The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-03-14

ago there would have been II,
80 PAR, for their people would no
have Fought for the freedom of a lot 0
beasts. Then again see in reccn
editorial in Republican paper an evi
dcncc OF weakness and reaction abou
the negro and the editor asks, "Car
it be possible that the two hundred
millions OF money sent by the North
TO educate the Southern negro has all
been wastcd?" Apologies arc now in
order.
In addition to all this it has been as
serted by those who know, that M1.
Mckinley has changed front, and that
no more negroes will be appointed to
! oillcc. Is the North about to abandon
tue negro and turn him over to the
mercy OF his former masters? II so,
the negro will be the gamer, and so
Will the South. That is all we have
asked for all these ycars--iust to be
let alone. They were our negroes be-
| lore tho war and they arc our negroes
YET. we don't give them Office nor
| allo~ lhcm TO sit on our jurics, nor
ride III our cars, nor find lodging in
our hotels, nor take pcws in our
churches, and but for Northern inter
ference they would not have been al
lowed to vote, either State or national
or municipal, but we pay them for
their labor and give them a fair cduca-
ton. But for fear Of shocking our
Northern friends the whipping post
would have long since been the force
mat Thomas says must be used, and
then the 5000 that are in the State
and county chaingangs of Georgia
would have been reduced to 500 or a
less number. ~ bad negro who fears
not God nor regards uan, cares not a
great deal for the gallows and less for
the chaingang, and nothing for term
IN Jail, but he does dread Il good whip
ping. We old masters all remember
that. One Sood whipping will last Il
negro for years. The chaingang cr-
fccts no reform and does not last six
months. But the average negro does
not need corporal punishment often ::
he needs boss.
Thomas is right when lie declares
that they arc getting worse instead Of
better, especially in the towns and
cities. Read the Atlanta papers and
ask the Atlanta police. Ask Judge
Broyles to compare the records of his
court. Ask the Judge and solicitor o1
any court. They are growing worse
everywhere, except on the farms anC
plantations, where they arc controlled
| by landlords, who are nearly as mucl
their masters aa IN the odcn times
If they don't use physical force the,
exercise a will power that cxacts th(
utmost obedience. The landlord is the
boss.
Thomas is right when he asserts
that they have no conception of do
mestlc virtue and morality. They
seldom marry according to law, but
Just take up and quit when they feel
like ii. There arc more negro child
rem in this town and cvcrysothcr town
who are born out of wcdlock than
those who arc born in it. Neither
man nor wife nor church member loses
caste for notorious lnlidclity to the
marriage relation. AS Thomas says
most OF the preachers are on that line.
Eight negro preachers are now in our
State changang and rs many more in
the county gangs. | asked Il negro
the other day what they TUNED their
preacher off for, and he said :" it were
for some onrcglaritics. Some of our
negro school teachers get the same re-
puiation and have to step down and
out. We had one here few years
ago who was highly educated and
wrote a 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 Il bishop
But Thomas does not tell us how to
cXtcrminatc them, nor where to draw
the line between the inferior classes
and those who shall be allowed to live
and multiply. He cXhausts 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
loose upon them, but that would be cX.
pensivc, or we might drive them out
West and let them starvc to death OF
be killed off by the Indians. Anywa,
would satisfy Thomas if it cxtermi
mated all the bad ones. We arc dom!
reasonably well on that line, for be
sides the lynchings for the usual crime
which hope will be kept up diligcnt
|
private life III the chaingangs of Gee
gia, and $1,000 more in other Souther
States.
That amounts to partial extern
nation and is better, for we get the
labor during the process. We ougl
TO take up every triling vagabond an
send him there, for idlcncss is til
parent of vice and crime. II he ha
done something send him for doing
and If he hadcnt done anything the
send him for doing nothing. And a
for those snatch thieves who are pun
suing and robbng the ladies of Atlant
| Wouldont send them to the chaingant
until they had been whipped once
week for month. Force is The thing
, the force Of c0whidc on the naKcc
, skin. That is the remedy ior DlacR
5 and white in Delaware, ana neither
, snatch thief nor bank robbcr darcs
, to sion in the State. They hurry
through to another State where there
is no whipping post. When we get a
+ Legislature that has got wisdom and
moral courage enough to cxtcrmiuate