The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-04-02


ing to the world tnat in the veins O
Sout Carolina there flowed the high
est type of Ang,o-Saxon fortitude; tha
under insult they could be calm; tha
! under injuries they could bide thell
time. They made history in thosG
days; history that awakens prouC
memories, and, in the words Of Ber
Hill, l think it was, "A land Wit-ou
memories is a land without history
land that wears laurel crown may
he fair to see; but twine a @ew sac
Spress leaves around the brown o-
~ land, barren, beautiful and bleak
becomes lovely in its coronet o.
row and it wins the sympathy OF
Tnes heart and of history Crowns ol
roses fade, crowns Of thorns endure
Calvaries and crucifixions take deep
est hold of Ilumanity-the triumphs
of might are transient-b1ey pass and
are soon forgotten. and the sufferinss
of Sat are craven deepest on the
chronicle of nations
But we will pass on to tie time when
patience had begun to do its perfect
work, when "after the night We had
''uhe sunrise of morn when in that
glorious year of 1876 our people felt
that patience had ceased to be a vir-
tue; when they felt that they could
no longer be robbed under the guise
of taxation, for it was beginning to
mean confscation; w1en they resolved
to brush aside every obstacle and come
into possession OF their own; when
they felt that longer to submit would
be dishonorable; when they intended
to nave control of the affairs of their
own State Or live under martial law;
when tie red-shirt Democracy, under
the lead of Wade Hampton, swept the
State from Greehville to Georgetown.
Oh! the glory of the enthusiasm Of
that year, when every man and boy
had something to do for the cause Of
w3ite supremacy and good govern
ment-and how he did it How again
the fair women cheered and encour-
aged and helped in uhe good work, ana
when at last the fight was over, and
the victory Won the white rascals and
renegades, VITO had boasted that there
were still five years OF good stealing
in South Carolina" unwilling without
the aid Of their standby, the federal
soldiers, to face the people whom they
had jillaged and robbed, fed from the
borders of the State and sought refuge
in some quiet spot Wi ere t1ey could
not be molested by their former enc
mics, and left their former allies, the
poor negroes, to face their troubles
alone and account to their white fel-
low. citizens for their stewardship
Their condition was pitiable, real
izing that those M-o ad reaped the
benefit. of their work ard encouraged
them to steal and who professed such
love and friendship for them, and had
betrayed them and deserted them
t-ey were down earted and dispirited.
South Carolinians once more showed
TO the world their greatness; they
showed how they could be generous,
now kind they could be to the crea-
lures who had been used against them
as instruments of humiliation and tor
ture
And as soon as the affairs of govern
ment were firmly in their hand, they
set about to do their part in solving
the great race problem, the greatest
problem any people ever had to solve.
The way they Lave handled this |
question is now a matter of recent |
history. They have given to the negro
the position he deserves-they tax |
themselves to advance him in a ma
terial way, they provide schools and
colleges for his intellectual and man
ual training They protect his rights
under the law. In short, they allow
him all the privileges it is safe for
the superior race to allow to the in
ferior race dwelling in it's midst. If
any lesson Las been taught to both the
whites and the blacks in this State,
it is that the negro is not, and never
shall he, the white mans equal and
that this is a white mans government
and always shall be- That is well un-
derstood, and it is well tnat it is.
In speaking of the period from 1851
to 1876, some one has said, and it is.
true, that the South needs McCaulay
and Scott, an historian and poet,
TO- give to posterity a true record of
the people and to sing of their vir-
tues. After '76 the people who in a
business way had their affairs para