Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-07

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ed and raised at her bosom. Why,
Mr.. Chairman, it is lamentable,
it il disgraceful, that it has been
left for one of her own sons to cast
q dart of detraction at her fair
name, at this late day, in the per-
son of the gentleman from North
Carolina Mr.. Linney.] But suffice
1T to say that the dart OF Distraction,
coming from that direction, has
fallen harmless at the feet of him
who cast it, and it will return as a
boomerang upon his own head
He will live to regret the day that he
has sought to defame the name OF
his mother.
That distinguished gentleman
has taken occasion to lug into this
discussion the election laws of the
Southern people. I want to say,
as far as the election. laws of my
own State are concerned, that l
am willing to have them investigat-
ed by every member of this House.
Take the constitution of the grand
little State of South Carolina,
which I have the honor to
represent here in part, scrutinize
it and criticise it, and l defy you
to fined anything unfair or dis
eliminating in that instrument.
You will find in it only such things
as you find in other. constitutions
of the other great States of this
Union.
The gentleman went out of his
way to lug into this question a
discussion of the question of lynch
ing, which has nothing to do with
it, and say to the gentleman and
to every gentleman upon this floor
that if you wish to stop lynchlng
in the North, the East, the South,
and the West, you must first stop
the commission of the crime that
causes lynehing. For so long as
these diabolical crimes are COM
mitted. just so long will the hend
and the perpetrator be hanged
to the first limb or riddled with
bullets or burned at the stake.
Remove the cause and the effect
will follow.
While I do not approve such
methods; while I do not have any
apology to make for them; while
we all deprecate these conditions,
yet I repeat, 20 long as these crimes
are committed just SO long will
these thugs occur. And l want
to take occasion here to say thai
we have III the State of South
Carolina what is known as the
anti-lynching law, by which the
legal representatives, of a victim
l:of lynch law can recover from the
county in which he lives for the
injury done them. This shows
that in my States we do not counte:
nance lynching, but denounce it
Yet it will happen, and will con.
tinue to happen in some cases OF
this kind, whenever the crime is
| committed that causes it. In my
State whenever a person is denied
a vote under the law he has the
right of appeal to ths courts.
The gentleman had a good deal
to say about birds in his discussion
yesterday. I wish that he had gone
on and told this House what he
thought of that bird which would
befoul it's own nest, and I say be
ought to have given you a descrip'
tion of that bird. Applause.
I want 10 say that gentlemen may
howl, gentlemen may tax as much
as they please, but there is one
fact in natural history that
want to give you here, and that is
that God Almighty never intended
that the blackbird or the crow
should get up to the top of the
mountain eyrie where the white
eagle lives and raises her brood
and whenever he gets up there
and interferes in matters which
do not concern him the white
eagle will be sure to kill him. L
is unnatural for him to be there
You may rest assured that the
people of our sunny land will
always act worthy of the name
of white men, before whose treac
the wild Indian, the counnine
Asiatic, and the ferocious Africor
alike recede. You may say wha'
you please, but this is a white
mans country and white man't
government, and the white people
intend to rule it now and forever