The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-21
WHITES SUPREME
SENATOR TILLNIAN DECLARES SHOT
GUN Is READY AS last RESORT.
REnyBLI CANs AND THE NORTH
SEVERED CRITICISED FOR THEIR
ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SOUTH.

II
New England Traders Negro
Problem the Most MOmentuOus
md threatening Before the
American PeopIe-P'pliticRI Equal
fly VIII BE Followed by Social
Equality with All It's Horrors-The
North Forced Through Amend
ments to "BamboOz te'' the south.
Hone of the south I'm ITS woman
hood-No Mercy ShOuId lie shown
Negro Friends.
Senator Ben Tillman. in his lecture
ut the theater last night on The Race
Problem" said that this country has
had three race problems. two of which
have been solved. The Indian has been
nearly obliterated and the Chinaman
has been denied entrance to the coun-
try. THE negro is still with us" he
said, land the negro problem is the
greatest, the most momentous, the
most threatening Of ALL" With that
statement Senator Tillnnn began a
discussion of the problem, It's history
and its present status.
A fair-sized audience greeted the
South Carolina senator. The majority
were men. though there We're quite a
number of ladies.
Shortly before the hour for begin
ming his lecture. Senator Tillman was
escorted to the stage by a committee
consisting of Judge H. d. d. Twiggs
and Messrs. r. NJ. Hitch. F. NJ. Oil
yer, John Z. Finney, e. j. Limehouse
and ] F. Evans. AS Senator Tillman
appeared he was greeted with burst
of applause.
Judge Twiggs at once stepped for
ward and began a short address of in
PRODUCTION. During his introduction
Senator Tillman sat with his hands
folded in his lap and his hat thrown
carelessly over them. When called to
the platform by Judge Twiggs he
placed his hat in his chair. and began
at once on his lecture. At times he
became fired with his convictions and
leaned forward toward the audience in
his earnestness. He was moving con-
stantly back and forth across the stage
and his hands, when not in use in ges-
lures. were clasped behind his back.
Why the North Held no slaves.
"Way back in early history" said
Senator Tillman, some people differ
ent from our people, were brought here
and sold into bondage. They did not
care much for liberty. They took kind
ly to the country. AS a result thou
sands more were brought in. The bulk
of them We're in the South.
II have often told the people of the
North, though they do not like to hear
1t, that the only reason the institution
of slavery did not flourish in the North
is because of the cold and rigorous eli
mate. As a result the slaves were
brought South until, well until as late
as in the S0s. The last shipload was
brought here in the Wanderer, a ship
owned in Savannah. Twenty
of that cargo We bought our
selves and took them to our place. So
you see, that even as a boy / had some
experience in Africans. Some of those
negroes are still around our county,
and they are just about as civilized,
Christianized, and humanized as those
about them. No better.
Il often tell the people of the North
that the contrast between the old slave
negroes and those who have been i'm
pregnated with the doctrines of Wen
dell Phillips is so great that it is up
to the North to say who brought about
the trouble. At the time of the war
there were at least 1000, 900 male ne
groes in our country. The houses were
widely scattered. The country was in
so Christianized, so humanized, that
not one white woman was wronged
during those four dismal years.
Il also tell the people of the North
that among those negroes there were
more gentlemen, and ladies, if you
please, than We're to be found in all
Africa And if the negro race ever
amounts to anything it will be because
the old Southerners of the ante bellum
days took them in as outcasts and saw
ages and Christianized and humanized
them.
1T was the negro that caused the
war. l have no time tonight to go
over it and it's causes, though ii might
be profitable to keep the younger gem
erations from forgetting it, a thing
which they are fast forgetting from
reading histories written by Yankees.
But as / say the negro was at the bot
tom of the war. other causes were IN
termingled, but the negro was at the
bottom of it..
'"rhere are not so many negroes in
New England to-day as there are in
my county. And why? Because, when
those people saw the negro thriVed not
in the North and that they needed them
in the South, they marched them down
South and sold them. They had a right
to sell them and our fathers had right
to buy them under the constitution. No
sense of justice and the rights of man
appeared until the North had the shek-
els from the sale of their negroes in
their pockets.
and again, it was New England
traders who brought them here. And
when 1 describe the awful conditions
we are under here they shake their
heads and say: The sins of the faith
ers shall be visited upon the children.
and l roll it delightedly on my
tongue and eNclain. When is your
time coming?'
south Imposed Upon.
1.-The young men of the South should
study the debates of the time, that they
may know that the enfranchisement
of the negro, the placing them over
the people of the South by the aid of
their negrophilist carpet baggers, was
done for lf-aggrandizement. Levi
Morton and Thad Stevens were looking
for that which would cement their par
ty and strengthen its majority. II
was pure cussedness, greed, hellishness;
the debates OF the time show ii.
1.-THE South was bamboOzled. When
the amendments forcing the black
handouts upon us were passed, the
Republicans We're one vote short. They
looked to the West and saw mining
camp Nevada was admitted and form
ed the needed one vote. At that time
he. or - ha1 Ia ion s,T . -