Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, May 19, 1910, Image 8
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I A MONUMENT TO "MAMMY."
Roanoke Time*.
From the Washington Post we
learn that somebody proposes to
build at Washington a monument,
to cost a million dollars, to
the memory of the fast vanishing
negro "mammy." Washington
is about the last city in the
country in which such a monument
should be placed. It is
Infested by swarms of insolent,
truculent, loud and offensive
persons who call themselves, we
believe, Afro-Americans, or
some other such fancy stage
name. These are about the only
- .1 . _ A1 __ 1 1 1
people in tne worm vvno can De
called "niters" appropriately
and properly ? "niggers" with a
small n and two hard sounded
gs. They are not negroes. They
have lost or abandoned all the
good qualities of the negro and
retain all the bad and have
taken on all the worst and most
glaring and visible faults of the
white man with none of his
compensating virtues.
Mammy does not belong in
such company. While she was
on earth she would have scorned
it loftily. If she was put on a
pedestal to look over the Washington
outfit it would be hard to
imagine that even in bronze she
could restrain her indignation;
for Mammy always had her
opinions and was ready to express
them. Nobody dared call
her "nigger." Sedate and
dignified gentlemen who are
dominant forces in their communities
had their hides tanned
in early youth for using that
despised word to Mammy or in
her presence and subsequently
fought creditably through four
years of war, never suspecting
that an occasional switching
cowed and degraded them, as
the modern humanitarian and
scientific theoretical experts in
child life tell us it should have
done by all the rules.
Mammy was boss and slave,
but slave chiefly through her
affections. She was a strange
compounding of arrogance and
humility, humble for herself,
arrogant for her place. When
the child was sick none so tender
or so tireless, so patient, so
constantly hovering as if to
guard off death and disease with
her body?hardly even the child's
own mother WVipn pPil<l
was sorrowful none so comforting
or so tolerant; when the
child was bad, none so eager to
protect or so quick to forgive as
Mammy ?and yet in matters of
discipline exemplary and occasionally
terrifying. Her lectures
on standards of deportment
and conduct were brief, in
vernacular, incisive and convincing
and invariably sound.
She was loving, loyal to the core,
adoring, and her adoration of
those to whom she'was attached
was her whole life. She had no
interests but those of the family
and the children and found in
them all the sources of her simple
but well asserted pride. She
was shield and refuge in trouble,
soothed grief and was a friend
unfailing; and in times of joy rejoiced
with sober countenance
but the most elated heart in the
household. As twilight fell
peace descended on her soul,
which grew large and beautiful
with her love for the white child
she held gently to her bosom and
for the God to whose praise was
written the old hymn she softly
crooned in rhythm to the rocking
of her body.
From her lowly place in life
her heart went high, for she
looked ever upward and loved
and believed. Love and faith
were her instinct, her creed and
made all her range of thought?
love ior uoa ana cnnaren and
those immediately about her.
She troubled herself not at ali
with speculations or doubts 01
learning-. She was content tc
serve faithfully and to give hei
devotion undivided, to find hei
happiness in the happiness o)
her people, to believe implicitly
that when she died she would g(
with her own folks to heaven
that the servant would b<
cherished and guarded anc
blessed, always by the Almighty
Maker, that the weary would b<
at rest in a serene peace forever
It could be said of her, as th<
late General Moise said of Wad<
Hamilton's slaves, that the onlj
brand they ever bore was th<
name of their master stampe<
deep on their hearts.
Washington is no place fo
Mammy. We do not know tha
a monument will be built t
her. Much of the best inanhoo<
a nrl urnmonhrw) ftf fho Snnfli f
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the third and fourth generation
is a living monument to he
fidelity ana her care. And th
South has many monuments ye
to build and few dollars to spar
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for them. But is such a monument
is erected anywhere it
should bear the most beautiful,
comprehensive and laconic epitaph"
ever written?that written
hy Father Tabb for his own
Mammy?
"Oh, Power Divine,
"Be thou to her as she to me and
mine."
1765 1910
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
126th Year Begins September 30.
Entrance examinations will be held
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Julv 1. at 9 a. m. All candidates for
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scholarship for each county of South
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