The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-10-09

Aee'NiC III thC oOutl W pIcScllt W you
some of the views that have come to
me Illuminated by those bloody and
horrible transactions.
81 do not lay claim to being pro-
phet. I do lay claim to honesty and
patriotism Of purpose and to having
good common sense: and it is in the
exercise Of my patriotism Of purpose
as we'll as my use Of common sense
that | am going to speak to you to-
night. am going to call things by
their names; [ am not going to mincc
words; [ will hurt some feelings and
Tread on some toes; but will tell the
truth as | see it.
81 do not often use a manuscript,
and [ do not intend to use one now,
except for minute, but having in
view the laying before you and before
the country my understanding of the
situation, have deliberately set down
in black and white where I could
weigh my words and be careful to
guard my statements, certain funda-
mental principles which | ask you to
permit me to read.'
Sig Propositions as Tillman Sees the
Race Problem.
/. The white men of the south were
never more united or more determin-
ed than they are now in the purpose
to maintain white supremacy in each
and every part of every southern,
state regardless of negro majoritics,
and the thought Of social equality is
as intolerablc or even more so than
the idea of political equality. The
two go hand in hand and cannot be
separated.
2. The negroes were never more in
tent on contesting in every way, that
they dare this position Of the whites.
Their teachers, their preachers, their
politicians and every organization
which they have formed, one and all,
are bent OH compelling :, recognition
by the whites of the rights given to
the negroes by the 18th and 18th
amendments; and in every practicable
way the republican national govern
mcnt is giving aid and comfort to
this idea.
3. Race hatred in every form is
growing in intensity with both races.
4. Lynching for rape of white wo-
men by negroes will continue as long
as the crime is committed and the fact
that in many instances the guilty
ficnd is not caught intensifies the hat
red of the whites toward the negro
race and tends to precipitate race
conflicts in which innocent and good
negroes are too often the onl V suffer-
HrS.
5. Amal"amation is the hope and
ultimate purpose Of the negroes; the
oblit Grafton Of the color line, and
many white men, too many. oblivioua
tn their duty to their race and caste,
are voluntary criminals in this regard,
while thank God, our white women
prefer death to such a fate. In al
most every community white men can
be found brazenly living openly with
cnlorcd women and nothing is said or
done about il. We must protect our
wumcn at any and all hazards else
they would spurn us and ought to
Spurn us: and We must draw the line
of caste between white men and
black wrmen and stornly compel its
observance. just as stcrnly as we are
resolved to draw the line between
black men and white women. The
fact that The negro ravishes the white
woman while the white man only
lowers himself to crafty lust with
willing negro woman as morality is
concerned, makes the only difference.
6. The most essential and burning
issue with us is how to prevent rape
rather than try to avenge it. Lynch
ing has failed; we must try something
else. AS the superior race we owe it
to ourselves to protect the good and
innocent negroes, Of whom there arc
many--millions Of them in fact
from false teachers and bad leaders
who are rapidly driving the whites to
desperation and to the massacre OF
the negro, and in race war which
can have only one result, the destruc-
ton of the weaker race.
Would Help for One Thing.
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