The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-04-05
to us as it treated tho Southern ne.
groes, aud that is the reason why
charge it with hypocrisy.

groes, aud that is the reason why
charge 1t with hypocrisy.
MIR. SPOONER. MIR. President. In,
Republican party WAS not responsih,,
for it. The Republican party, II i,
true. after the war had ended gave I,
the colored man the right TO vote. mo
Republican party did not enact th,
Legislation upon the theory that il was
necessary in order to prevent future
Democratic successes. AT that duy NJ
one dared to prophcsy that the old
Democratic party Of the war limr-
would live very much lougcr: no on.
| !Oresaw It's wonderful vitality.
The Republican party cuartuJ ,p.f
leglslation, wisely or uDwiscIy, because
there bad been enacted IN thc South.
ern States what were called 'DIIrIk
codes,' which almost restored The co..
orcd man TO slavery. lno Republican
party enacted that lCgis at,un IN 0r,;pr
TO give the negro Il weapon Of defense
against such Legislation; aud they en-
acted it., ar. president, ia order tn
maiutain in the sight OF God nDu bn
fore ell the w0rli in good faith. in letter
and in spirit, the Proclamation NJ
emancipation which had been signed
by Abrabam Lincoln; Goa bless nIn
memory forever Applause IN the
galleries.
MIR. TILLMAN. la the first piacr,
MIR. President, let it not b. 5urgD,Icp
that n dealing with the race Q.r.yfon
IN the South those Of the Suuihrv.
r2CpIe who were engaged in the civil
va, the Confederate war, had inherit.
e.. those slaves. They had been TAUGHT
from childhood that the cyi.,cpce Of
slavery was not wrong, morally or
legally. The author OF the Declaration
OF Independence was u Shareholder: the
constitution recognized slavery: and
after the strife was over and the issue
had been settled by thc sword. the
question as to the disposition Of the
emaDctpated slaves was, ,of course, "a
very pcrpIcHing one.
The Senator says that but for the
enactment by the Southern legislatures
OF the "baCk Codes" In which there
was to be Is practical restoration Of
slavery under the guise OF liberty
there would have been 90 enfranchise-
ment OF the cX.slavcs; that they would
not have been given the ballot History
does not state that and the condition
OF politics at the time does not war.
rant it. Those who voted for it, or
some Oi them. were no doubt honest in
the belief that IL was necessary, but
there is no earthly doubt but that
Interior and baser motives were as the
root OF it. There was first Is desire of
'eNcngc by putting the cX.slavcs in
control Of the Southern STATES and put.
ting white nGcks under black heels.
There Was ncXta desire TO pcrpatuatc
the domination Of the Republican
party in the United States.
Then, when it comes to q comparison
OF the action Of the two parties, ! say
TO the Senator that there arc great
many wrongs that the ncRrocs have 10
suilcr IN the South. and there will con
tinuo to be many. Neither he nor any.
body else can help it; and no legisla-
tlOn which can be enacted can help i. .
1t can only cure itself in u better at
mospherc, and be solved by the people
concerned. because outside iDDuencc
and outside interference would only
aggravatc the >trOuble and more en-
6roil the fray.
But want to call the attention Of
the Senate to the fact that we have in
the past month had introduced here
from a Republican committee a pro.
vision upon the Hawaiian bin by which
contract slaves in that island were to
be governed under Is similar black
code TO that which we enacted in South
Carolina and in other Southern States.
You sought to perpetuatc that cOndi-
tion In your own bill, for the benefit OF
tie sugar planters, until IL was stricken
out ny motion on the part Of the
Senator from Nj Massachusetts,