Of all the
fools upon earth an English TOOL is the
biggest. Whose fathers is that fool ed
itor talking about! England never
freed her own slaves until 1910, but that
editor doesn't know they ever had any.
Our southern fathers never imported
any: they bought them from the Yam
KEGS. Traders from England and Mas
sachusetts. who kept up the slave trade
in partnership until 1857. The last
SLAYER bought was an American vessel
with a mixed crew on the coast of Mad
agascar.
A man told ME he heard Chicago
drummer say. not long ago, that another
drummer told him he heard of a Boston
banker who wrote to Chicago broker
and asked him if he didn't want to put
some more money in New England rum
to ship to Africa. l expect they are at
it yet. Why. it was a very respectable
business both in England and Massa-
chusetts just long as they could find
market for the slaves. John Newton,
the poet. the sweetest of all composers
of hymns. the man who wrote:
Amazing grace. how sweet the sound
That saved wretch like me-"
was a slave trader. and made big money
out of it. One thing is certain, New
England rum is still made in Boston
from Cuba molasses in large quantities
and l would like to know where they
ship it to and what for. South America
is still buying slaves from somebody.
But. pshaw. we are all brethren now,
and sectional lines are blotted out. Just
so-let us have peace. How sweet and
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to-
gether in unity-I'm loving everybody
now-except some-I'm going to love
that fellow banners and French and
old mother Julia Ward Howe by proxy
if l can find the proxy. Maybe Joe
Wheeler will take the job.
BILL ARP.