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f • w. L The / v ■•A VOL- XXIV- ‘ > BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. MARCH H, 1901. NO- 2g THE AIOERSON UBOR CONTRACTS. Thirteen Men Are To Be Indidted. “Free Laborers” Were Treated As Convicts. OVERSEERS AND GUARDS SHACKLED AND CRUfiL- . LY BEAT THEM. •' # 0 * * [The special committee of the grand jury of Anderson County, appointed to investigate the labor contract* used by certain parties in that county, together with the abuses to negro laborers under them, recommended the indictment of thirteen men for cruel treatment of laborers and convicts, and also the in dictment of Magistrate J. J. Gilmer for misappropriating court fees. The anm which it is charged tliai Gilmer appropriated is small, hardly more than fifty dollars. His case is of small importance beside that of the other ibii teen men who are indicted. The finding of the committee was as follows :j A special correspondent of The State wriUe as follows from Anderson in ad vance of the report to the grand jury : From time to time for the 1 aat year or two a word has been dropped here and there about the "cinch” that An derson* farmer had in labor, but 00 in- vertlgalion baa ever before been made and the matter did not obtain iodg- it in the public mind. Anderson is of Ute moat eoligbUoed counties in the Stats and liar negroes are supposed to be ae iaulligeat as aay la the "up country”—much mors en lightened than those living la the lower belt of cenaliee. When, therefore, a the Legislature, *heu *oum one ashed Hon Joshes Ashley hew the farmers ity, and he “ We IM 'eat,"* hliflaBaw taw- bat gas* an weight to ra. The Aral time that the gnat me of ‘■shivery” la Aa< rare was brought t» puhhr atteatiua la a sertous meaner vaa daring a dehate la the tagwiatur* let. A bill iBlTodrwad by John F. lieabs use sa lt pee sided lee eub- sieriors af the )Uf%» u»w eeuteucee af ihiri) ft 1 as hard Mar lee J of agmuhaiml | wee defended ftrpraaeauiire the eaiy colored , made his tiel auruest op It was Mended MaUea ae lhas ed- ul cesdd bo indicted the eagre wouM hare rt. It wea unjust It wee st the* pesat that J. ti. Wei* I hag, af FetrAald, e large farmer, touh , the Aunt. He opposed the big N'o mere ieu* were seeded to eaferrv labui There wee a gra** guau be right er wrung uf these As made w same eouauee 1 they were wrong, t eatiaaiug, Mr. 1 Woi.iug said "I have heva n-.-l tael la Aadetuoa i'uanly the evil of the eye-' teat Is so eiteaalve and pn>ueuacvd | that men are art sally bought sad sold on • he streets of the cunt t house town ” Mr. Ashley sprang to hie feet and' iui rejoiaivr, v ^ people "tit Anderson were ee 1 ss there were anywhere la the world. Mr. K. B. A. Kobtnsoo, of Aodereoo, declared that Mr. Woi- ling was tailing what wae not true nod that be knew it. It seemed for a few momenta as if the represents!tees would come to blows. However, they were padded and Mr. WolUng said be had not intended wounding the feel ings of representatives of Anderson, but a member 6f the Anderson delega tion was hi* iufoimant and authority, and he believed bis statement to l»e true. The vote on the resolution was G4 in ita favor and 42 against, but it required H4 to pass such a measure providing for a constitutional amendment, so it failed. In making ita preeentment at the regular term of court three weeks ago the grand jury of Anderson said: "We have made special Investigation of the labor coatract system which prevails to a large extent in this county and have found on record a number of contracts in which laborers have agreed to work under guards and be locked up at night, receiving practically the same treatment as convicts. "Our information is that these con tracts are not confined to those places where convicts are worked and where stockades exist but have in come in- stances been executed to land owners who do not work convicu. To what extent tha provisions of these con tracts have been enforced we have been, ao far, ntable to ascertain. If strictly enforced they have led to a vio lation of the law which should at once be end041. To the end, therefore, that a fall investigation should be made and the law vindicated, we have appointed a committee, consisting