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THE RUSAL HIW-YORKER. 
ANDERSONVILLE VIOLETS. 
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chapter xx. (Continued.) 
This only served to heighten John’s perplex¬ 
ity, and he went to Col. Fair for an explan¬ 
ation. Col. Fair had a most supreme con¬ 
tempt for these loungers. They were a part 
of that class of citizens that he insisted would 
have to “die off” before the country could 
ever come to anything. 
“They live on the niggers” he explained 
when John came with his question. “They 
rent out their land to niggers, and make the 
poor black fellers do all the work while they 
hold down them chairs and take the money. 
There’s a heap of men in this county that jest 
cuss the nigger up hill an’ down, an’ yet them 
same men would starve to death if the nigger 
should go away. Its mighty easy, I reckon, 
to make money outer niggers if a man only 
has a tough conscience. I reckon a heap of 
the men here have got consciences like sole 
leather. A man with a little cash can buy 
half a dozen mules in the spring o’ the year, 
an’ make ’em support him. 
“A nigger comes in an’ wants to buy a mule. 
Them fellers sell him one for say $150. The 
nigger gives a lien on his crop for the money. 
The nigger goes out an’ makes his crop. The 
white man sells him meat and corn enough to 
run him through the summer. The nigger 
works out in the sun and the white man sets in 
the shade. When they come to settle up, the 
nigger is always behind. He can’t never git 
ahead. He loses his mule, an’ he loses his crop. 
The white man can figger au’the nigger can't. 
The nigger, like enough, signs his name to 
whatever the white man draws up. Nine times 
out of teu he can’t read anyway. When he 
comes up with his crop he finds a statement 
about like this.” 
Col. Fair picked up a piece of l>oard as he 
spoke and wrote with his pencil the following 
remarkable statement of account. 
Nigger Dr. 
Mule and Harness.$200 
Rations. 75 
$275 
Interest at 2% per mo.. 40 
$315 $315 ' 
Nigger Cr. 
By Cotton. 225 
Bal. against Nigger. $00 
“Then the white man” continued Col. Fair, 
“says; ‘I'll allow you $50 for that mule and 
harness, an’ as you’ve had hard luck, I’ll knock 
off $25, so you’ll only owe me $15.’ 
“So the nigger, after workin’ hard all sum¬ 
mer only finds himself in debt. The white man 
has his mule to sell—like enough to the same 
nigger next year. That’s the way them fellers 
live. I know one mule that’s ben sold that way 
six times. 
‘ ’That’s why I claim the nigger ain’t never 
gonter be nothin’. He won’t never git no 
chance. The nigger is the cleverest hearted 
mortal in the world. He’ll work his hands off 
fer a little flattery, I reckon. These fellers 
down here know how to work it sharp, an’ the 
nigger is always goin’ to do the work while the 
white man pulls in the money.” 
John kept the board and showed it to Jack 
Foster a few days later. 
“Is that true?” he asked. 
“I reckon a heap of it is,” said Jack slowly, 
“Its a little exaggerated of course, but a heap of 
it is true, sure enough. Its a mighty bad thing 
for the country that labor is so unreliable.” 
CHAPTER XXI. 
The more John studied the negro question, 
the more difficult of solution the problem 
seemed. Not long after the election he listen¬ 
ed to a discussion that did much to point out 
still more clearly the difference between the 
Northern and Southern methods of studying 
the question. In one of his visits to town John 
found a young Northern man who had come to 
the South for his health. This man, at John’s 
invitation, spent a week at the plantation. He 
was a man of fine education, who studied with 
keen interest the curious problems of Southern 
life. He was an ardent Republican, and some¬ 
thing of a theorist as regards the negro. He 
found in Jack Foster a man who would discuss 
the negro question without getting angry, and 
who could give him many new points. Jack 
had done considerable reading. During his 
lonely life he had thought a great deal and 
studied hard at the social problems of the day. 
He could not drop his old belief in the infer¬ 
iority of the negro, but he could discuss the 
question with a much better spirit than most 
Southern men. His great friendship for John 
gave him a certain respect for a Northern 
opinion, though he could not be converted. 
John was never tired of listening to the dis¬ 
cussion that was sure to come up whenever 
Jack and the young Northener met. 
“The nigger,” Jack would say in all serious¬ 
ness, “is an inferior man and never can be the 
equal of the white man.” 
“How do you know that?” 
“Because in all the history of the world there 
never has been a black race that ever showed 
superior intelligence. The niggers are differ¬ 
ent from white men”—and Jack would de¬ 
scribe the difference in finger nails, hair and 
head. “The nigger was made to serve, and it 
is against all ideas of religion and morality for 
us to dream of him as an equal. The bare idea 
of such a thing would drive a Southern lady 
nearl 3 T crazy. No one can imagine what a 
horrible disgust the very suggestion of such a 
thing brings up. Petting the nigger and mak¬ 
ing him think he is anything but a slave, only 
tends to spoil him forever.” 
“How spoil him?” 
“It gives him fool-notions, and would in a 
short time break up all the safety of our soci¬ 
ety.” 
“Then you believe in keeping the negro in 
ignorance?” 
“No I do not, though I must confess that too 
many Southern men do. 1 am in favor of ed¬ 
ucating the nigger because I know that his 
educational powers are limited. The nigger 
learns quickly but he gets filled up in a very 
short time. Take a white boy and nigger boy 
each, say nine years old, give them equal ad¬ 
vantages, and the nigger will beat the white 
boy all to death. When the nigger gets to be 
fifteen years old you can’t get anything more 
into his head—be is filled up while the 
white boy goes on gaining every week. 
There are some niggers who are smart and 
know bow to learn. They are so few that they 
seem like any other freak of nature—simple 
monstrosities. I can’t think of any more un¬ 
desirable position than that of an educated 
nigger who knows what the rest of his race 
must be.” 
“Then it is not possible, in your opinion, for 
the negro to master enough of an education to 
fit him for the society of white men.” 
“No, sar, it makes no difference how refined 
and taiented a nigger .might be, I never could 
ask him to my table and have any more respect 
for myself. A sensible nigger will realize his 
position and never step over it. Do you mean 
to say that you would sit at the same table 
with a nigger?” 
“To be sure I would, there are plenty of ne¬ 
groes in the country who are superior to me in 
education and manhood. I should be proud to 
sit at table with them.” 
“I’m mighty sorry to hear it. If that was 
known here, how many people do you suppose 
would invite you to their houses? Do you reck¬ 
on that these Republican leaders up North 
who have so much to say about the nigger 
would really invite a regular, black nigger to 
their houses and let him eat with them and 
sleep in their beds?” 
“Certainly they would, if he was deserving 
of it. I know’ plentyof men that would do so. ; 
Jack shook his head a little doubtingly. He 
could hardly bring himself to believe this. 
Southern men generally have little faith in 
the sincerity of the Republican leaders who 
urge the elevation of the negro. The exper¬ 
ience that the South has had with Republican¬ 
ism leads her people to think that the Repub¬ 
licans simply wish to use the negro as a tool: 
to spoil him for work, and then leave him to 
injure political enemies. 
“But what are you going to do when the ne¬ 
groes all learn to read and write and the 
“freaks of nature” as you call them, increase 
in number as they are sure to do?’ 
“I reckon we’ll have to keep them down. 
They^on’t know r enough to organize and they 
never will. We know that they are an infer¬ 
ior race, and we know from experience that 
■we must keep them down.” 
“How are you going to do it?” 
(To be Continued.) 
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