The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-09-18
P0rtman Letter.

lour weeks, cauB9Q by the rain, the negro
labor Ia again OF top of the wall, shou::1 &
their loudest, singing their merriest, and
no doubt replenishing the empty meal
and flour sacks, which were wrung
empty during idleness.
What would the negro do without
labor? lie must beg or steal, and white
people who first brought the unfortunate
oyer here should at least give him labor
and pay him for It. An oye witness has
related that at the time Of slavery in
America the slave who, while free man,
was also slave In Africa, suffered the
most savage DETERMINATION among his
own in the black continent. The war
rior king held his subjects In two capaci-
ties-to dine and he dined upon. The
picture upon paper is revolving, but 80 1t
was; tho king, gathering his strong army
about him insisted, unlike the pitiable
army of the South, that his men be fed !;
and strong, abundant rations were served
them from the trenches wherein were
drassed, Drowned, baruecued to q turn
their fellow w-cOuntrymen, who, perhaps.
were too fat for marching and excellent
In chops and launches. What black man
could not he bought or enticed G; iess
than few trinkes from such q country,
and gladly ready to try life even in the
experiments OF a new slavery? There .s
no denying the advancement lavished
upon the negro. lie has been mr. 8
human instead Of beast, finally the
blood OF over half a million was shed for
his body and-well-had he a soul? That
was mooted question; but his black
body cast this nation Of noble white men
into the dead!iest war ever waged by
man against man. When we think OF It,
the insanity of such turn; we wonder
where were the brains OF the white peo-
pie? What was the matter with North
and South that the people did not com
promise and send the black creation to
whore they belonged? What was thero
lovable or beautiful about the rsce type
at this stage Of civilization? Really
1t would seem that the North and South
wanted other than the negro bone Of con-
tention as an incentive to battle. More
creditable would be this presumption
than the confession that they fought for
the negro. States rights Is q problem
BETTING the solution Of intellectual con-
ceptlon, but negro right, the right that
had no right since the days Of the Patri.
archs but to be bought and sold, involved
no intellect superior to barter Of money,
Buoh barter being the 10 west Of intellec-
tual feats and meritlng no mention, ex-
cept as passion for possession, this in
stinct being the stronge.t that unites the
human with tho ort,.,ul t,,oir
But with all the forecast Of wise poll
tics we have the black man with US, the
mulatto, the quadroop, the octaroon-the
whole family from integ,al to decimal
frac tons, washed infinitely In the blood
OF over 100000 white warriors OF the race
Of Noah's superior son, we have them re.
fined by contact with these white heroes
during more than two centuries Of COM
panionship in North s1d South America,
educated on an altitude beyond the hopes
OF even century ago.
A Baptist missionary reporting on the
early condition of the free blacks In the
sable republic, Hayti, said the freed lc en-
could not compare In: industry with the
slaves, that In morals they were below.
description, and, abandoned to their own
inatincts, would fall backward to the
lowest Afficanism. They were then in
Hayu worshipping small green snake;
organised in religious fraternity known
as vaudaux, In which passion Of animali-
ty they whirlad, danced. A..Hk CO .H..e..z
"tafia," went through scenes of excess,
drunkenness aud darkness "enough to
make the impossible gods OF Africa itself
gnaah their teeth with horror"
Here was heather chorus Of the Vau-
daux (probably "Voodoo"):
Eh! eh! Bomba, hen heni
Conga baf11a te
Conga mourne de le!
Copga de HI II
Conga IL!
This, however, is q song Of their own
dark ages. The United States by kind
ness educated. where France, Spain aud
England demoralizsd by dread.
Strongly has the unequal compar lson
arisen within the last few days, between
the multi-millionaire, w. X. Vanderbilt,
unhappy ~ the vastness Of his inherited
wealth-seeking only ss The modioum Of
his satisfaction from Il all--"to have all the
fun he can," and the black labo,er, happy
all the day over q days small wages.
After recuperation of work, reinstating
faith upon the idle whimsicalities Of the
weather, behold upon the rock buttress
or In the water. happier than the bonds
men OF Abraham, the fugitives of Pha-
roab, the gilded slaves Of Solomon, these
men OF white hearts and shining example
singing different song from the Haytian
Vaudaux:
~ am happy all the day,
am happy all the day:
1T is there by faith received py sight
And now am happy all the day."
Abraham Lincoln, previous to the proc
lamation, replying to certain gentlemen
Of the cloth who were helping him run
(or ruin) the government, eaid In per-
turbed spirit: Suppose the negroes
were free, what should we do with them?
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