The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-09-14
III is ALL AN IDLE DREAM.
THE SCHEME WILL NOT WORK..
Bill Arp on the Proposition to Doport
tho Nogroes-lt Would be 1mpos'
siblc to Get Them Out OF the
Country.

Country.
"Onco more into the breach, good
frionus, once more"
Tho negro question is now upper
most in tho minds OF &ll the people OF
tho South, and | write once moro upon
that subject to modostly but confidently
indorsc the utterancca OF The Constitu-
tion in a recent issue. Their deporta-
tion is Il dream, al utterly impracti-
cable solution Of the race problem.
Sixty wears ago IL WIS Is great under
taking to remove II, 900 Indians from
North Georgia to the Indian Territory
with their reluctant cOnsent. Even
tlon i 600 of them died on tho way
The Washington Post says thsro are
not enough Transports in the world
that could bc had or hired to move
thom all in twenty years, and it would
cost not less thAO 500 q head, which
would mako Il Thousand million dollars.
Tho Federal government would not
vote q dollar to begin the experiment.
More than all this the negro would not
go. He will not CVcu go North to live
with his friends, his dolivorcrs. a
few hundred went to Kansas somc
years ago, but they got homesick and
came back. compared with Cobe
about it and he said Well, ma jor,
to my opinion wo won't git rid OF some
Of 'om. WD nOut git up an excurshun
train with q fow Carlouds OF water
millions in front and toll 'om along as
fur as Ohio and drap 'em, but Pm iubus
about gettin 'cm TO Africy."
There used to be Il colonization So
cicty that owned Il good ship named
Elizabeth, and thcy carried al the
tnauumittcd slaves to Liberia free OF
charge. Old Major Waters, a wealthy
gentleman Of GWinuott County, gave
thirty-scvon Of his slaves their irec-
dom, and by his will made my father
his executor and directed him to pro-
vide good clothing for thom and to
take them TO Suvnnnah and SEQ thom
put on board tho Elizabeth and to pay
over TO William, his faithful body ser.
vnnt, 800 in gold for each OF the
thirty-sevon slaves. Tnis money was
10 sot them up ia Africa. So my fathor
rOrrespondeG with the society, and the
good ship wns scut to Savannah on
time and the negroes were put on
board. They wept and walled when
ghey told father goodby, for they all
knew that he was thcir old master 3
friend.
About two years after that thore
was IL knock at fathers door ono winter
night. When it Was opened there
stood William and six othors OF the
the others dead and that he and these
six had secretcd themselves In the hold
Of the vessel by night and kept hidden
until thoy had boon two days at sea,
for it Was against tho rules OF the So
cioty To allow uuy freed man to return.
'Vbev wore brought ~ Philadelphia
AM; there got word 20 AOwcl. Cobb and
Alex. Stcphcna, in Washingtonf Those
mon know William aod bis master
and sent him enough money to pay
thcir way home. They went into SER
vice Of their young master. Lom wa
tcrs-nOt as slaves, but as freo men
and wcrc happy at escaping from LII
bcria.
Qerc is Uncle Sam, who works II
nv garden and chops my wood ant
goes after ice on Sunday. He has foul
grown up children who are sortel
roarried and they have lot OF chill
dren. The old man owns the humble
home and is not going to Africa o.
anywhere else, AMI the children vii
not leave him. Thcro would be weep
ing and wailing worse than funeral
But suppose they all went. Who /
going to pay them for their property
Tho negroes pay taxes now on thre
hundred millions Of property, which /
chiefly roal estate. They own probabl
200 homes in and around Cartorville
and thoro would bo no buyers. II the
wero all dopOrtcd who would TAX
thoir places Who would do ou
cooking and washing? Who woul
makes our fires whom the cold winte
mornings come? Who would pick ou
cotton But tho fact remains tha
there are too many OF them, and the
multiply too fest and this generatio
are indolont and noed regulating b
yiporous laws. There is a baseba
game going on right now while | write
" and at least 200 vagabOnd negroe
have passod my houso going TO i
The negro women are supporting thol
in idlcness. John Anderson says h
heard them singing at the den tn
other day, and tho chorus Of tho son
was
" No use in q niggcr working very hard,
When his nanny is cook in whit
mans yard"
But enough OF this. We have a
read much from tho Yankees abOr
tho negro and much from cOlOre
bishops and educators, and they q
sing the same tune Of stop the lyncl
inps, but have never yet seen any
thing 50 fair, SO truthful, 80 aptl
spoken as the address recently d
divorced at Bismarck Grove, In kansa
by an Alabama negro. lc ls VIC pr
sident Of tho Adcll college, at No
NAL, Ala, and his namc is w.
Council. ! copy from ~ paper pu
lishcd at Lawrence, Kas., u portion
his address
Pardon mo for any sccming hars
ness, but | do not fear Southern G
preston half as much as | do the
vasion Of white Northern labor, viii
comes with It's social prejudice, viii
comes often pleading its color as
only mark OF superiority. Tho col
limo WAS mover carried upon bri
walls, to the cnrpenters' bench, In
the other industries Of tho South un
Northern white labor carried it the
"Thc Southern nogrO has far O.
stripped tho Northern negro sir
emancipa ipation-.outstrippe him
every way. | do not say this In o
unfricndly spirit toward my Northe
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