The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-09-20

ragged by the officers Of camp, fled
to the woods. She was overtaken by
bloodhounds, her clothes stripped off
and she was then hogged in the pres
ence of jeering men. Another poor
girl, similarly tre elted, gave birth to a
child, but both mother and offspring
we're speedily relie-ed by death. Wo-
men and girls are .uabitually subjected
to the grossest indecencies and exposur-
es. In one camp was found a woman
who had had seven children whilst there,
and another had had six there. And
such cases are legion!
Christian America sends hundreds of
missionaries to Asia aud Africa. But
is there not vast mission field for ef-
fort and influence?
The states If Mississippi, Arkansas
and the Carolinas all need greatreforms
in this matter; but especially Florida and
Georgia. Their forest turpentine WORKS
and their phosphate mines are often aw-
full spots morally and physically. Lou
isiana is making some special efforts at
improvement. Alabama and Texas are
perhaps better than formerly. Yet a
prison chaplain in Texas writes to the
Howard association (1S9S): Practically
there has been no advance in the least
system Of our convicts. |. can only be
an evil. >
The Howard association has also re-
ceived, in connection with these sad ac-
counts Of southern camps and chain
gangs, much information showing that
they form but one portion OF a still vast
er system of oppression of the colored
race generally in the southern states.
The voice of Missions Atlanta, Decem-
Der, 1899 contains long and terrible
indictment of the white race for the
treatment of the colored people since
1865.
It SAYS: "The Cuban var and its re :
suits and the Armenian massacres are
nothing when compared with the thirty
years Of 'whitecapping, chasing by
bloodhounds, numbering, burning at the
stake, lynching, faying, swindling, rob-
bing. defamation of character, injustice,
false imprisonment and oppression
which the colored people Of Atlanta
have passed through and are still under
going. This year 300 have been lynch
ed and murdered by our white Christian
friends, and no voice but our own weak
cry has been raised in protest" Many
Negroes we're shot by the white Demo
Gratis in North and South Carolina dur
ing the November elections OF 1888.
Recently, also, many unotfending color
ed people have been driven away from
their homes and farms in the south by
violent and covetous white neighbors.
The same journal complains of the 81.
lenca of the pulpit, both north and
south, respecting these evils, and re-
marks that even the United States su-
preme court at Washington has always
turned the scale against the coiored
race. Also that several Of the southern
states have disfranchised the Negroes
by wholesale, in violation o. the feder-
al constitution, whilst returning them
all as voters for the purposes of their
own proportionate representation IN con-
gress. It's known that some proml-
nent politicians and legislators at
Washington have made large fortunes
as convict contractors.
In The Richmond Planet July 23rd,
1881 bishop is quoted as saying:
Enough colored men have been lynch.
ed to death to reach a mile high, if
laid one upon another, and nearly as
many more women and children to make
a similar pile.
These lynchings are defended by
many persons on the ground of their
necessity for protecting white women
from Negro assaults. No doubt occasi-
onal crimes Of this kind have been COM
mitted by them, but they have been
immensely outnumbered by similar out
RACES by whites upon the females Of the
weakerrace.
The colored people have need to clear
themselves from completely with such
crime and also to cultivate more homes
ty and truthfulness. Nor can they ex-
pect to be much respected until they
manifest more self-respect and become
less characterized, as a people, by their
everlasting grin and giggle. Lord
Chesterfield said: II never knew
Merry Andrew a respected man.
Bat the colored people are too often such
fools. aud until, as race, they manage
20 make themselves both respected and
feared, they are not likely to get the
Justice which is due to them. Butfoons
will be despised.
E7en the aggregate of the lynchings
is very small in comparion with the en-
ormous mortality of the convicts in the
camps and chaingangs. Whereas IN
English prisons the death rate is under
I per l 900 per aunum, it ranges IN
these camps from rs to over 20O per
1000 yearly.
The Voice of Missions mournfully re-
marks: There are no advocates Of hu-
man rights in the United States TODAY.
Charles Summer is dead, Abraham Lin
coin IS gone, Wendel fillpS, LII;
Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas and
Harriet Beecher Stowe have all passed
away; and with them went the last great
advocates Of human rights. )" This COM
plant is, however, too pesslmlstlc.
Yet even the Society Of Friends
(Quakers) in America, once the fore
most champions of the negro, through
their J. G. Whittier, Thomas Garrett,
Isaac E. Hopper, Levi Coffin, Francis
T. King and other good men have OF
late years become strangely silent and
apparently apathetic as to the oppress-
cd race.
However, people of twelve millions
ought no longer to be mainly dependen-
dent upon, or looking to others for their
own protection. They must now chiefly
turn to schemes of seif-help or remain
oppressed.