of R. A. Sulli van, J. B. Leverelt, J. 8. McFall, J. T Millford and E. B. Hall, and ask that your honor give them foil power to •wear and examine witnesses, to bom- pel the production of such papers as may be necessary, with tbs ptivllega of visttiog without bindiancs tbs stock- ados in this county and of having ae* oaaa la and eoafcinng whh ail labotart who are or ara aaapaeaad of a fall investigation and report Ibe same, together with the evidence taken at the special session of the court which is or. deredUt be held on March 7 next,” Later in the week the Uisl of A. IT. Newell, a farmer, for the murder of Will Hull, a negro laborer, impressed the mailer ao forcibly upon iba judge's miml that be took vigorous action, and made a charge to the grand jury that waa an eloquent and almost pathetic address, and for which he baa been tooimended m every quarter of the State. It developed daring the trial that Newell wee a cot loo planter and was oae cf the dosea private person* to whom the Mate la still leeain n * hsr sur plus convicts -those not employed la the hosiery factory within the walla of the penitentiary, or on (he big {Male farms, that IIaU wee not a eoavtet. bet wee a contract laborer, that a short Urns before he Wes billed Le had left NeweU'e slur had* and gene bock to his home to see be* wife and child rr a; thm Newell rhiainrd from Msg wire is J. J. Utlmsr. a# Aaderesei. a wnrrnni far tie 1 ** arrest, sod nes dspaused by GUmer ee hw *p** ml renetohls le make the an mi, that Newell eaptered Hall el hie beam, tank him hath la the sGwhadr nod tea had him up; that when tluD next attempt*! t- sarape he wea shot end killed The joty arqaMod Newell, has evtdenre being that Hall wee advent tag an him with a atone and a keifs. sod he shat ta self-defense Denag the prugrsas of the irtol ledge U* u«t leemved an etseaymtsm letter flam a negro. who set t he wtlN- hehl hie aaaM hsraoae if it was re vealed he weald he hilled. Tim judge declared he weald make an stceptMO la hirnde end enure sack a eommeoi- catsen. He read the teller he the greed Mrv. The nrMer recited the cnee ef Tien Perks, a negro, who, he alleged, was charged with on crime, *iro|4 bo- teg sberet from the steelede uf his land turd. wh» we* oaaghi on the eonn hones ajaare ta Anderson, and, with out «arrant er Inal, end ta the pres ears af poitremee and ntiaene, earned •dl to the etnrkmle ef "tdaio!'' Ham- mand.ane ef the largest pleetsrt la the r<>unt«, alee lha case af Hohan Hrowa, snuibev negro, who waa taken ta the same buuum' to the elockade of J. 8. Fowiar, aaotbar large pUater aod is* Aoeniiol ciltxea. have sigoed his contracts and subjected themselves to the conditions existing on his farm. He has a stockade which was originally built for his State con victs, and hU contracts provide that the “ free ” laborers will work under guard and will allow themselves to be locked np at night. ; ’ Pur first investigations at this place were met by a statement from the ne groes that they were satisfied with their treatment, but their manner in dicated coercion and subsequently we made further investigations 7 which convinced us that J. R. Miller and his overseer, J. A. Emerson, bad been guilty of whipping negroes, locking them up at night, of working them under guard and putting shackles upon them. Among these unfortunates were John Harrison, Will Wright, Warren Sloan and Lige Jones. We found several of Mr. MiUer’s contracts left blank as to lime of service and amount to be paid, though the contracts were duly signed and witnessed. In the case of Warren Sloan he seems to have been arrested by J. R. Miller and another man, whose name we could not ascertain, near Central in Pickens County; there is testimony that no warrant was exhibited if any existed, but he was haodcuffed an<l taken to Miller's stockade and kept there until this investigation began. Since our first visit to this stockade he was turned loose and allowed to go home In oar judgment the said J. R. Miltsr and J. A. Emerson should be present ed by the grand jury for the offences ahovs mentioned, and we so recom mend. In many respects tbs most remark- able case coming under oar notice was that of Elias McGee who has aevor employed State convicts, bat who balil a stockade and prepared to litat his laborers as convicts. 