The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-01-23
TEDDY WAS RIGHT
SENATOR FRAZIER DEFENDS
ROOSEVELT'S CAUSE
And Says the South Will Never Sub
nit to Negro Domination or AL
low the Social Bars Lowered.

low the Social Bars Lowered.
Washington, Jan. 20.--Senator
Frazier, of Tennessee today spoke
on the Brownsville affair, and oppos-
ed the passage Of any one of the
pending bills for the re-enlistment of
the negro soldiers of the 25th reg
iment, who were discharged without
honor by the President.
whenever" declared Mr.. Frazier,
"any question arises affecting the
negro there are certain people, in
Guiding the negro himself, who seem
to think that he should be dealt
with in an exceptional and unusual
way; that he is to be treated as the
ward of the nation, and must be the
constant object of It's care and So
licitude.
If those people in every section
Of the country who are especially
solicltous of the negro's welfare
would, by act and word, teach the
! negro that he is to be shown no
exceptional consideration, but must
stand or fall on his conduct and
merit alone, they would render him
incalcuable benefit, and the country
lasting service"
Analyzing the testomony taken in
various Investigations, Mr.. Frazier
said there was no question as to the
guilt Of any soldiers of the 25th
regiment. He justified the Presi-
dent in his discharge of the entire
body of troops, because of the i'm
possibility Of fixing the guilt upon
particular soldiers. Speaking of the
treatment Of the negro by the, people
Of the South, Mr.. Frazier said:
II would not be entirely frank if
l did not say that upon certain phas-
es on the race question, /, in COM
mon with the rest of the South, have
stood, and believe will ever stand,
firm and unalterably. First, never
against will the negro race be allow
ed to politically dominate and con-
troll sovereign State of this Union.
To do so would be to enthrone ig-
norance and give it dominion over
Intelligence, and to bring back the
rapid and utter reckless debauchery
of the Reconstruction era. Second,
the social barrier, which separates
the races will never be allowed to be
lowered. To do so would destroy the
purity and integrity of the white
race and shock the sensibilities and
outrage the moral sense of the Cau-
casion race the world over.
For forty years, in patience and
kindness the people Of the South
have wrestled with this problem" I"
he said in conclusion. 1T Is still un-
solved. What the end will be, only
God in His infinite wisdom can see
Shall it be that the black race will
be deported? If feasible, it would
remove the last remaining barrier
to complete the unity of the Amer
lean people. Shall it be a race war,
bloody. fierce, exterminating- war
for the survival of the fittest-God
forbid. Sha' it be amalgamation,
and the unspeakable horror of cor
rupted anu inferior race? To al
low it would be to destroy that civ
ilization which is at once our
strength and pride. Shall it be that
the two races will dwell together,
and yet apart. in peace and harmo-
ny. To do so, without one race
dominating and ruling the other
would be to belle the universal YER
dict Of racial history. l do not
know. But one thing I do know is
that the solution of this problem
rests primarily in the hands Of the
Southern white man and the South
ern black men, and calls for the
wisest counsel and broadest conser-
vatism of both. know that it can
never be solved by men far removed
from it's fatal touch, and whose
minds are not filled with an appall-
ing sense of the deep racial diff
fculties with which it is hedged
about"