Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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To the editor of The News and Courier: In concluding several letters in reply to critics of my letter on our negro problem to Mr. Bryce in August, 1904.? published with the Bryce letter in pamphlet form?I promised ( myself, as well as the public, to abstain for some lo*-- :t,-vcirom j further y-wic discussion of the so-called negro question except under some unusual incitement. There was abundant personal reason at which 1 then hinted, why I should do so, as well as some other reasons which seemed to me sufficient. Many friends and correspondents have from time to time? and recently the call has increased?urged me to speak at more length on the subject of lynching; and particularly to elaborate 1 it-- - " <iiin specuy me ways ana means y by which the remedy proposed in j my Bryce letter could or should x be applied. I have all along felt11 the force of suggestion, but a j variety of things, besides my weariness of the theme, have r hindered my compliance with t the wish and request. ? I now propose, as briefly as I ? can to do this duty, for such my j friends seem to regard it; and I i begin with a word of correction. It has apparently been thought by some, friends as well as foes, of my views, that I disparaged the work and influence that may be done and exerted by schools, colleges, preachers, missions and the like. Such was not my intention, and such, I may say, was not my language, I nowhere ] disparaged these agencies. What j I did say was, for substance, < this: that in view of the one,and almost sole, cause of Southern ( lynchings, that is, rapes by ne- ] groes of white women, other , agencies and other aims than those ordinarily of schools, colleges, pulpits and missions be put in force; that the one aim and effort being to root out such crimes, schools and pulpits could do much, but were doing nothing directly; and that a determined effort, widely pressed and everywhere insisted on, would far surpass all other work done or at* i i ii. % i/? tempiea ior tne negro s weiiare. All this I now repeat. I repeat, too, my charges against Hampton, Tuskegee, the American Missionary Society, the Ogden educational circus, Booker Washington and so far as I know, all Northern agencies of prominence now professing to be devoted to the uplifting of the negro, namely: That they, one and all, stand mute on the crime of rape, or at most, only deal with it in ineffective generalities; that if they do not condone, they do not conspicuously condemn it; and that it is no answer to this charge to say that all these agencies teach purity and virtue; that what \ must be done is to speak with i > one loud, fiery, stern voice, not against sin and law-breaking ^ generglly, but against the one ^ *** Vcrime of rape by negroes of white omen. No man who is inform^/ed and truthful, can deny the jJ prevalence of this hideous crime, < crime more shocking, evidencing cq greater moral degradation and V depravity, than any other crime in the catalogue. X speak here from full knowl ?B?BBH & Son, Bankers, I ti Carolina, | REST ON | zs of Deposit. | edge. I do not put myself on a level with most of those at the North who talk about this question -they do not discuss it, for discussion properly implies a , consideration and sifting of facts 1 with a view to find out the truth or the true conclusions. North- \ cincio who uo not Know the South experimentally or by the j careful collection in some way of : the facts, cannot discuss the sub- < ject; they can only talk about it \ as any of us might talk about \ Central Africa or Tibet, which j we had never visited or studied ( in competent authorities. What \ I say, I say at first hand. What, ( in all probability, does the editor t of the New v<n-fc- independent t ~ viie Boston Herald, or the Qui" ook, know aWt -viuvisrion v )f rapes and lynchings? Substan- s dally nothing. Possibly they have fc i car window acquaintance with f he South; possibly in theirtrav ils they stopped here and there t n large cities; barely possible 0 ;hey spent a few days with South- ^ jrn acquaintances and friends. c such travelers report, if they are ruthful, what they say, and are i, lot, from such experiences, to ; :onclude they know something, >r perhaps a dood deal about che t legro question. I will lay a good j, vager that the offices of the ? newspapers that have been most ' eady to condemn my Bryce let- L :er, do not hold a man whose i knowledge of the South is greater than that above portrayed. p rhey are for the most part oldimers long ago fallen into the * ;ere, the yellow leaf. They are n ipt to be what a friend of mine ? nicturesquely calls, "smooth- J' nores". If not such, they gen- j! irally are men who seem to have 11 nherited their notions of today NN :rom a long past period totally " lifferent from the present. As * vitty old D'lsraeli said of anoth- f ?r class, "They have but one l< dea, and that idea is wrong.1' J Dr. Lyman Abbott styled- his ^ etters written during a recent s arief trip from Washington to ? Mew Orleans, "Impressions of a * 01 o voloco Tno Trol 1 ' n moaf O uui uivoo iiav uiiui, a inuoi ? title surely, and plainly a ? correct one. If now he will hold F his hand and