Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-08-13
ARP ROASTS SLEDD.
The Creator Made the Negro inferior
and lie Will Remain So.
No MATTER WHAT IS WRITTEN.
Siedd, Bill Says, Tlust Have Had a
Diseased Imagination When lie
Wrote That Article

ones. If | write that Neptune is sin
teen hundred millions of miles from
the sun and ii comes out in print six
teen millions it worries me- If write
that the doctor sewed up hare lips and
II comes out hair lips. | don't like it.
The type didn't know that a rabbit had
slit under its nose. If | write that |
walked out into the garden to let NV
choier down, meaning my anger. the
typo thinks l meant my shirt collar.
anu so changes the spelling to suit his
own idea. But since | read an editors
defense in New York paper feel bet
ter. for he says it is amazing how few
or these mistakes are made in the great
dailies that have to be rushed through
with lightning speed. The constant
pressure on type settlers and proof
readers is tremendous. but they rarely
make any serious blunders. and the in
telligent readers can generally cor
rect them in his mind. And so | will
not worry any more about il. There are
some other little things that are OF
more consequence just now Our cook
mas quit, and so has the house maid
gone on to Rockmart for week or two
gone TO house party. / think That
is all right, for the cook has been faith
Il
good servant and keeps 4 clean kitchen.
and we have had a house party our
selves for several months. ! have been
sick, but now we are reduced to the
regular family of five and have but lit
tie 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 ho.iiny and then ring the bell for
the girls to get up and finish up the
breakfast. She said that if felt like 1t
might sweep out the hall and the
front veranda and settle UP the front
room. Well, OF course. | had to split
up some kindling and bring in the stove
WOOD, but am getting along fairly wall
and my wife thinks the exercise is
DONG me good. Last night she hinted
that the veranda was badly tracked uD
since the rain and needed a good wash
ing. SO this morning | turned loose
the nose pipe on it and she praised me
right smart and | brought her some
roses from my garden. We let her 3!een
until breakfast is ready, for she cleans
up her room and makes up two beds
and then sews all day for the grand
children. But | want that colored house
party to break up as soon as possible,
for don't banker after this morning
business as regular job Mrs. Mimms
says she likes it, and think she does.
She has a good room in the back yard
and good furniture and a handsome
lamp to read by, and her li.tla grand
son lives with her, and | don't know
or any colored woman that has Il bet
ter time. In fact, 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 a fool
piece for the Boston magazine? What
good can it possibly do, even if it was
true! But 1t is not true and only the
product of a diseased Imagination. |
would write hard things about him but
for his family connections. For their
sake he had better have smothered his
feelings and his pen. The Atlantic
Monthly has never shown any love for
the south, and why he should select
that as his organ passeth comDrehcn-
sion. Professor Sledd says the negro is
an inferior race. Then why does he in
sist that we give him place in our
own churches and hotels and railroad
cars?
1T was the work OF tho Creator that
made him inferior, and he will remain
so-and neither education nor misce-
genation will ever change it so far as
social equality is concerned. Moses yio-
l9ted the law of God when he .mardried
that Ethiopian woman. and ne h adj to dis
card her. and Aaron and Miriam chided
him for it long afterwards Numbers
XII. The story goes. according to Jo-
sephus. that the Egyptians wai'e at war
with the Philippians and had suffered de-
feat in every battle until Pharaoh was
advised that no one could commend his
army successfully but Moses. So Moses
was given command and he marched
with the army to the bordersJ OF ETH
opla and met the enemy and defeated
chem and then marched on to Saba the
royal city, and attacked the wallS and
Tharbis. the daughter or une KING. .1w
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 he
would marry her she would surrender
the city and army to him. Moses agreed
TO this and their marriage was at once
consumamted Then Moses returned
with his victorious army to Egypt He
did not take with him his Ethiopian
wife. but not long after he married
Zipporah. the daughter of Jethro the
Midianite.
So we must suppose that Moses mar
ried the Ethiopian princess as a war
measure and with no idea of keeping
his promise. At any rate it caused
trouble and shame in the family, and so
IL has done ever since whenever a white
nercon inatec with a napro