The progress., 1891-03-07

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want to surrender to the rule of the
people, and they use the frightful bug
| bear Of negro rule to scare the white
man and drive him under the yoke
that has been bearing heavily upon
him for more than century.
At no period in the history ofrecon-
struction has there ever been negro
domination in thesouth. Afithegood
Offices were occupied by white men.
There neveEwas negro governor, NJ
torney general. comptroller general
All of.the Judges save one or two were
white men. Ninety-five per cent OF
the tax collectors were white men.
Ninety per cent of the tax assessors
were white men. With one exception
all the state treasurers were white
men. Eight-tenths OF the Republican
congressman from the south were
white men, and still they talk ofnegro
supremacy and really make the north
believe that it existed, when i'll reality
it never existed, and at every election
the candidates OF the native whites, II
they sought the vote OF the republican
party, have received the same treat
ment the negroes or carpetbaggers r..
ceived.
Col. r. p. Blair, OF South Carolina.
was the candidate of the independent
white republicans and greenbackers III
1880, n native South Carollna4.
from one of our first families in blood
and wealth, had no negt oes on ms
ticket, but announced himself as the
candidate OF party that WAS oppos.
ell to the oligarchy established and
was succeeding to divide the white peo-
ple. For that reason and no other.l
he was notitied 10 come ntf thestlcket.
He refused, and lie was kIHedsa tfoon
day by n citizen OF his town. fhe gov
ernor who was counted IN rewarded
the slayer oil his competitor by ap-
pointing him high sheriff of Insecurity
I.ynchersa OF the innocent ale elected
to Office in my state.
A veritable set OF fools i,.w of our
party leaders have been. They Will
listen to all the cheap sentimentah,y y
sounded under the name OF negro dom
nation and business prostratloh, be
swerved from a pighted duty to "
faithful constituency the country over.
The elections bill can not and will not
prostrate business. It can not and
will not, retard the progress OF the
south. But it will go long
way toward the protection OF
Republican institutions; it will permit
both races OF the south to vote for ma,
tional repre- sentation; it viii proteet
those voters; it. will count those votes;
it will establish an equilibrium be-
tween both sections and secure honest
representation; it will make both
races who are loyal to the republican
partysin the south feel that they are
protected in their rights OF citizenship
by the party to which they have
.clung, blindly supported ard followed, !,
even with their lives.
Mr.. Chairman Il Il ahsoIpcthe president
and our party leaders III this branch
from the charge Of direleetion toparty
duty or contenptible desertion OF
southern republicans Without favor
to any at all times this majority has
done its simple duty tolis. But what
must | say, what can say for the ac-
tion of q few of those in the other end
of this building? ALI, Mr.. Chairman,
they have too readily accepted the
false pleas rendered and the apparent
sociLl courtesies extended by the ene-
mics of Republican Institutions. and
the universal righ ossman; they have
been led astray, ind they have vio-
lated every pledge by which they have
stood and to which our party is tied.
What is to be the result? Itremble
for it; to think about it fills me witt.
awe and causes me to she'd bitter
tears of anguish fo- the future, for
right is right. Justice, like a volcanic
fire, may sleep suppressed awhile, but
of us when The slumbering embers OF a
smoldering volcano rekindle and burst
forth with all their fury i5unknown Ia
us; it IS locked up to be witnessed
with all its horrors in the not far dis
tant future, am afraid The wheels
of progress cannot be reversed; every
right, because it Is right, must be SO
cured sooner or later; TO postpone it
is to quadruple its violence and the
dire consequences that are. bound to
follow. The revolutionary fathers
submitted to he,planting Of slavery
in new territory, against the protests
OF Jefferson; their yielding was. a
crime. The weak; sickly yielding OF
senator's here to false sentiment will
be recorded by future historians as q
crime against the rights OF man. False
leaders may .deceixe an entire people,
men deluded by false ambition may
mislead, may beguileS and entrap an
entire section, but the day ofreckoning
must come, and to delay an evil is to
aug nent the volume and increase the
horrors
On the Goth OF June last, i'm this
chamber, the gentleman from South
Carolina (Mr. Hemphill) said
Why. sir, remember al an'eleetion in south Care
llna In 1873. whene there was q thousand United
STATES soldiers sent to watch the polls In one
county. We are not afraid OF this bill personally
for many OF us have marched IN 'front.' OF the gift
tering bayonets OF the soldiers Of the United
States to cast our ballots as feeemen The gov.
ernment sent thousand soldiers into our county
and the result was that every one OF them Ii said
10 have voted the democratic ticket. and VIC had
bigRet majority than We ever had before incur
lives. [Laughter.l
Now, Mr.. Chairman, it would be q
hardship on the gentleman from
South Carolina (Mr. HemphilD to
hold him responsible for the truthful-
ness of the above statement, for be-
lieve he thought he was repeating his
tory as it had been made by my party;
he really believed that seventy three
Union soldiers were q thousand. The
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr.
Tillman), in great speech before the
braves in his districf, warned them
not to say too often anything that