11 is eon. tract* provide that the laborers shall be we< ked under guard and locked up at nighl. awl there was abundant rvi dene* le shew that I la tbr stocOade. worhad and whipped hi* laborers. ifarrd e |«rt er all of ti •iHsaae are Wesley Normas, Handy Kan*. Vance Smith, Hen. TUley, Joha (.Malar ales Oars nr* GntUoid. Evtaa Webh, Lams Alexander. Morris Joe Aaa Asm* of those oewreea had been arrested, and stgasil rentraria after h*«eg pm endrr arrest- John Clinha- eras nrrwaad by rim* Mrt»ee ef sisal 1 eg reta, nee kreewhl to Aedeseoa d-enfed, and after be hod signed a centred, hot mtoesM any tnai. wnt inroad over la W_ g Hammond whe earned him In tbs Uuer’s stockade. We think the Grand Jary shenld make pruseotment sgeinei Kims Mrtiss and should have presentment mode against them by the grand jury for whipping differeut ones of these nagroee. Willis McGee was especially cruel. It was testified that be had given Un negro Baylis Alter 100 lasEes on one occasion, and that he whipped Robert Brown most severely and cruelly and on one occasion shot five times at Drayton Wheeler, one of the bullets passing through Wheeler's hat. The testimony goes to show that George Thomas shot at Dock Freeley and that he was also ready at the whippings. Andrew Dobbs was found to be suffer ing from rheumatism, which he says was brought on by being compelled to stand almost waist deep in mud and water in cold weather, ditching. He was arrested by A. M. Bailey, who has been acting as a sort of constable for J. S. Fowlei, but waa never tned. J. A. Rice is a negro of rather weak mind, who was captured in Georgia by Elias McGee and charged with having escaped from J. S. Fowler’s stockade in this county. Upon being brought here it was found that he was not the man he was suspected of being, but ue\ ertlieless after being kept for eev- eral days io the stockade hS entered into one of these isbor coutracts and has been io the Stockade for several mouths, though unwillingly there. A number of "free” laborers have left Mr. Fowler’s farm since these investi gations were first began, bat tome un willing ones were still in the stockades when we visited them. We found no evidence to connect Mr. Fowler in any way with tbe whip ping of these laborers, bat he wns a party to these cootrwets which pro vided lor tbe Illegal Imprisonment an J working under guard uf tbe laborers and is responsible for those provision* being enforced and that pieeentment •Itwuld he made against him therefor We eubmit herewith tbe memoranda of testimony which we have taken which will show to tbe coart and sollr. locked up 11tor more folly tbe facts which we under guard. i have reported and will enable them to Among them get tbe names of the wttnemen to prove Tbe dnty of this body is plain: We must stop tbe violations of law that now exist, and if others begin on the part of the laborers themselves, then we will unite with the" law-abiding citizens of tbe county io punishing and terminating these evils. Th« result of our investigations show thgt the system of working laborers under guhrd and confining them iu stockades does not exist in this county further than we have reported. Probably not as many as twenty men, either as principal or agent, either di rectly or indirectly, have been engaged in this abuse. On the other hand, the number of laborers and lienors who have violated the law will double that number many times. We therefore reiterate that the in fluence of this grand jury, and we do not hesitate to say of the court also, will not be extended to enable any man to avoid a just contract, and that we have found that moat of tbe labor contracts of the county are legal and just. If violations of just contracts begin as a result ot the investigations we have made, we suggest that wat- rants be sworn out and prompt puniah- men! given. We hnve not undertaken to assume the res|Kmtibility of prose cuting the laborers who have violated their contracts, because the position and Intlueuce ef the landlord makes them fully able to do that without as sistance from ns. This special report has been brought about because of tbe oppression and abuse of men