The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-19
BY fSav,,o,y,a7rd.

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1T would do q power Of good u . every
tintcllgent man In the entire United lltl
states were to read carefully. and reflect
mon seriously the speech or BENJAMIN r.
8Tillmar, I upon the political politics Y of
South Carolina, when he}pronounced the
eulogy on Joseph H Earle, his dead col:
Eleague in the Federal 4 Senate, and then
to the speech OF oscph T. y ohnson,i
deliyered In the national II ouse OF re pre-
5sentatlvcs In the closing tours 3 OF w " ila
,rcgu lar session late expired, ~ STATE .'
of our8U Union has been talk ed Q pout more
and no State OF our sistcrhood has been
y, n,flerstnod less. 81 The stormy petrol Of
our politics, South Carolina, has been,
dangerously hated Snnd devotcdlys loved
In his speech to which i have ca led at at
&tention Mr., Tillman analyses the polltl-
ca lS systems that have maintained there
from the colonial period; the 4 narrative
Is thrilling and argument instructive q
n The & coast was settled by 1duguenots
and English sent over BY lords prtopr fle4
tors, while the Y Piedmont sect lon. up
country, was populated ~ Scotch-Irish,
Germans, Pennsylvania Dutch, III ghland
Scotch. and Irish from the Pale, with q
sprInklIng Of English farmers. On the
coast were many slaves, and there the
baron was in his hall; In the Piedmont
region slaves were few, and the }yeoman
owned and titled the soil. #E The govern
ment was an 9ristocracy domiin q yea py
the barons and submitted TO by the 2yco &C
men,. The great families OF the coast
r,ilad and mono disputed their sway
yere dc We're was not $prouderfof his Inc;
age, 8Nontmorency was not moro AFRO
CANT. Clavcrhou not more impatient Of
control than tho great families on the
coast Of South Carolina, They were the
state ana 1t Is only Just to them to say
that the government they made was az
that could be desired IN the matters OF
purity, simplicity, honesty, frugallty.=
Nowhere else in the world did the citizen
en1ov more unrestrained personal liberty;
nowhere else in the world did govern
ment take so llttlo In taxes for It's sup
port Tho rights of property We're no
where more secure, and the rights Of tho
person were nowhere held more sacred.
The hnbeas corpus and the writ OF IN
junction alike maintained. 8s &
twas an ollgarchy but twas g proud
magistracy, jealous OF Its power and ten
system then universal and that yet mains
tfllns in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
the legislative superintendent gave the
coast counties of the. barons Immense
numerical advantage over he Piedmont
section In the General Assembly, and tho
Legislature of South Carolina was the
ruler OF South Carolina, The people voted
ut the polls for members Of the National
Congress for State legislators, and for
county executive officials, and no other
OFFICIALS Even as late ns 1860 the Presl-
|gdenttIal electors who cast the vote or
South Carolina We're appointed by inc
Legislature of the State
Tho great war Of 1851 was followed ny
tho era OF Reconstruction, when south
Carolina was Inundated as none OF ller
sister cotton States was and ms no otllar
people were anywhere or IN any AEe'
Her White population were made SUD
1eot to their former slaves OF an inte-i
rlor race, and not only WAS the oYe 81
ment the meanest aginaple, put
M was the costiest imaginable me men
who paid the taxes were not alloWen
o@yote, and the men who administered
tho government were entirely lrresponsl,
EbIe. OF course, such q ,condltlon coula
nnlv be maintained by the sword, That
south 5T Carolina, beaten and bankrupt,
oyorthr this usurpatlon after years
OF oppression Is one OF the miracles o.
sa xon history Nowhere else Is the IN
sntIate appetite and indomitable resolu-
ton for the mastery implanted IN the
breast ( Of the .Anglo-SaXon So&YlYldly "
Illustrated as 1t was in So Nth Garollna.t he
decade ls65-'75, Again the old !. famllles
gotScontrol and held u until l3eh?alnln =.
Tiilmnn rosa and emote the OIL garchy,
and IN It's wreck and ruin reared the
democracy that there now maintains as
a noes In no other CommorWen OF
lttha entire American sisterhood,l It some
{ time I'M the future Ifhope to try to relate
tie story of that Titanic struggle the
result OF which WAS to PIT the political
l.powars Of South Carolina into the keep,
| ing Of the people Of South Carolina ana