The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-28

and it's venom, have not seen Wnat
it had to say, but your readers may
recall that one OF its editors uSt 60
run the Greenville IS. CO. News and
that may explain its attitude toward
me.
Again I challenge any one to dis
pute the attitude and reasoning OF 5he
letter TO Mr.. Bryant and to specify.
B. &. Tillman.
Trenton, S. c., September 70.
The following is Senator Tillmans
letter to Mr.. Bryant:
Trenton, S. c., August 80, 1901
Wilbur F. Bryant, Esq, Lincoln
Dear Sir: have your letter Of August
10. AS you addressed me as Demo-
crat, I presume, your Inquiries are
made in good faith, and therefore
take the trouble to answer you at
some length, not as fully, however, as
I would ike.
The act Of the mob at Statesboro,
Ga, is to be deplCred, but more oe-
plo1able is the fact that whole faml-
" of white people have been butch
cred, stamped out, by the two henos
who were burCed and. their accom-
plices. The more deplcrabIe still IS
the condition in the Southern States
which makes such things pcsSlble and
which promises to make them OF more
frequent occurrence in the future.
Mob violence is getting to be only TOO
common IN this country, but l think
the burning OF two confessed murder
ers and condemned criminals in
Georgia will not jeopa1dize the repuD-
lie one thousandth part as much as
the action Of the mob in Colorsoo
which has recently been trying ana
condenning men and exiling them,
and doing this, too, outside OF the
forms OF law.
Mobs are bad, but they are -vioerce
of q spirit Of liberty. There was a
mob in Boston once which boaroed
vessel and threw some tea into the
water in resistance to a tyrannlca
tax. A mob in Paris stormed the
Bastile ard aflerNa:d captured the
French King in his palace. We never
hear Of q mob in Russia, unless they
are doing the work Of religious fana
tics, as vas illustrated in the mas
sacre OF Jews in that country.
The Southern people are confronted
nv a condition such as has never ex
;sted in the history Of the world. TW'
races. one of which has been slave t
the other, are living in the same coun
try and under the law they are enulre
IL equal and entitled to all the right
and privileges Of citizens. There al
7s5. 900 negroes in South Carolina an
only $50, 600 white people. For eigh
long dismal years these Ignorant an
debased negroes governed, II the VOL
can be applied to such rule as We hac
and then the white minority threw O
the yoke. We did it because life ha
ceased to be worth lying on the ter m
and conditions which existed from q
to'76.
Firm necessity We used force an
fraud to overcome the majority. III
negroes were backed by the Unite
states Government and the great +
publican party. The whites ia
nothing but the memory Of civiliz
tion coming down to then from
thousand years Of Anglo Saxon NAL
hood. We used our brains and MAJ
aee0 to liberate ourselves from
condition chat was hopeless ard u
endurable. We have re. estaollSne
Law and order as far as PRACTICAL
and are eLdeavoring to preserve OF
civilization. The negroes have tt
memory Of eight years Of license an
;nsnired by the actions and ute
.nces OF President Roosevelt, tn
have qiyen evidence only too plain
~ hone and belief that their tir
will come again. Race antagonls
and hatred grow apace
The whites are resolved TO COVE
at whatever cost be cause experlen
has shown that any other cou'
means ruin. The criminal cls
anorg the negr, esincreases at a fe'
sn] rate and unless the Northern p'
,,la can be made to understand tn
nepro equality is something that "
noT he tolerated and that no power
the world can force it upon US, a II
oar is inevitable, with the result tf
the negroes will be exterminateo.
History is full OF instances VII
white men have governed white n
rnthlessly. Toere are object lesst
in nlenty throughout the world too
Of the fact that the races are
eopal. cannot he made SO eltner
|aw or constitution, and tna5
white man governs wherever he is
contact With any OF the coloreo fae
Sentimental i,eas and 1eehngs
not settle this question. Ine "1
neople Of the South are Oh top ara
Fend to stay there. Wnlte men
the North would do likewise un u'
similar circumstances. lnterneaoi