The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-09-27

asrded to me here and received few
lays ago.
| will answer your questions with
,erfeot frankness, but before doing.so,
et me call your attention to what sp-
aears to me to be misstatement-un-
Intentional, of course--of my position
,ouching the race question to which
,ou refer.
You say: ~ read in the New Y York
sun your open letter .on !the deporaa-
ion Of the colored man." 1 have
1ever ct any time, or anywhere writ
zen letter "epen" OR otherwise "on
:he deportation of the colored mar.
Deportation" implies force or CO.
ercion which ought never ito be
thought of in dealing with the 'col-
sed' man or any other race Of
men who are citizens of the United
states.
What I have urged is that it would
be better for both races if gradual
md permanent separation could take
place, such separation, ofoourse, to be
Voluntary
have not the slightest doubt that
( the national government would lend
helping hand, the negroes would
prefer q separate establishment, where
they could hepe fair chance and an
open feh for their social, political
and industrial advancement. The
discrimination against them on these
Ines in aid parts Of the United States
;s an impossible bar to their complete
emancipation, and neither education,
Christianity, or any other civilizing
md eplightening influence can remove
It.
know if [ was q negro, and had
my present sensibilities, I would pre-
:er to set up for myself in country
Tree from the shadow of the slavery of
my race, and from environments that
constantly remind me of inferiority
and subordination to another and
stronger race. But to your quota
:ions-
You ask:
First. "In what way does free negro
labor compete more oppressiveIy with
The poor white labor than saave negro
labor did?
My answer ia that free negro labor
does not compete more oppressiEeiy
With the poor white labor than slave
negro labor did. Ny authority 10 and
has alwaye been that the ''irrepresei-
6le' conflict" betwee the free and slave
labor was one of the prime eauses Of
our Civil War. Ny judgment is chat
but for the. institution Of slavery We
would have had no Civi! War. There
IS this difference, however, between
slave negro labor" and free negro
labor:" The former Was coas..ell!eaa
BY his master and had his scale of
wages regulated by him. It was the
interest of the master to keep the
scale as high as possible, and as negro
slave Labor was usually proitably en-
ployed, he could not cut under fair
and remunerative wages without the
consent Of his master. OF course,
here were few exceptions 20 this in
he case loe frae negroes or slaves who
lired their time. In the main, how
'ver, negro slave labor was on oppres-
i've competitor with white labor,
nd hence the irrepressible conflict.
Free. negro labor competes op-.
with white labor just ae
,hinese labor competes oppressively
nth white labor. The negro and
'hinaman. have fewer wants than the
'hite man. They can live cheaper:
n fact, they can live in style and
manner. and on food that would re-
luce q, white man to the depths OF
egradation. The white man could
ot survive. He and bis family must
o to the wall in labor competition
nth the negro or Chinaman. Expe-
isnce has shown this and requires no
sgument to prove it. The white man
nows, and feels this and hence he
aakcs war on both the negro and Chi
aman as he would upon any other
ace when he gets in his way.
Your second question is:
SecQnd. care you quite sure that
he negro being removed your poor
Thites, will labor. any more than
hey do now. Is it not possible that
he vice lies in the dislike Of the
oor whites to labor and be restrain
d?"
Answering The drst point in this
I will say that in nv Oninion