Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-02-06
! Negro csasads ii ladlass.

i NJ ltStnay nc IL occur to \ Congressman
| CrhSnpackss, of Indiana, at tie
Wholesale crnsade Ii against negross ID
This State sis yiolatiYe of the rights
secured to them by the constitutiot,
l of the vi nited States, but it must
lappaar SO to Others. u
The story told bys the dispatches
lfrom Indiana is filed With detail
sufficient to call for q congressional
Inquiry as to whether citjxels ,f chat
State are not Disseminated a9ainst
lbecua,use sof their color. sWhite m q,
Ihavo committed murder il that
4 State without calling down 4 the
Ipenalty of deportation against All
their asaooi stes. Wb;ta mar, have
| sold tbeip votes n ablooks 81 4, "a. ),
as can be learned byl reference 10
/ MI. Dudley. without anv Wholesale
Indictments to rid the State of their
presence. White men, in tnrn. have
purchased white votes without max.
ling 8 subseuuent effor . have them
Indicted for the S{fa AF'or eyery
negro idler or roust' h,ut living about
lin an Indiana saloon a dozen white
men can be found doing the came
thing, Vel tie organization for the
Iclearine c;.s !. of the negro loafer q oes
is,ot include ti,s corresponding ele.
meaS OF Che white population.
| yVkas lis all this but rank disorimi-
nation because Of acolor or preyious
conditionp'' It is an ediot for the
wholesale slaughter Of the negro
race, for presumably eyery other
community has the same right Of
deportation and exclusion, and if the
rule becomes thus universal, where
| is the negro to 90, save to offer him.
self as a sacrifice to race hatred and
preiudiceP
Nor does the recital stop here.
After. branding the whole, negro race
as san obnoxious class,n marking
them as idle and vicious, accusing
them of vote selling and bad citizen
ship, we are told that in the yother
towns to which negroes may 90 in
search of the God given right to live
that they are ordered on. Vigilance
committees take the refugee in
hand, not in spirit of kindness nor
of help, but for the purpose of start
ing him on a footraoe down the pub
lic highway, with certain allotment
of time in which to be beyond bullet
range. Surely il wUncle Tomn
should return to life he would find a
great revolution in progress-the
"underground railway" converted
into path of death, and with the
fleeing negroes seeking escape by
way of the South instead Of along
the old familiar line.
Nor is this condition confined to
Indiana, whereit it must harrow the
ineffective soul of Congressman
| Crumpacker. The vigilance COM
mite has long existed in the small
towns Of Iowa, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, Illinois and other States. While
the communities were attending
mass meetings to express sympathy
for the negro in the South, the vigi-
lance committee would be engaged
in showing the negro newcomer the
shortest route to the ne=t town,
where he would be passed along to
the next.
The public cannot have forgotten
Pana and Virden, where negro citi-
zens were shot to death for having
reported to do honest work for their
living. In Indiana they are accused
OF being idle and vicious, and must
be deported; while in Illinois they
are shot to death because they are
industrious enough to want to work.
Verify, the lot of the negro in the
North is a hard one. Given work
and home and an opportunity for
education and Improvement in the
South, he is seized upon by disturb