Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-08-05
SENATOR TILLMAN OPENS WAR.
Scores North for Mob Rule Over Negroes
Lynching Is the Only Way.

Scores North for Mob Rule Over Negroes
Lynchins is the Only Way.
Madison, Wis, July 31.-Senatol
b. r. Tillman, OF South Carolina
matched his wit and sarcasm against
the legal mind and Western manners
of Senator J. r. Burton, of Kansas
last Monday night in joint debate
on the negro question. Senator Till
man said the people of the North
were as bad as those of the South in
their handling of the negroes who
commit "unspeakable crimes"
"When a negro up here shows the
outcroppings of the instincts of his
inferior race" said Mr.. Tillman
"you mob, string, lynch, burn and
outrage humanity with him. II
makes mighty big difference whose
family is struck, whose home is en-.
tered, whose wife or daughter is the
victim. You men of the North are
not slow to act when your women are
outraged, and want to say you are
men to do it. If you had as many
niggers as we have in South Carolina
you would feel as do and your peo-
pie would sustain your anti-nigger
Senators as my people sustain me-
The fiery Southern Senator was
unpopular at first with the audience
of 5000 people, but at the close of
the debate the impression seemed to
prevail that he had the better of the
argument.
Senator Tillman said the colored
people owed all the progress they
had made in America to the fact
that they were once in bondage and
that the South had nourished them
into whatever industry, virtue and
intelligence they ever attained; that
the North went to war to "free the
niggers" first and to "save the Union
afterward. The Republican party,
he said, played the friend of the
black in order to get black votes.
The greatest disturbing element in
the problem was the fact that the
people of the North, affecting mo-
tives of charity, Christianity, and
humanitarianism, were attempting
to poke their "great, long, Yankee
noses" into the business of the
Southern States that were equal to
the problem that would not be in
danger of overwhelming them unless
the Northern influence brought
about war of determination.
Senator Tillman said the negroes
were recognized in the South when
they deserved it, and sometimes
when they did not, mentioning the
recipients of the United States ex-
ecutive appointments.
The Southern Senators asked the
audience to hold an after meeting to
form negro emigration society for
the purpose of bringing to Wiscon-
sin 100000 negroes, the proportions
ate share of the State of the nations
negro population. The after meet
ing did not develop.
Senator Burton agreed that the
negroes had apparently grown more
degraded and more criminal than
they were before the war, but said
that it was the fault of the South
lack of schools, and the "euchering'
of the negroes ont of their constiLu.
tional rights by the Southern whites
He said in education lay the solution
of the problem.
Senator Tillman agreed with Bur
ton in this, but said the South would
take up arms rather than allow tn,
North to force an impossible socia
or political equality between the
whites and blacks in the Southerr
States.
The "pitchfork statesman" sale
that the United States barred Chi
nese from its gates because of the
inferiority of the Mongolian race
and the impossibility of the Chinese
ever becoming the social or poitica
equals of Americans. "The inferi
ority is greater and the impossibility
more impossible with respect to th'
negroes, and particularly the South
ern negroes" Mr.. Tllman declared
Senator Burton placed stress OF
the great possibilities he said lay il
the negroes. Their capacity for de
velopment, he said, had been proved
in every Northern State, and no
only in the North, but in the yer,
heart of the South, At Tuskegee
Ala, Booker Il. Washington, a blacl
man, had demonstrated there TO
several years that the negro, wher
given advantages of properly ad
ministered education, could outstril
the whites i'm the moral and indus