The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-08-20
ARP BOASTS SLEDD.
The Creator Made the Negro Inferior
and BE VIII Remain So.
NO MATTER WHAT IS WRITTEN.

Sledd, Bill Says, Must Have
Had Diseased ImaSina-
ton When He Wrote
That Article.
Little things fret US more than olg
ones. If l write that Neptune is siX-
teen hundred millions OF miles from
the sun and it comes out in print sin
teen millions it worries me. If l write
that the doctor sewed up hare lips and
it comes out hair lips, l don't like 1t.
The type didn't know that a rabbit
had a slit under it's nose. If write
that I walked out into the garden TO
let my choler down. meaning my an
ger, the typo thinks I meant my shirt
collar, and so changes the spelling to
suit his own idea. But since l read
an editors defense in a New York pa
per 7 feel better, for he says it is
amazing how few Of these mistakes
are made in the great dailies that
have to be rnshed through with light
ming speed. The constant pressure
on type settlers and proof readers is
tremendous, but they rarely make any
serious blunders, and the intelligent
readers can generally correct them IN
his mind. And so I will not worry
any more about it. There are some
other little things that are Of more
consequence just now. Our COOK mas
Quit, and so has the house maid-gone
off to Rockmart for a week or two
gone to a house party, I think. IhaC
IS all right. for the cook has been
faithful a long time and needed rest.
She is a good servant and keeps a
clean kitchen, and we have had house
party ourselves for several months. l
have been sick, but now we are re-
duced to the regular family Of five and
have but little to cook and can get
along on two meals day. My wife
arranged it for me to fire up the stove
and fill up the kettles and grind the
coffee and put on the hominy and
then ring the bell for the girls to get
I'D and finish up the breakfast. Sne
said that if felt like it I might sweep
out the hall and the front veranda and
settle up the front room. Well, OF
course, had to split up some kind
ling and bring in the stove wood, but
am getting along fairly well and my
wife thinks the exercise is doing me
good! Last night she limited that
the yeranda was badly tracked up
since the rain and needed good wash
ing. So this morning turned loose
the hose pipe on it and she praised me
right smart and I brought her some
roses from my garden. We let her
sleep until breakfast is ready, for she
cleans up her room and makes up two
beds and then sews all day for the
grandchildren. But I want that
colored house party to break up as soon
as possible, for I don't banker after
this morning business as a regular
job. Mrs. Mimms says she likes 1t:
and I think she does. She has good
room in the back yard and good furni-
ture and a handsome lamp to read by,
and her little grandson lives with her,
and I don't know Of any colored Wo-
man that has a better time. In fact,
I know of lots Of good negroes in town
who are contented with their situation
and will continue so if they are let
alone by the northern fanatics and
southern crankS.
What craze has come over that man
Sledd to cause him to write such
fool piece for the Boston magazine?
What good can it possibly do, even if
it was true? But it is not true and
only the product of diseased imagina-.
tion. l would write hard things
about him but for his family connec-
tions. For their sake he had better
have smothered his feeling and his
pen. The Atlantic Monthly has
never shown any love for the south.
and why he should select that as his
organ passeth comprehension. Pro-
fessor Sledd says the negro is an in
ferior race. Then why does he in
sist that we give him place in our
own churches and hotels and railroad
cars?
It was the work of the Creator that
made him inferior, and he will remain
so-an6 neither education nor misce-
genation will ever change it so far as
social equality is concerned. Moses
violated the law Of God when he mar
ried that Ethiopian woman, and he
had to discard her, and 1-aron and
Miriam chided him for it long after
wards. Numbers xii. The story goes.
according to JosephuS, that the Egyp-
tians were at war with the Ethiop-
ians and had suffered defeat in every
battle until Pharaoh was advised that
no one could command his army sue
cessfully but Moses. So Moses was
given command and he marched with
the army to the borders Of Ethiopia
and met the enemy and defeated them
and then marched on to Saba, the
royal city, and attacked the walls, and
TharbiS, the daughter of the king,
saw Moses from the window OF her
tower, and he was so handsome that
she fell desperately in love with him
and sent a messenger to him to say
that if be would marry her she would
surrender the city and army to am.
Moses agree to this and their marri-
was at once conSumamted. Then
Moses returned with his victorious
army to Egypt. He did not take
with him bis Ethiopian wife, but not
long after he married Zipporah. the
daughter Of Jethro the Midianite.
G. r,n,,st S11nr10Sn that Moses