The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-31
T|LLMAN'S
ELOQUENCE
An Appeal For Saving Of
woman from the Black
Fiend.

shift the minds of his auditors and
the readers Of the Record from
the Presidents outrageous dis
elimination against the black
soldiers and favoring the white
ones to nv own utterances and atti-
tude toward the negroe rapists,
and the shrewdness and dishonesty
of the argument, and the indecency
of the attack was emphasized when
the Senator from Wisconsin pro-
ceeded to quote from a former
speech of mine in this body in
which | said: eWe shot them, we
killed them, and we will do it
again
"Now what about those words
of mine, 'We shot them, DC. In
what connection did utter them :?
If / mistake not the Senator from
Wisconsin was in this chamber
when | used that language.
There were present a large mum ber
of leading Republicans. ] clrall-
enged each and every man here to
show wherein the people of South
Carolina were net justified and no
one dared reply.
"Now, a word about lynching, y
he continued. Sand my attitude
toward it, A great deal has been
said in the newspapers, North and
South, about my responsibility in
connection with this matter. My
position has been purposely mis-
represented and the Senator from
Wisconsin has assumed to himself
the right to arraign me in this
body and to pass judgement of
condemnation in most biting and
indicative phrase.
"Have L ever advocated lynch
law at any time or place? l
answer, on my honor, never. l.
have justified it for one crime, and
one only, and 1 have consistently
and persistently maintained that
attitude for the last Ia years. AS
Governor of South Carolina L pro-
claimed that although 1 had taken
the oath of office to support the
law and enforce it, would lead
mob to lynch any man, black or
white, who had ravished any
woman, black or white. This is
my attitude, calmly and deliberate
ly taken and justified by my con
science in the sight of God.
"Mr. President, the Senator
from Wisconsin speaks of lynch
ing BEES AS far as lynching for
rape is conce rned the word is
Z misnomer. When stern and sad
faced white men put to death a
creature in human form who has
deflowered a white woman there is
nothing of the bee about it. There
is more of the feeling of participa-
ting as mourner at funeral.
They have avenged the greatest
wrong, the BLACKLIST crime in all
the category of crimes and they
done it not so much as an act of
retribution in behalf of the victim
AS warning as to what any man
may expect who shall repeat the
offense. They are looking to the
protection of their loved ones.
."The Senator from Wisconsin
prates about the law. He erects
the law into deity which must
be worshiped regardless of justice.
He has studied law books until his
mind has become saturated with
the bigotry which ignores that the
fundamental principal in the
Government is that 'law is nothing
more than the will of of the people. ,
There are written laws and un-
written laws, and the unwritten
laws are always the very embodi'
ment of savage justice. The Sena-
tor from Wisconsin Is incapable
of understanding conditions in the
South, or else he has lost those
natural impulses which for GEN.
turtles have been the characteristics
of the race to which we belong.
"That trinity of words, noblest
and holiest in our language,
womanhood, wifehood, mother
hood, have Saxon origin. And a
man who speaks with lightness or
tiippancy. or discuss cold blooded-
ly matter SO vital as the purity
aud chastity of womanhood is a
disgrace to his own mother and un-