The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-03-07
NO GOOD IN DARKEY
60 Says a Free Born Son of Ham in
His Book,
BILL ARP DISCOUUSES UPON 1T.
Barlow Philosopher Quotes From the
Publication and Shows the Negro
His Friends.

The race problem has bobbed up
again at the north. The Hon. Will
liam Hannibal Thomas out-Herods
'Herod in his deHunc.ation OF the negro
and The New York Sun seems to II
Z do-Se him, Thomas is negro freeoo.
in Ohio. but came down TO Sou
Carolina and served in the carpetb%s
legislature during the reconstruct n
period anl afterwards he'd judicial of-
fee anl says in the preface 10 his boof
that he has been studying the negro TO-
thirty years ard is more and more coz
firmed in his opinion that there is no
good in him-ne!ther sorially, morally.
industrially or vol!;ically. His remark
abe book has recently issued from the
well-knoWn press OF the Macmillan
Co. in New York, and The New York
Sun devOteS q gco1 part OF page IL
reviewing it. TIE author says the
race is slowly but surely degeneratinG
that the negro is by nature savage
with an inbCrn ferocity and knows H.
such emotion as mercy-that ne is
beast in his domestic relations AMI
will sell the virtue Of his wife or k:S
daughters and lose no social poSiUi1
among his peOple or in his church.
That the negro preachers are the wo.S.
OF the race. They stalk icto neg.1
sanctuaries. oversha&ow tie pewS, Il
ya&e the precincts Of domestic life al
desp2il the family AID yoke virgin in
nCcence with EraZen guilt. That the
negro churches are debauching re&-
devious. That negro religion IS
n fN-S n
generate them. and the mCSt heinolS
crime are comfitted BY those who r&!!
anl write and are members OF neS.9
churches. He says that me negro Is Il
brute IN the commission OF crime al!
is a crown gxt ziflff kwograw rhamma
is a craven coward after il IS commit
ted and when caught and punished Be
lieyes himself a martyr, anil II he eS-
capes the gallows would repeat MS
crime with 10 sense of wrong Co.ng.H"
has no conception of virtue or truth.
no fear of hell or damnation. but with
the hangman's rope aroUnl his neck Is
going straight to heaven. The author
mildly condemns lynch!ng for certain
outrageS. not because it is cruel &r
illegal. but because it does not deter
He says. howeber. that &c has not yet
found that an innocent man has ever
been lynched. He advocates force as
the only practical remedy for the nc-
ero-forae-control- objection TO the
white race, net il state OF slavery as
before the war, but in one OF fear ana
obedience. He goes still further and
Suggests the determination OF the n
SSe1ior clements Cf the race because ii Is
Yetter 10 have individual eXtermina-
ton than race extinction. But space
forbids more of these anatnemaS ana
the wonder is that the book was writ
ten bv negro OF the north and that
a rspueable publishing house would
chaperon it before northern people and
that a northern editor, who has been
for years and years lampooning the
southern people about the negro.
should now give this book his quasi
Endorsement :,
What does all this mean? We knew
that they did not love the negro at
Akron and Pana, ror n the slums or
New York city, but We thought he was
still safe in the sanctum sanctorum o.
republican cT:,OyS. What is behind
tbs new departure?
An agent las recently been to cur
town distributing sensational c!rularS
about new book just issued in 81.
Louis in which the author assers that
the negro is beast and ne tries 10
prove IL by the 3 bic as well a: by
scientific research. This box is but
revival OF former book call d
Ariel. and published about thirty
wears ago. Il is refreshing OF Old
straw. but seems to be brand new
doctrine up north and has the indor>e-
ment c.. numerous preachers and COL
lege professors. One prea her up II
Maine says that if it had been written
forty years ago there would have been
paSuryo srE ieIuYoN IN lGQl AouE
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front and that no fore negroes will De
appointed TO Office. Is the north
about to abandon the negro and turn
him over 10 the mercy of his former
masters If so. the negro will be th'
gamer. and so will the south. That IS
all we have asked for all the:e years
iust 10 be Let alone They were our ne
LAso.n nnd they nlr