The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-07-05


China or anywhere that will enable
him TO leave Pope Brown and others
who have robbed him for years. We
are anxious to go-we are ready. This
crowd brought our mothers here and
debauched them and outraged them
till we find 10000 of mulattoes, kins-
men Of this man Brown and his friends.
Let us go as went the children of Israel
from Egypt, and harden not your heart
when we get ready to leave"
Then he copies Joseph Henderson's
reply to Governor Northern, which
contains more lies to the square inch
than anything I have yet seen. Hen
dersOn belongs to the Thomas Fortune
Ida Wells gang, who are making big
money out Of yankee hate and cred
ulity. He made his speech in Boston
and said he was a Georgian and his
mother obeyed the slave masters whip
and felt the bloodhound's bite. What
liar, but he has made those yankees
believe it. In all nay experience /
never knew IL negro woman to run
away, nor did ever hear Of a blood
hound biting man or woman. Some
times bad negro men ran away and
were properly punished when they
came back, or were taken up and
brought back never heard of half
dozen runaways in our county. AS a
rule all negroes were humanely treated.
Every master knew that it impaired
their value to treat them otherwise.
Percy Gregg declares, in his history,
that the Southern slaves were the best
treated servants the world ever saw.
The young and the old were cared for
kindly and atfectionately by master and
mistress, and their condition was inf
nitely better than the poor of England
or Germany or of the Northern United
States.
Pledger gives Henderson's speech in
large headlines and calls it "Plain
Words The article is malignant,
mendacious and incendiary, and this
man Pledger could not run his paper in
Wilmington nor in any country town
in Georgia. 1t is q weekly menace to
the place between the races. He ad
vises the negroes to patronize negroes
in all avocations. What a fool. Sup
pose the merchants of Cartersville
should conclude to patronize white
draymen and white carpenters and
blacksmiths only, what would become
of the negroes who now so faithfully
serve us? What would become OF Joe
Brown and Tribble, our expert carriage
makers whose department rs citizens
commands our respect and confidence?
tell you, my brethren, there are many
good industrious negroes in the land,
and we would have no troubled if it were
not fomented by such politicians as
Pledger. [ know lots of negroes that
l can get along with, and so does e-"ry
white man. But such as Pledger are
not going away unless he sees big
money in contract. He wants to be
hired to drum recruits. Six millions OF
mulattoes. Good gracious! And he is
one Of them, and no doubt is proud of
it. never saw a mulattO who wasent.
They wouldent have been black ne
grocs if they could, and they wOuldent
swap colors now. They are the 400
the elite, the upper ten.
But enough of this. Tip has been to
see us-the faithful Tip-and he was
happy. Tip bought some land near
Rome from Michigander. The price
was $1,000, which Tip paid, and after
the Michigander had left for parts un-
known Tip found mortgage on it for
$500 more, and will have it to pay.
Nobody but a dirty yankee dog would
have swindled Tip that way. Tip
brought his "mistis," as he still calls
my wife, bottle of wine made from
his own grapes, but 1 reckon you had
better not mention this, for it might be
construed as against the new. town
liquor law, and subject my wife to
fine OF $50, and me to break rocks for
thirty days. That would be bad and
sad. wouldn't it? Emerson is now our
liquor depot. 1t is four miles away,
but the road is good, and they say the
travel over it is increasing. For some
reason or other Mr.. Thomas has recent
l. L Il hn-
less, the fight between the harons and
King John of Runnymede is going on,
and another magma charter may be
granted Rri. ARP.