Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-08-25
American Union Of States.
Politically and Economically.
Interesting Story Of Past
AND PRESENT OF THE
ONLY PINE TREE STATE
South Carallna's Development
Is the Wonder OF the Entire
Southern Section.
special Correspondence
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lt would do power Of good "
every intelligent man IN the entire
United States were 90 read carefully
and reflect upon seriously the speech
.Of Benjamin n Tlllman upon tho Do.
Iiticai politics Of south Carolina,
wnen be- pronounced the oulogy on
Joseph n Earle. his dead colleague
Ia the federal senate aud then turn
TO tho speech 90 Joseph r.. johnson.
delivered IN the national house OF rep
fosontaiivcs IN the closing hours Of
the regular session lately expired. No
state OF our union has been talked
about more and no state of our sister.
hood has been understood lees The
stormy petrol uf cur politics. South
Carolina. has been fnncOrOual yhaiod
and deyuiedly loved in hln speech
20 which ! have called attention hr.
Tiilman analyses the political ayg.
tens that have maintained there form
tho colonial period; the narrative In
thrilling and argument instructive.
The coast was settled hy Huguonois
and English sent over hy lords prop.
riotOrs. while the Piedmont section,
no country. was populated hy Scotch
Irish, Germans, Pennsylvania Dutch,
Highland Scotch. ana Irish q N The
Pale with a spFinkllng OF Eng ~ far.
morH. on the coast we're may slayoa
and the"a the baron was III his hall;
In the Piedmont region slaves were
few, and me yeOmen owned and titled
the soil. Tho government was an ar
lstooracy dominated by the larons
and submitted 10 By the yoomon The
great families OF the coast ruled. and
none disputed their sway. We're Do
We're was not proudor of his lineage
MOnimorcncy was not more arrogant
lClavorhouse not more impatient OF
control than the great families on the
coast of South Carolina They were
the state, and g f. only Just 20 them
% say that che government they made
was all that could DO desired IN che
matters OF purity, simplicity honesty
lfrugaliiy. Nowhere else IN the world
/ did the citizen enjoy more unreairaln
cd personal liberty nowhere else IN
the world did government take 90 Nc
tlo IN taxes fof Us support. The
/ rights OF property were nowhere
more secure. and the rights Of the
person we're nowhere held more sac
red. The haboas corpus ana the wri,
Of Injunction alike maintained.
Il was an oligarchy. but Il was q
proud magistracy, jealous of iia power
and teni0ld more Jealous Of It's honor
30 s system then universal and that
yet maintains In Connecticut and
Rhode Island tho legislative appor
tionment gave the coast counties 81
tho barona immense numorial al
vantage over tho Piedmont section ~
the general assembly. aud the iefigla
ture OF South Carolina was the ruler
lof South Carolina. The people
voted az the polls Cor mombera Of ths
nationgl congress-, for state logisla
tors, ana for c0unig executive officials
and no 0ihor pihgiaig. Even az lati
a. 1860 the presidential electors VIII,
oast the vote OF South Carolina wer'
appointed by the legislature Of th'
state.
The great war OF 1851 was followet
BY the era of reconstruction. whei
south Carolina was inundated 81
none OF her sister cotton states WIS
and ms no olner people were anyWhen
lor ia any age. Her . hito population
were made subject to their formo
slaves Of an inferior race, aad no
only was the government the moanos
imaginable, but q was tie cOatiiea
imaginable. The men who paid th
taxes were nOt allowed % vote, am
the men who administered the GOV
. eminent were entirely irresponsible
: Uf course uuch a condition could unl
DO maintained BY the sword. Tha
J South Carolina beaten sud bankrupt
|. overthrow this uaurptlon after year
Of oppression b one Of the miracle
% Saxon history. Nowhere else
tho inaatlate appetite and lndomlni
bic resolution FOR tho mastery iu
plantod in The breast OF the Aneil
Saxon. 80 wildly illustrated as
was 10 South Carolina the dccad
n i2Gb75 Again the old families so
control and held it until benjamin. d
lttilman rose and amuio the oilFarchj
and on ita wreck Sad ruin reared th
democracy that there now maintain
laa q does in no other commonwealth
of the entire American alstefhOod. a
some time IN the future ! hope % tr
/ 10 relate the story of that Iiianl
lairuario, fno result of which was {
put the political power ~ South ,-ar,
lima Into the keeping az ne poOpl
81 South Carolina aud 20 make beF
3amIn a. Tillman q more potenill
Factor ia the affairs OF south car,
lima. then RuticHo or Laurcna. Hayn
OF Calhoun, hcDuhe OF nammonl
Hampton OF Butler bad ever been.
800 speech % ar Johnson 10 whic
. b referred was delivered "a tho nation
I "a hluso 0f representatives.. June "a
. 1906 flis theme. TOO. was south Care
, lliras bat it was industrial udhe
ihn political. ID c,tarcfeP he b9ge
Wan on eulOgy OF bis state az oaC
1 modest and lofty There was no o
fort nt defamation or rhetoric. u wa
nos 90 grafton; q Was only q aimpl
fleitiemolt Of facts First b. made "
butte % che marked individuality q
hls people. tho intensity with While
I've" ffai, the sincerity with Whie
they avow. aud the sntreplally wit
which they ect lie then called a