Spartanburg journal. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1900-1906, 1902-05-09


ment bill defended the southern
states treatment Of the negroes in
matters social and political, and
arraigned the republican party for
it's treatment of the Philippine
negro while posing as the champ
ion of the down trodden Afro
American voter and good citizen"
OF this country.
Mr.. Tllman said that the white
people of South Carolina were de-
termined to maintain their supre-
macy by any method necessary.
Advancing to the center of the ais'e
he shook his fist'.t the republican
side and dared any one Of them to
say that he would act differently
under similar conditions but none
accepted the challenge.
Following are parts of Senator
Tillman's speech in the senate We'd
nesday, which created IA sensation.
It was in answer to republican SEN
ators who had tried to justify the
present administra tons Philippine
policy by comparing it with the
Isreatpept of the negro by the white
People> af the South. As will be
seen, Tho senator did not mince
>wosds In giving expression to his
end the position taken by
Nncis ope which few southerners
*iEdlsavow.
If you had dared at Appomattox
or anywhere eke to disclose your
do -n& know thst-it- vas.
anybody's purpose then-but if 1t
had ever entered into the minds OF
the southern soldiers that it was
not only to restore the Union and
destroy slavery and then put the
ex-slaves in charge OF the state gov
ernments and make them control
our affairs, l tell you here there
would have been IL guerrilla war
fare inaugurated throughout the
swamps, the woodlands, and the
mountains of the South that would
have made it impossible that you
should have won in the long run.
The history of the struggle in South
Africa, the history of Marion and
Sumter in the Revolutionary strife,
will bear out the observation which
l make, that with the cessation of
the war in 1865 the reason guerrilla
warfare was never entered upon
was because we believed you were
trne and honest in what you said,
that you only wished to restore the
Union and to destroy slavery.
But with the reconstruction pc
riod which followed-1 am not going
to talk abont it at length but when
l think of it bitterness surges up
it comes up in such volume OF
animosity and recollection of the
degradation to which my people
were subjected fl 'm 1863 to 1870
under the horde Of carpetbaggers
and thieves and scouHdrels and
ignorant negroes that hardly know
how to contain myself-but 1t suf
fees for me TO say for the purposes
l have in view right now aftel
we had saen our,ex x.sNaxesEpoor
ignorant creatures-given1 the bal
lot-after we had seen the eleetior
held under the \bityonetAndSwSh I
numerical najorityc of 10000 ne
groes inducted into thS. upnyol O
the state of South Carolina, ant
there being today 235, 200 more ne
groes in my state than there are
whites, and 300, 900 moro negroes IL
Mississippi than there are whites
you declared that Il man I'll years o
age, without regard to any othe
qualification, was fit to vote, ant
that the right to vote carried witt
it the rightto govern where the.
were in the majority
Grant had sent regiment Of tel
companies of Union troops into IN
own county of Edgetied sent ther
to repress the "rebels' sent ther
to subject us to the government c
those negroes and their carpetba
leaders. They were ordered t
preserve order, to preserve us fror
terrOrizing the negroes, to kee
them from being kept from tn
polls, and to let them vote. The
obeyed their orders as well as the