to the negro mind. You cannot erase it. You
cannot take it from him. He has heard the slaves' horn. He has
worn the yoke and carried the scar into furrow and swamp. He has
seen father and mother perhaps, taken to the block and sold into
slavery. That memory ever lives as it would live with you and I,
if such a career darkened our lives. So Moses may steal and
Whipper may "administer justice," to him they mean freedom.
Coming out of the night they find no hand to grasp but the hand
of the adventurer. Is it any wonder then, that they follow him as
blind men or those who see darkly?

_Better Signs_

I cannot resist the conclusion, and it grows upon me every day,
in the South, that for much of the wrong, that has been done in
these States the old Southerners are to blame. I say this in
sorrow and with no harshness of feeling to them, and not without
making allowance for a feeling which, after all, is one of human
nature, a feeling of hatred of the men who defeated their hopes
of empire and of contempt for the negro, who is today a senator,
but who yesterday could have been sent to the whipping post. It
is not easy for a planter who has not enough to eat to rejoice
over the fact that the servant who once washed his beard is now
his ruler of the State. But, whatever the motive of the feeling,
the negro in South Carolina is at the feet of Moses and Whipper,
because he was driven there. The old master has as yet made no
sign of sympathy or friendship. I am profoundly convinced that
if, instead of mourning over the lost cause, as in the past they
were wont to bluster about the Yankees and slavery, these people
had dealt wisely with the negro and generously with the Northern
immigrant, these States, and South Carolina especially, would be
free and powerful. I hail the Chamberlain movement in one of its
aspects as the opening of a new era. The support which that
officer receives from the leading journal in the State, and one
of the leading journals in the South--_The News and
Courier_--shows the awakening of a new spirit. This paper
thoroughly Democratic, its editors gentlemen who were in the
Confederacy through the whole war and firm in their devotion to
the lost cause, sees that the only hope for South Carolina is
supporting the honest, intell