The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-02-01

1t, / would lead d mob to lynch anyt
DaD, black OF white, who had rayiah.
ed 4 Woman, bls0k or white. This In
my attitude calmly and deliberately
sakep, and jnstlaed by my conscience
"a the sight of ,God.
Mr.. President, the Senator from
Wisconsin speaks OF "lynching bees.n
'Asi far 90 lYnohing for rape Ia CON.
cerned, the word is . mlsnomer.
When storm and sad.faced white men
put to death q creature In human
form who has deGowered q white wO.
man, there is nothing OF the beef
about it. There Ia more of the feel.
ing of participating as mourner at q
funeral. They have avenged tho
greatest wrong, the blacklist crime In
all the category Of crimes, and they
have done II, not 30 much as an act
OF Ietribution in behalf OF the victim
as a duty and as q warming as to
what any man may expect who shall
repeat the Offense. They are looking
to the protection Of their own loved
ones.
The Senator from Wisconsin PIRATES
about the law. He ereots the law
into o deity which must be worshiped
regardless Of Justice. He has studied
law books until his mind has become
saturated with the bigotry which
Ignores the fundamental pYir ciple In
this Governments: Law ia nothing
more than the will of the people,"
There are written laws and un written
laws, ana the unwrltten laws are
always the very embodiment Of aevaRe
Justice. The Senator from Wisconsin
Is incapable Of understanding condi.
tions In the South or else he has lost
those natural impulses which for cen.
turfos have been the chefaoteristioa
OF the race to which we belong.
Tsoitus tells us that the "Germanic
pscple were over jealous OF the virtue
of their women.' Germans, Saxons,
Engiishmen, they are practically one,
springing from the same great root.
That trinity OF words, the noblest
and holiest In our language, woman
hood, wIfehood, motherhood, have
Saxon origin. l believe with Words.
w?rth--it Is my religion
mother Is u mother still, the no.
blest thing alive.
And % man who speakes with
jightness or fippancy or discusses
cold %bloodedly q matter 30 vital as
the purity and chastity Of womanhood
Is q disgrace to his own mother and
unworthy the love of o good wife.
Look at OGr environment in the
South, surrounded, AND in a vary
large number Of counties and In tive
States outnumbered, by the negroes
engulfed, as Ii we're, In o black flood
Of semibsrbarians. Our farmers,
living In aggregated farmhouseB, moro
or less thinly scattered through the
country, have negroes on every hand.
For forty years theae have been
taught the damnable heresy OF
equality with tho white man, made
the pupeG Of aoheming politicians,
the instrument for the furtheranoe OF
political ambitions. Some OF them
nave just enough education to be able
to read, but not always to unddorrstaan
what they read. Their minds are
those Of children, while they have the
passions and strength of men. Taugh,
that they are oppressed, and Will
breasts pulasting with hatred Of the
whites, the Younger generation Of
/, negro men arc roaming owe the land
passing back and forth without hind
/ rance, and with 40 possibility of ade
quate police protection to the com
munities In which they arc residing.
. Now let me suppose o case. Lat III
. take any Senator on this fioor-I vii
not particulsrize-tako him from
. some great and we'll. ordered State Ii
tho North, where there are poBstbl,
I. twenty thousand negroes, az there
ara In Wisconsin, with over two mil
{ lion whites, Let us carry this Sena'
tor to the backwoods In South Oaro.
lima, put him on q farm miles from q
town or railroad, and environed Will
negroes. We will suppose he has
fair young daughter just budding
into ~womanhood; and recollect this,
the white ome Of the South are In
S state OF siege; the greatest care is
exercised that they shall ct all times
where IL is possible not be left alone
or unprotected, but that can not
always and In every instance be the
case. That Senator's daughter un-
dertAkeS to visit q neighbor or Is left
homo alone for o brief while. Some
lurking demon who has watched. for
the opportunity seizos her; abe is
choked or beaten into insensibility
and raVished, her body prostituted,
her purity destroyed, her chastity
taleen from her, and q memory brand.
ed on her brain aa with q red. hot iron
to haunt her night and day as long
as she 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 lows and
our woes,
TO which life nothing darker of bright.
er can bring,
For which joy hath no balm and anlc-
ton no sting.
In other Worda, g. death In life.
This young girls thus blighted and
brutallzed drsgs herself to her father
and tells him what has happened. Ia
there q man hero with rcd blood In
his veins who doubts what impulses
the father would teelP Is it any won
der that the whole COUNT yaide rises
as n man and with set, stern faces
seek tho brute who has wrought bhis
inf&ml? Brute, did 1 say? Why, Mr..
President, this orima ID q Islander on
tho brutes. No beast OF the field fore
e8 his female. He watts Invitation.