Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-04-27

John Sharp or :
~ Williams. HaISSIsSIPPI

Jefferson or his family. The gentle
man from Missouri knows that.
That book was published after the
apostle whom the gentlemen say ]
worshIp-Mr. Jefferson---was dead
when it did not lie within his power
to deny it. There is no man here
that does not know, as q matter of
common sense, that no Southern
planter and slave owner ate dinner
with a negro. Now if any of you
want toSeat lunch with any negroes,
or red Indians, or diggers, or Chinese,
or Japanese, or with anybody else
you want to, that is your privilege !;
not,a very high privilege, but, at any
rate, yours.
"But is it not our privilege to have
our opinion of itp
"Provided you do not dine with
negroes ostentatiously and arrogantly,
as if to teach the poor sbenighted
people of the barbarous South an
object lesson in the higher civiliza-
tion,' it is your affair. When you
come to do it in that way, you are
little bit passing beyond your own
social privileges.
SOUTH KNOWS IT'S DUTY.
"Now, ! want to say a few more
words and l am done, and l ask that
| have time TO finish those few words.
The gentleman from Kansas has said
something about 'lifting up the negro
race l say the gentleman from
Kansas is right. Unless he is lifted
up the entire country in which he
lives is going down to a certain ex-
tent, and it is well for the white
race to know-and | am satisfied
that the white race down South
knows-its duty and appreciates it's
duty. They must be lifted up; but
do you imagine that while we are
lifting them up upon the ladder of
progress from one rung to another
that we are going to remain upon the
rung whore they are-to which they
have been liftedf
us there man here who knows any
thing about breeding of cattle, horses,
or men who is not aware of the fact that
race traits aud tendencies are lust as
ineradicable as color of skin or the nature
of the hairP One is an outward and
visible sign of which the other is the in.
ward and spiritual reality. We are going
to lift them up with giants strength,
but we are not going to treat them like q
giant, brutally or irrationally. We are
going to lift them up gently, conserva-
lively, sanely, without danger to society
Or to civilization. We have lifted them
up.
,UGD to dow ~ 20 ,,o,, hol 49, r,
in 1865 you could have gone then, when
the darkey had just emerged from slavery
to his old home in Africa, and compare
him here with himself there. per
sonally have the kindest feeling toward
him. l am man who is popular with
darkies, and am glad of it. / am popu-
lar with them because L treat them we'll.
But If you had gone back to- that date
evcn and then compared the colored man
who had been raised in the United States
by Southern white people in a condition
OF slavery with those from whose midst
he was taken from the Guinea and Congo
coast OF Africa, and all over Africa, you
would have discovered this: A greater
race of progress toward something like
civilization, or at any rate veneering of
civilization, upon the part of the negro
in three hundred years than any other
people ever made from state of savagery
and barbarism in state of freedom even.
do has not progressed, morally at least,
80 rapidly since emancipation.
A REMARKABLE DIFFERENCE.
II want to notice one thing said by
the gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr.
Gillett,) and then shall sit Gown. The
gentleman from Massachusetts the other
day said he did not deny the existence
OF race prejudice in the North as well as
in the South and he was right in that,
the only difference being, as nearly as
can get at it, that in the North when race
prejudice Is aroused it takes it's ven-
geance upon the entire negro race in it's
neighborhood, and when aroused in the
South 1T takes its vengeance on the par
ticular singled-out individual-upon the
criminal. There is not single instance
OF the burning of negro quarters in a
Southern town. There is not an instance
of running amuck against the entire
African population. There have been
many in the North, one quite recently.
"fhe gentleman used the phrase, race
prejudice in both sections of the coun-
prejudice say that it is q conclusion
of experience arrived at enductively
wherever the white race has been faced
by another race in sufficient numbers to
necessltate arriving at conclusion. He
said he did not deny the existence of
prejudice, but he said what he disliked
about us was that we were not 'discour-
aging its existence. He said it was 'un-
Fortunate Right there want to take
issue with him. The Spaniards did not
share our prejudice in the West Indies
or in Central America or in Mexico.
The Portuguese did not share it in Brazil.
THE English-speaking man as a race
had it everywhere he went, and had he
not had it in eleven great States of this
Union, to-day there would be hybrid
lied population, disintegrated social
condition, and lack of civilization,
of racial capacity for the highest civiliza-
ton which exists to-day in the West
Indies and in Mexico, and wherever the
white man has forgotten the pride of his
birthriGht and forgotten that he was
white man, in the forefront of civiliza-
tion and in the forefront of the march of
time. with full determination to carry
out the work that God has given him to
do as race, superior mentally and
morally to all the other races the world
has ever seen, q race whose Shakespeares
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