pen till he can write something properly to be called, J "Studies of a Northern Man ! Resident in the South," he can ; be listened to with patience. A ; great writer has said, "To be J! conscious you are ignorant is a ^ great step towards knowledge.'' * The editorial writers whom I have in mind are not likely to be { wise by this course and test. Mr. K Ogden's parties are carried as on ; a picnic, a winter holiday, by the most traveled routes, in palace cars; and thereupon they seem to feel that they know the South. ; Sometimes it is asked if the j whole North must wait till it can ; live at the South for years before 1.1 i 1.1 * i uiey uin iwvu men opinions anu express them. Not at all; but if they wish to know their subject so as to hold true or well-founded opinions, they must, if not live themselves at the South, at least listen to and accept the testimony of those who have done so, or have in "Sbme actual way learned the South. Some very foolish writers reply that if this were required, we should have been debarred from denouncing or opposing old-time slavery. What is true now of the necessity of accurate and real knowledge of the South was just as true of it in 1850 or 1860. I Somebody must report the facts j before others have a right to (hold opinions. Mr. Fred Law Olmsted, Mr. Edmund Kirke (Gilmore,) Mr. H. R. Helper, and many others, told the North and the world what they had ! seen and known in their owr | proper persons. Believing thest | to be true reporters?in many cases they were not?the North might properly discuss slavery in its working and effects, but or no other conditions. If the fact only of slavery, the holding a human being at a chattel, ana what that involved, sufficed to satisfy men's moral sense of the wrong of slavery, then such men might act on such convictions, and look no further. But our present problem, especially its features of rape and lynching, is not such a question. The present situation at the South is not a theory or theorum to be developed and worked out by logic or reasoning. Nor is it primarily a moral issue. It is a concrete exhibition of human nature as represented by two distinct races, working under very peculiar conditions. These conditions are a series of facts. Hence we must get at the facts. Now, holding myself a quali H icu witness, as well as a truthful one, I set forth the present situation. I must be impeached n some way as a witness, or my testimony must stand. If witlesses equally competent and truthful can be brought to contradict me?well, I have heard )f none. I have the pleasure on his topic, described by -J 3i^^'??o-Vtandin/'o?fthe antage ground of truth"?truth een with my own eyes, tested >y my own senses. I do not proess to be what Macaulay called 'a semi-Solomon," but only a ruthful reporter and a fair reasner. If I have bias, it must be owards my own section of our ountry. On the subjeet of rapes and /nchings, my testimony and iews are Dlain. if not pnnwt t fill mention here, as an aside? nth me as to lynching?in what articular he does not say?and hat he has it in mind to exr^ss imself more fully wh*n time ermits. My testimony w in brief this: 'hat rapfe of ?^hite women by egroes is a widely prevalent rime a^d fact at the South; hat the crime arouses an absoitely uncontrollable passion in ie hearts of white men, which nil infallibly result in lynching nless prevented by superior orce; that- lynching soon goes rom the crime of rape to other ssser crimes, uu laws ana courts re discredited, and anarchy and irute force supplant them, or oon will do so; that in the presnce of all this and even under he terror of lynchings, the ne;ro race is everywhere,with very light exceptions, supine and >ractically helpless; they seem o regard the whole matter as a vhite man's fight, in which they lave no practical concern or duy; that not one great voice, not >ne chief leader, not one great igency, school or church, is now, >r has been, engaged in any ipecial effort to teach the negro ace the duty and necessity,even m the low ground of physical safety, of putting down the irime in question; that when I iay putting it down, I mean no impossibility, no new thing, but Dniy the old and everywhere effective remedy of an aroused, vigilant, inexorable public opinion among the whole negro race at our South. My further testimony is that negro public opinion among the negro race is specially strong and controlling over that race; that it may not be enlightened? it plainly is not?but that it is strong and effective even to a slavish extent. No man who knows the negro character at our South will dispute this. Once arouse the fixed, clear feeling among the negroes that this crime must be put down, and it will be put down. Lynchings have not done it. I do not think they will ever do it. Laws and Courts will hardly, or very slowly, do it, because juries musl come from the vicinage and are almost sure to be swayed by the popular feeling or frenzy. I an always urging the application of legal methods; they are our legit imate remedies and safeguards but in the presence of an exas perated public sentiment, a just i ly and ^righteously exasperate( ? sentittilnfc, -they are often as pow ' erlessfil the dead leaf before the i sal&JIfy hqjje is that, slowlj ' perhsftn, but