The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-08-01
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: :Defe1aseSof e Y the III War
7. Amendments =,
Was the Address OF Foraker Last
Week In Reply to Senator =
s, y Tillman's 8 Ohio Speech. -

Bellafontaine, Ohio, July 27,-"1
FOUND my text for this speech in The
inquirer! That .ts not exactly the
source OF gospel truthHfor men OF my
pol1tlcal party, but it is. q splendid
place to get suggestions" said Sen
ator. ]. B. Foraker In opening his ad-
dress at the Chautauqua Assembly
here this afternoon. ".' -"
He referred to recent speech by
Senator, Tillman, which he dwelt
upon at some length, but he did not
confne himself to. his selected text
throughout his speech Of two hours,
Tor he took occasion to- rap a lot OF
people, among them President Roose-
Welt, Secretary Taft, Congressman
Burton and former Governor Her.
rick. -.
THE GREAT RACE PROBLEM
Senator Foraker's remarks on the
race problem were In part as fol-
lows: ,., -. ! -.
Before taking up anything else"
! want to speak briefly in answer to
som0 utterances Of Senator Tillman.
He has been, making a speech in
= 0hfo.--- #, was-en the race problem.
This is his fayorite topic. He is at
his best when he talks on that sub
1ect, but his best Is also his worst.
He Is one of the frankest and one
OF the ablest men the South has ever
produced. Every one is fond of him
as a man, but his views on this sub
ject are SO extreme that but few Of
his Democratic colleagues in the Sen
ate, If any OF them, fully agree with
himu --.,..' : = '-.,., 49,
80 ''In this latest speech he is quoted
as saying; :. r. -. -.
&c If after the war the North had
not In It's passion and sectional hat
red gone tar beyond the bounds Of
reason, decenoy and righteousness
there would today be no race prob
lem. -. - ..s..s =
I'VE, resent and resist the doc
trine Of, equality under the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
You have done wrong. The
North %has done, wrong. 1t can rem
edy the feeling by repealihg the Fiji
teenth Amendment and letting the
= states e aggaa fRgisE sBsalssi MfgrakRi ~ s.. ! .
e ."All tie way through HIS discus
sion Is sin the nature Of a protest
against social equality. His whole
argument proceeds upon the idea
that the PURPOSE of the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to the
constitution was to force social
equality upon the white people Of
the South With their Negro neigh
bors. Nothing could be more wide
OF the mark: Nobody had any such
purpose. Everybody understood then
as now that social equality cannot
be-fofeed upon anybody. There is
hno social equality among white peo"
pie, except as they may choose. 1t
is the same with black people. Even
more true it is as between black and
white. people.
1.-THE purpose of the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments was to
provide political equality, to put all
citizens Of the United States, whether
white or black rich or. poor, upon
the same plane so for as the politi
cal rights OF citizenship we're con-
cerned.
II shall not stop to debate with
Senator T%lman about the doctrine
OF secession, NOR as to whether the
people Of the South had a right to be-
lieve that they #ere right in advo-
eating that doctrine and In plunging
the nation into war to uphold it.
What I want to answer is his
charge that in hatred and passion
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the constitution were
forced upon the South, and that In
this way the North needlessly pre-
cipitated upon The South the evils
they suffered during the RECONSTRUCT
tion period. These amendments, II
not fully demanded by the war IT.
self, were made necessary by the
situation created by the seceding
States Immediately after the war.
Slavery had beeh abolished. The
doctrine of secession was dead, Our
contention was, therefore, estab~
1ished that no state had q right to
secede and that the efforts the States
had made in the name Of secession,
we're failures The Tndication Of
this claim brought with 1T, however,
some troublesome questions. II the
States had mot been out Of the Un~
lon it was not necessary to DO any
thing to restore them to the Union.
MISLED BY JOHNSON .-..
acting upon this idea Andrew
johnson rpislsd the seeding States
to their great injury and prejudice.
Under his direction provisional Leg
islatures were called and organized,
The members OF these Legislatures
were naturally the leading Wen in
each State and, all these as a rule
had been In the Confederate army;
and whether they had been In the
army or not, they had all sympa-
thized with the Confederate cause.
They proceeded upon the theory that
they we're in the Union, and, being
in the Union, had a right to send
Senators and members of Congress
to represent them at Washington.
Accordingly, within q few months af-
ter the close Of actual hostilities,
Alexander H. stephens, the late Vice
President of the Southern Confeder-
acy, appeared at Washington, com
nissioned by the provisional Legis-
Jatnre Of Georgia, to represent that