The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-10

4 spI6SSeuS Gut1E uoIiU1 VI i .1oAA =
and the world moves on--not stay
nor a stop nor a jolt is felt either socl-
{ ally, religiously financially, or CONNER
sc.ially.. The fulminations Of the north
I err ern press nor the apprehensions OF
editors nearer kome amount to any
thing. History is just repeating it
! self. Every few years something like
this happens and the press and the
preachers explode in about the same
language until they get tired and then
ssnbside and wait quietly for some
other narrowing thing to happen: We.
eremember well what the press said
about the burning Of the brute at Dali
las 8 few years ago and the same ad-.
ajectives we're used and the same ana
themas hurled upon our people. The
brute who ravished child Of SIX
years and then killed her and threw
her mutilated body:in the bushes ac-'
stually found friends among our enc
mics. They said it was brutal to
burn him We remember when the
negro assaulted a little girl near Mad
;;sison as she was going home from school
alone and then cut her throat and
threw her body in q gully and covered
! it with,brush. When vengeance over,
took him the northern press howled as
usual.
TITS their business :tofhowl. They
like Sc, and no doubt are glad this
thing has happened. It feeds their
appetite and nurses their wrath and
viii last them a week, perhaps longer.
ssInsthe Language Of Governor Oates, 4
would rise to a. point Of order and ask,
'EsslE hat are you going to do about it?
othing, of course, nothing: Such
things viii happen sometimes every
where at long intervals, but. they do
mot affect a single item Of civilization.
mo is afraid to move to Georgia or
! Texas because Of lynchings : Nobody,
save, perhaps, q few bad men who
think &c coming because they are in
sbad repate at home. Fitzgerald was
srlt not afraid to come, nor afraid to stay,
and the northern people in that grow
{ ing city are celebrating their content
wit with piicnics and other hilarities while.
I write. The wicked fee where no.
manSiis in danger Of the lynchers. No
lava abiding citizen has any fear for
himself OF his household.
It takes q terrible crime to arouse q
whole community into such remedy,
and so j feel nc. personal alarm :?
Reader, do You?
llhe 6 truth is that lynchings are not
sas frequent in the south as they have
been, but are getting quite common
over the line. We read that they
tried to lynch man in New York the
other day for stealing q horse. Why
they have long since quit that in
Texas. Mr. Inman is right or nearly
so. He says in his answer to the
] Symposium Of opinions that there is
81 no just cause for alarm among the
country peopleno greater cause than
there has been. That 95 per cent OF
the people, both white and black, are
harmless and law-abiding and we will
have to watch and punish the other
s. per cent Just as we have been doing
for many years. The per cent Of
bad negroes is greater than he thinks.
The number in the chaingangs prove
this, but their crimes are generally
smisdemeanors, larceny and burglary,
and education does not correct this.
Booker Washington says it does, but
observation and the statistics Of the
prison commission prove the reverse.
We old men who owned slaves be-
fore the war are established in our
opinions that education does not les
sen crime, neither among whites nor
blacks. MI. Stetson, the chairman of
the school commission Of Massachu-
setts, declared this in pamphlet sew
eral years ago, and proved that educa-
tion increased crime not little, but
to an alarming extent. Ihave great
respect for Booker Washington, and
believe that the kind Of education he
is giving will lessen crime among the
pupils he is educating. Our slaves
were educated by fear Of the lash or
the whipping post, and you can pick
them out to-day. It's their children.
born since the war, or their grand
children who are in the chaingang
Why should there be 1000 negroes
in these State and county chaingangs
of Georgia when there are only 240
white convicts? It will not do to say