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

lGy VI SyVVO tnOto ueSCOcS WIZ ~CkO
81 years Of age, and who, under
the dispensation of my friend from
Maryland (Mr. McComas), were
entitled to vote, and ought to be
allowed 10 vote now-with ten
companies of troops and 10, 600, 900
more back here to 60 do wn there if
it was thought they were needed to
keep us down, how did they come
out in the struggle against white
manhood and white brains? We
only beat them $500 votes. Laugh
ter But we could have bea ton
them $500, or 5000, or $4,000 II it
had been necessary.
Mr.. McComas-If the senator
will allow me, I am amazed at the
moderation-only3 $500!
Mr.. Tillman-Well, that was all
we needed. We only wanted enough
to esta blish decent, honest govern
ment and white supremacy, and we
did it. Where is the man in this
chamber, or out Of it, who will say
we did not do right? If there be
one, let him hold up his hand and
dare get up here and say 80. We
had to preserve our civilization,
our homes, our lives, our wives, our
children. Our every thing was at
stake, and we asserted our rights
to live on the earth and to inha bit
the land we had won from the In
dian before the Revolution, and we
had helped to win the Revolution
itself. You can not help it then and
you can not help it now.
Vo,, oor that <ho xno-oao k1n
South are At to govern them.
selves and fit to govern us if they
have the majority, and yet you say
the Filipinos are absolutely unfit to
participate in government or have
anything to do with it; they have
got to be educated, and By what?
By military despotism such as you
claim that Aguinalio has esta blish-
ed and would have maintained if
we had recognized tho Filipino
people and left them to govern
themselves in their own way and
had kept out of the miserable mess
of indulging in pseudo philan-
thropy, hypocrisy. infamy and
everyt thing that degrades and dis
graces the American people.
But the point to which wish to
direct your attention is, that while
tcsud, say; It rs -gonv,, oeeu,-o- 81
.enslav we'd the whites more than the
blacks, and I would not restore it
If could do 30 simply to the ex'
tent of signing my name-but with
the sentiment which prevailed all
through the North in regard to this
matter through the reading Of Har
riet Beecher Stoves novel of Uncle
Toms Cabin and the oratory Of
Wendell Phillips and other aboli
tionists, you were all taught an(
educated to believe that the institu
ii IN of slavery was one which in
volved a great deal of cruelty ant
fiendishpess and crimes which ar
unspeakable.
There is not day that we do no
hear of some horrible crime beini
committed by one OF these poo
wretches there is not a day tina
we do not read of white people VIII
become enraged and lose their sens
of civilization and everything else
and seizing him and doing him t
death in a brutal and fiendish man
ner without trial or anything else
Why, even bleeding Kansas ha
her story of rape and a negr
burned for it. I have known G
two rapes, followed by murders
within the sight Of the dome G
this Capitol since I have been her
white girls, somewhere in tn
suburbs of this city, robbed Of thu
Jewel which is the most preciou
possession of a woman's life, an
then butchcred to hide the crime
Throughout the South there ia tt
. day an unnamed horror hangin
over every household whose love
ones are left in isolation or segrest
| ton on the various farms nn
obliged to be there. No fatht
leaves his home without the drea
I that when he returns he may fin
| something horrible to meet him.
You say we are hypocrites b'
, cause we protest against your po
l 10y in the Philippines. 1t is becaus
: we realize that the body polite
f the United States ,. already HI
+ coursing in it's veins ~tbe blood
l 100000 black people, and that
, | uOisnn epOuuhL We UrOtkSSta becan