The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-01
"THE WHITE MANS BURDEN"
Senator Tillman'S Plain Talk IN the
North,

Senator T'illman'S Plain Talk IN the
North.
Montclair, n. j., Feb. 24.-United
States Senator Benjamin r. Tillman,
of South Carolina, and the Rev. DR..
A H. Bradford, of the first Congre-
gational Church, of this place, talked
before the Outlook Club here this
evening on The Race Question in
the South Senator Tiliman, after
drawing picture of the ruin and
desolation caused in his land by the
civil conflict, said
The white man is superior to the
colored man, and, God helping us, we
will maintain that superiority. Your
great soldier, Grant, sent to my coun-
try in 1876 a regiment of ten compa-
nies to maintain carpet-bag govern
ment. Those troops had orders to
compel free vote and a fair count.
They did their duty as they saw it..
They maintained law and order, al
though there were $500 blacks to
$500 whites. What do you reckon
our majority was? Three thousand
nine hundred. Can Tammany beat
that? Can Philadelphia beat it? We
beat these people by outvotins and
outcounting them, and we admit it..
We can't repeal the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments except by
force and fraud. | told the Senators
this in Washington, and then l said:
What are you going to do about it?'
t. : >f ~ t1
rascals against white rascals. In the
South it is q contest between Anglo
Saxon superiority and civilization
and degraded, corrupt and corrupt
BILE people.
I'VE called Constitutional Con-
vention and created Constitution
under which every man must be able
to read Or write or pay taxes on 5000.
Under that Constitution 80 per cent
of the whites and 10 per cent of the
blacks vote. The colored people are
a happy-go-l lucky, immoral, untruth-
full, unreliable race. There are ex-
ceptions and bright ones, but l speak
of the great mass. They were unfit
for the ballot and ;lre now, because
they are lacking in that moral fibre
which gives them sound judgment,
and they can be led away by any
shrewd and sharp rascal. simply
recognize my superiority to the black
man and am willing to consent to his
life, liberty and happiness so long as
he does not step on my feet. Naugh-
teri Take pilgrimage to the South.
Settle in any part you may please,
and if you don't come North con-
vinced that my view is the right one,
why, then, I'll stand treat. l have a
negro on my plantation 72 years old.
l would trust him with my wife and
child and he would die protecting
them, but he amt fit to vote. You
can't alter what God has made, and
though this or that negro may be a
decent man or an honest man, yet
the tiger is loosened in a white mans
bosom without regard to consequen-
ces when the two races come in con-
TACT
Speaking of the negro from the in
dustrial standpoint, Senator Tillman
said: HE is by nature and by every
instinct of his soul a loafer. His one
purpose in life is to get something to
eat for today, with no thought for
the future. In consequence, the
Southern States lag behind the North
because of the lack of thrift in it's la
boring class. But don't think that
the negro does all the work. The
South produced 100000 bales of
cotton last year and one half of it
was raised by white men. If any
commonwealth will give us one good
Industrious white man for three mig
gers, We'll swap as long as they'll
keep up the exchange. we've got
the white mans burden down there" "
In closing the speaker said: I'VE
are educating them, but even if they
can learn we don't propose to have
them govern US. Well use the shot
gun if necessary.
DR.. Bradford prefaced his address
by remarking that he only wished
that he could speak his views before
South Carolina audience and meet
with the same reception as a North
ern audience had given to the previ-
Gus speaker. :.
You'll get the same courtesy y
rejoined Senator Tillman, though
not single man will agree with your
views"
DR.. Bradford asserted that it was
childish to say that we cannot alter
what God has made. That is just
what we are doing every day." he
said. "Are we to leave children just
as God made them or are we to edu-
cate them? What is the colored man
anyway? In more than half the cases
he has more Angle-Saxon blood in
his veins than Ethiopian blood, and
the boasted superior morality Of the
white man caused that"
DR.. Bradford read letters from prof
essors in Harvard, Yale, and other
universities tending to show that the
negro students were as apt as the
whites. He also enumerated the ne
groes who have made themselves
know in art and literature, and paid
tribute to the negro soldiers in the
last war.
Senator Tillnan, in his rejoinder,
wa1ed earnest and emphatic. The
negroes of note just named,n he said.
ARE simply the exceptions that prove
the rule. l say the entire negro race
is lower in the scale than the white
man. God made them so, and they
always will be so.
"You people love the negro ac.
cording to the square Of the distance
you are from him. The further away
he is the more you pity him. We OF
the South are unalterably determin-
ed that mongrelism shall not obtain
there, and quick death is meted out
to the black wretches who violate
our women. l said as Governor OF
South Carolina, and say now, that
l would lead any lynching party to
lynch any man who robbed woman
of her virtue. | have been in four
negro riots and Pm proud Of it.
"As for education benefiting the