surely, we may b> 1 a?p ^tt S^ch as t^ie ^?est ^ea^en oi Sowfcern sentiment, most noablyjgy friends, the editors of ThefflralbBton News and Courier, -aromflking, in season and out oj/stetson, restore the broken reigrpi flO&w. But how quickly, by comparison, would this result be feacued, if only the negroes, the whole body and race, could be ^rotTBed to the work of stoppingi?pes. I say no man who laqqRS the South?both its races ' -^will doubt this. It is certain. I now jttome to another phase v/i uia particular question of rapes arcd lynchings. How, say many,Mia&, by what precise mean^b^ui what you assert, and w? all ccfncene ought to be done, be done? I do not wish to shun any diffioulty. I offer myself for examination and cross-examination by friend or foe. My answer is, it can be done just as other like, though less imperative, things are done. How is any great moral, or even political or merely ^fecial reform carried? How, foruxarrqile, has the great ^^Pf^^Ceen, to a high degree? ^ ^Jrthese questions, my inquiring or criticising friends, and you will have answered the ?uestion with which you perhaps ancy I am to be posed. Great 1 moral movements?crusades is a j good word for them?are pushed on and carried, if I have observed or read aright, by setting every force that can move, create, or affect public opinion, in full operation. Sucli forces now are the press, the pulpit, the platform, the school, the Church, the misOlAM - A mc uumesiic circle. Who that knows history, or has eyes to look about him today, can doubt ttyat if these enumerated women's and children's minds, in every house and cabin of the negro race, the crime would begin to decrease and finally, and in no long time, would cease? Go about it, I say, just as Garrison went about his crusade; or just as Yancey and Wigfall went about theirs at a later day, or just as Peter, the hermit, George Whitefield and John Wesley went about theirs. They knew no such word as fail. They were apostles, fiery, stern apostles, and did they not win, every one of them? Even Yancyand Wigfail won, for their aim was to lir*incr An tliAiirrh Viia tory will not, I think, record that they did or won much else. In such a struggle, too, the negro could command the whole armory, physical, intellectual, and moral, of the white race at the South, certainly all its better and best and most powerful elements. Now, what is actually doing in this behalf? I might with substantial truth, answer, nothing. I will not, because it is not necessary, repeat the list of those who are the chief delinquents. Mr. Booker Washington finds abundant time to go, this season, to Indianapolis for a week's conference on negro affairs, and another week at Boston more recently. I have * not seen a word from him on either occasion regarding lyching or rapes at the South. I mean, nothing in the way of remedies, or special consideration of the question. Why j is this, I ask, and I repeat, why | is this? An orator, and a leader, held up as the selectest ornament of his race, its bright, consummate flower, is the condition of 1 his race so safe and satisfactory fa him in fhio ihof hn non IW I 1 1 I 1 A AAA 1/lllvJ 1 V^,ai U, 1/11(11/ IIV> vuti 11 spare no word of his multitudi nous eloquence to tell us, and to ; tell his own race whether they , have any duty towards a state i; of affairs that is fast dethroning : law all over the land, and cover[ ing our whole soil, North and - South, with scenes as ghastly as the autos-defe of the middle cen? turies? No word. One woulc ; think no other word could react i his lips or stir the air which car f ried his eloquence. There is s - story told of Fisher Ames, th< , Massachusetts orator, at times - next to Phillips, the finest oratoi - his State has produced, A spec ! F. M. FARR, President. t : Merchants and Pta Successfully Doing Bus Bl a aan theOI.DKST Hunk i! 9 lias a capital ami sm pl I D I is the only N ATION AI 5 lias paiil dividends ?n B pays KOUK per cent. I I Is the only Ha nk in l'n H S has llnrtflar-I'ranl vnu pays more taxes than A | WE EARNESTLY SOL ??? f ially atrocious murder had been done in Dedham, his home. The citizens fathered to hunt the criminal. The old orator had long1 been retired from public speaking, but the crowd, in passing his home called for him. He stepped upon the balcony, and in tones which rang and thrilled as in his palmiest days, he cried, "Fellow citizens: Let no man in Dedham sleep till the murderer is in jail!" That is the voice and spirit I want to hear from every honest or decent negro of the land; and will cease. 