who were loo poor, too friendless, too Ignoraat and often too degraded to act for themselves, but wlm are nevertbelem entitled to tbe fntl protection of tbe law, sod who because of thtir weak- ms liave a peculiar claim to our pro- loetioo. AH of which is respectfully sab- iitted. saA floats. It is proper tiM wa aMAflil add that marl! af tbe ebaoo ban already beew r erected ee a resalt of this ts- vseugsuua sod that saose ef tbe par ties have bees ta as with the sasaraace 1 bat tbe; oaoei immediately cur reel tbe evils eslsllaf aa ibmr farms to wbkb we bave tatted eueoGsa. Owtog la the aidaopread laAoqpee sad vAstA 1 bat follows aay pabttc dts- ■a af lb* qaeetsoa ot farm lobar ep la ibis Msatd IAMB ■ as #• (J llamamad mas a la tbs* caaaty tad employe a able somber taetb at Mai* ■•free" laker rore. it -free le Lupim fi ■eeaesder- rvuvicts t ••ouecl* Tbr fc nag is tbe e»sae report of 'the rr Tbe pnecipel work of this committee a been ti«e investigation of tbe stprkades of tbe county ami tbe abases of Isidore re under tyrannous coatract* that have grown out of the farming out of convict* ami the working of free laborers jritb them. We have taken the testimony of more that fifty (tenons including that of the landlords, their overseen and guards, together with a large number of laboren and a few other citizens. In these investi gations we have met with every cour tesy and generally we bave found, no di-p jsition to obstruct our work upon the part of those whose farms and stockades we visited. A most careful inquiry failed to reveal that any gen eral abuse of the laboring class exists in this county, so that our work soon harrowed down to those places where convicts were employed and to two other places where stockades existed and free laboren were employed. We visited the farms of J. Belton Watson, A. T.Newel),?.B. Allen,J. R.Miller, Elias McGee, W. Q. Hammond and J. S. Fowler. We are unable to find any abuses at the farm of J. B. Watson. Tie bks a stockade and works free Inborers, but we found no evidence that the free laboren were put-ill the stockade or worked in line with the convicts, or sub jected to any-tllegal restraint or abuse. The same thing waa true at the farm of P. B. Allen. We found that he had taken two contraets -in which the laborers agreed to work under guard and be locked up at night, bat his own evidence add that of all tbe laboren so far as we could ascertain waa that these provisions had never been en forced. A. T. Newell works State convicts and has a stockade, bat he has worked no free laboren along with the convicts nntil recently, when be has taken two contract* of that sort. One of these was ths case of the unfor- lunate negro Will Hall who was killed by W. 8. Newell a few weeks ago and whose cose is referred to shove. J. R. Miller formerly worked vteu, bat they ware taken away bv the iod he eow employs oaly " free” , If indeed we may ass the wosvl free U tmrrn .u» k*«i provide that the bo worked aedtr <aard et eight sod they setter illegal m- pnaoemeut sad more, far the evtdeere shews that a somber ef thm* aafmte- aetee have beea wet ked wader gwarvi wed gae, have bera inched op at sight sod am nwadayt, ami have Meea shock ed sad shipped. Aaiuag thews who •offered thee* things at the hands of Mr. llammood aad hie overseers, Wm. Bailey, James Mortis aad 1 lay, ere the foitowtag: ishom Abercrom bie, link Hagen, James Clinton, John tiswey, Tom 1‘arks, Charley Johnson 1 and John Cliakacniee. Several of ere la jell at tbe time of oar | exam mat tew. They bad Ikwo indictad .**( f» f - ..ao; uni;, had been wnli- not trial nnuitnls investigation I wean, when be earremlered them back to the sheriff. Tbe negro, Tom I'arks, whose cose called to .the attention of the grand jurv by the preawing judge was released almost immediately thereafter. He was taken forcibly and without trial, under one of the har*h contracts above referred to, and confln.'d in tbe stockade, workeil with the convicts, and suffered the other abuses aliove mentioned until this investigation was begun. We learn that perhaps a score of other laboren held under similar contracta have left this farm during tbe past few weeks. One of them, Pink Rogers, states that be was given a whipping