The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-03-13


those who are born in it. Neither
man nor wife nor church member loses
caste for notorious Iniidelity to the
marriage relation. As Thomas SAYS
most OF the preachers are on that liuc.
Eight negro preachers are now in our
State changing and rs many more in
the county gangs. | asked a negro
the other day what they turned their
preacher of for, and he said "lt were
for some onreglaritics." Some of our
negro school teachers get the same re-
putation and have to step down and
out. We had one here u few years
ago who was highly educated and
wrote IL beautiful letter, but he got to
kidnapping little things and ran away
in the night and dident stop until he
got to Africa and was made a bishop.
But Thomas does not tell us how to
~eXterminatc them, nor where TO draw
the line between the Inferior classes
and those who shall be allowed to live
and multiply. He eXhausts his indig-
nation without defining the mode and
manner of the remedy. / suppose we
might transport the men and boys over
to the Philippines and turn the army
ANOSS Nl'Si iiSib puI lllul Noulu DC ~
pensivc, or we might drive them out
West and let them starve to death or
be killed off by the Indians. Anyway
would satisfy Thomas if it cxtermi.
mated all the bad ones. We arc doing
reasonably well on that line, for be-
sides the lynchings for the usual crime,
which | hope will be kept up diligcnt-
:, ly, we have retired about 5000 to
|, private life III the chaingangs of Geo.
| gia, and 10 900 more in other Southern
States.
D That mounts to a partial cXtermi-
nation and is better, for we get their
labor during the process. We ought
TO take up every trilling vagabond and
@ send him there, for idlcness is the
parent OF vice and crime. If he had
$ done something send him for doing it
and If he hadcnt done anything then
O send him for doing nothing. And as
Q for those snatch thieves who are pur-
v suing and robbing the ladies of Atlanta
q | wouldent send them to the chaingaug
urtil they had been whipped once a
week for Il month. Force is the thing
II the force of a cowhide on the naked
n skin. That is the remedy for black
If and white in Delaware, and neither q
snatch thief nor a bank rohhcr dareS
to stop in the State. They hurr,
~ through to another State where Their,
II is no whipping post. When we get ;
3 Legislature that has got wisdom ant
moral courage enough to eXtermiuatt
the dogs and protect the sheep the,
h. Will rc-cstablish the whipping post.
il But about h Beasty book hat say
the negro has no soul. | suppose i
mr. was manufactured to sell and foo
10 somcbpoy. As my niger Bob one,
nj said to Nabor Freeman: "Elfen
l.. white man got Il soul and q nigge
q. haint got no soul how about a mel
later?" That's a conundrum. An,
q how about the Indians and Chimes
ut and Cubans and the Arabs, How
lie much coloring does ii take to germ
X nate a soul? How about such hiyl
of minded philanthroplc negroes as Book
er Washington, President Council
X bishop Gaines, Bishop Turner and tn
of bishop OF Louisiana, who are dom;
is their utmost TO reform their race.
ro had rather risk them and many othe
good negroes for souls and salvation
e. than many Il white man | know. IIo,
n about my faithful Tip, who was Dor
or and raised in our family and has bee!
h. loyal and loving to his mistress an
Id her children all these years, and no,
Il. about old-timc servants in almos
every family who owned negroes an
We whose devotion never died when free
RI dom cane?
MS No. Let Thomas and Compan
he write books TO perplex the North an,
m make money for themselves, but let II
,e- and our negroes alone. Just kce
hands off and we will manage then
mr. We need them in our fields and fun
re naccs and mines and on our railroads
Il. But for their labor as slaves the Soutl
a, would have been fifty years behind il
to the clearing of our forests, buildin
bv our railroads and developing on
\ mineral resources. But for them tn
- South would be inundated with a hord
o of foreigners who bring with them a.
ut sorts of isms and religions and strikes
IN The negro has his faults, but if hi
of presence will keep immigrants ava
o. it will be a blessing. 1t is still tn
destiny of the South to pcrpctuatc a
tv uncontaminated white race who wi
10 save the republic from anarchy an
ruin or from Imperialism.
Bill ARP.
mt II. S.-Wc read that cXtcrmlnatio
IL has begun at Terre Hauac and Indianau
ut oils. hope lIannibal is happy.
IN 3. A.