The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-12-11
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"Mr. President and Brother Govern
ors, we do not apply to your States
ANYTHING wrong. 1t is your way o1
looking at the proposition. We do not
mean for moment to condemn you
nor would South Carolina or South
Carolinians for a moment set itself
up as the only or the proper guardian
of the morality of the American ma
ton: but we are glad of the distinc-
ton that we hold; we are proud thaI
it is written in our fundamental law,
so that no legislature, elected possibly
by a wave of excitement or from
other causes, can change it; it is so
written that it is impossible to change,
and of that we are proud.
Now we can not follow this rule OF
desertion all the way through, but in
South Carolina when white man de-
serts his wife and children, or II ne
deserts his wife and they are without
children. it is a criminal offense to
fail to support that wife, or to fall 10
support the children, if there be such.
Consequently the wife can go into a
court of Justice and prosecute her hus-
band for non-support OF herselt ana
for non-support of her children, ana
we punish him as criminal 1or Iall-
ing to do his duty to that woman, TO
those children, to society and 10 MS
State. Therefore, we have but little
trouble on this score. Sometimes we
have a citizen who drifts to Reno !;
sometimes we have a citizen that
crosses to Augusta, only going across
the Savannah river, but when he real
ICES that when he comes back into the
State that criminal prosecution Will
hang over his head for the deSertion
If that woman, who has sworn, not
only before man, not only Tor her love
for him, not only for the deVotlon
which she has for her State and her
nation, but for her belief in the hel G.
after and in the God thai. gave hnr
life that she would stand by him IN
health and in sickness, old Soutn Gar
olina says to him, AS she staLds Dy
YOU, you have got to stand by her.
We are proud of it; we love lhe dls-
tinction. -
"Now, there is a race of people IN
nv section of the country-and am
nointed to the world sometimes as
their enemy, but l am not, and II
the governorship of South Carolina
depended upon an election next tues
day and they would leave it entirely 10
the negro vote, disfranchising for the
time the white vote, l could receive
without trouble IS to 80 per cent. OF
the negro vote Of the State to be- thelI
governor, and notwithstanding tnat
stand alone in this conference and IN
| other places of this great nation, ho'
as governor of South Carolina, but IN
NV individual capacity believing there
| IS hut one punishment, and that must
he speedy, when that negro lays MS
| ,ands upon the person OF white wo-
nan. Such a thing as happened 1e"
| laws ago in a certain State, can't nap
| ,en in South Carolina; the boasteo
hero of the black race who claims 70
be the superior of the white man IN
The prize ring could not disgrace Soutn
| Carolina by having himself unlted 10
white woman within it's borders
thank God, and if it did happen the
law provides a punishment for MIN
and a punishment for her, ana tne
| ,nly reason that the law would De
called in to protect them would DC
he location of the place in the state
| n which the crime might have been
| committed. Otherwise there might DC
M need for a grand jury TO present
J., true bill. Mr.. Chaimarn, OF that we
IRE proud. , +ho,
| "Of course, we can not apply thal
| , this Individual race, and why not!
| because. my friends, you do not un-
| ,erstand those people. You condemn
- OF the South, and yet ONO 1ol'
| ,ows the example; in Springfield tney
followed it; New Jersey follows II;
| yennsyivanla will follow it. All othel
| states of the American union Will
| ,ollow it, because no matter Wnere
+ be, North or South, East or west
whenever you touch the caucasian
,lood it is the same, and it will prove
! lself to be the superior and the MS
,ory of the world has proved it (botf
bible and profance history thai
whenever the inferior race gets III
ne way of the superior that the su'
Derior will rule and control, even
! Ihough it be necessary to wipe tne
! Inferior race from the face OF tne
Earth. Some men condemn this, ant
hat is their privilege, but IN the
southern States we love woman
We hold them higher than all thlns:
Ielse, and whenever anything steps pc
tween a Southern man and the ae
.ense of the virtue OF womanhood o
mis- nation and his State, he Will teal
II down and walk over it in her de
,ense, regardless Of whatever may Dt
the consequence or whatever may OF
mis- punishment or the result TO MIN
self.
"Now, Mr.. Chairman, we nave
Judge in our State whom cohsiueI
the ablest man who has ever peel
on the bench there. On one occasion
several indictments were hanoed ou
nv the solicitor to the grand jury, AM
ne sat there and heard the sollclto
hand out indictment after indictment
After a while he turned around AM
said. Mr.. Solicitor, are these Wnlt
people or darkies you are hahaln'
out these indictments against? In
solicitor said, May it please you
,onor, they are against coloreo PEG
ple.' The Judge looked over TO In
grand jury and said, Gentlemen, yo
can find no true bill against thes
negroes for the crime for which TN
solicitor is handing out these lndlct
ments. Do you want any cotto
raised this year; do you want you
fields cultivated; if SO, it will not a. a
to bring in true bills on these in in