Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-09-28

Says We letter 10 lIr. Bsyass Expresses tie
81 ssallmsst q Southern White People.

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Courier:l have just seen your edi-
torial, Senator Tillman and His
Critics" and am induced to ask YOU
to publish in full the letter wrote
70 Wilbur +. Bryant, OF Liacoln,
Neb.. short while ago, a copy oil
which I Ienclose. s
My wish issto let your readers see
just what / said and ! shall be glad
to have any one challenge any state
ment offacts or show wherein / have
expressed any opinion in that letter
that is not held by ninety per cent
OF Southern born white men and
Women. | have concluded long
'hsince, as shown by my speeches in
ehe Senate and elsewhere, that we
Southeruers had just as we'll call
things by their names aud let the
North know our real feelings and
purposes. Hypocrisy and cant have
had their day and so far as am con-
cerned l will none of them. / may
not beafair representative Of South
ern thought and feeling, but if /
speak the s'truth and nothing but the
truth" my discretion may be doubted
or denied, but my honesty should
not be caiied in question, and it is an
open question whether my method
Of treating the race problem is not
the right one.
! AS for the Richmond News Leader
and itsvenom, hare not seen what
1t hadto say, but your readers may
recall that one of its editors used to
run the Greenville Is. C.) News and
that may explain it's attitude toward
me-.
Again I challenge anyone to dis
pute the attitude and reasoning Of
the letter to Mr.. Bryant and to
specify. y
b. r. Tillman.
Trenton, s. O., September 20.
The following is Senator Tillman's
letter to Mr.. Bryant:
Trenton, S. c., August 80, 1904.
-WiburF. Bryant, Esq, lincoln
Dear Sir: ! have your letter of
August 10. As you addressed me as
Democrat, ! presume your inquiries
are made in good faith, and / there
fore take the trouble to answer you
at come length, not as fully, however,
as ] would like.
The act of the mob at Statesboro.
S--sssA, is to be deplored, but more de.
plorable is the fact that whole
I family of white people haze been
butchered, stamped out, by the two
fienda who were burned and their
accomplices. The more deplorable
still is the condition in the Southern
States which makes such things pos
sible and which promises to make
themof more frequent occurrence in
the future. Mob violence is getting
to be only too common in this ooun-
try, but / think the burning of two
confessed murderers and condemned
criminals in Georgia will not leopard
ize the republic one-thousandth part
as much as the action of the mob in
Colorado which has recently been
trying and condemning men and
exiting them, and doing this, too,
outside of the forms of law.
Mobs are bad, but they are evil
dence of a spirit of liberty. There
was mob in Boston once which
boarded vessel and threw some tea
into the water in resistance to a
tyrannical tax. A mob in Paris
stormed the Bastile and afterward
~ aptared the French King in his
Ace. We never hear of a mob in
ia, unless they are doing the
Of religious fanatics, as was
rated in the massacre of Jews
4 country.
Southern people are con
pd by condition such as has
4aedf existed in the history of the
Two races, one of which has
Of thai slave to the other, are living in
t'che same country and under the law