Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SENATOR TILL MAN'S SPEECH. (Continued from page 1 ) the nuritv and honesty of the South ern attitude. I say here, from my observation and I claim to know something about it. that there is among the Northern people little or no sectional hatred left. 1 have been among them. I have tested them . I have touched their nerves, if thev have any. on the raw. 1 have never seen anywhere any indication of hatred for the South as the South. And the people of the North are no longer blinded bv pas slon. Newspapers of a political char acter are contending for political rea sons for the maintenance of the set tlement and the continuance of the* adjustment of the issue after the war. I do not care to go into the political phase of this question, to point out the number of negro votes in the North, which compel in a way, the continuance of that attitude. We wore told, until this happy adjustment <in regard to this resolution about Brownsville, that the leader of the Republican cohorts had threatened and had prepared a resolution to in vestigate conditions in the South in regard to elections. Mr. President, the South has no fear of an investigation of that kind. It nii^ht have been dangerous fifteen or twenty years ago. but It can no longer do us anv harm. We court it; at least I do. We have no objection in the world to an investigation from ton to bottom and from end to end of elections North, South, East, and West. Of course the composition of the committee might be partisan. They might not undertake to arrive at the facts and get some real Insight tnto conditions, to set about a states manlike work of relieving an intoler able situation. But I do not hesitate to sav here and now that if this Is sue is present ’d to the American peo pie unless I am mistaken about that people, if they are made clearly to mderstand what is involved in the conditions in the South now, and what will come inevitably in the near fu ture the/ can no longer and never win bp rallied again under (he cry of • free vote and a fair count for the •ount for the negroes of the South. The RepubMcan party itself has forsaken its old war cry of “the fath erhood of Ood and the brotherhood of man” They have d°nied the Fili pinos any participation in the govern ment. proclaiming that thev are not €t. The Southern people know they wr? unfit. We do not dispute it; but in the name of common sense and honest dealing, if the Filipinos are unfit, why are the negroes fit? Every body knows that your Caucasian •tands first, your Mongolian 8 Q cond, four Mala'- third, 3*our Indian fourth, and your negro fifth in the scale of civilization as fixed by ethnologists. We have had to deal with the other four races besides our own. We have excluded the Chinese Why? In or der to satisfy the selfish desire of whito men who are Interested. We have butchered the Indian and taken his land. We have settled him. We have denied that the Malay Is fit. Yet here we stand proclaiming that the African Is fit. The disfranchisement of the negro in the South for the time being has been acquiesced in by the people of the North without protest, but the fourteenth and the fifteenth amend ments are the law of the land. Of course there is great doubt as to whether thev w°re ever adopted In a constitutional wav. I should like to hear the Senators from Wisconsin ann Ohio, after studying the question a little, argue the point as a Dur°ljr lees' one. without reference to politi cal conditions. As a discussion of the race ques tion in general goes on throughout the country and the future status of the negro in the United States and how- to ameliorate conditions which are well-nigh intolerable now will more and more attract • attention to the fundamental question as to wheth- er or not the races are equal must come to the front. It will be settled finally on that basis, yes or no. If the majority of the white people make up their minds that the negroes are not their equals, they will sooner or later put It in the law that they shall not have a part of the inherl tanre of the white race. There was an irrepressible conflict in 18G0 between slavery and freedom; between the idea of a confederation of States and a perpetual Union. Is thorp any man hold enough to deny that there is an irrepressible contlict now ; between •civilization and barba rism and that the living together up on an absolute plane of equalitv of the two races in the South—one the high est. the othe the lowest in the scale —is an impossibility without strife and bloodshed? L^t the newsnapers of the country answer. Take up on any day you -'leas© a paper published anywhere <nd read of these conflicts and mur lers and ravalshings, and all that sort >f ihing. Is it too much for me to av that th« American people want ‘his question Investigated and dis missed calmly and without passion or -'artisan bias, and have their lawmak- "•s here set about trving to do some king? That is all I am trying to ac •omnlish. I do not expect to live to »><•« any change In the constitution of he United States one way or another, doubt if there is a man In this cham n r w'ho will ever see it changed by imendment. But I do not nlead for the white eonle of the South alone. As the u ! - imate conclusion of this issue we will -iko care of ourselves, and If we can 'ot do it without help we will "et i" V North all the recruits who believe i white supremacy and white civil! stio-’ that we want or n-'ed. Th-rnk "od. “blood is thicker than water.’’ M* we do not want to have to go trough the fearful ordeal and crime f butchering the negro. I r n aliz.o that there are millions of ood negroes, if thev are let alone '’d not ta"' r ht heresies and crimlna 1 ''oughts and feelings and actions. 