Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-12-15

their old, faded dresses. Yesterday a
black driver struck white child of six
with his whip, and when the mother
protested, she was arrested by negro
policeman, taken before a negro mag
istrate, and fined $40 for insulting a
freedman
Stoneman frowned: Such things
must be very exceptional"
They are everyday occurrences and
cease to excite comment Lynch. the
lieutenant governor, who has bought
a summer home here, is urging this
campaign of insult with deliberate pur-
pose"
The old man shook his head. II
can't think the lieutenant governor
guilty of such petty villainy."
Our school commissioner" the doctor
continued, "is a negro who can neith-
er read nor write. The black grand
Jury last week discharged a negro for
stealing cattle and indicted the owner
for false Imprisonment. No such rate
Of taxation was ever imposed on a CIV
ilized people. A tithe of 1t cost Great
Britain her colonies. There are 5000
homes in this county-2,900 of them are
advertised for sale by the sheriff to
meet his tax bills. This house will be
sod next court day"
Stoneman looked up sharply. sold
for taxes?"
Yes; with the farm which has al
ways been Mrs. Lenoirs support. In
part her loss came from the cotton tax.
Congress, in addition to the desolation
Of war, and the ruin Of Black rule,
has wrung from the cotton farmers of
the south a tax Of $67,0O0,OOO. Every
dollar Of this money bears the stain of
the blood of starving people. They are
ready to give up, or to spring some
desperate scheme Of resistance"
The old man lifted his massive head
and his great jaws came together with
a snap:
Resistance to the authority Of the
National Government"
mo: resistance to the travesty of
government and the mockery Of civili-
zation under which we are being throt-
tied! The bayonet is now in the hands
Of brutal negro militia. The tyranny
Of military martinets was child's play
to this. AS I answered your call this
morning l was stopped and turned
L., h,, hn ri q
company Of negroes under the COM
mand of a vicious scoundrel named Gus
who was my former slave. He is the
captain of this company. Eighty thou
sand armed negro troops, answerable to
o authority save the savage instincts
IF their officers, terrorise the state.
Every white company has been disarm-
ed and disbanded by our scalawag gov
ernor. tell you, sir, we are walking
on the crust of a volcano!-"
Old Stoneman scowled. as the doctor
rose a"d walked nervously to the win
low and back.
AN appeal from you to the con-
science of the north might save u.s." he
went on. eagerly. BLACK hordes of
former slaves with the intelligence of
children and the instincts of savages,
armed with modern rifles parade daily
in front of their unarmed former mas
ters. A white man has no right ne
gro need respect. The children of the
breed of men who speak the tongue OF
Burns and Shakespeare, Drake and
Raleigh, have been disarmed and made
subject to the black spawn of an Afri-
can jungle! Can human flesh endure 1t?
When Goth and Vandal barbarians
overran Rome, the negro was the slave
Of the Roman empire. The savages OF
the north blew out the light of Ancient
Civilization. but in all the dark ages
which followed they never dreamed the
leprous infamy of raising black slave
to rule over his former masteri Nc
people in the history Of the world have
ever before been so basely betrayed, sc
wantonly humiliated and degraded"
Stoneman lifted his head in amaze
ment at the burst of passionate inten-
sity with which the southerner poured
out his protest.
For a Russian to rule a Pole" he
went on, "a Turk to rule a Greek, ol
an Austrian to dominate an italian, Is
hard enough, but for a thick-lipped
fiat-nosed, spindle-shanked negro
exuding his nauseating animal odor
to shout in derision over the
hearths and homes of white men ant
women is an atrocity too monstrou:
for belief. Our people are yet dazet
by its horror. My God! when they real
ize its meaning, whose arm will b'
strong enough to hold them?"
Il should think the south was suf'
ficiently amused with resistance to au
thority" interrupted Stoneman.
Even so. Yet there is moral force
at the bottom of every living race o
men. The sense of right, the feeling
of racial destiny-these are unconquer
able forces. Every man in South Car
olina today is glad that slavery is dead
The war was not too great price TO
US to pay for the lifting of it's curse
And now to ask a southerner to be tn
slave of a slave"
And yet, DOCTOR" said Stoneman
coolly. manhood suffrage is the on
eternal thing fixed in the nature o
Democracy. 1t is inevitable"
"At the price of racial life? Never!
said the Southerner, with fiery empha
sis. This Republic is great, not b,
reason of the amount of dirt we pos
sess, the size of our census roll, or Ou
voting register-we are great becaus
of the genius of the race of pionee
white freamen who settled this CONT
nent, dared the might of kings, an
made a wilderness the home of Free
dom. Our future depends on the pur
ity of this racial stock. The gran
of the ballot to these millions of semi
savages and the riot of debaucher
which has followed are crimes agains
human progress"
Yet may we not train him." ask
ed Stoneman.
ITO a point, yes. and then sink t
his level If you walk as his equal /