of fifty lashes by Wm. Bailey at the stockade. We think that the facts disclosed demand that W. Q. Hammond, James Martin, Vkm. Bailey and Day* should be presented by the grand jury for the violation of law above men tioned and we so recommend. J. S. Fowler, who first used the con tract providing for "free" laborers to be treated as convicts, worked under guard, locked np, etc., employs a con siderable number of convicts and alsb of the so-called "free” laborers. He has Iwp.. stockades one of which is under the supervision of James Cook and which was formerly managed by Willis McGee; the other is under the charge of Levi Thomas; At these farms the convicts and “free" laborers have been worked together under K iard who carried a gun, they have ten locked up at night, and aotne of them whipped. There was no evi dence of any of them having been shackled. Some of* them had been ac cused of trivial offensea and were put under conthwt to work out debts or to repay money advanced for them. James Evtns, Baylis Arter, Alonzo Lark, Frank Bowlan, John Bell, Robert Brown, Foster. Bailer, Dan Hill, Willis Harper, Joe Whitfield, Jtio Rice, John Gilliam, Turner Walker, Andrew Dobbs. Dock Freeley and Drayton Wheeler are eotne of aefroee who have beea onofined in Mr. Fowler’s stockedro. Willis Gee, Jamas Cook, Levi aad Mike the rasa fallow a preseetmsal earh pose it ■ proper that we ahooU ta dosing this report natsr take a brief discos*** of the i»de*ores thni have -'ruagbt nbusM the evils reported end Mskr tnggeeUnae ** ta th* mas die* therefor We have heard nunors that this lavesugauoa has slteadv created a widespread latereet aad that the ena- 4toons have beta disraased with sesoe ftrheg tint we have as for ee pinellin svieded rsodiag eaythlhg published or said io this respect ta aider that we aught purens oar tn rosiigniMu* wtih- oot say mil sear* er btes from aay qeertrr. The qoeeuoa ef fora, labor m this smi* is a very difltcalt oae aad lha preaeoi laws regulating the are laeelWtcnL The orgm** wham ere fonnd fiord to the stockade were composed largely ef a close of shlftieee debtor* who are subject to indictment for petty offense, aad obo coaid not be sncciss fully nocked under ordinary coo tracts. They are men abo bare no property, and men who evade their debts uuIom i upapihem—hipmai jhfpj rntpc the process of a civil court is worth- ess; that uf the criminal court under existing laws is inadequate. Some thing should be done by the legislature to grade the punishment of this class according to tbe offence. Hot oral trouble has not linen in the de fect of the provisions of the law so much as its enforcement. It has come to be a settled policy in this county that indictment for violation of con tract and for disposing of property under lien should be compromised, and not tried. We are convinced l hat this is wrong iu principle and danger ous in practice. Whatever iu justice may be done an individual by disposing of property on which he has lien, or by the violation of a contract by one of his employes, and whatever force might be given to the effect of penal statutes to induce payment of debts or fulfillment of con tracts that never has been tbe tnie in tent and purpose of the penal statutes. They are enacted to prevent public wrong, and when a prosecution has once been instituted and the power of the criminal court invoked, the ques tion of private re9pmpense should dis r appear, and the public interest alone should be considered. While this may result iff occasional hardships, it is the only safe policy. Abuses will other wise grow up until the criminal ccurta are degraded into machines for private gain, and often for extortion and op- ptession. In our judgment it shouk be a crime,, to compromise any case after indictment found With a view 0:! private gain. Nor can we condemn too severely that other fruitful source—in fact, the origin of the abuses herein reported the leasing out of convicts to work on private farms. Evils already detailed are too eloquent to necoeaitate a dis- cassion to prove tthis. Bach a system should not be tolerated after its results heve been expoeod as in this county We heve heard it intimated that our investigations and exposures wouk disturb the