Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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n thet£ two things, we of the South in vite, because of our peculiar con )utherj» negro in his that race collisions in* UNUTVH I r :. The Barnwell Sentinel Owned and published Every Thurs day by The New Sentinel Publish ing J Company at Barnwell, S. X. Chas. Carroll Simms,, President. John K. Snelling, Sec.-Treas, and General Manager. 'J \ / W. M. JONES,Editor. Entered as second class matter, Feb ruary 14, 19106 at the Postoffice Barnwell, S. C., under the Act of j. Congress $i March 3, 1879. ^ Legal advertising at the rate of |il.00 per.inch first insertion and fifty cents each subsequent in sertion. Obituaries, Tributes of Respect, Resolutions of Respect, Cards of Thanks and other reading notices not news will be charged for at the rate of fifty cents per inch or one cent per word, each insertion, with a minimum charge of25 cents. All changes of advertising and all communications must be addressed to The Barnwell Sentinel and must be in this office not later than Tuesday morning to insure publica tion the current issue. All communications must be signal by the writer, not for publi cation, but as an evidence of good faith, and to protect the newspaper. • Subscription Rate*. One yera $1.50. Six months 90c, Three months 50c. la Adveece. In remitting check or money order make payable to The N«« Seatiael PubUakiag Co. AN EXPLANATION All thoughtful people la the South regard leas of race realise that the unreet which of necessity has fol lowed the war must of necessity •how itself in the questions that be long to labor and racial question*. That more unrest is to be soon now than before the war is due to several couses. The period Just following any war is marked by an unrest be cause the soldiers must readjust lives from military to civil life rage of white illiterate* jn -his state is 10.3 of the white popu lation, while the percentage of negro illiterates is 38.7 of the negro popu lation. This means that 49 per cent, or nearly half of the people in South (Carolina must depend on hearsay for all of their knowledge of events. They are entirely at the mer^y of their own ignorance, and the wisdom of their leaders. The real problem with which we are confronted is not s radical one, but illiteracy. Any peiple who can inform them selves as to the questions of the day can always avoid the dangerous lead ership that comes from unwise men or newspapers. We surrender the rest of our editorial space to two editorials which have appeared in The Progressive Farmer, and in The Columbia State. 3 prive extremist agitators among the Negroes of two of their most for midable weapons—and we shall also increase our own self-respect and good conscience. By failing to do ditions, manifestations • of unrest more violent than those which seem certain to disturb the peace of all nations during the years of recon struction now just ahead of fia*—The Progressive Farmer. Advice and Warning—Kindly Meant In editorial correspondence from Washipgton, where he is visiting, to The Journal , of Spartanburg, Maj. J. C. Hemphill whites in regard to the race riot in that city: : “A significant indication cTf the disposition of the leaders of the col ored people of the community is to be found in*the resolution adopted yesterday at a mass meeting of the pastors of the colored churches and other coldred citizens at the Metro politan A. M. E. Church appealing to the President that he request the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy and the Commandant of the Marines to withdraw the leave of all soldiers, sailors and marines in and around the District of Colum bia. This appeal is made on the ground that soldiers, sailors and marines were Tesponsible for ‘(he extreme lawlessness that has been perpetrated upon law abiding coL ored citizens in the District of Co-" lumbia within the last 4H hours.' ” This action of a mass meeting of negroes is, in very truth, “a signifi cant indication.** The white soldiers sailors and marines^ in and around Washington are not' Southern men. They come from every part of the United Suites and, probably, four- fifths of them are from Northern and Western States. The negroes of Washington have no confidence in them. The negroes hold them “re sponsible for the extreme lawless ness that has been perpetrated upon lawabiding colored cititeas.'* the World’s The Negro’. Part in u Unrest. The ferment or unrest which one finds all over the world today has not left the Negro races untouched. There is unrest among them in South Africa and there is > unrest among them here in America Maj. Moton, of Tuskegee says that never before has he seen the Negroes of the South in such bitter mood as now; and many reports that come to us bear out his statement. The re fusal of a Governor of Mississippi to try to protect a Negro from lyhch- - ing can only increase the prevalent dissatisfaction among the Negroes. The efforst in other quarters to re vive the Ku Klux Klan among whites only helps to drive-all Negroes into socalled ^‘protective” organizations now rapidly forming among the blacks. The writer’s father was a- Ku Klux Klan back in the days when carpetbaggers controlled things in the 4 South and some organization like the Ku Klux Klan was necessary to pre serve order. To try to organize the Ku Klux Klan today, ’however, when Southern people make and enforce JpriT own lavfs, ir not only unneces- but in view of the large member- fees proposed, seems to be a I rate attempt.te make money by iting the w history »' V the prejudices of It would be an unfdftugfcte - thing If Negroes generally the pnrihgt of voting t If it be conceded, for the soke of the argument, that the accusation is true, the