Show FROM SOUTH CAROLINA A few excerpts from a letter written by herbert E smyth Fo fore foremon reton iton S 0 noi no 3 1913 wi IN t had just got bid back into tho fit A when v word from our bu advising us of a change so i e inigo right don dos n u the country bigun we are nonn no sen seven en miles from foreston and about sixt miky bouth fouth of sumter r city b bv the route we came vc e expect to hold ft a coulp ence tins this Sa saturday and sunday ath and ath with the saints and expect two or four more elders here to day or to morrow this branch ie is in a bad condition but we vie hope to get them more united I 1 suppose you know nil all bout about the elections by now but we e only know how this precinct went Eiery everything thing can be going on 10 or 20 miles away and we know noth ing of 0 it I 1 have observed Ned that all the darkies are republicans so the whites or are demo denio arati rata if the negroes were to turn democrats the whites would have to turn doubtless Doubt lebs noll ou remember rending of the south carolina constitutional co convention Mention earls earl thi beir when thov the frail framed led a new constitution NN which pro provides ides that before a citizen can legaski lio lie inest be ablo able to read and ihlam intelligently an portion of the instrument the officers enforce strictly on oil the negroes ne groeb so atha tha a email por tion of the colored citizens have guffra guf frase gr e on the pt ma hand a white tte man marl can carl 4 yet ate whether he can read write etc or not while mile the law may be all right the execution thereof is an out and out fraud the state has bas about population and two thirds are colored I 1 do not condemn people on account of not wishing to be domineered by a parcel of blacks yet it is a libel on justice to practice such measures as its are exhibited here right along unlawfully one could not say there is is one honest politician in the state and speak truly politics and religion is on a par as to corruption of course wo we try to purify the latter by instilling truthful principles in to tho the minds of tho the people the former we leave alone actually when I 1 left home I 1 supposed that so called christianity and her nd ad locates had some foundation for their religious S sterna but I 1 find they haie ha tradition and the opinions of lear learned men we have hae had no papers for six NN weeks eels until we arri arrived ed at itt foreston and as ue a are in this neighborhood if lav our papers forwarded ded we are obliged to pay one cent tach unless the post master ga RIVO a that to ui as bus litis bren done ses several era times there nrc man inan things in III fact all things M here winch mould could be peculiar pecullar to utah doi domestic life but the have liao braine ho u Loin nion to tn me tile that I 1 seldom UK nl antion an of it is a left deiy loin ill oil to hoc bee a i r or NN white bilte man illan aidin riding n cow con or nn an ox 0 to town or peu in sumter cita cit pop about one houe in fifty hn 3 ift a stole and the cooking is done in tilt fire with shil ailts pots etc of course in the cities this is not the case count v school houses resemble schools ebirt 3 ears a no 0 we took tool dinner one day at a lads home boine who N its 0 o cars old lio had fi v daughters daugh tera unmarried mid and a daughter ining with nith her lier the junest oun ou nest gest being a or 20 ears of age nud and the old woman lind never nener been ten miles from froin homo home and was in hn ing then within ono one or two miles of the place of her birth and sho site is one in thousands like her if you was to sa the earth is round you have haie an argument on hand I 1 assure you 11 E S |