1 v ’o , ild like to s^e this good, easy -ood for nothing people given a ■’'anoe to live. Give them justice- Mve them equal rights before the law: a able them to get pronerty and keen t. and he nrotect°d in its eniovment: We them life, liberty, and the nur- ”.it of hanniness. provided their hap dness does not. destroy mine. The Senator from WHsconsin read '’e other dnv with great pathos and effect, the eloquent speech of Henry Trady. There is not a line or a sen *ence in that, noble deliverance to which I do not subscribe. The negoea whom Grady described were Ui a ne -'roes of the old slave days—the ne groes with whom he played in child hood, the negroes with whom I play ed in childhood, the negroes who knew thev were inferior and who never presum'd to assert, equality. For these negroes there is through out the South a universal feeling of resneet and love I have not got it here, but 1 have at. my home in the citv a photograph of one of these. I might term him “Old Black .loe,” for he is a fullblooded negro, about GO years old. He has been living with me thirty-five years. He now has the keys to mv home in South Carolina. He has full charge and control over my stock, my plantation. H© is in every way a shining example of wfiat the negro can be and how he can get along with the white man peacefully and pleasantly and honor ably enjoying all of his liberties and rights. But he has never meddled with voting. He occupies the same attitude as the white man and, the ne gro do in this District. They do not meddle with voting. I do not hesitate to say. however, that a more loyal friend no man ever had. Every child that 1 have would share his last crust with that negro tomorrow. Gradv spoke of the loyalty of the slaves during the war. and the Sena tor from Wisconsin amplified the pie- lure in eloquent phrase. I myself, as a schoolboy of 13, saw the Confeder ate soldiers as they took- their depar- j ture for the front, to battle for home an 1 liberty. I saw the parting ho | direful tragedies. It Is doubtful whether anything that we can do can undo the wrong that lias been oerp>! : trated already, whether (he not.-on can he extracted without producing its results. We in our country exemp- 1 l,v as near as has ever b i en exemp lified in history a condition depleted In the Bible. There is a phrase there ver’- 111 tie understood. I never my- e if understood it until I made an In vestigation injo Jewish antioutios: Oh, who will deliver me from the Imd / of this death? What does it mean? It was the law of the J ’wish that for certain forms of homicide certain black and bloody murders, the murderer should be stripped naked and his victim strip ped naked and th? dead man’s body chained to the bodv of the living man. hack to back, limb to limb and the two left alone. The flies and the vermin which are produced and at tracted bv putrefaction brought about the inevi'able result. The decaying carcass fastened to the living in the | e« ' produced death in the most hor : rihle form. I In 18G5 the South, prostrate and bleeding and h Ipless. a very Nlobe of nations, had the dead carcass of | slavery chained to it by the fourteen- jth and fifteenth amendments. For eight vears two States labored under | It. One after another the others had thrown off for a litt'e while the in cubus—not getting loose, but simoly I getting relief, (r ing able to stand un, to move to breathe, and to make some | Progress. But. there the carcass hangs, riveted to our civilization. The putrefaction is going on. As re turn to barbarism is evident in every day of our contact with these neonle in th« South. Relieved from police control, they are no longer compell ed. as the Indians have been bv the troons, to stav on their res ’rvations. These negroes move where they "lease. Thev have a little smattering of education. Some of them have white blood in the'r veins and talk that they are as good as the white man. They ask. Why not as good as a white woman? And when class feeling and race pride and ever/ in stinct that inflii- pees and controls the white women to snurn the thought, rane follows. Murder becomes a mo- noinonia: he is a fiend in human form. We can not police those people to day under the fourteenth amendment without taking f’-om the whites their own liberties. In mv desneration to seek some remedy to prevent rape ?nd not havo the necessity of aveng ing rane I have gone so far as to nlead with the people of the South to inagurate a passport system, by I which we should keep in control and i supervision all of the wandering classes, white and black. Race hatred grows day by day. V \ \ rgencies ed Home on the Farm r-hr -»v *•-» .i. S n \ 3 J5 -a whol* Lminveivt medicine chest Price O ^ 50c 6 * 1.00 kor Free BoohM or. Horses,Cattle. Hogs & ftDultry. AocPess Dr. E&rl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass. jenci v/ naoMBK are the rulers of the land, who can change this or do something to relieve conditions, what are you going to do about it? Are tou going to sit quiet? If nothing else will cause you to think, I notify you. what you already know, that there are a billion dollars or more of Northern capital invested in the South in railroads, in mines, in forests, in farm lands, and self-in terest, if nothing else, ought to make you set about hunting some remedy for this terrible situation. As it is the South is helpless. We can do nothing. It is not worth while for us to propose anything. All we can do is to maintain our present at titude of resistance, to maintain our octroi of our State government, and tdRubmlt to whatever you see fit to do in national affairs, because under no conditions do we ever hope that the South man regain control of this gov ernnient. We are one third of the no- mlation. You are two thirds. Every vear vour number^ are being added to by a million immigrants in the of whites by blacks and blacks by whites, the inevitable, irrepressible conflict between a white civilizatioa and a black barbarism. I plead for the negro as much as for the white man. This body of death U chained to our backs by two constitu tional amendments, and I ask you ia God.’s name. I ask you in the name of civilization, I ask you in the name the virtue and purity of the white wo men of the South, to do something to