The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-03-14
THERE'S NO GOOD IN NEGRO
Bill Arp Comments Upon Book
Written by Carpet
NeprO

written by a Carpct-BaE
Negro.
| The race problem has bobbcd up
again at the North. The Hon. William
Hannibal Thomas out-Hcrods uerod in
his dcnunciatlOn of the negro and The
| New York S'ut seems to indorsc him.
Thomas is Il negro frccborn in Ohio,
but came down to South Carolina and
served in the carpetbag Legislature
during 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
years and IS more and more confirmed
in his opinion that there is no good in
| him-neithcr socially, morally, in
dustrially Or politically. His remark
| able book has recently issued from The
wcll-known press of the Macmillan
Co., in New York, and The New York
Sun devotcs Il good part of page in
| reviewing it.
The author says the race is slowly,
but surely dcgcncratng-that the ne
gro is by nature Il savage with an in
born ferocity and knows no such emo
ton rs mercy-that he is Il beast i'm
| ITO "oIiNoOlt lSlhtlSho anu VIII SUI lIlC
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 sanctuaries,
ovcrshadOw the pcws, invade the pre-
cints of domestic life and dcspoil the
family and yoke virgin innocence with
brazcn guilt. That the negro churches
arc dcbauching rendezvous. That ne.
gro religion is farce and worthless to
reform or regcncratc them, and the
most hcinous crimes are committed by
| those who read and write and are
members OF negro churches. He says
that the negro is brute in the COM
mission of crime and is craven
coward after it is committed and when
caught and punished believes himself
a maltyr, and if he escapes the gallows
would repeat his crime with no sense
of wrong doing. He has no conccp-
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 Tor certain OutraScs, not because it
is cruel or illegal, but because it does
not deter other ncglucs from similar
Outragcs. lie says, however, that he
has not yet found that an innocent
man has ever been lynchcd. He ad.
vOcatcs force as the only practical re.
mcdy for the negro-force--cont
sub lection to the white race, not in a
state of slavery as before the war, but
| IN, r,f Il xl,,
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.
tinchon. But space forbids more of
these anathcmas, and the wonder is
that the book was written by negro
OF the North and that q reputable
publishing house would chapcron i, be.
fore the Northern people and that &
Northern editor, who has been 70,
years and years lampooning the South
ern people about the negro, shoul(
now give this book his quasi indorsc
ment.
What does all this mean w,
knew that they did not love the ncgr,
at Akron and Pana, nor in the slum
OF New York city, but we thought h
was still safe in the sanctum sanCtoruu
of Republican editors. What is be
I hind this new dcparturc7
An agent has recently been to on
town distributing sensational circular
about now book ust issued in st
Il Louis, III which the author asserts tina
n tho negro is a beast and he tries tt
8 prove it by the Bible as well as by
8 scientific research. This book is but a
i revival Of a former book called "Aricl,'
0 and published about thirty years ago.
!. 1t is Refreshing of old straw, but