The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-01-30

my attitude calmly and deliberately
saker, sud juss!dsd by ny cocseIence
IN the sight Of God.
Mc. President, the SsEstcr tom
Wisconsin speaks CT 'lynching bees"
AS lar IS lYcchtng for rape ts con-
cer4sd, the word Is mlsnomer.
When ste:n and sad.fsced white men
puI to desth creature In human
form who has deaowered whits wo-
man, there is nothing OF the "bee"
shout It. There Is more OF the feel
ing OF participating as mourner at
funeral. They have avenged the
greatest wrong, the blsckest crime il
all TIE category Of crines, and they
cavs dcne it, not so much as an act
Of se.ributicn In behalf CT the Vlo5iha
as 6usy and as = waning IS %
what sry msn msy expect who snsn
repess the oferse. They are looSlng
to the protection OF their own loVsc
olsS.
The Senator from Wisconsin prstes
sb7us The law. BE erects the Law
into deity which must DO worshipeo
recsrdless OF justice. He has studied
l.g books until his mind has bscOme
saturated With the higotry which
isrcreg the fundamental p1ic cciple In
this Government: Law is nothing
more thsn the will Of the people,
There are written laws sno unwristen
laws, sni the INV ritten laws are
always the ve,Y embodiment OF savage
Justice The Senator from Wisconsin
is incapable OF understanding condi-
lions In the South OF else he has lost
those natural i'm pulses ahtch ior GEN.
tuties have teen the characteristics
O. the race to which we belong.
Tsoitus tells Us that tbe "Gecnan1o
p-cp.e we're ever jealous of the virtue
OF their women" Germans, Sa1cns,
Epgiishnen, they are practically tne,
sprtrg!ng fr1n the same great root.
That Trinity OF words, the Eoo!est
an6 hottest In cur language, woman
tooa, wi'ehood, motherhood, hsve
S. xon origin. l believe with WORDS
?7:h--it is my religion
A mother is a mother still, the ne.
blest thing alive.
And s man who speakes with
lightnsss or fippancy OF discusses
cold. bloodealy matter 80 vital as
the purity snd chastity Of womanhocd
Is z disgrace to bis own mother and
unworthy the love Of : good H;fs.
Look st our environment In the
South, surrounded, ard in very
large nunber OF counties eno ia Two
States outnunbered, by the regroes-
engulie6, as IL esre, IN black food
ct senibartariaEs. Our tarne1s,
living tn segregated farnhouses, more
or less thinly scattered through the
country, have negroes or every hand.
For forty years thsze have osen
taught the dsnnaoie hs7asy ct
equality with the white nan, E.aos
the pupet OF scheniDg politicians,
the instrument for the tu1thersnce OF
political ambitions. Sore OF them
nave just enough education to be able
to read, but not always to understand
what they read. Their minds srs
these OF children, while they have the
passions and strength Of men. Taught
that they are oppressed, and with
breasts pulasting with hssrsd OF the
whites, the Younger generation Of
negro men sre roaming owe the land,
osssing back snd forth without hind
rance, and with 40 possibility Of ade'
ouste police protection to the COM
nu1isies in which they SIS residing.
Now let ne suppose case. Lss ui
| tske any Senator on this hoor-l viii
nct rsrtieulsrizs-take hin from
some great and well. ordered State II
the North, where there are possibly
twenty thousand negroes, IS there
ara il Wisconsin, with over swo NIL.
|lie1 whites. Lss US carry this Sans'
Eor to the back woods in South Csro.
;ins, PUT him On S farm miles from .
tosc cr r:::rcSd. ard snyilocsd wish
negroes. We will suppose lie las 3
fsir young daughter just budding
into wcnanhcoc; snd recollect this,
the white women CT the South are IN
3 state OF sisgs; the greatest care IS
exercised tnst tnsy shall at al times
where it is possible not be Left slo2e
or unprotected, but that can oos
aiss?s ar5 IN every instance be tie
case. That Senator's daughter IN.
oertskss to visit g nejgf bor OF Is left
home slone for 3 bIiet willis. Some
lurking de0cn who has watched. for
the opportunity SEXES hez; she is
choke5 or b,sten into insensiDi]isy
and 1aYishsd, her body prostituIed,
her purity destroyed, her chastity
taken from her, and q memory brand.
! ed on her brsin ss with red. hot Iron
70 haunt her night and day as long
IS sbe lives. Moore has drawn US the
picture in most graphic language:
One fatal remembrance, one sorrow
that throws
It's bleak shade alike over our joys and
our woes,
To which life nothing darker of bright
81 SdI DlllS,
For which Joy hath no balm and af1lc-
tion no sting.
In other words, e death In life.
This young girls thus blightsd and
brutalizsd drsgs herself to her father
and tells him what has happened. e
there q maa here with RED blood In
his veins who doubts what inpulsee
the father would Tee? Is 1t sny won
der that the whole count yside r!ses
IS one man and with set, stern faces
ssek the b:pts who hss wrought this
infsms? Brute, did I sas? Why, Mr..
President, this crime Is q SANDER Cd
the brutes. No bssst OF the field forc-
es his female. he visits invitation.
It has besn left for something In ths
shs2e Of q nan to do this terrible
thing. Aad shall such q creature,