The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-14

truth on this theme
AS to social equality, to which you
allude in manner which greatly
regret, let me sa7 that If you regard
it as mere bogey uf the whites OF
the South, do not. 1t is real dan
ger, or a reality, if you like the word
better. nave seen Two Republican
Governors entertaining negroes, male
and female, at their houses, in draw
ing rooms and at tables. That is
what l call social equality. What do
you call it? 1t will happen again, tco,
if the negroes ever return to power.
I say nolhirg now Of the right or
wrong Of i0, but since you treat it as
a mere chimeia, I take leave % in
form you that it is a very hard fact.
To my views oa lynchilg you give
an entire editorial article. You call
my attitude 'apologetic,' a gross in
justice to me for which you have no
excuse. I wrote the Bryce lettsr
principally to say what l did about
lynching. | will not traverse Ia de-
tail what you say in reply, farther
than 20 reiterate all l there SAID, ana
to add, in no diSrespectful spirit, tnaU
the trouble with you, especialiy y on
this point, is that yoa have cnly, IN
the words uf The News and Courier,
"a plentiful lack OF knowledge" OF tae
subject on which you preach and dog
matiZe.
Now will you allow me to say
word here in response to the note OF
MI. Moorield Storey in your issue OF
the 10th inst? Mr.. Storey knows al
ready, hope, that l hold him in the
highest regard. For his character,
his opinions and his conduct have
as much respect as for those Of any
man know anywhere.
Mr.. Storey puts to me what I am
bound to suppose he regards as per.
tinent quesJion-why, If the negro is
hopelesSly inferior, do the whites fear
the effect of education? Why do they
struggle, he asks, against his progress
upward. Ny answer is a double one
first, the whites Of the South do not
struggle to hiader the negro's progress
upward; they do just the opposite;
second, the whites OF the South be-
lieve, as much as does MIR. Storey or
as DO yo1, in education for the negro.
They do not believe, nor do l, in the
sort OF education New England for the
most part has given him, as seen no
tably at Beaufort AMI Hilton Head,
S. C.-today the mCst progressive
spots in the South, so far as the ne
groes are concerned, but the spots
where education of the kind which l
suppose Mr.. Storey believes in has
been uninterruptedly applied by
Northern teachers for full forty-two
years! Let him go there with me
and will show him how little he
knows Of the point on which be calls
me and the South to account. Man
of man, do not see how we OF the
North, or particularly OF New Eng
land-such men as you and Mr.. Storey
and I-are better than the people OF
South Ca. olina or Alabama. They
worship the same Gcd, read the same
Bible, repeat the same prayers, keep
the commandments as well as we 90,
if these be your tests. They have, in
fact, one great quality which / think
puts them higher than most Of US. 1
mean the high, almost higest, great
ouality-fortitude-the q1ail5y which
Burke had in mind when be Wrote
this memorable sentence: They on
ly can aspire to act greatly who are Ct
force greatly to suffer" OF this force
the Southern people have given the
last full proofs. WITH our slight, per
haps no, knowledge OF the peculiar
problem put upon such a people, nust
we go On foever distrusting, denounc-
ing, criticising unkindly, If not cruel
", such a people? They have their
faults, no debut; but, for my part, /
am proud Of them for countrymen,
and I am ready to trust them with
any problem they may meet. And
when I say let them alone, I do not
mean, let them alone to do wrong or
cruelty to the negro, but lst them
alone to DO the best that, in their tet-
ter judgment, can be done for him
far more and better than we can do, a
thousand or two miles off,
This, I suppose, will entitle me to
be called again Extraordinary" at
least by Mr. Storey and the Springfield
Republican.
I endorse every word OF Mr.. Storey
when he asserts that 1T is clear that
the South shouts give the negro the
best education possible" Up to the
full limit OF its ability, the South is
doing it to-day. Mr.. Storey, give US
your bill Of particulars; make your
implied and express charges more de-
finite and certain, in the phrase OF
our profession. Till you do 81, I can
only put il my general denial and ask
Judgment on the insufticiency OF your
complaint.
When Mr.. Storey allies me with the
men of the South who insist that
the negro is incapable OF being raised
by any education to an equality with
the white man" be does me an injus-
tice. hope the negro can be raised
to respectable degree Of good sepse,
good capacity for work and service for
the white man as well as for himself.
His lot is and will be to serve, in no
degraded conditions, but for full CON-
pensation and with fair treatment,
the superior race, expect no more.
This assertion will, I fear, give new
appropriateness in Mr.. Storey'S mind
as well as the minds Of others, to the
epithet Extraordinary" applied to
my Bryce letter-an epithet which
seems a favorite one with many Of
my critics, but one OF which do net
complain. Once 1 did not think SO;
make the mcSt of that, as you are
sure to do. But do you and MIR.
Storey imagine that am going to