labor conditions to such an extent ee to create troable in this State. We do not habere that it trad, bat if it were wd would nut TBERE'8 MO GOOD IN NSGRO BUI Ar» Written by e Carpet 1 Veffre. The rare nrohieoi has bobbed again at the North The Ho*. William ilaaaihaJ Thomas u**-Hrroda Hared la kls deawwnatioa of ths negro aad The New York Ham seem* In ladaree Mm. Thomas Is a nag to freeborn ta Uhln, bat mme down In 8oolh Carolina omd served la the corps tbag Imgtaintaro daring tit* reco*esrnct*oa period and eflnrwaidi hold jttdtrtni affheo, nod my* ta the prefer* in hie beat that he hs* two* stedytog the negro far thirty yemre and >* mere aad amr* mafiiand la Me oo«oma that there Is a* goad ta him—neither •actntty, merniiy, in* daetrioily or patttMattf. Ills remark- able baud has recently imeed from the well knoere prem as the Mormi.ua a , in New York, and The New fine devote* a good part ef a revise teg 11. The sethor soye the vac* is slowly, bat sareJy degenerating—that the ne gro m by notor* a mvng* with ae in* ferocity end knows ao sorb rmo rn aw rcy —that ha le e boost to mteotec releu. na aad will mil the vtrtoe of bn wife er km daughters end kmo no aortal nooflM** en»e*g Mo poo* er in bm chotch. That the j rear h« n are the worm of the They stalk into negro overshadow the pews, lavad* the pre late of domestic life and despoil the amtly nod yoke virgin Innocence with 1 guilt. That the negro churches or* debaitrbiof rvodetvoae. That an- I t* religion m a fares aad wurthlom to qlnri m rrtittfnu \tm moot heinous crimes ore committed by those who read nod write and are hers of negro churches. He mys that the uegro is a brute in the com mission or crime end is n cnvsn seems to be a brand new .doctrine up North and has the indoraement of numerous preechfcra and college pro fessors. One preacher up in Maine eaye that if it ha<l been written forty years ago there would have been no civil war, .for- their; people would not have foughUojfttie freedom of a lot of beasts. Then, again I see iu a recent editorial in a -Republican paper an evi dence of weakness and reaction about the uegro and the editor aaka, « Can it be possible that the two handled millions of money tent by the North to educate tbe Southern negro baa all been wasted?" Apologies are now in order. In addition to all this it has been as serted by those who know, that Mt. McKinley has changed front, and that no more negroea will be appointed to office. Is the North about to abandon tbe negro and turn him over to the mercy of hit former masters? If so, the negro will be the gainer, and so will the South. That is all we have askeil for all these years—just to be let slone. They were our negroes be fore the war and they are our negroes yet. We don’t give them office nor allow them to sit on our jnries, nor ride in oar cars, nor find lodging in our hotels, nor take pews in our churches, and but for Northern inter ference they would not have been al lowed to vote, either State or national or municipal, bat w* pay tfcoar for their labor and give them a fair educo- tioo. But for fear of shocking our Northern friends the whipping poet would have lung since been tbe fore* that Thomas mys must be used, and then the 5,000 that are in the stats and county chningangt of Gemgta would have been reduced to 500 or a lees number. A bad negro who fears not God nor regards toon, cares not a groal deal for the gallows aad lorn for the rhaiaganf, and nothing for a term iu jail, bat be does dreel a good whip ping We old masters all remember that. On* good whipping will lest s negro for yean. The chetagnag ef fect* no reform ami (toes not loot six mouths. Rut the average negro does not used corporal punishment often ; he usrds e bam. Thomas is right when he declares the! they or* get nag worse tuetoad of hotter, mportallv is the towns ami aUr*. Head the Atioato paper* ami aok the Alioata pul ice Ask Judge Broylm le compare the records ef Ms court. Ask the judge ami anisniar ef •ay court. They ore growing worse eve*ywhere, except a* the forms aad |4aatat*a*s. where they ore coo trotted b? leading!