The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1903-06-19
and that is where they had the advan-

tage of the poor whites. Most all OK
the family servants could read, not
withstanding there was a law forbid
ding their being taught. Shackles ana
chains, Where is my grindstone and
my rake and my AK? The negro, espe-
cially those of the copper colored typo
q don't mean mulattos) are natural
born mechanics. We had in Georgia
more negro carpenters, blacksmiths
and shoemakers than there were
whites of the same trade. This kind
of mechanics are all over the state
now, but they didn't come from 1us-
kegee. For several years | have been
looking for laboring graduate OF
that school or any other negro school,
but have not found one. A New YORK
friend told me not long ago that L
could find 50 of them as walters in one
hotel in New York city. That is all
right. The money for their education
came from up there and we can spare
the whole turnout. Just emerged
from bondage and ignorance and were
a thousand years behind the white
race when their shackles were Knocked
Off" Oh. my country! where is my
rrinGstone? Before those imaginary
shackles were knocked off cur slaves
were so obediert and lawabiGing we
did not need q prison, and now there
are 4.i00 in the chain gangs of Georgia.
Wonderful progress! With all their
education they are meaner. lazier,
dirtier and ten times more immoral in
their domestic relations than ever be-
fore. And yet some southern editors
boast of their acquisition of property
and run il up in the millions. Of course
there are some good and some thrifty
negroes who have made money. hut
they are not five per cent. of the masses.
One negro in this town is worth more
money than all the rest. The cities
are full of yagabonds who play craps
and steal and snatch purses from wom-
en- and burglarize houses and keep
women and children in state of con-
slant alarm. Stealing is as much
race trait with them as it is among
the Bedowin Arabs. Where are my
young pigeons and what becomes of
No. our editors are too young to real
ize the difference between now and
then. Why. my faithful man servant
Tip could tell them more about slavery
than they all know. Did l ever whip
Tip? No. never. | never thought of
such thing. l never whipped but one
of my negroes. My wife's father.
hun re6
and never heard of him whipping one
of them He had one very bad negro
who got mad and run away and stayed
in the woods month out of spite. and
when he got tired and came home the
old Judge drove him off again and told
him to stay in the woods. that he
didn't want him any more. but he final
~ begged his way back and gave no
more trouble. Chains and shackles!
I wonder where Gen. Grant was when
Mr.. Lincoln knocked them off of his.
There are many kinds of chains. but
the chains of slavery We're not to he
compared with the chains of the chain
gang or the chains of matrimony that
many poor wife is suffering from.
Now let us near no HoTe duout
shackles nor about the negro being
thousand years behind the white man.
The truth is the oid-time negro was
morally thousand years ahead of the
rascals up north who brought him
here in slave ships and sold him TO us
because they could not use him at
home But the Lord is mercifui and
we had rather endure the negro than
listen to northern ISLANDERS. They
have just found a mares nest. If it
has taken them 40 years to realize their
folly. how long will it take them to pay
us for what they swindled us out of?
Where is my grindstone? 1t was an
unshackled niger that stole it and the
folks that unshackled him ought to
pay for it-Bill Arp. in Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Truthful II Not Poetic.
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