Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1900-10-03
GOOD OLD SAM PITTS
Bill Arp Writes About an Old FIX.
Slave.
SOME OF NEGRO'S SAYINGS
Difference Between Negroes Nova
days and Those of Ante Beilum
Times.

Uncle sam is dead. Good old Sam
Pitts. He never changed his name
when freedom came My old master
was good man." he said. Oar was
good people den and bad people Jes'
like dar is now-black and whi,c, bat
de black has got wusser ard wusScr
since dey got free. Effen black man
had good master he was might we'll
, off. fer he didn't have no sponAbil!ty.
Eifen | bin sho of good master and
my wife and children been sho OF one
and We all live together outill We die
| woaidcnt koor anything bout freedom.
! Nigg5rS got too much free iom anyhow.
! My old master used to make de nlsscr
gals set married and take 4 lnau and
stick TO him, but nowadays dev don't
marry at all hardly. | got n lot OF
grand, h.ldrcn what haiut gOt no daddy
| to sneak of and | don't know my sons
ir-l1w. Doy don't come about in day
/ time. OATS what killed my old woman.
/ She jes' 50 mortified and so shamcl
| she never got over It, SO many spur
iouS children all round calm hc-
granny. Effen Il white woman dc dat
! way shc as discraccd, hut black
! oman don't kecr: she shine as big a.
/ ever and dev don't turn her outen Ge
/ church. In tie cd times she got ii
/ VhDpin ana dn orr 20 have il vet
| White folks dim qUit whipnin bad nig-
/ gers, dsE send EN- 10 chaineang. and
/ dcv don't lirGg for dat. hear dat dar
/ Is foCr on five Thousand in dar from
+ GcorET. How dat did"nt have nary
one before de war Gwine TO .clool
/ too much | sreE and work too lttlc.
/ n.n't know Whist IS Svilc TO come o.
AL d s. grown up niggors. D.r l. "a
dozen or more round dc deDot or
trlmpin' around town doin' nuthin all
7 de timc-livin' oifen dcy mammics and
/ sNokin' desc little paper secga,s.'
O'd Uncle sam dident talk much. but
sometimes he would lean on his hoe or
his AK and spress his feclins. 1t did
Kim good. He has been choppinG my
wood and helping me in The garden for
thirteen years and we Will ms him.
/ He fen down plraly@ed with his hoe in
/ his hand. He was the man with the
( hoe TO the very last. but he never was
/ rOOr. for he made Il good living and
/ had many friends and owned com
/ Portable house and lot. They sent t.
my wiic for some grave clothes and "a
Will lee buried in light decent suit Of
minc and we will 20 To his funeral.
was ruminating about thi. good Old
negro who had seen thrity-thl9e years
/ of slavery and thirty-seven of free
/ dom and knew the good and the bad
/ of both conditions and then my thought
/ wandered to the malignity of those
who have slandcrcd us 50 long with
out cause. Here is n book OF poems
gy John c. Whittier and thirty-scvcn
OF them are pitiful appeals for the poor
slave and invoking heavens curses
upon his master. He knew no more
! about slavery as it really was than ne
did about Barbara Freitchic and he fed
! the young people of New England
/ upon poetic lies for thirty years and
in stillcd into their hearts that hatred
from which they have recovered.
Strange il is that smart people viii
| write about things they have mover
seen. Now. tho idea OF an uneduc3ted
negro slave getting down on hiS knees
| and making an apostrophe to the north
ar-and yet that is the title Of cnc of
the poems The Slaves Apostrcpho to
the North star" That Niger was nos
I sum hunting right then. but the poet
| makes him to say:
star OF the North. | look to thee
! Thy light and truth shall set me free"
But enough of this The question
/ still survives what viii become pf the
/ negro. and that other question looms
up before IFS. what will We do with 10
/ O.OtOO more OF them over in tn
/ PHILIPPINES? more Scn-cleSs w,r
| was never waPcl. II wae concri.cd in
/ sin and is being carried on in iniQuiJy.
| Prosperity, Ncs. il is war tnat
! CLOSES over suffering and death and
! Srci with a coat OF prosperity. But it
! is nothing but Il coat. War alwovs
/ produces mhlancc Of prOsprrity. for
| armies have to be fed and clothed ana
| equipped. Ships have 10 b, built ana
| cannon made and a thousand things
! collateral TO these show activity ana
! give employment to labor and to capi-
I'll. This activity btean with the t,r-
/ ban embrorlio and still goes on. blt
! in the long run -omcbody viii haVcto
foot the money lin. The bill for blood
and suffering will never be paid. Who
wants the war but contractors who
are growing rich from their profits?
When was las; in Texas 7 heard a
cattle man say he hoped that Russia
and England would get up fight. for
he had 10000 head OF cattle that
would 80 up 30 per cent in a day.
Daily wages don't go up. but every
thing the lahorer is obliged to con-
sumo hes advanced. How about clerk
hire. made and female. in the towns
and cities How about child labor in
The factories-not in all the factories.
but IN most OF them. for thre arc not
many Cunby Jordans at the head Of
southern cotton mills. What a baaui-
ful tribute his PEOPLE paid him in Co.
lumbus when he returned from En-
rope What touching ovation those
factory workers gave him Why can
the owners OF every mill DO the same
by their operatives aud secure their
'ove. which is worth more than