The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-26
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'Nenstor McLaurin Calls Attention
: SO the Thirty Years OF Negro En'
: !; frapchisement.-Un SuTraRe
Returns to Plague the Inventors. .
Hon. John e.. McLaurin, the junior
Senator from South Carolina, IN d
carefully prepared arguments agalnst
the policy of expansion, brought to
fercibly the fact that uni-
versal sugrage has groven u monu-
mental fhiiure:in the Southern Statea:
His remarks in the Senste were in part
as follows:
serioue auestions growing out OF the
war with Spain are now absorbing the
attention Of the American people. All
@ras deeply Interested, and upon this
body is devolved,their final settlement.
EaIn satisfied that our action in the
aexth month will settle tho question
of expspBiOn. There are at this time
In the Senate and nation at large two
Well-deGned and distinct views, one Of
q ,policy'of expansion, involving:a new
dehnttlon pf nGr; government anu the
AuAuS uEbblOu Va u COAohloi v 'y'~eoua3 WAeiA
Rll the'perplexing- .prablems lnotdent
ko slt.,. The Other; ;xlew Opposes i'm
and is based upon the gov
ornamental policy Of Lhe last century,
and In my Judgment Is tho only posi-
sionsthat is IN harmony with the con-
and the spirit and genius OF
institutlons.
AS Senator, representing, In port,
the State Of South Carolina, 1t Ia my
duty" to express my convictions in no
nScsrtain terms upon q Quehtion so
yitaAy affecting !the interests OF my
State and tho destiny Of this nation.
I'm this crisis every Senator must decide
iOR htmself i he is responsible to mono
saVa his>State, his nation aud. his God.
For myself, shall carefully consider
all proposed legislation, and earnestly
ehdeaVor to act under the inspiration
Of. an ,unselAsh and broad patriotism,
With 9 due sense of the responsibility
upon me. -.
! feel that u representative from.
South Carolina Is peculiarly qualified.
DO speak% upon one phase OF the ques-
bion, and it is that pertaining. to the
Incorporation OF q mongre) ana semi
population lnlU oar body
politic; o population that, su lar. as 1,
san ascertain, is inferior to but akin to
the negro in moral and intellectual
qualities and incapacity for self-gov!
ernment. The experience OF tha'South
Tor the past thirty years with the aegro
RAGE: -is .praghsnt. with lessons OF Wis
1Om for our guidance In the Philip
pines. It is passing strange that Sena-
kors WHO favored universal suffrage
snd the: full enfranchisemen Of. the,
negro should now advocate, imperi-
alism.' -. -! -t4 . -.
!, ;In other. worda, that territory cau be
by. conquest, heldas q colony.
md, its-inhabitants treated as vasealp.
father than citigens-g0verned- BY
rule or legislation not au-
shorjzed by the constitution. There is
) glaring Inconsistency in these posi-"
btQns. If they. are sincere in their
ztews as c'to:@the. Philippines, they
should propose an amendment to the
,onstitution,Which will put'theinferior
sSnts s$af. the: Philippines upou an
as to their civil and political
fights, and thus forever. settle the
vexoH Tace and S,su ffrage QUESTION: In
this country: "a well%as the outlying
How can they consistently, justly;
and, might add, constitutionally, adj
gecate ,a-policy' outlying terrttories,
ON bracing races 80 nearly alpin to the
negro, which differs 30 radically from
the policy adopted las to that race In
The Southp There can be but one an
swer to that question, and that is that
bhey substantially. admit, tns,the light
Of third ofra >century's experience,
that universal suffrage is Q monumen-
tai failure aud that the time has come
for the correction Of this; stupendous
error. .:,y
Prof. Thomas Muller, GSouth Caro-.
lima, q former Congressnffsn and one OF
the most highly accomplished and able
representatives: Of his. race in Ameri-
ca, In recent speech delivered In
South Caroline ON" the anniversary of
Emancipation Day, said:
.;hlWho is 1T hat stands day ip.the
United States Senate and warns! ne.
Groeg end white mon OF the South that
Right. TO vote Vs.. not u gift from the
nation, but. O matter left with each
sovereign; State to be.rcgulated that
ie, to be given or taken awayp Why,
it ia O man from New England, the
great Republican Senator Platt. And
why has this great change come over
the North In relation to franchise. ?
Why do they yield to this principle
that has always been claimed by the
South 1? This great Now England Re.
publican and august Senator from q
sGv6refgn State stands In the Senate
Chamber and virtually admits that the
and fifteenth amendments
are nugatory and Of no effect"
.iI.congratulate the Senator from Con.
necttcut upon his speech, or rather
upon the construction Of it by Professor
Miller. and sincerely hope that he
will not destroy my good opinion OF
his candor. BY attempting TO explain 1t
hwey as he did on Monday In his con-
tfoversy" with the Senator from Mas
Sscnusetts. His admission Is credit.
able to his sense Of Justice and patrlo'
tism, Universal suffrage In the South
long since .degenerated into o race
qu9stfon, and as such led to the practi.
cal elimination Of the negro from poll
tiGs,; o policy that 10 to-day wisely ad
,vocated by the great leaders OF the
race like Professor Miller and Booker
WaaRfhgton, and which in time, with
out outside Interference, under the
Guidance Of tha hest thOuoht ~ botL