New-York tribune., 1902-05-08

them, and had dealt with them unjustly; that
they were equal with the whites; that they We're
in control; that they had every right that
white had and that they were being
backed by a majority of the people of the
country-by the United States Government and
the United States Army, If necessary-what mas
grown out of this? What has come from your
Pandoras box which you opened in 1862, win
your reconstruction deviment and your doctrine
that the negroes are as good as the white peo-
pie?
There is not a day we 90 not hear of some
horrible crime being committed by one of these
poor wretches; there is not a day that we do
not hear Of white people who become enraged
and lose their sense Of civilization and every
thing else. and sezing him and doing him TO
death in brutal and fendish manner, without
trial or anything else Why. bleeding
Kansas has story of rape and a negro burned
for it, 1 have known of two rapes. followed by
murders within the sight of the dome of this
Capitol since / have been here-white girls.
somewhere in the suburbs of the city, robbed
Of that jewei which is the most precious pos
session of wOmans life, and then butchered
10 hide the crime. Throughout the South there
is to-day unnamed horror hanging over every
household whose loved ones are left in isola-
ton or segregation on the various farms. and
Obliged 10 be there. No father leaves his home
without the dread that when he returns he may
ind something horrible 10 meet him.
HOW THEY OBTAIN MAJORITIES.
Grant had sent regiment of ten companies of
Union troops into my own county of Edgefied,
sent there to repress the rebels sent there to
subject us TO the government of those negroes
and their carPetbag leaders They were ordered
10 preserve order. TO prevent us from terrorizing
ihe polis ana let them Vote. They obeyed their
orders as well they could, but the result of
the election that. with numerical ma
Jority OF 1000 more negroes who were twenty
one years of age, and who under the dispensa-
lion Of my friend from Maryland CHr. Nc
tofnas) were entitled To vote and ought to he
allowed TO vote now-with ten companies of
troops and ten million more back here TO go
down there If IL was thought they needed
10 keep us down. how did they come out in the
struggle against white manhood and white
brains? We only beat them 3 900 votes Q4augh-
We he
$500 or $4,000 if it had been necessary.
Mr.. McComas-Mr President
The Presiding Offcer-Does the Senator from
South Carolina yield to the Senator from Mary
land?
Mr.. Tillman-Yes, sir
Mr.. McComas-If the Senator will allow me-
am amazed at their moderation only 5000.
Mr.. Tillman-Well. that all We needed
we only wanted enough TO re-estaolsh dt'ent
honest government and white supremacy, and
we did it. Where is the man in this chamber
or out of it who VIII say we did not do right?
II there be one, let him hold up his hand and
dare get uD here and say SO. We had TO pre-
serve our civilization, our homes our lives, our
wives. our children. Our everything was at
stake, and asserted rights TO live on
earth and to inhabit the land had from
she Indian before the Revolution and we had
helped to win the Revolution itself. You could
not help it then and you cannot help it now.
What is your attitue now? Do we any longer
hear anything in behalf of the colored men in
the South? You have got TO whining around
and saying, "Oh, well, those people ought
TO have a free ballot and fair count because
the constitution gives them the right, but We
.
Nand, therefore. we reckon we will have to take
#Iyour representation away" That would mean
Yin good time that the negroes would be turned
over TO tender mercieS.
An! 1t is so easy to sit off, and not be
brought face TO face with condition, and theo-
I'ize and sentimentalize about it; it is easy to
lay down a rule of conduct for some other white
men in dealing with this question here at home,
which you would not follow under the condi-
Tions which we have to face; it is easy TO say,
before you undertake TO establish policy in the
Philippines. You had better clean before your
and eyiN Va 70 fhn 1o1nr v,1o ,S
the South the right with the fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments guaranteed TO them"
CHARGES ATROCITIES IN PHILIPPINES
We have in the United States a problem
which will give you scope for all the philan-
fhropy, and all the humanity, and all the Chris
tianity. and all the eevating, humanfzing
Christianizing forces Of which you capable
and yet you turn your backs on that and march
70 the East and seize ruthlessIy and by torture
and by infamies. villanies and cruelties, and
jnutilations Of the poor Filipinos. And YOU
murder. you butcher. you shoot them in cold
blood, you torture them, you do everything
You have eclipsed the South in your story Of
infamy under the United States flag in the
philippines. IF you make up a catalogue we
will not be able TO equal II, although we are
not trying, the Lord knows, IN q century, and
you have done IL all in three years, and you
have done it in the name Of Christianity and
humanity and liberty.
Well, I do not know what TO do about It, I
do not know what to tell you to do about it.
and IN that you obliged to sympathize with
us-that, come what may, the Southern white
men Intend to govern their country. We
VIII not submit TO negro domination under any
conditions that you may prescribe. Now, you
have got IT, The sooner you understand il fully
and thoroughly, the better off this country
viii be.
You say We are hypocrites because we pro-
test against your policy in the Philippines II
IS because we realize that the body polite in the
United States already has coursing in its veins
the blood OF nine million black people, and that
is poison enough. We protest because do
not believe las Southern Confederates we could
not believe) that ii is right TO go into country
ano ueSolate II with hre and war under claim
OF sovereignty. ] can justifcatio for
the Of 1865 to maintain the Union. l am
catholic enough TO grant that you did what you
thought you ought 20 do, and If you will grant
us that we did what thought ought TO do
10 defend our homes. TO resist invasion, to repel
rom cur BORDERS those who came there to take
from us the rights OF free men. that is all ask
OPPRESSION OF THE SOUTH ALLEGED.
We in the Union. We are not dissatisfied
with our condition, although every day
discrimination upon discrimination here, and
realize that we are a conquered people, and
that your purpose is 10 continue 10 treat
such, and to squeeze from Us every dollar you
can get. We have paid since the close Of the
civil strife IN pension burdens and in the pay
ment of the public debt and interest least
S2,5O0O00,O00 tribute. which has gone among
you, and has been spent to beautify and TO
broaden out and to lay deep the foundations Of
your prosperity.
Air. Clapp-NIey ask the Senator from South
Carolina a question?
Mr.. Tillman-Certainly
Mr.. Burton-I yield TO the Senator from Min
nesOta- Daughtef)
Mr.. clapp-Have you figured out how
much the South has received since the in
river and harbor appropriations?
Mr.. Tillman-No; but il Will not amount TO
postage stamp compared 10 what the South has
paid in pensions.
AIr. Clapp-Figure il up.
Mr.. Tillman-You had better figure IL up. 1
make an assertion. Disprove 1t If you can. 1
Gefy do il.