The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-03-13
NO GOOD IN NEGRO
Bill Arp cotnn ents Upon Book

again at the North. The Hon. William
Hannibal Thomas out-Hcrods uerOd in
his denunciatlOn of the negro and The
New York SIN seems to indorsc him.
Thomas is a negro frceborn in Ohio,
but came down TO South Carolina and
served in the carpetbag Legislature
the reconstruction period and
afterwards held judicial Office, and
says in the preface TO his book that he
has been studying the negro for thirty
yc and Is more and more confirmed
III his opinion that there is no good in
him-ncither socially, morally, in
dustrially or politically. Ills remark
wcll-known press of the Macmillan
Co., in New York, aud The New York
Sun devotcs a good part of a page in
reviewing it.
The author says the race is slowly,
but surely degcncratlng-that the ne
gro is by nature a savage with an in
born f~crocity and knows no such emo
ton as mcrcy-that he is a beast in
his domestic relations and will sell the
virtue of his wife or his daughters and
lose no social position among his pco-
pie or in his church. That the negro
preachers are the worst of the race.
They stalk into negro ~sanctuarics,
O~vcrshadow the pcws, invade the pre-
cints of domestic life and dcspOil the
family and yoke virgin innocence with
brazeu guilt. That the negro churches
are dcbauching rendezvous. That ne.
gro religion is & farce and worthless to
reform or rcgcncrate them, and the
,,,nSt hn,,,n,,o nr, nN n,,n ,n,,,,tttA1 lt,
those who read and write and are
members Of negro churches. He says
that the negro is a brute in the com
mission of crime and is craven
coward after it is committed and when
caught and punished believes himself
a martyr, and if he escapes the yallows
would repeat his crime with no sense
of wrong doing. lie has no concep-
ton of virtue or truth, no fear of hell
or damnation, but with the hangman's
rope around his neck is going straight
to heaven.
The author mildly condemns lynch
ing for certain Outragcs, not because it
Is cruel or illegal, but because it does
not deter other ncglocs from similar
ontragcs. lie says, however, that he
has no, yet found that an innocent
man has ever been lynchcd. lie ad
vocatcs force as the only practical re.
medy for the ncgro-force-control-
subsection TO the white race, not III q
state of slavery as before the war, but
in one of fear and obedience. He
goes still further and suggests the cX-
termination of the inferior clements of
the race because it is better to have
individual determination than race eX.
tinction. But space forbids more OF
these anathemas, and the wonder is
that the book was written by a negro
OF the North and that a reput1h'l
publishing house would chapcron it be.
fore the Northern people and that q
Northern editor, who has been fol
years and years lampooning the South.
crn people about the negro, should
now give this book his quasi indo,se.
mcnt.
What does all this mean ? We
knew That they did not love the negro
at Akron and Pana, nor in the slum>
OF New York city, Iut we thought h,
was still safe in the sanctum sanctorum
of Republican editors. What is be.
hind this new departure?
An agent has recently been to on,
town distributing sensational circulars
about a new book just issued in st.
Louis, III which the author asserts tina,
the negro is q beast and he tries &c
prove it by the Bible as well as by
scientific research. This book is but q
revival of a former book called Cartel -
and published about thirty years ago.
1t Is refreshing of old straw, but
seems to be a brand new doctrine ur
North and has the Endorsement OF
numerous preachers and college pro-
fcssors. One preacher up in Maine
says that if it had been written forty
years ago there would have been no
cfvu war, for their people would not
have fought for the freedom of a lot of
beasts. Then again | sec in a recent
editorial in a Republican paper an evil
dence of weakness and reaction about
the negro and the editor asks, "Can
it be possible that the two hundred
millions OF money sent by the North
TO educate the Southern negro has all
been wasted?" Apologies are now in
order.
In addition to all this it has been as
serted by those who know, that MI.
Mckinley has changed front, and that
no more negroes will be appointed to
office. Is the North about to abandon
The negro and turn him over to the
mercy of his former masters? If so.
the negro will be the gamer, and so
will the South. That is all we have
asked for all these years-just to be
let alone. They were our negroes be-
fore the wal and they are IL negroes
yet. We don't give them office nor
allow them to sit on our iurics, nor
rid in u cars, nor find lodging in
our hotels, nor take pcws in our
churches, and but for Northern inter-
terence they would not have been al
lowed to vote, either State or national
or municipal, but we pay them for
their labor and give them a fair educa-
ton. But for fear Of shocking our
Northern friends the whipping post
Woul have long since been the force
That Thomas says must be used, and
then the 1000 that are in the State
and county ~chaiugangs of Georgia
would have been reduced to 500 or a
less number. A bad negro who fears
not God nor regards man, cares not q
great deal for the gallows and less for
the changing, and nothing for a term
In Jail, but he does dread a good whip
ping. We old masters all remember
that. One good whipping will last a
negro for years. The chaiDoap0 Of