New-York tribune., 1902-05-08
.TILLMAN'S WIDEST OUTBREAK
AN AMAZING DEMOCRATIC RESPONSE TO SENATE
PHILIPPINE SPEECH


submit to the rule and control Of former
slaves? Never.
If you had dared at Appomattox. or anywhere
else To have disclosed your purpose do not
know that it was anybody's purpose then-hut
If it had ever entered into the minds of the
southern soldiers that ii was not only 10 restore
the Union and destroy slavery and then put the
eX-slaves in charge of the State governments
and make them control affairs l tell you
here there would have been a guerilla warfare
inaugurated throughout the swamps, the wood
lands and the mountains of the South that
would have made il impossible that you should
have won in the long run. The history of the
struggle in South Africa. the history of Marion
ana Sumter in the Revolutionary strife, will
bear out the observation which | make. that
with the cessation of the war in 1861, the rea-
was because we believed YOU were true and hon
est in what you said. that YOU only wished to
restore the Union and TO destroy slavery.
BEGINS To GROW VIOLENT.
But with the reconstruction period which fol-
lowed am not going to talk about il at length
hut when | think of ii bitterness surges up; 1t
comes up III such volume of animOsity and
recollection of the degradation TO which my
people We're subjected from lStiS to 1876 under
the horde of CarpetbagEe-S and thieves and
scoundrelS and ignorant negroes that ! hardly
know how To contain myself-but il suffces for
To say for the purposes l have in view right
now that after we had seen eX-slaves-poOr.
ignorant creatureS-EiVen the ballOt-after
had seen the election held under the bayOnet
ana with numerical majority of $4,000 negroes
tnducted into the state of South Carolina, and
there being to-day 23J.OOO more negroes in my
State than there whites, and ;iOOOOO more
negroes IN Mississippi than there whites
you declared that man twenty-One years OF
age, without regard to any other qualification,
was fit TO vote. and that the right to vote car
ried with il the right TO govern where they were
in the majority.
l could go back and | nave done so. during
the debate with my friend from Wisconsin (Mr
SpoOner) some two or three years ago. in which
l came out boldly. and like a brave and true
man, told YOU when found could not
overcome this numerical majority by any fair
and lawful means, that we simply asserted
manhood as Anglo-Saxons and asserted it by
whatever means we thought necessary and we
took possession of our State and deied you TO
protest against il or prevent il.
But to prove, if proof he necessary. that your
complaint of what was termed slavery was
roneous l want TO call your attention to
fact which stands out like the Washington
monument upon the mall, and that is if il had
been left to the ingenuity Of Machiavell and the
Devil in combination. to set up and provide a
condition which would fable the most horrible
retributionS and the most fearful revenge-with
the absence of every man in the South from six
teen to sixty years of age with Lee and Jack
son. with the plantations left in the care of the
negro men, and the daughters and the wives
and other loved ones of those absent COnfed-
crate soldiers perfectly helpless and at the
mercy of 4oO00oO blacks, 1,OOoOO0 of them
men-there is not an instance on record of
solitary negro man having ever been guilty Of
a deed that in the least could he construed
into any criminal purpose or act. There is not
a rape there is not a murder, there is nothing
TO reflect upon the condition of frendiness and
of the love which existed between the master
and the slaves which he held.
CRIMES IN THE SOUTH
Now. with your new tangled doctrine of the
equality of man, not Jefferson's doctrine be-
cause jefferson "A Shareholder when he
wrote the Declaration OF Independence and the
constitution provided for slavery and protected
il. but your tangled ideas as to the equality
of man and the reconstruction acts and your
organization of the negroes by the Union
League by which every negro man swore on
the Bible TO vote the Republican ticket for the
balance of his life because he had been freed
from bondage by that party: with the Inaugural
ton of Republican government. so called car
petbag government. and negro government in
the States; with the indoctrination of the minds
of those people-those poor Africans-witb the
idea that they were as good the white peo-
ple or little better and that their former
masters owed them something for their unre-
Quilted services through long years of servitude.
with the impregnatiOn of their minds and
hearts with this feeling that the Southern
Continued on fourth p.re