6 If any one asks me to specify further, let him put to me a specific question, and I will try to answer it. But till this is done, I need say no more. I cannot close, however, with- ; out alluding to two most discour- i aging facts. First, in the Bryce < letter I put in the pillory of in- ( attention and inaction on this 1 topic, among others, the Ameri- ] can Missionary Association, a i concern claiming to be specially i devoted to, and in charge of, 1 the religious welfare of the c negroes of the South. After ; brooding over the charge the ? greater part of a mcnth, one of t tkS? .secrptn viocs onwnr. -C ' .? vm.ico lurwaru i the fair and hospitauie opu\v' The News and Co.irier allows him to present in its columns. The defence reaches its height in the assertion that the reason ' why these so-called religious societies at the North have not I spoken more directly and freely on the subject of rapes by negroes of white women is "simply because it would do no good. It would reach nobody likely to be guilty of the crime." IIow, then, t I would like to be told, do these 1 societies reach or hope to reach, the average negro sinner of the * South? I had supposed it was t by printing and circulating their ] so-called religious literature, and < by pearching and praying in pul- < pits before congregations of negroes. Am I not right? Are ' not such methods precisely fitted < for the work 1 am now urging them to do? . I The same writer sums up his ] opinion of my remedy, though , proposing none of his own, except preaching and talking ' "purity and goodness," by call- 1 ing it "an attempt to expel iniquity and to extirpate lust by mnfinn " P.von oa- V\iif T |/l V/WUilllUtlWll. J J V Vyll OV, UUt X understand the Christian religion to owe its original start and its widespread precisely to proclamations. To proclaim it was the commission of its author, and the work and glory of his apostles. But I think the bottom or top, whichever it be, of irrationality was touched when the editor of , the New York Independent actually writes and prints in its I issue of October 20, 1904, this I sentence: "It is worth while to I say that the remedy he (I) proposes, namely, a great moral crusade among the negroes against the particular crime of rape, would be more likely to suggest than to prevent the1 crime." 1 hope my old friend, Dr. Wm. Hayes Ward, still at least, the titular editor of the ! Independent, did not write that 1 ! sentence, though at least he must 5 j be responsible for it. If he did - write it or approved it, then I 1! am forced to say he is not fit to i; discuss any moral question. The -, remark is a libel and involves a i : falsehood, a libel on the whole 3, negro race, a falsehood in assum. | ing that the negro race is imt* j pervious to moral influences. - i Such things as this rouse grave .?u v 11 X LJAlVi J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. PI E nters National Bank, iness at the "Old Stand." it Union, us of $107)00. , MiliiU in Union. lounti'.iK o$'-W.400. interest on ilcjiosits. ion ins|>oeto?i bv an oilioer. It. an?l Safe with Time-I.oek. i LI. the Hanks in Union eomhin"<l. I ICIT YOUR BUSINESSj and painful reflections. They compel the conclusion that such men as the Independent's writer are so blinded by lonp inurement to dislike and distrust of the white people of the South, so subdued, like the dvpr'c w. o 1IU11U) to what he has worked in so long, that he can libel and misrepresent the negro race, as well as the white race as^omplacently and nonchalantly as if he were saying his prayers. He is joined to his idols; 1 shall let him alone hereafter unless he crosses or stands in my path. In closing, I repeat that I have formed what 1 think are perfectly *dpns?I do not sav necessai il> coifW*, .r,- - on the negro situation today. My coiiv.-.?^?-.0 are drawn from no abstract reasoning; my study has not been in an editor's office two thousand miles or less from the scene of the events, and phenomena which 2reatefhe situation; my prejulices have not taken the place of my eyes; anA for these reasons I for once, ha^ large confidence n my conclusions. My temper s irenical; but one of my inlerited traits?not quite un luu, pernaps I may uid-is an addiction to hatred md denunciation of wrong, and he telling1 of the truth as I know t, to ears however reluctant or London, July 3, 1005rRYING THE RAIN CURE. >eople in Texas Sav it is a Remedy for Many Ailments. The rain cure is now being Tied by a number of persons in \ustin, Texas, whenever opporunity is offered for taking the ,reatment, says an Austin dispatch to the New York Sun. some of those who have taken it say that it is a panacea for all jhronic diseases as well as many )f the lesser ills of the body. There is nothing complicated ibout the rain cure. All that is required of the patient is that he shall stand in the open, with his body bare of all clothing, and let the falling rain pour on him. The sensation is said to be \7GV\7 qfrVftnoKla ^ ~ i vi j iih?w?uit, inwoc vviiu nave tried the new treatment assert that the rain falling upon the bare body invigorates the whole system and is especially strengthening to the nerves. It is declared that the rain cure is a sure remedy for rheumatism and that decided improvement has been noted in cases of persons afllicted with tuberculosis. For nervous disorders the treatment is said to be infallible. One treatment, it is said, will cure a severe cold. So far as can be learned, John Durst, a yourig business man of Austin, was the first person to t?ive it a trial. It is recommended that weak persons who take the treatment should not remain in the rain too long at a time and that a vigorous rubbing should follow the wetting. It is the theory of those who have taken the treatment that its efficacy lies in the fact that raindrops contain peculiar medicinal properties and that, coming through the air as they do, | they are charged with electricity, 1 which has a direct effect upon 1 the body.