The Opelousas courier., 1895-12-07
White Supremacy.
N. o. Times-Democrat.

N. o. Times Democrat.
In his speech iu> the South Carolin;
contitutional convention in favor of al
educational qualification whereby
majority OF the negroes will be disfran
chised, Senator Tillman put the matte
frankly and forcibly, as follows .Hov
do we obtain our liberties? By fraut
and violence. We tried to overcome
$4,000 majority by honest methods, ana
it was Il mathematical impossibility
By fraud and violence, if you please
we threw it off. In 1878 We had
| to resort to more fraud and vio-
lence. In 1890 we had to resort to more
fraud and violence. Then the registra-
tion and the eight box law were evolved
from the superior intelligence OF the
white men to control this muddy, sur
giDg, mad stream of ignorance and hold
it back, and since then we have carried
out elections without resorting to any
| OF these means simply because the
| whites were united. Ii we were to re-
| main united it would be enough.
This serpent lies in sleep only
| to be warmed up again into life
when some more white rascals from
home or abroad come here aud or
ganize it. The only thing that we can
do is to take them from under the laws
OF the United States"
Some of the Northern papers are OBJ
jecting to this as brutally, impudent-
iy, branZenly frank" So it is, but it is
the truth, and it is useless to disguise it.
The South cannot afford to take any
chances in this matter. 1t must make
its elections safe against all possible
contingencies.
The danger from the negro vote is
fuliy rannpni2pl apA tho ri iyi1i1at ~
the South must be protected from it,
Leading Republicans in Louisiana, only
the other day, at DonaldsonvilIe, and
again at New Orleans, declared against
negro rule, denounced it as violently as
the Democrats have ever done, and de-
clared that the State should take some
steps to protect itself against the negro
by the proposed constitutional amend
ment. With the rarest exceptions, the
Northern press, Republican as well
as Democratic, has declared this ac-
ton of the Southern whites justifia-
BILE, aud promised that they would do
nothing to interfere with it. And even
in England. where there is a sentimental
belief in the full equality of the "man
and BROTHER" it is now acknowledged
that the action of the Southern States ia
justifiable, it not right, and it is neces-
cnl y AOt SitIiNutiuu tudb ali pOiiItCit
power should remain in tue hands Of
the whites.
With all tile world urging on this
point, it would be foolish indeed on our
part il the Southern States neglected to
do what Mississippi has done, what
South Carolina is now doing, aud what
Louisiana proposes. II ia we'll to be
frank and honest in the matter aud tell
the world exactly what we propOse-tO
place political power in the South in
the hands OF its white voters.
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