relieve us from the body of thlo death (Applause in the gallerieo.) Neighbors Got Fooled. “I was literally coughin gmyseifto death and had become too weak to leave my bed; and neighbors preulct- ed that I would never leave it alive; but they got fooled, for thanks be to God. I was introduced to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It took jmat four one dollar bottles to completely cure the cough and restore me to good sound health.” writes Mrs. Eva Uncapher. of Grovertown, Stark Co, tween the husband and his family,! kissing one after another of his chil dren. saving the last kiss for the wife mid mother and then turnin'*- to the i group of faithful slaves and shaking j them by the hand, give the parting injunction, "Take care of vour mis | were tress and the children.” How did the slave redeem th" implied They all said “Yes, master” How they lived up to the promise history t o lls. There were in the South at j that time 4.000,000 negroes, 800.000 f mules of adult age. The women and • children of the white men who were ! in the Confederate anriV were left th°re. entirely helpless for support protection, with these negroes. With 800.000 negro men, there is not of re- 1 cord a solitary instance of one white ! woman having been wronged until ! near the close of the war, when some | of the n°gro soldiers who had been j nolsoned by contact came along and 'ornetrated some outrages. The necro slave was true to the aith. When Sherman's army march | 'd through South Carolina, leaving' •ehind it a 40-mile breadth of burned ! ’ouse. the chimneys marklm* where { he habitations of the Confederate I ^Idlms had been, every house that ad a plank on it gone, the women •nd children tu-ned out In the rain nd sleet of February to find shelter ■i the negro cabins, everything to eat urned or having been seized and a-ried off bv the army. I knew some, f these s’aves to eo behind In the I ‘rack of the army and rake un the I 'orn off the ground whe^e the horses j ad been fed. wash it and dry it and ! ’"Try it to the starving wives and j hildren of the white men of the I ’ oiitb. Talk to me about haUng these peo ; le! I do not do it. We took th n m ! s barbarians fresh from Africa, the j ’’•st generation we will say. as some ' f them twice removed som<* of them ! nee removed some of them thrice | "moved, soma of them a fourth re | mved from barbarism, hut the bulk f them onlv twice. We taueht them hat there was a God. We gave th°m hat little knowledge of civ'lizatlon V, ev have today. We taught them to ‘°ll the truth. We taught them not ste^il. We gave them those charac ‘enstics which differentiate vour bar- ar'an and savage from your civlllz- a man. Slavery died, and it ought to have lied The South was not responsible f or it. It had been recognized in the constitution. It had been guaranteed. The slaves had not been broueht from 8fiica in Southern shins. The bar barian was civilized by us. You “truck the shackles off of him. What have you made of him With all the <'onfederate soldiers gone to war. no woman was harmed. With all the white men in the South at home, every week some woman is offer'd up as a sacrifice to this African Mino taur. Senators will all recall the myth of the Minotaur, the monster whi/h came from the sea and ravaged the lands of the Athenians. In order ‘hat the Athenians might g^t relief he made an agreement that if fhev won! ’ nay a tribute of ten youne men and voung maidens every vear he would relieve them from this denre- dntiou. Theseus, but. befor* this harmened, once a year ten maidens were sent to him to be devoured. The South to- .day is offering up anywhere from 40 to 100 maidens and matrons to this modern beast that hai been bred by fanaticism and political gre°d. If the two races are to live together ‘ Qrmf>> rl.til’Af t 'a p V r '' M f hero iq no earthly doubt that unless somethin* is done to relieve the situ There is no man who is honest, going through the South and conversing with the white people and blacks, hut will return and tell von this is tru°. Some of the negroes haT” a good excuse. I will not dispute it If I n«gro I would do probably as thev do. hut being a white man. I do promise? just as I am doing, and T expect to do so. so help me God. as long as I have breath in my body. Then I say to you of th« iV' *th, who North, who stay th re, while none gojlnd. This King of cough and cold to us. The million who came in last cures, and healer of throat and lungs, year represent five congressmen, is guaranteed by Cherokee Drug O®. Thos Q who came in vear before last GOe and $1”" Trial bottle free, represent five more congressmen. There is no danger of political power "ver drifting awav from the North as long as they maintain their superi ority in population. No one expects to see that day i n this day or genera tion. Therefore we say to you—I take the responsibility, if I am alqjie, of saying to you—it is your duty to do something. It is your duty to move. It is your duty to begin the discus sion For the time being the South is oc- supying an attitude of waiting. It is occupying an attitude of constant friction, race riot, butchery, murder A tissue builder, reconstructor, builds up waste force, makes strong nerves and muscle. You will realiz® aft r taking Hollister’s Rock Moun tain Tea what a wonderful benefit It will be to you. 35 cents. Tea or Tab lets. Gaffney Drug Co. —Just received every imaginable kind of vegetable seed. Buy seed In bulk, why pay for the paper. Gaff ney Drug Co. -Garden seed sold in hulk or to 5 cents papers at Gaffney Drug . the seed store. « For Twenty-one Years Royster’s Fertilizers TRADE mark >• mm m REGISTERED have been, the standard because they are made from honest materials. See that the trade mark is on every bag. None genuine without it. F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO®, Norfolk, Va. HOLLISTER'S Rocky Mountain 'ea Nusgelt A Busy Medicine fjr Busy People” Brings Gulden Health und Renewed Vigor. 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