Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-11-17
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TRENToN, s. o., NoYsmber 13. e.a-
tor Iillman lhas decided views about the
sace question. Since ne openly declared
that the main purpose OF the Conssitu-
tional Convention was to insure white
supremacy and his plain talks3in North
Caroline. ho is looked upon as . spolses-
man OF the anti.negro domination senti-
mont. To e'iay Tho News and Courier
| Trenton and obtained q pretty FREQ {ex-
preston of his views on the race situa-
tion, with direct bearing on tho recent
PhOnix troubles. He has no patience
with the whites who lead negroes into
!! politics and trouble. fSs "a 81
Senator Tillmen said ",
| The Phpnix riot is an outbreak such
as is liable TO occur In any community
thiclely populated by negroes In any
Southern State. Race anta8onism, which
has existed since the dawn OF hiatory and
will continue to exist while the world
lasts, Is at tho bottom Of 1T. This Benti-
mont or prejudice, or whatever you may
torn it, is stronger than either law or
religion, and is ineradicable. In this
particular case It grew ont Of q greed for
one Of q large family in Greenwood
county--who merely wished to get the
money which .s provided ky Law Ia GASES;
OF Congressional contest, with tho barest
possibility of getting the seat In Congress
itself. Whether the Tolberts were acting
under instructions from the Republican
national committee, or whether they were
active politically because Of the ttesiro to
/ maintain THAR N 1s,ftI !, tIa
is, of course, mere conjecture. In either
case there was no possible hope of Toll
bort boing eleoted. Under tho new CON-
stitution in this State, which is In every
respect similar to that of Mississippi,
with minor differences, which are I'm
provements, and which has been sus-
tained by tho United States Supreme
pared to that of the blacks in that
Congressional District Is /. least 10 to /.
Of course all others are unlawful. do
not believe TOlbert would have been in
terfered with, and that his faroial pro-
ceeding of having box, in which to put
the certificate Of tho unregistered negro
voters. whom he had told to go to the
tors, would have excited only derision
under ordinary circumstances. Tho fact
that tho race issue in North Carolina
had become 80 prominent Of late, that
there was widespread interest and SYM
pathy for the condition of tho white
mon in that Commonwealth, and tho
white mon ut PhOnix, remembering our
own troubles in 1875. were angered by 80
baro-faced and outrageous q travesty on
legal voting, and thus the conflict be-
tween the races was brought about.
The murder of Etheridge was like q
match to magazine, and tho subsequent
shooting of three wl,ito mon from ambush
provoked q degree IF rage and unreason-
ing anger that alono explains the subse-
quent proceedings. Tho Tolberts arc
solely to blamo for all the blood that has
tho State there was not the slightest con.
tlict between the races, and the race
issue, so far as politics is concerned, is
absolutely dormant. OF course the recent
lynching of the three negroes in this
county for tho assassination of an intel
ligont and refined white woman, return
ing to her homo under tho protection of
her husband, has no connection whatever
with the PhOniX riot, and was merely
retributive Justice acting outside Of tho
| law.
The thoughtful student Of government
in tho Southern States, since the expert
mont Of negro suffrage was forced on us
in 1868, has long since realized that one
of two results must follow active partioi-
patton therein by tho negroes. There
must be absolute control of tho negroes
by tho whites in matters political, or
thero will be decentralization and rotten
ness by tho use of the debasod and pur-
| chasablo colored vote. My observation
and experience showed mo long ago
that where there is white leadership
and change with the negroes to con-
troll at tho ballot box, the colored vote
is not purchasable. 1t is only when
| Icnntop1inn Su1,itn foofsono hn
negro as an instrument against each
other that this corrupting clement
enters, and then the race issue is dor
mant, as 1t Is a case of white rascal
against white rascal seeking to control
tho offices. In tho one case tho politics
of given community or State will be-
como moro and moro corrupt, and in tho
other the irropressible conflict between
the races produce bloodshed and the
suppression of tho negro race. The
Anglo-SaxOn race has never been domi-
mated by tho colored race anywhere in
all its history. England has moro to do
with colored races than any other ma
tionality-shan all tho othor nations COM
bincd-and tho Englishman goes about
the conquest and governing of Chinese,
HindoOs, Malays and Africans on the
right to rule. 1t is his birthright to gov
ern, and he governs by law, whero law
vii! do, and by force whore force is nee
essary. The most striking illustration of
this is in India, whore half million or
80 of Anglo-Saxons, including tho men in
the regular army, dominate absolutely
and control two hundred millions OF
Hindoos. If thoro were change
of policy on tho part of the National
Government towards tho colored race in
tho Southern States, and the negro were
allowed to drop absolutely out of poll
tics, great cause for irritation would
DO removed. 1t is n notorious fact that
for twenty years or moro the negroes In
the South, who constitute tho bulk of the
Republican voters, only onter into
national politics as factor in the Repub.
lican National Conventions and as q
means of holding together the old
abolition sentiment, which so long
Republican politics. Il Is alone respon.
sible for the "Solid South" There has
been q great revolution in sentiment and
feeling ut the North on this snbiect, as
, is shown by tho annexation of Hawaii
without any pretence of consulting the
wishes or protecting the interests Of the
colored races there, as we'll as by tho at
| titude of Governor Tanner, of Illinois
in refusing to protect the supported negro
I, minors at Virden and Pana. "BlOod IL
thicker than water'' in Illinois, and
believe in nearly every othor Northern
, State, at this time, and wero IL not 70,
the necessity, or imagined necessity, Of
, controlling tho votes from tho SOutl
In tho National Republican Convention
{ 80 as to insure tho nomination of thit
man or that, thore would bo soon nc
political aspect to tho race question