The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-10-18

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and we got all the bitterness and ashes.
| am not going to speak Of that. | just
want to attract your attention to 1t,
| that those of you in this Western coun-
try who are our allies in everything,
who have been following the banner OF
New England and those Eastern man.
ufacturing States in your efforts to crush
and eDslave the Southern people by
your adherence to the Republican
party-those of you who have been told
to vote as you shot and have done it
I simply want to say to you that l am
glad that daylight is at last dawning
and that you realize, after twenty-five
years, that We have a community OF
interests between the South and West,
and you are turning to US with longing
eyes to come and help you battle for
yoar own interest, and undo the wrong
you have done to US. [Applause.] We
can stand anything down our way.
| Laughter Our climate is 80 genial, ,
our soil so fertile that we have been en-
abled to rehabilitate our country and
to enter the race with the Northern
people, long ways behind it is true,
but still rapidly gaining. Although
we are behind you in the production OF
iron, we are steadily approaching you
| in that, and the same is true in the
manufacture of cotton and other enter
prises.
The interest the farmers down there
have paid since '65 has amounted to
from 10 to 100 per cent. for. what we
have bought on credit, and yet we have
stood it, and we are not 80 deeply in
debt now as you are. Laughter. I tell
YOU that we may have been skinned
BY the financial system and the tariff
so long that we have got no skin left
and have learned to live without it.
| Laughter and applause. It does my
soul good to know that your withers
are wrung, that your backs are being
barred until you have risen up and in
tend to help us grow some skin our
selves in order that you may save your
own. lGreat applause
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
| What is the trouble with us? What
has teen the bone of contention? The
| negro question. The Republican party
has been waving that old rag-the
bloody shirt-and has made accusa-
tions Of murder and Of bulldozing, of
ballot box stufing and all that sort of
thing, but the greatest curse Of all to US
has been those who we're told to vote
as they shot and who have followed
blindly the dictation of Republican
orators and voted on sectional and race
lines only. You shot US back into the
Union and we intend to stay there.
(Applause.) We are ready to help you
to make it real Union. (Applause. }
We are ready to shake hands across
the bloody chasm and throw away the
malice and hatred we have felt for the
wrong we have endured.
Will you let US? (Cries of "Yes!yes"')
Can we trust you? (Cries of eyes! yes!')
But let me call your attention to some
| thing. (Laughter.) A voice: "Spit 1t
| out"
Yes, + am going to spit it out.
(Laughter.) 1t may be bitter, but you
people up here have the fever and
quinine will do you good. daughter
/ have found my old friend, the COVER
nor of Colorado, the most recalcitrant,
red-hot, old-time States rights Demo-
cratI ever met in my life. daughter
and applause.)
He is masquerading as popuiist be-
cause he is ashamed to say he has been
mistaken 80 long. Laughter.) Have
any of you ever heard of the Hamburg
riot? | don't suppose there is a man
here who has not, because 1t was
heralded all over the Union and held
up as typical Southern outrage. Ham
burg is within thirteen miles Of my
home. I am a Hamburg rioter, and [
desire to ask if you would take me to
be man who would murder negroes
in cold blood and without provocation?
(Applause.) We had to rise in our
despair and undertake to restore Anglo
Saxon civilization, or leave our homes.
The rotten government fastened by
Grant upon US from 1858 to 1876 be-
came so burdensome that we preferred
martial law to continuation of robber
government. Well, that is the situa-
tion. There are in South Carolina
100000 male negroes over twenty-one
years of age; there is a 40, 900 negro ma
jority, and they point to that fact az
evidence that thatstate ought to go
Republican.
What do the men in the New England
States, where thousands upon thou
sands are employed in the factories, do
when they want to carry an election?
They say to their operatives, "If you
don't vote like we want you to vote,
YOU can move on" That is all right.
We, down in our country, in our en-
deavor to maintain good government
aud good order, use our means and say,
"If you don't like it, help yourself"
There is 1900 negro majority in my
county, and Grant had regiment of
troops there in '76 trying to prevent US
from carrying it, and we beat then
3,0W votes. Laughter and applause.
make no apology for it. You would
have done the same, and yon would
not have endured one-tenth of what
we had to endure. We were con-
quered people and we had to submit.
THE SOLID SOUTH.
What has kept the South solid? Why
won'titsplit up on economic questions?
you ask. l. lell you, Seutleueu, Gu0io
is but one thing that has kept the
South solid, and that will keep it solid
as long as we are threatened with it,
and that is the fear Of negro domina-
ton, and the restoration Of those gov
ernments that robbed US Of over S15,-
100000 during the short time they were
in existence.
Why don't we vote with you up
here? Why don't we vote with the
Populist? you ask. Why don't we give
you some assurance? I tell you per-
fectly plain and blunt. Let Us under
stand one another. You have been the
most recalcitrant, red-hot black Repub-
licans in this Union. I mean by that
Republicans who are forever and eter,
nally harping about the ''poor negro"
They love him according to the square
ofthe distance, and have used him for
nothing else on the face Of Gods earth
than for perpetuating the Republican
party ir power. Now they talk about
taking away a certain part of our re-
.,resen ntation and disfranchising the