The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-04-16
TIIIHlN GAVE THEM
some VERY. PLAIN TALK.
,,- STIRRED UP THE PEOPLE IN A
MASSACHUSETTS, TOWN.
,4 Them Some Things About the Race
ouestion They Did Not Like. Lam
basted the Puritans.

Fitcbburg, Mass, dispatch says:
,p;,cbfork" Tillman has been here
IA has riled up the animals, to use
o." If The common expressions OF the
O o He was the orator of one of
~. lectures 10 the course OF the Y.
VI y A.. and had an audience OF about
aoo neople when he started in. He
nm,nenced by telling his hearers that
Nov thought they knew something
Shont the race problem, but he assur-
~ hem they did not. The folks OF
his burg think they are as Intelligent
orv folks that ever came over the
nike and his blunt way of stating
things was not at all to the liking OF
some of the people. Since his depart
uro veritas, Fairplay, Citizen, Lover
of1iberty and other citizens who like
70 rush into print and yet to masquer-
ado under sobriquet have been
enbting the battle over again since
the doughty senator left US.
MFR. Tillman's subject was zine
Pace Problem from a Southern Point
Of View" and in starting IN he said,
q have spoken with much bluntness
and insolence, if you please, in the SEN
ate. but there is an opportunity to re-
nlv. and here am. | am going to tell
Won Gods truth, like 1T or lump 1T
as Won will. You think you know
something about the race problem,
bnt YOU don't, and | know that
10. was born on a slave plan
tation and was nursed by negro wo-
man, and lived in a state where the
blacks'greatly outnumber the whites"
One OF the striking utterances OF the
senator that drove some OF his hearers
ont of,the hall was this: "You tell us
we must take our outraged white wo-
man into the courts and have her tell
the story of her shame there, and that
we must proeeed according to the
forms of law, but tell you, and don't
care whether you like it or not, we
will see you in hell first" When this
declaration fell from the senator's lips
with all the vehemence with which he
is capable of giving his utterances
some of the ladies elevated their noses
to an angle of 45 degrees, picked up
their skirts with much ceremony, and
walked out with outraged dignity.
What effect that had on Mr.. Tillman
may be judged from his next shot, In
which he said, "SOme of your grand
fathers bought and sold slaves, and
the only reason they were not kept in
New England was because of your
long winters. Your grandfathers took
them south and sold them to my grand
father, and got their money for them.
You can't tell me you are hOlier t1an
we are. New England people are just
as deep in the mud as the people of the
south are in the mire. If you do not
like my history, read your own"
The senator discussed the Dred-Scott
decision and the war, and the question
as to whether the southerners were
rebels or patriotic soldiers, and told
them that if the southerners had
known that the emancipated slaves
were to be given the ballot the war
would not have ended at Appomattox.
Drawing himself to his full hight, ex-
tending his arm and pointing his fin
ger at his he arers, in voice full of
thunder he yelled 1--WE would have
licked you anyway, if you had not had
four men to our one" The senator $
mouth was full of hot words all the
time. He referred to the recent visit