The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-05-27

of South Carolina and, while we well
come these Northerners here and de-
sire that thousands of them should
come here and shall be tr-ated Justly
and fairly, we must not forget that
they come here not for our good, but
for their own selfish benefits. They
look upon us as a lemon to be
squeezed. Naughter.)
And the other day, when 10 an
swer to taunts and insults that no
brave South Cerolinian could stand.
I got up in my seat and answered
them and defended the State and the
South and our people and brought
out the facts iu regard to the burn
ing of this city in 1865 and con-
victed Sherman out of his own mouth
of having lied on Wade Hampton
about it, the Associated Press sent
broadcast over the land the statement
that my Democratic colleagues
we're very much outraged over my
utterance and retired in disgust from
the senate chamber. l don't know
whether they retired or not and l
don't care. What did YOU send me
there for-to bootlick around like a
licked hound and whine when I am
insulted9 1 can't do it amt built
that way. So told them the truth
and hit them between the eyes.
pointed out this condition: That
during the dark days of the civil war,
when all the men of the South we're
away in the army and only the
youngest boys and feeblest old men
were left at home; when those like
Harriet Beecher Stowe at the North
who had depicted the cruelty of the
white master, said that now the slaves
would take the opportunity to re
venge themselves upon their masters
THAT during that period there is
not one instance on record of any ne
gro having mistreated any white
Twoman-not one crime. Is that to
the credit of the negro alone? l
asked them. Is it not also to the
credit to the white masters who had
up lifted him? He loved his master
and the tie was mutual in a general
way. But you-and l pointed my
fists in the faces of my political op-
ponents, the Republicans, across the
aisle-you, by your dsmnable doc.
trine of equality, have taught those
poor, ignorant creatures down South
to think that they are as good as the
whites, their former master, or bet
ter, and today you never pick up
paper but you fud recorded there in
all it's horrible details the story OF
some shocking crime.
| I mention this merely as sample
of the kind of speech I made. Good
people here have not understood the
situation and lot of the editors
here have lent themselves to the pitt
full whine and cry of the subsidized
Associated Press and the Republi-
can newspapers at the North. They
have condemned me as a marplo
aud said I had injured the Demot
cratic chances in this national fight
by coming out and boarding those
Ihypocrites to their teeth. "You pirate
about the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man and all that sort
of thing" l told them. "You taunt
Us with our treatment of the negroes
-why you have butchered and
robbed and burned more in three
years in the Philippines than the
South has in three hundred years. "
| went on and told them that we
were not responsible for the presence
among us of negroes; that their
fathers went to Africa and sold them,
brought them to this country and
eol1 thoro fo re on1 tban uont homo