importance of K be# in its truth and that is what the everywhere would batter Tbe*e soldiers are representative of the masse* of the white people, who err more then 9b per cent of the population of the whole country, uch more representative of their pa«Mon* and prejudices than are the members of Congreea, the politicians and the editors :V As the soldier* feel in respect of a matter of this kind the people feel, too—and we are here discerning, not what the prevailing feeling ought or ought not be. but what it io—what the. ne groes of Washington in their reso lution* have virtually admitted that it is. __ To this condition we are directing attention because there has been going on in this country the last six months an agitation calculated to do incalculable harm. A number of ne gro magazines and newspapers are poisoning the minds of the negroes against the white people. They are printed in Northern cities and sent to the South. We have seen numbers of them and they are filled with in flammatory editorial articles and news stories. Much of £he stuff printed is false or gross exaggeration and some of it, particularly the de scriptions of shameful lynchings, is true.* The drift of most of it is to egg the poor negroes here in the South to violence—a violence from which these writers in New York, Boston and Chicago could not pos sibly suffer, j The better informed negroes in .South Carolina well know that one. of these Northern editors would not dare to come into the South and speak publicly what they write, at a safe . distance. Again, whether that ought to be the case we are not discussing—we are trying to deal with facts. That these efforts to stir trouble are long distance ef forts ought to make the Southerlf ne- goes suspicious of them Three inonths ago a negro maga zine was sent to The State contain ing an especially outrageous article, from the white Southern point of view, and it was suggested that The State reproduce it that the people may be informed of what the North ern negro publications are saying. The State refrained fr<>m reproduc ing it—and has severely let alone other similar Utterances—because it does not wish to say one word that would incite anger against the South ern negroes. Talk about “race war” "aggressive action"—nothing | would be Although, so far as we know, there is no immediate danger of an out- breqk^ we -think the moment has come to speak plainly—however it is with reluctance that all. Every I sense is awari variably have the same result. The whites have all the strength. They have the courts, they have the they have the police—in evei ir^luding numbers if the whole South be considered—they have the power to subdue negro lawlessness or as sertiveness. Moreover, in the army and the navy among the masses of the white people throughout the coun try, as we have said, the feeling is the same.- Race, riots have occured even m that the sentiment of white men is much the! same everywhere. What then are the negroes to do if they be oppressed? We tell tljem that their hope and their only hope is in white men who want to be just. Self respecting white men never in jure negroes who are well behaved ber of those white men is steadily increasing. It will jenlarge the more rapidly jf the negroes do not allow themselves to be misled, but because of the ignorance of many of them they are in constant danger of that. The greatest misfortune that ever befell the negroes of the South was tho sending or coining to them of the carpet-baggers. They are suffering from it to this day. The carpet-bag gers led the negroes astray, cor rupted them, deceived them, raised up Southern white men to be their enemies. But for those infamous •coundrela. the good understanding between the two races might never have been seriously impaired. The carpet-bagger* have long ago departed, but in this day tbeir places is taken by the negro writers in the Northern newspaper*—they who take no chance themselves, but preach through the mails, racial antagonism* For the Southern negroes to listen to them could bring only a repetition of history. hut tbe least tbs & earn da Is te see 1 kite step's 1 Ife as farted tram test teat tetstt • evfCr then to kindle the | fires of hatred against Southern ne- demlrul Heaven knows Unit is H hard the South I enough ‘ to keep that *wt at Ai*y white man J *uppre*ee«L It k a fart that in the the Semth are -* ua Us eieet am te start |«q slsi tfcme mi tao Finally, we remind those negroes who are discontented that they are not condemned te Irve in the South. If they do not like what they are getting in the South they ran go •••y. | Fifty year* ago they were poor and could not go—hut they have money now and there are trains run ning to all points North. There k net one owning land or other prop erty who can not dispose if it at a j profit at this time. The white men whe are aot satisfied in South Caro lina go elsewhere and the same right and opportunity are before the ne groes. It is scarcely a day’s journey te the Mason and Dixon Line or to ! the Ohio River. We repeat that the disposition to treat the negroes justly and even generously, is steadily growing id South Carolina and in the South, but is is best for all concerned that it be said candidly and plainly that no swift or general change in matters of government as they affect the rela tions between the races will come to pass. The State will perserve in condemning lynching and will strive to influence public opinion against wrong to the negroes. But power in the hands of white men will be main tained.—The State. MONEY to LOAN Loan made same day application received. No Red Tape. Harley & Biatt Attorneys at Law — Barnwell. S. C. Ready Money to Lend ON EASY TERMS V. 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