New-York tribune., 1903-02-16
HALsTEAD'S REPLY TO TILLMAN.
Asked if Senator Would Lead Movement to
Rescind Fifteenth Amendment

Murat HaIstead at an early hour Yesterday morn
ing the Press Club dinner replied to the speech
made earlier in the night by Senator Tiilnan MI
Hastead said in part:
The Senator from South Carolina has denounced
with especial severity the ignorance of the people
of the North who undertake to instruct the south.
ern people to their duties in deallnS with tIe
negroes. The Senator was mistaken III t assuii7 20
that that the @ te Gf SoT SOUTH IS nn1ersa am
of North Carolina blood. and certainly without sec
educa ton that have given me Intelligence OF the
conditions of the South attended al the ma torsi iona
of the sessions of Congress before the outnreak OF
pressed with the dangers there were stored III 'ne
The Senator from South Carolina has emphasized
the horrors of the and said he never regretted
the end of slavery. He would not restore II II ne ne
could The course of the Senator's logic leads IN
vara bly, determination. expulsion or the restore
ton of slavery, all OF which are mpracteaoIg @
of the seventeen millions of white people IN IN me ne
Southern portion of the United States 1t Is strang
that he should be alarnlist TO the agtatlonss
of the racial question The seventeen ltiIo are re
white people may be depended upon TO take care
The Senator has referred to the President OF Of the the
United States in terms of criticism fer Wnaa ne he @
said and done touching the race questi9n, ana ie
gaGlea ff0 that he could not say anything the
black man that would shut against him the door OF
hone Even that expression was by the loglcal
Senator converted into a menace. The Senator DE-
elared that in the states & wheTe a be 81
would shut the door of hope, against the Whits s
from from the President in relation 70 this most gre We
question not in the spirit o. Aprdiltut
lincoln with malice toward none. with chafIty
for ALL The very words quoted by the senator
were worthy % Abraham Lincoln hlTnseif anu Ile t
Presideu: has not done anything or Sald awning
that warrants the hostile stirring ~ OF excite
rnent against him with respect TO the iacal dues
fIo1-he has neither done anything nor Sa1d any :.
thing that Abraham Lincoln would rot rave Sald
and done under similar cirCumsta nces IouchlIls
the question of the possible remedies. the one Ne
cessfv is that the solution. whatever happens, pe
on the broad founda ton of liberty and Justice ,
The Senator has distinctly announced the poiicy
of notification of the constitution OF the gnlteu
states and has in terms uttered with extraordinary
vehemence denounced the fifteenth anendInent , m
VIII the Senator open the way for POSSIBLE &C
commodation of those who are radlca! IN their ir
differences now on what should be done, one IND
sill remove at least some OF the CANCERS, me ne
nerils of bloodshed. the San Domingo horrors thdl
The Senator described and anticipated and charged
+o the amendments Of the constitution that are
nuTifed? VIII he lead the way and carry win
him the South for resembling the fifteenth amend
meut giving the right to all states 10 resulCt
sIiffrage to guard against the alarming ISSUES 70
which the Senator has given such Threatening ana
desperate utterauce?
Mr. Halstead closed with an expression OF confl-
dence that the power Of public opinion in the
United States and the magical influence OF 1the
common glories of the States all that the Ta z
sVmboIized. would be found sufficient TO meet lne
problems with the triumphant potentiahty OF amer
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