The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-30

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REACHED.
The Atlanta Constitution in
giving an advanced notice Of the
coming lecture of Senator B. 4.
Tillman to take place in Atlanta
says:
When Senator Tillman first came
into view as public man the impress
sion spread abroad that there was an
ureducated, uncouth, brawling South
ecn farmer who aspired to rule his
State. This was one of the earliest
misinterpretations OF the man that
were circulated over the land. Benla-
man r Tillman came of one OF the
most intelligent, and it might be said
aristocratic. OF the old South Carolina
families. When he was g boy before the
war he had for a governess and tutor,
the sister of Chester a. Arthur. who
afterwards became the President OF the
United States. The Tillman family
lived in luxury until the war swept
away the property in slaves and left
them nothing but deprecated land.
The Constitution is not we'll
informed with regard to the
career of the Senator, but what
it says with reference to the
Senator's aristocratic lineage
may be true, however. no man in
this or any other State more
successfully played the role Of
Plebian than did Tillman when
he 'sfrst came in view as a pub
lie maa." He aroused a prejudice
against the aristocracy by his
TRADES against that class. His
manner and dress were uncouth,
and he employed language total
ly foreign to a man of gentle
breeding. He was either the
reverse of what the Constitution
now paints him, or the best
actor that ever went upon a
platform.
We think the Constitution is
mistaken in saying that Tlllman
sihad for a governess and tutor,
: the sister of Chester A. Arthur.
who afterwards became Presi
dent of. the United States. (" Miss
Nelson Arthur, the sister Of
Chester A. Arthur, in response
to an advertisement came to Man
chester, Sumter county, in the
fall of 1853 to teach the children
of that village, and Tillman did
not live there, nor was he one Of
the scholars; she boarded in the
family of Capt. Joseph Stukes,
and two Of his descendants are
now living in Manning, Mr.. J. T.
Stukes and Mrs. Matte Burgess,
both of whom were taught by
Miss Arthur; she only taught in
the South one winter, 1853-54.
At the close of the session Miss
Arthur returned North where
she was soon followed by Henry
J. Haynesworth a brother of
Maj. W. F. B. Haynesworth, of
Sumter, and the couple married
and lived North until the war
broke out, when Mr.. Haynes
worth left his wife at her North,
ern home and cast his lot with
the Confederacy. When the
war ended, Mr.. Haynesworth re-
joined his wife at the North
where he died a few years ago;
we are not sure, but we think
Mrs. Haynesworth, formerly
Miss Arthur is still living. Till
man was born in Edgefeld in
1917, hence was only six years
old when Miss Arthur taught in
the South, hardly old enough to
be sent off to school.
The ssimpression spre a d
abroad" that Tillman was san
uneducated, uncouth, brawling
southern farmer who aspired to
rule his State" is not altogether
false. Tillman is ''uncouth" and
and ssbrawling" all right-enough,
and that he ''aspires to rule his
State" no one can doubt. We do
not believe there is a despot on
earth who rules more completely
than does Tillman in South Car
olina. The Democratic organiza-
ton is his snuf-box and, every
politician in the State is eager
to get a pinch out of it that they
too, might sneeze at his bidding.
Let a man of independence at
tempt to assert himself, then
Tillman need only to intimate
his displeasure, and his political
creatures will crawl on their
bellies to crafty his every wish.
thoug they had to resort to the
basest methods.
Nopeople on earth are so effect
ually shackled in political slay-
cry than are the white men of
South Carolina-it is solely a
one-man power; the boasted man
hood of South Carolinians COW
before it as the serfs of Russia
before a Stonowoi. We do not
think it will always be so; every