The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-05-05
SHOTGUN Me I HODS.
SENATOR TILLAIAN DEFENDS THE
SHOOTING OF NEGROES
In T4E SOUTH.
SENSATIONAL IN HIS ABUSE.

but to Ignore the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amends
ments to the Constitutions, and
Run the Elections by Force OF
Arms.
Ann Arbor, Mich. April 3o.-The stu
dents of the University of Michigan lis
tened to one Of the hottest TRADES against
Northern interference in Southern meth
DDS upon the reconstruction policy that 1t
was ever their fortune or rather misfer-
tune, If you will to listen to. 1t was an
address delivered at University hall by
Senator T1lman of South Carolina upon
the Race Problem under the auspices
of the Good Government club. He old
not mince things He admitted that the
shotgun and intimidation were the order
of the day to accomplish the disfranchise-
inent of the negro, and that while the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution were not
repealed in fact, they were nullified in
practice by the people of South Carolina.
Among other things, he said: * h
This is not a race or negro question
Of the South alone; it is not a local or
sectional question; it is a national ques-
ton, and this us the only true way to
look at 1t. You in Michigan know practi-
cally nothing about this question. You
Judge only by books and from what you
hear politicians say. who have axes to
grind. The last census gives Michigan
1900 colored and 600, 900 white voters, or
about 1 to 100 If there were to be pro-
saiscuous intermarriage between the races
IN Michigan it would not affect the white
race. s-.,- -. ...., -
But it is different in the South In
South Carolina the negro outnumbers the
wi-ite population in the ratio of GO to "a
after the reconstruction policy had becA
ruled, our state for, eight years. Three
fourths of the legislature of the state
were negroes: Most of them could neither
was state of affairs which the white
population could not tolerate, and we de-
seemined to get rid Of it. we could not
so we used the shotgun and such other
methods as we found expedient. If the
South was left to settle this question, the
solution would be easy and satisfactory to
the entire country, but you send repre-
sentatives from the North to congress
to regulate matters. of which they know
absolutely nothing"
He then went into the history of the
North calls the War of the Rebellion
snd which you can meyer I've make me adit
and said that the very men who claim
to have fought for the freedom Of the
negro and 10 put the ballot in hla hands,
are the men who have recently disfran-
chi1ss the Puerto Ricans and are enc
shaving the natives Of the Philippine.
He said that he stood before the repub--
lican senators Of the United States and
denounced them as "hypocrites;" that he
would have liked to use a term sufficient
ly strong to- express the actual facts, but
not finding the word. all he could do was
n 'hVnOcrHfa' into their
very faces in as venomous and vindictive
manner as was capable Of doing" 4,o
stufhng: Of ballot boxes, and the shotgun
in South Carolina. Well, there were $4,000
negro voters to $4,000 white voters. How
many times will 1872 go into 80? How can
It can't be done. So we got together and
organized every white man from Is years
upward. got arms and carried the cleo
teenth and fifteenth amendments, and
carried the election by force and fraud
and took the state away from the negro.
Michigan and We9Wouldn't have stood IT,,
If we hadn't remembered shernan's
march to the sea, The war freed the
He alluded to the large majority of
natives in Hawaii being governed by the
small minority of whites, also to the pres
garding the Philippines and Puerto
Ricans, and was vindictive In the extreme
at what he deno.ninated as the hypocricy
of the republicans in their inconsistency =.
There were q number Of negro students
In the audience. and turning to them he
stated that their contact with. the whites
deep" like their color. He was Kissed for
this, when he replied: when those who
Kissed will give their daughters to negroes
I will apologize, and not sooner He
said that the little civilization that the
negro possessed is the direct result of con-
tact with the white. He spoil, of the
hatred by the negro for the white as a
race, though he may possess friendship
for individual white men. Daring servi-
tude this hatred did not exist a., ~ proven
by the fact that had it existed, the negro
would have revenged himself on the fami-
lyof his late master: while the latter was
away to the war. This further shows, he
said: that the cruelty mentioned by the
N rSe1,a o.. OF the master toward his
He spoke in most contemptuous man.
ner of the negro. as a race, said they were
lazy, sh1ftless; with no tenacity of pur-
they have deteriorated. Continuing" he
said: 'Educatton is a bar more than
benefit to them: When colored men learn
obtain goods and money. Character Is
the main essential to life and we look
to the teaching of a mother to give the
child in the South hasn't one good mother
in one hundred. Sixty to 70 per cent are
totally lacking in virtue. The venture
The object IF that ahd simifaf Institutions
Is 70 gradnate high grade mechanic ard
their learning would be futile as the white
man would not tolerate hina in COM
Petitiye world. The negro is fit only as
aqqqq in the cotton and rice fieldsV; -a%,> -
He said that he had no fears of tha
race problem prob if the whites in the North
dicted that the Northerner viii viii not ap dare Rar
in the future to repeat its meddlesome-s
1,es - Of the past; az the precedent estab-
Yshsq q re P,hfilippines, Hawaii and
interference. >s.ss-: 5r,s. Sc - 80,
The address was loudly applauded. moro
N account Of Its brazen boldness than
w merit In the talk ?, - =