Year: 1872

lows were drinking and carrying on he put up
where we were going and had never seen the
woman before. II we was Ku Klux l didn't
ne Wouldn't knOw none up Of our u.s.
took the woman out into the woods where
there about two hours with hickory rods. saw
that they were going to Kill the woman, and got
uneasy about It, After awhile they asked her II
she recognized anybody in the crowd and she
named TWO men. Then they drew their pistols,
and, although begged them not to kill her, they
shot her several times through the head That
little fellow you saw with me up stairs was one
who fired his shooter into her. Iwill plead guilty
was way for me TO get out OF this scrapc"


After this interview was Obliged to give over


said to s1e Ms Marshal awhat viii be % the punish
mens 8, OF saese fellows for burning up one woman
J. Well" said he, "about six years. im9rison
| ment."


| could not help thinking that II white people
had been the victims there would have been no
gratitude and considerable resentment.
| In old days people were lond OF predicting the
terrible consequences OF emancipation. Rapine,
insurrection, amalgamation and famine were i'm
mediately to come about. The facts have been the
| other way. The one comprehensive crime OF the
| free negro has been


PIG AND CHICKEN STEALING.


| His offences against the person during the past
| seven years all over the south could be written on
qure OF fooscap. The outrages can all be carried
| in one head. During the war, when all the able
bodied white men were at the lront the negro,
with more. more gratitude than resentment, was





women and children. at home. On the
other hand it has taken $4,000 pages Of
Ku Klux alone. The negro is undoubtedly a nui-
sance in the light OF our Caucasian prcjudlces North
and South. The most charitable OF us would like
him better If he had white skin. He has discour-
aging influence upon immigration into the south;
but ne Is what ne Is ana the years are 1 sf within
he was the only legitimate source OF revenue and
productlon.the corner stone OF an imperial system
which should intimidate mankind and prevail over
| 1t. There he iS-the same In numbers, sinew and
corporeai force. 1t is not the problem OF the South
what to do with him, but what lie shall do with
himself The first necessity lies with the white
man TO set the example OF personal labor. tone
OF univeral queruousness, which is symptom
OF the want Of healthy nature, is heard all over
the south ON the subject OF the darkey


to eat on my place." lace; said an unusually robust
Georgian to me. "rhe negroes take everything


AS had heard q similar remark made several
hundred times l thought would ask tins much
plun1dered man more minutey about @ It;


"How many pigs do you raiser said |.
| "Nigh on to two hundred"


chow many do the negroes stealf"


| "We miss nigh on to twenty hogs"


| One Is tempted to wish that the negroes had got
even a larger allowance OF pork, Judging from the
stations and hotels in the Gulf States Boiled hog
and hard water seemed to be perpetually before
water of itself had an inevitable stomach ache in
| It, which the hog was sure to precipitate. There
Is no doubt that the gre tss y - "a raider
OF too much land and q universal antipathy among
the whites to putting up fences.


| sit would be political banishment," sa!d Gov
ernor Smith, of Georgia, '.ior any public man to
agitate for fence and stock law IN this State. The
land lies open and the stock run loose that the
darkey Is always close to temptation The pas
| sion to sav
| KEEP IMMENSE TRACTS OF LAND
Is more OF mistake In the SOUTH 1t is nearly
vice, because IT tightens and hardens the social
impulses, and It will inevitably carry tens OF thou
a few weeks ago at Shipping Point, on tGe VIZ.
ginia side OF the Potomac and man told me that
900 in that neighborhOod at the request OF
| the expelled Asatians. Fifteen thousand acres
had been OBTAINED, when the large virginia lana
owners round about made a combination to keep
the foreigners out.


1--WE don't want them here, said these gentry;


to be cultiyating the ground in little patches aud
controlling all the 0nices."


1t is hard to believe that such story can be
true OF men o! ordinary human sagacty Many OF
the Southern States have sent agents to Europe to
induce emigration, but found the crudest notions
prevailing in the South as to the whole scope and
nature OF immigration. Most OF the people conceive
the immigrant to be some kind OF beast, who will
be substitute OF the negro and work not for him
SELF but for them-the old residents. 1t is unneces-
sary to say that no such man exists whose services
viii be worth the Inc, price % Of his passage money:
newcomers who would exercise any influence,
and a man is called stranger In the South who
| tnuous emigration Is never led by mere brutes,
but by men OF faculties and audaclty VINO go ahead
unanimously settled BY lawyers lrom Virginia,
North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and so much
! litigation followed In consequence tnat the Whole
State was pastered three deep with conflicting
titles or the same class is much OF the present i'm
migration to Texas, which is the only healthy tide
of movement in the whole South. II the Texas
people were TO turn back every lawyer and politi-
clan they would merely pe repeating what the
| people from Virginia to Louisiana DO now with
| Northern men. The social closeness OF old society
| inevitably drives every Northern man, though OF
the best Intentions, right into carpet-baggers'
/ hands Who cares to immlgrate iuto region where
his wife Is not called upon and where the everast
ing and remorseless topics OF the hour are politics
and the negro. A gentleman IN Atlanta SAID to
me


| "OUR WOMEN


have carried their feelings too far, and we have
| lost many good man who might have acted with
| us and spent his money amongst us because we
@ ieit desire re to % take Such such man up to my house,
but am deferred by the lear that my daughters


10 great degree the fact is true that Northern
women get no hospitality at all in the Gulf States.
The Northern settler can have daily dealings in
business and cOnab with the men of the place, but
at the coming OF night curtains are drawn and the
settler feels that he is still stranger. felt
! ness to see these sury conditions amongst people
the constant remark amongst Northern men Of
''the South Will never come to anything until the
old generation dies off," while the Southerner Is
equally certain that the only solution will be to
eXpel the carpet-baggers and remove the negroes
back to Africa. The most


GIGANTIC PIECE OF STUPIDITY
which any people ever entertained is that OF the
Colonization Society, to remove the only labor and
the most coasonant labor out OF the South after IL
has been brought there At irightful expense and
trained and civilized, merely to carry out pOliti
cal prejudice without particle OF moral science or
pubic necessity in it. 1t can be established that
there is no real discord between the native whites
and blacks by the fact that the democratic Legsla-
ture OF Alabama prefers and proposes to elect
negro to the United states Senate to defeat Par
sons Spencer. Parsons has lived thirty-two
! years in Alabama. and would be an honor TO the
Spencer Is a genuine carpet-bagger, but he is
man Of amiable nature, and the amount OF
| hate which Is turned upon him is out
OF proportion to his orensiveness. Still, when
democratic Legislature votes soldy Tor negro to
go to the Senate it may be Inferred that to eat
| crow has got to be luxury. One Is everywhere
struck In the South with the courteous and gentle
natures OF many OF the native people, and it is
! with difficulty that tourist can oyerieap their
gracious behavior 10 look beyond 1t at an array OF
! Iacts which must be met and exhibited to do any
good there The trouble which exists IN the South
! has all grown up since the war; When the South