The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-05-08

signed for southern consumption and
to affect the south. For instance, DR..
Ferris, the colored Harvard graduate,
emphasized this, when he said:
This means more to the negro
of the black belt of the north The
incident is revival of the old scheme
of those radicals who, with Thad
Stevens and Charles Sumner, caused
the reconstruction deviltN in the
south in '6S. That Stevens practiced
miscegnation, and Charles Sumner
endorsed it, and nothing but the i'm
perial manhood of the southern white
people-men and women alike-sav-
ed our civilization then.
"The negro newspapers throughout
the country will publish and send
broadcast over the south this story
of black men and white women sitting
down to dinner, with what results i
need not say Roosevelts luncheon
with Broker Washington caused uE-
told mischief, and, as one of these
speakers said. conditions are going
to get worse il the south before they
get better When the colored peop!e
get educated, tn whites in the South
will have to recognize them. Closing
his statement with assertion that de-
portation is impossible, then it must
be amalgomation and education.
"A few statistics will indicate what
this means, South. Carolina has 225,-
900 more negroes than whites; Mis-
sissippi, 265,000 more negroes than
whites, and the six southern states of
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
FLORIDA, Mississippi and Louisiana,
constituting the black belt. have 30
600 more negroes than whites. Your
own state of Georgia has over l.00G,
600 negroes and less than 100000
white majority.
'If this program Of the Wizards
should be carried out, the future traV'
eler through the heart of the Confed-
racy, when the mixing of the races
has been completed, could discover
nothing here except mulattoes, or
even a darker admiXture. 1t is need
less to say hat this will never occur,
because, if deportation is impossible,
the destruction of the black race is
not. And those who sow the wind,
may live to reap the whirlwind.
"I know better than any other
southern man for 1 have tested 1t,
that the northern feeling on this
question differs very little from our
own. And If the Republican natio-
al convention shall adopt the ONO
program of reducing southern repre-
sentation it would be the duty OF the
Democratic convention to meet 1t
with plank declaring this IS
white mans country and white men
must govern it.
In answer to the question whether
such a plank would gain US votes IN
the North, Senator Tillman SAID II
the Republicans should press the
issue, / have no earthly doubt OF IL.
Southern men would only have to go
among the northern people and dis
cuss the question as have DONE
boldly and frankly. Nc Republican
speaker can meet the arguments anu
facts that can be presented, ana the
feeling of caste, race suporicrity IS as
indelibly fixed there as here' me
question never will Sc settled
until the North shall agree to the re-
neal of the fifteenth amendment aHa
modification of the fourteenth, SO es
to set at rest once for all the negro,s
asnirations social equality, by taxing
from him political equality, or lea'-
ing it to each state to settle
When asked if the action OF soutn
Carolina in regard to negro sutiraee
was unanimous Senator Tillman saio
ain p manner yes, and then again. no.
because there was considerable ais
cussion and threats In certain quar-
ters of mobiizing the negro vote
and controlling the state constitution
al convention by those who claimed
to be the guardians of vested interest
and corporations. If you should ev-
er have a death grapple in Georgia
along these lines and your negroes
are not disfranchised, you can readily
understand how many thousands OF
them would have their taxes paid so
that their votes could be used at the
polls.
'It is we'll understood now by
great many northern people that the
negroes are the balance of power IN
many northern and border states,
such as New York, New Jersey, Del
alvarez Maryland, Kentucky, west
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and
Kansas, and there is intense bitter
ness of feeling in Washington because
of the impending control of the nat
ional Republican convention by ne
gro delegates from the South, VINO,
said to me, can deliver no electoral
votes, but will nominate a man for
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