The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
DAReAN GOES TO DARLINGTON.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE THE THEME
OF HIS TALK.

He Announces That He Selected
Darlington as the Place for the
Delivery Of His Speech With n Spe-
ciaI object After EdRencId's Re
fusaI TO Hear Him-SOme of His
Most Pointed Utterances.
Columbia. s. C.. July 1O.-Col. Dargan.
who was mobbed in Edgeheld two weeks
ago. and not allowed to make an address
on universal suffrage, spoke in Darlington
to-day. The most pointed sentences in
Col. bargains speech were the following.
from which one can judge the temper
moving him:
Il have selected this place after Edge
field deliberately. If I have acquired no
right as a native of the state to speak
in every county thereof. in regard to a
state measure. surely being born in this
county. and having spent the first twenty
five years Of my life here. will be a sufh-
Client guarantee Of my good purposes to
warrant you in according me the privi-
lege. that should be accorded every Ameri-
can citizen, that of speaking my mind. 1t
is a pleasure to be here at the home Of
my ancestors. maternal and paternal for
many generations back, to answer the
charge that have gone back on as the
expression is. and proven faithless to my
high inheritance, because, forsooth. have
alleged that their view of the negro prob
lem has proven to be an unwise one.
II am here to deny that our fathers
were unwise in instituting the system of
slavery. or in holding on to it so tena-
clously, and to say that the very causes
that led them to this blunder, are operat-
ing to-day with full force to lead us to a
similar mistake. Despite the luminous
facts Of history that should destroy our
fear of the negro, we are to-day still
blinded by raging negro-phobia, We
held on to slavery. soley because we be-
lieved honestly that the negro would not
work under the free system, and that the
loss of three great staples, cotton rice
and sugar. to the world would follow the
emancipation of the blacks. That their
savage natures would re-assert them
selves, and that under freedom they
would destroy our homes and slay our
people by wholesale. But the blood
hounds, the lash, and the auction block,
the hated incidents of slavery are gone.
and the south, where 1t existed, makes
nine million bales of cotton where it made
three million before. And the negro is
less insurrectionary with full liberty TO
bear arms, and hold meetings night or
day, than he was under the severest re,
strictions of slavery. So II seems that
liberty and civil liberty have made him a
more productive labOrer, and better be-
haved neighbor. We have given him
books and bullets and he has not hurt the
country by their use.
Now come those who wish to win
power and pelf, by ring methods. to get
full control of the election machinery, and
seem to be about to have the end easily
reached, by paralyzing us with negropho-
bia. Not satisfied with all we have suf-
fered in the past, through this groundless
fear, we must go on suffering. Have our
state converted into den of thieves and
perturers. From the highest to the lowest
officer perjury is to be stamped in indelN-
BILE letters upon every official forehead in
order to keep down the negro, fearing
lest with his liberty will come his domina-
ton of the white race. SaVages kill all
who are not of their tribe upon sight, ami
l sometimes fear that our moral rudimen-
tary muscles are easily revived, for they
seem to spring into activity under the
least provocation. In the fear, jealousy
and hatred of different skin from ours,
many Of us are savages still In so far
as we have obeyed the mandate of Jesus
Christ, peace, and pleasure, and plenty
have come to bless us, and is so far as
we have disobeyed them, torments and
disastrs have been our portion,
My proposition is that we ignore abso-
lutely the presence of the negro as
threatening element in our society. Make
laws for all alike. That we take from the
governor the appointing power of man
ayers of election, because he has too much
in terest in the results, and give it to the
grand juries of the several counties in
the state. Let us see that both sides are
represented on the boards, and my word
for it. the negro's free ballot under such
conditions will not be half so bad as ring
methods, with fraud, perjury and lying
permeating every department of the gov
eminent"
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