The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-09-13

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south and / write once more upon
i subject to modestly but conf
a.,ly indorse the utterances of the
..litution in Wednesdays paper.
,ir deportation is dream, an ut
"A, impracticable solution of the
problem. Sixty years ago it was
,,a. undertaking to remove $4,000
3E,us from north Georgia to the
9sliiu Territory with their reluctant
E,ent. Even then 1000 of them
on the way. The Washington
says there are not enough tran
l,ts in the world that could be had
hired to move them ell in twenty
es, and it would cost not less than
50 head, which would make
|BIusand million dollars. The federal
Isnment would not vote dollar to
sGn the experiment. More than all
q. the negro will not go. He will
q even go north to live with his
&sds, his deliverers. A few hun
81 asnt to Kansas some years ago,
e they got homesick and came back.
impaired with Cobe about it and he
"a: "Well, major, to my opinion we
y; git rid of some Of EN-. We
8. git up an excushun train with
carloads of watermiliions in front
toll EN- along as fur as Ohio aud
'em. but I'm jubus about gittin'
70 Africy."
3here used to be a colonization So
y that owned a good ship named
bsbeth, and they carried all the
5umitted slaves to Liberia free Of
5se. Old Major Waters, q wealthy
8leman Of Gwinnett county, gave
#|y.seven Of his slaves their free
and by his will made my father
Executor and directed him to pro-
. good clothing for them and to
them to Savannah and see them
4 on board the Elizabeth and to pay
y to William. his faithful body SER
q, 500 in gold for each Of the
s8y.seven slaves This money was
Del them up in Africa. So my
sr corresponded with the society,
3 the good ship was sent to Savan-
Il on time and the negroes were put
board. They wept and walled
y they told father goodbye, for
81 all knew that he was their old
friend.
bout two years after that there
# knock at fathers door one win
Eight. When it was opened there
- William and six others of. the
pes sent away. He reported all
lz9thers dead and that be and these
had secreted themselves in the
81 Of the vessel by night and kept
Zen until they had been two days
Aa, for it was against the rules cf
|3ociety to allow any freed man to
3n. They were brought to Phila-
Abia, and there got word to Howell
and Alex. Stephens, in Wash
En. Those men knew William
Sshis master and sent him enough
! tly to pay their way home. They
Into service of their young mas
Rom Waters--not as slaves but as
men, and were happy at escaping
Liberia. Here is Uncle Sam, who
@ in my garden and chops my
and goes after ice on Sunday.
pas four; grown up children who
EPrter married aud they have a lot.
Rildren. The old man owns the
PIE home and is not going to Af-
anywhere else, and the children
pot leave him. There would be
Hng aud waiiing worse than
fsfl. But suppose they all went.
is going to pay them for their
Fty? The negroes pay taxes now
FEE hundred millions Of property,
is chiefly real estate. They
3robably 200 homes in and around
\ sville, and there would be no
s@. If they we're all deported,
4 ssWould take their places? Who
Y do our cooking and washing?
Would nurse our babies? Who
il make our fires when the cold
mornings come? Who would
o6 bur cotton? But the fact re-
i. that there are too many Of
aud they multiply too fast, and
generation are INDECENT and need
4 lNting by vigorous laws. There
game going on right now
II | write, and at least 200 vaga-
81 negroes have passed my house
= to it,. The negro women arc
fting them il idleness. John
kson covr II. ha.~J * 49,; !: