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NEGROES OWNED NEGROES.
Perhaps everybody else knows that
there used to be in the South not
a few negro owners of negro slaves,
but some detailed information on
the subject given The Charleston
News and Courier is the first we had
ever heard of such a thing, and we
are immodest enough to believe that
not many people in the North will
fail to share our surprise.
It seems that in Charleston itself,
just before the war broke out,
there were not only many free ne
groes with property running well up
into the thousands, but the list of
taxpayers for 1860 shows that there
were 132 of them from whom was
collected an impost of $3 each on
one or more slaves of their own race.
Os the colored Charlestonians, two
had fourteen slaves each, ano h r
owned thirteen, three owned twelve,
and so on downward. How they
came into possession of their slaves
—that is, whether by inheritance,
gift, or purchase—The News and
Courier says it does not know, but
old residents of the city say that the
black slave-owners acquired their
chattels exactly as did the white
people and managed them in very
much the same way, often hiring
them out to other employers, and, of
course, taking all their wages. They
had no special prejudice against
“the institution,” nor could they be
expected to have, since to many of
tin m, or their immediate ancestors,
slavery had been familiar in Africa,
a fact that is often forgotten.
And there were negro slavehold
ers in other parts of the Si uih—in
Columbus, Ga., for instance, where
one Bob Parker did a trucking busi
ness with fourteen drays and the
black drivers thereof included among
his property, besides a number of
negro women and children. And of
a ceitain Dilsey Pope, in the same
city, it is related that she owned
her own husband. Him she hire d
out until he offended her in some
manner not recorded, and then she
punished him by selling him to Col.
Seaborn Jones for a price now for
gotten. These well-to-do free per
sons of color, according to The News
and Courier, had no political privi
leges, and, of course, such a thing
for them as “social equality” had
not even been imagined, but they
were amply protected in all their
civil rights, could engage in any bus
iness they pleased, and their d -
scendants are still the colored aris
tocracy of Charleston.
.ROADS JOIN TO FORCE STEEL
TRUST TO STOP SELLING
UNSAFE RAILS.
Aroused by the enormous increase
in the quantity of broken steel rals,
resulting in an unusual number of
wrecks with consequent loss of prop
erty and life, the railways of the
•country are making a determin'd
and united effort to compel the I n t
«tl Steel Corporation, which si p;ilie
practically all the roads in the couu
itry, to give a better and m re relia
ible rail.
The American Railway Association,
composed of the executive heads and
operating officials of the great sys
tems, repr set ting 230,000 miles of
irailways, has appointed a committee
to consider the problem and deal with
the Steel Corporation. This commit
tee is probably the moat powerful
ever named by the allied roads of
the country. Ils demands will be
backed solidly by the railroads. If
has h Id half a dozen meetings, and
will have another within a few days.
It has had representatives of the
Steel Trust b fore it and has practi
cally delivered an ultimatum.
The committee is made up as fol
lows :
G. L. P< ck. g neral manager Penn
sylvania lines west of 'Pittsburg,
chairman.
J. T. Richards, chief engineer main
tenance of way, Pennsylvania Rail
road.
J. Kruttschnitt. vice-president Sou
thern Pacific Company.
W. J. Wilgas, vice president New
York Central & Hudson River Rail
road.
R. ntfort, consulting engineer
Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
E. C. Carter, chief engineer Chi
cago & Northwestern Railway.
William Garstang, superintendent
m tive power Cleveland, Ci cinnati,
Chicago & St. Louis Railway.
R. L. Ettenger, consul ing mechan
ical engine t Southern Railway.
W. E. Fowler. master car build r
Canadian Pacific Railway’.
Previous to the combined action
of the railroads all traffic men we: e
keenly cognizant of the sinister meth
ods «t the Steel Trust, but none felt
strong enough to antagonize the pow
erful corporation that directly or in
directly furnishes si much traffic and
can withhold from any ro ’d the rails
necessary' for its operation.
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