The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-03-07

and county chaingangs Of Georgia
would have ben reduced to 500 or
less number. A bad negro who fears
not God nor regards man. care not a
great deal for the gallows and less for
the chaingang. and nothing for term
in jail, but he does dread a good whip
ming. We Old masters all remember
thar. One good whipping will last a
negro for years. The chaingang effects
70 reform and does not last six mon
fhs. But the average negro does no;
need corporal punishment often; he
needs a boss.
Thomas is right when he declares
TIT they aTs getting worse instead or
better. especially in the towns and
cities. Read the Atlanta papers and
ask the Atlanta police. Ask Judge
Brovlss to compaTa the records o. his
rou-;. Ask the judge ard solicitor OF
ary court. They are growing worse
everywhere. except on the farms and
nIapta tions. where they are controlled
by landlords. who are nearly as much
their masters as in the oiden times. II
they don't use ph!sica fcTcs they eX-
ercise a will power that eXacts the Ut
most obedience. TIE landlord is the
boss
Thomas is right when he sEserts
that they have no conception OF do
mestic virtue and morality. They sell
dom marry according to law, but just
take up and quit when they feel Ike
it
There are more negro children IN
this town and every other town who
born out Of wedlock than those who
are Eorn in it, Neither man nor vile
nor church member lose; case 70" 10
torious infideli;y to the marriage re-
lation. AS Thomas says most cs the
preachers on that line. Eight negro
E"Cachers are new in or ScGte chain
sarg and as many more in ths' county
gangs. | asked a negro the C;heT day
what they turned their preacher OF
for. and he said 1T were TO" some on
reglaritites." Some of our negro
school teachers ge. the same re2uta-
tiCn ard have to sep down and out.
We had one here few years ago who
was highly educated and wrote beau
Eul letter, but he got to kiG22ping lit
tie things ard ran away in the night
and didn5 stop until he got TO Africa
and was mode a bishop.
But Thomas does not tell how to eX-
terminate them no" where to draw the
line between the inferior classes and
these who shall be allowed to live ard
multiply. He eXhaIs.s his indigna ion
~; n
ne- CT the remedy. suppose we might
transport the meu and boys over 10
the Philippines ard turn the army
Loose upon them, bu; that would be
expensive. CT We nigh; drive them out
and let them starve to death or be Kill
led by the Indians. Anyway would
satisfy Thomas il it eXIerminated all
the bad ones. We are doing reason
ably well on that line, for besides the
lygchings for the usual crime, which
l hope will he ke2; up diligently, We
have retired about 5000 to private life
in the chaingangs CT Georgia, and l5,-
900 more in other southern states.
That amounts to partial eXte-Tina-
ton and is better fer we get their la
take up every trifling vagabond and
send his there, for idleness is the pa
rent OF vice and crime. If he had done
something send him for doing Il and
if he hadent done anything then send
him for doing nothing. And as Tor
those snatch thieves who are pursuing
and robbing the ladies Of Atlanta
he, n
until they had been whipped once
week for a month. Force is the thing
the force Of cowhide on the naked
skin. That is the remedy for black
and white in Delaware, and neither a
snatch thief nor bank robber dares
to stop in that state. They hurry
through to another state where there
is no whipping post. When we get
legislature that has got wisdom and
moral courage enough to exterminate
the dogs and protect the sheep they
will re-e:tablisn the whipping post.
But about the Beasty book that says
the negro has no soul. | suppose it
was manufactured to sell and fool
somebody. AS my niger Bob once
said to Nabor Freeman: "Effen 4
white man got a soul and a niger
haiEt got TO soul how about mella-
ter?" Twas a coundrum- And how
how about the Indians and Chinese
and Cuhans and the Arabs. How
much colo1ing does it take to germi-
nate a soul. How about such high
minded philanthropic negroes as
Booker Washington, President CouE-
ell. Bishop Gaines, Bishop Turner and
the Bishop OF Louisiana, who are do
ing their utmost to reform their race.
| had rather risk them and many 9TH
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