The daily sentinel., 1907-09-17
HYNES MAKE ATTACK
ON SEN. TILLMAN
Local Man Expresses His Personal
Opinion on the Lecture of the
Famous Southerner. Did
Not Like IL.
Editor Sentinel:

Editor Sentinel:
Senator Tillman's address on last
Thursday evening was a great dis
appointment to all lovers of consti-
tuted authority. Not only did he
commend the cheating of the colored
man, but he approved, by his silence
of the murder of the hundreds of in
nocent colored men, whose only guilt
was the color of their skin.
His address was brutal and bru-
talizing. He approved of the de-
struction of the Indian and China
man; and. indeed. would disregard
all and every law that would in any
way give to the colored man any
semblance of liberty. He would ev-
en- curtail their opportunities for ed
ucation. In fact, 1t would be but
fair inference to say that he would
If possible, utterly destroy the race
so far as this country is concerned.
There would have been no race
question today had not Senator Till
mans state in 1897 declared that
slavery should not be interfered
with. The honorable gentleman also
Informed us that Jefferson upheld
slavery; but having a due regard for
your space | simply quote the au-
thor of our glorious constitution:
There must doubtless be an un-
happy influence on the manners and
customs of our people produced by
the existence of slavery among us
The whole commerce between mas
ter and slave is perpetual exercise
of the most boisterous passions-the
most unremitting disposition on the
one part and degrading submission
on the other. Our children see this
and learn to initiate II, for man is
n mi anft ., fs. a.
the germ of education in him. From
his cradle to his grave he is learn
ing to do what he sees others do. III
parent could find no motive either
In his Philanthropy or his self love
for restraining the intemperance of
passion towards his slave, II should
always be a sufficient one that his
child Is present. But generally 1t
is not. The parent storms, the child
looks on. catches the lineaments of
wrath, puts on the same airs in the
circle of smaller slaves, gives loose
to the worst of passions, and thus
nursed, educated and daily exercised
in tyranny, cannot but be stamped
by it with odious peculiarities. The
man must be prodigy who can re-
tain his manners and morals unre-
proved by such circumstances, and
with what execration should the
statesman be loaded who, permitting
one-half of the citizens thus to tram
pie on the rights of the others, trans
forms them into despots and thus
into enemies, destroys the morals of
the one part and the amor patrlae of
the other. For II the slave can have
country in the world, 1t must be
any other in preference to that In
which he is born to live and labor
for another. in which he must lock
up the faculties of his nature, con
tribute as depends on his Individual
endeavors to the environment of the
human race, or until his own miser-
able condition on endless genera
tions proceeding from him
with the morals of people. their
industry also is destroyed. For, in
a warm climate. no man will labor
for himself who can make another
labor for him. This is so true that,
of the proprietors of slaves, very
small proportion indeed are ever
seen to labor. And can the nber-
ties of a nation be thought secure
when we have removed their one
firm basis-a conviction in the minds
of the people that their liberties are
the gift of God?-that they are not
to be violated but with wrath? In
deed, | tremble for my country when
l reflect that God is just; that his
justice cannot sleep forever; that,
considering numbers. nature and nat
ural means only, a revolution of the
wheel of fortune, an exchange of sit
uation, is among the possible events,
that 1t may become probable by su-,
pernatural Interference.
The Almighty has no attribute
which can take side with us in such
a contest. Notes Oh the State of
Virginia, by Thos. Jefferson, 1887.
page 221.
LAURENCE HYNEs.