The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-08
SOME PLAIN TALK
INDUCED In by Senator TiIlnan to
the Outlook Club.
SYNOPSIS OF HIS REMARKS.
He Tells the New Jersey People
That the Negro Will Never
Have Equal Rights in
4ho Gn,i%L
the South,

United States Senator Benjamin R.
Tillman, Of South Carolina, and the
Rev. Dr.. a. Il, Bradford, Of the First
Congregational church of Montclair, N.
j., talked before the Outlook club
there recently OF THE Race Question
in the South" Senator Tillman, after
drawing picture Of the ruin and desc
lation caused in lis land By the civil
conflict, said:
'The white man is superior to the
colored man, and, Cod helping US, we
will maintain that superiority. Your
great soldier, Grant, sent to my coun-
try in 1876 regiment of ten companies
to maintain carpet bag government.
Those troops had orders to compel
free, vote and a fair count. They did
their duty as they saw it. They main
tanned Law and order, although 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 out
voting and> outcounting them, and we
admit it. We can't repeal the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments ex-
| cept by force and fraud. I told the
senators this in Washington and then I
said: What are you going to do about
it? In the North it is a question of
white rascals against white rasca1s. In
the South it is a contest between An.
glo-Saxon superiority and civilization
and degraded, corrupt and corruptible
people.
I'VE called a constitutional con7en-
tion and created constitution under
which every man must be able to read
or write or pay taxes on $500. UMder
that constitution 80 per cent. Of the
whites and 10 per cent. Of the blacks
vote. The colored people are happy
go-lucky, immoral, untruthful, unrelia-
bic race. There are exceptions and
| bright ones, but | speak of the great
mass. They were unfit for the ballot
and are 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.
I simply recognize my superiority to
the black man and am willing TO com
sent to his life, liberty and happiness
so long as he does not step on my feet.
(Laughter.) Take a pilgrimage to
the South. Settlein any part you may
please, and if you don't come North
convinced that my view is the right
one-why, then, I'll stand treat. I
have Negro on my plantation 27 years
old. | would trust him with my wife
and child and he would die protecting
them, but he amt fit to vote. You
cant alter what God has made and
though this or that Negro may be de-
cent man or an honest man, yet the
tiger is loosened in white man bosom
without regard to consequences when
the two races come in contact.
Speaking of the Negro from the in
dustrial standpoint, Senator Tillman
said: He is by nature and by every
instinct Of his soul loafer. His one
purose 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 its laboring class.
But don't think that the Negro does all
the work. The South produces II, 000,-
900 bales of cotton last year and one
half of it was raised by white men. Il
any. commonwealth will give US one
good industrious white man for three
niggers, well swap as long they'll keep
up the exchange. We've got the white
mans burden down there"
in closing, the speaker said: "We.
are educating them, but even if they
csn learn, We don't propose to have
them govern us. Well use the shot
gun if.nscsssary."
DR.. Bradford, il reply, denied that
We cant alter what God has made.
He said: That's what We are doing
all the time &c read statistics and
letters from various institutions Of
learning in the North, showing hat the
! Negro was capable Of taking q high in
telIectual stand.