Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-11-07

strated repeated. his fidelity to the
restored union aud had shown his
Willingness to serve his country in
the field when the emergency arose,
he was deemed unworthy of conf
dence in questions affectingt the negro.
He was told to observe the law, when
the law was unable TO save him or,
what was thousand times more i'm
por.ant, to save the dearest thing on
enrth to him--his women. He was
told to contain himself, to be patient
and await the results of long. distance
northern theorizing.
Meantime he was surrounded by a
dense mass of ignorant negroes fast
forgetting what little of self-control
had been inherited from former
generation which had been trained
to respect the white man and honor
the white woman and rapidly return
ing to state of brutal savsgery,
every day degenerating, as a whole,
morally, and becoming an increasing
menace to civilization. Upon this
vicious, ignorant, debased horde, the
puny schemes of race elevation were
as snowfakes falling into the seeth-
ing ocean. Still the Southern whites
protested, warned and implored, but
Northern sentimentality was proof
against the natural appeals of race,
the ties of kinship and the dictates
Of nature.
Now it has at length come to pass
that the deluge has broken and this
problem, long in the brewing of the
malign factors, must be effectually
settled not alone by the South, but
the North as we'll. We have had
enough of terorizing, temporizing,
philosophizing, it is time to act.
Northern people are not generally
aware of the fact, but it is neverthe-
less true, that the state of the mass
of negroes in the South is so debased,
30 utterly, hopelessly, fearfully lack
ing in moral conceptions that there
exists in many Southern States con-
dition which this or any other re-
spectacle journal would not dare de-
scribe except in the most genial
terms, 80 loathsome and shocking
would the details be if truly and
plainly stated.
White women and children are
not safe; they cannot walk uu-
guarded in the streets of the cities
even in the day time. At night the
doors must be locked and windows
barred, and the revolver must be
ready at hand if the black assailant
is to be kept out. In many portions
of the black belt the family of the
white man lives in constant state
of siege; fate worse than death
awaits its members if they dare relax
their vigilance for an hour. North
ern people do not know the truth
and their journals are not enlighten-
ing them. The South, for very shame,
is 10th to let the facts be known, but
a residence of even few weeks in
any portion of the country where the
ignorant negro population is con-
gested will convince the most skepti-
cal that this hideous danger is always
imminent and very real.
The crime of stealing is the very
least of the negro's offenses against
Southern society. The whites of the
South have long since ceased to ex-
poet that he will respect the rights
of property. Larceny is looked upon
as joke. AS well might one expect
the leopard to change its spots as the
Southern negro TO refrain from steal
ing. 1t is possible to protect against
: this comparatively minor offense it
is the hideous crimes, the unspeaka-
BILE horrors that are the real menace.
, Against these the law is powerless
, because it recognizes no punishment
adequate to the offense. 1t can de-
, wise nothing that will prevent the
recurrence, and the harm done is
. irreparable.