*, wbe are nearly et mooli their master* aa N tbe <»idea times. If they deal wm phyoteal fare* they exercise a will power that esecf~ " oiimtteara The lead lord il York I Tkmmm »• "ghi •**o he i_ | that they hue* ee eauaeptius mooik virtue aad moeottty. They seldom marry accord leg to law, but IMS lake op ami quit when they feel like B. There ore more negro child- re* la Iba Iowa aad evoryjntber Iowa wbo are boro out ef wedlock than thorn wbo ore bora ia M. Neitber fs eor chareb member loses for oolortoae ia fidelity to tbe relating. As Thomas mys tbe preachers art oa that I Eight eagro preachers are now iu oar Htol* rheiagqqg aad aa maay morg ia the county gaum. 1 aakad a the other day what they tat nod off fur, aad b* said " it were on rag lan nee.’ Moms of oar teachers get the same re- sod hors to step dosru and ■■ked aae bmn a ago who wm highly educated wrote a beautiful letter, but be got to kidnaping little thing* mad ran ssrsy haint got no soul how about a later?" That’s* oonufidrum. how about lha Indians and Chinese *ad Cubans and the Arabs, Bow moch coloring does It take to germl- nate a soul? How about such high minded philanthropic negroea as Book, or Washington, President Council), Bishop Gaines, Bishop Turner end the bishop of Louisiana, Wbo ore doing their utmost to reform their raceTi bed rather nek them end many ether good negroes for souls and salvation than many a white man I know. How about my faithful Tip, wlto wee born and raised in oar family end h— been loyal and loving to his mistress end her children ell those years, and how about old-time servants in every family wbo owned negroes and whose devotion never died when free dom came? - No. Let Thomas and Company write books to perplex the North and rngke money for themselves, but let as and our negroea alone. Just keep bands off and we will manage them. We need them in our fields end for. naces end mines end on our railroads. But for their labor as slaves the South would have been fifty yean behind in the clearing of our forests, building our railroads and developing oar mineral resources. Rat for them the South would be mandated with a hard* of foreigner* who bring wKh them nil sorts of isms and religions aad strikes. The negro ho* hi* faun*, bat if ha presence wUl keep immigrants away It will b* a biaastng. It M still the destiny of the South to uncooiamiaated white save lb* rvpablic from await rule or from imperial tern. Biu. I’- 8.—We rood that exten ho* begun 04 Terre Haute aad I otto. I heps Hoanibai le happy. B. A - -I® New -Ibe lees e fact there or* far bill may fie but the likelihood Is that 8 ks due lu the fact *44 apt Ucustes m end paper* we regarded ws se ifikiout and new were required The ceuaty af ff| burg aiou* st* ■we a rad art ton hundred and fitly pamtowsru, Ituiaas slip la ae bee charged Miss Mohs charge ef the pap we. every ceuaty from wh have beeHli^^^H le he aa 1 twa tale tu declare the evils we find and to) that they should be eholmhed. coward after it is committed and when caught and |finished believes himself a martyr, and if be escapee the gallows would repeat hi* crime with no sense of wrong doing. He has no concep tion of virtue or truth, 00 fear of hell or damnation, but with the hangman’s rope around his neck is going straight to heaven. * The author mildly condemns lynch ing for certain outrages, not because it is cruel or illegal/but because it does not deter other negroes from similar outrages. He says, however, that he ias not yet found that an innocent man has ever been lynched. He ad vocates force as the only practical re medy for the negro—force—control— subjection lo the white race, not in a state of slavery as before the war, but in one of fear and obedience. He goes still further and suggests the ex termination of tbe inferior elements of the race because it is better to have individual extermination than race ex tinction. But space forbids more of these anathemas, and the wonder is that tbe book was written by a negro of the North and that a reputable publishing house would chaperon it be fore tbe Northern people and that a Northern editor, wbo has been for yean and years lampooning the South ern people about the negro, should now giVe this book his quasi indorse ment. What does all this mean ? We knew that they did not love the negro at Akron and Pana, nor in the slums of New York