The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-05-01

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as you would have them do to you"
Still the Confederate soldier, with his
foot ON the neck Of the slave, cried
Liberty or death !" and of his choice
he was given death !! l was a Confed-
crate soldier, but l speak what is
true. We heard not the voices and
lost all. Laughter aud applause
Robert E. Lee said llberate and
arm the slaves that they may help
US fight for local self-government. If
we had only hearkened to him where
would we be now? A voice Con
the mountain top"
"The eyes of the world are on South
Carolina. There must be no distinc-
ton on account of race, color or pre-.
vious condition. If there is then
close your Bibles and stop ringing
your church bells. Don't say that
religion aud politics wont mix. The
good things in politics are those cor.
nected with religion. Candidly, if l
had no other excuse for living that
except. am "white" man that L
would blush until | was a"red man :
Col Dargan then went into ancient
history, and told how the Normans
made the Saxons wear collars and
called them dogs. This was evident
" to show what a poor breed he came
from. and while half the crowd did
not know the difference between a
Norman and a kangaroo they laughed
heartily.
Touching social equality Col Oar
gan said that his house was for people
Of such a color as he preferred, and
in that every ma had a right to be
Judge. 1t was low and contemplate,
however, he said, for white mel to
talk of being superior to negroes.
True nobility of soul seeks to elevate
and not to pull down He then
quoted a passage Of Tennyson, trans
posing the lines afterward to read,
"Kind hearts are better than white
skins"
Standing in the cradle of secession
I will say, in all history there was
not a man I admired more than Will.
liam Lloyd Garrison. He cid 80 much
for me. If it were not for him Ia
be standing on the niger now hold
ing him down. Laughter. 1t is
time to get off aud let him up. The
News and Courier is for holding him
down. l say help him up-for while
you hold him neither he nor you can
accomplish anything.
expect to be frowned on for going
to the colored people, but l. like to
see Charleston frowning. Pm not
mad. / used to be a fool myself
Charleston can look aud look. I in
tend to be a man and will face the
flesh, the devil and the Ne~s and Con-
rier aud everything else. You may
hear that l have been killed, but
You'll never hear that | ran. If my
life is surrendered in this cause
know | shall spend eternity in
Heaven.
Col. Dargau was about to sit down
when the committee urgently re-
quested him to say something about
the constitutional convention the an
nounced subject, which he had not
even alluded to-
The constitutional convention, he
then said, in my opinion will not be
held. But if it is, and | am a mem.
Der, | shall always advocate universal
suffrage. The ballot is an educator.
1t is a moral wrong to take it from
any man. See the condition of South
Carolina to-day. The poor whites
who were bulldozed out Of their sui
frage for years got hold of the ballot
again and gave US Ben Tillman. The
people had been out Oft SO long they
didn't know what to do. Ben wor-
ried us sure. Laughter. Further
back the vote in the hands of the
emancipated slaves. who had never
known it's use, gave US Moses and
Whipper. Now think Chamberlain
was ten times better than Tillman
Chamberlain was really a very good
Governor.
The race question is one of the
most glorious in the world. Two
races as opposite as the poles can and
must live amicably and prosperously
in the South. The Bible says pros
perity will follow when mar recog-
nizes the "brotherhood of man." |
dream of it and believe in it.
The Colonel here sat down.
On motion of j. W. Grant a resolu-
ton Of thanks was unanimously ex-
tended to the speaker.
The Rev. Geo. Rowe made a few
remarks urging the faithful to contri.
butte literally towards the fund to
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