city, but we thought be was still safe in the sanctum sanctorum of Republican editors. What is be hind tills new departure? An agent has recently^beeo to oar town distributing sensational circulars about a new book just issued in Sti Louis, in which the author asserts that the negro is a beast sod he prove it by the Bible aa well ss by scientific research. This book is bat a revival of a foi mar bock called "Ariel," and published aboat thirty It is rpthraotnng of old ta the night and dideal stop until lie got to Africa and was made a bishop. But Thomas does not tell us how to exterminate them, nor where to draw the Hoe between the interior and those who shall be allowed to live and multiply. He exhausts his indig nation without defining the mode and manner of the remedy. 1 suppose we might transport the men and boys over to the Philippines and turn tbe army loose upon them, but that would be ex pensive, or we might drive them oat West and let them starve to death or be killed off by the Indians. Anyway would satisfy Thomas if ib extermi nated all the bad ones. We are doing reasonably well on that line, for be sides tbelynchings for tbe usual crime, which I hope will be kept up diligent ly, we have retired aboat 5,000 to private life m the chaingangs of Geo- gia, and 15,000 more in other Southern States. That amounts to a partirl extermi nation and is better, for we got their labor during the process. We ought to take up every trifling vagabond and send him there, for idleness Is tbe parent of vice and crime. If be had done something send him for doing it and if he hadent done anything then send him for doing nothing. And as for those snatch thieves who are pur suing and robbing tbe ladies of Atlanta I wouldent send them to the chaingang until they bad been whipped once week for a month. Force is the thing - -the force of a cowhide on the naked skin. That is the remedy for black and white in Delaware, and neither a snatch thief nor a bank robber dares to stop in the State. They burry through to another State where there is no whippiug poet. When we get a Legislature that has got wisdom and moral courage enough to exterminate the dogs and protect the sheep they will re-establish the whipping post, tries to |_ But aboat the Beasty book that says negro baa no souL I suppose" * manufactured to sell and foo bpoy. As my nigger Bob to Habor proeman: " Effen whits man got n soul and • only one sac hpapers have to be correction. "It will necessarily taka Urn* for those blanks to b* perfected as they ought to have been before they wars sent to Columbia, and there will doabe es* be complaints about the delay, but the fault is with the county authorities n not properly preparing lha papers before they or* sent to Columbia." Mrs. Nation's Family History. —A stepdaughter of Mrs. Nation sup- >orts herself by sewing in Columbus, O. She had to quit home because her stepmother was too tougb. She any* ier stepmother come from a good fam ily, her maiden name being Moore, and one of her brothers is on the bench in ICansas City. She eloped with her first husband, Dr. Gloyd, a brilliant , wbo died later of delirium tre mens. This woman mys that she left home because of Mrs. Nation’s unpleas ant ways and her cruel treatment of the other children, one of whom she beat with a poker because be would not go to church. When asked if her father ever whipped Mrs. Natjpn, she replied: "My father would never raise his hand against a woman, and my stepmother is the last woman in the world to permit it. Why, the would have had her hatchet out in energetic work long before it waa if my father had raised his hand to her." She mys her father wm a good lawyer who had to give up his profession on account of throat trouble; that he has been a, successful editor of several papers. Of * her stepmother, she mys she is crazy; that she was crazy once before on the subject of religion, lust went wild over it, end the thinks she will end her daye in a lunatic asylum.—Salt Lake Tri bune. At an inquest at Columbus, O., where a baby had burned to dee'h by an accident, its clothing having ought fire, one of the jurymen offered this advios: if clothing, after wm ting, ta of alom and water, they take fire, if they en m la