The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-05-14

property lost, Stolen and de-
stroyed, settle, except that when
a nation with slaves, fights one
without slaves it may lose it's
slaves as a result of the war.
The epfranchisement of the ne.
gro was an accident Of war and
the northern claim to it as a pri.
mary philanthropic motive is as
utterly false as the comforting Of
universal suffrage was criminal.
ly foolish. The moral progress
of this nation halted at the 18th
and 18th amendments. The hor-
rors of reconstruction, put the
national conscience to sleep, and
the dragons teeth sown then in
the blood soaked ground are
continually cropping up full
grown. Oppressive trusts: which
make the people their prey. The
practically passing away Of Dem
ocratic government in Washing
ton, and the glamour of i'll got
ten wealth dazzling the eyes of
the people. The spread Of an
atheistic gangrene through all
the body polite, these are what
the war did for this nation. The
public conscience has at last be.
come thoroughly aroused, and
when the people sought a leader
they came south and chose a
N an from Georgia, Woodrow
Wilson, typifying in his life and
character, the same civilization
which produced Thomas Jefer.
son and Andrew Jackson, Rob
ert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
In the great industrial war d.
viding each year more sharply
the masses and the classes in the
north and the west, the very
presence of the negro has held
| the south solid. In my earlier
years I chafed at this lack of
li,erty in thought and action.
but I have come to think that
perhaps Providence,has permit
ted the south to be held in bond
age like Israel of old: in order to
educate and prepare her for the
great work of saving the repub-
lie IF Washington and Jefferson.
Under the leadership of Wood
row Wilson, southern men now
control this government in every
department, and are directing
the conservative and preserva-
tive forces in this nation.
In the early days, the, south
gave the nation it's presidents
and shaped its policies. Wash.
ington gave 1t freedom, Jeffer-
son gave it the policy of expan.
sion and Monroe. the doctrine
which is today the very founda-
tlon of our foreign policy.
Truly "God works in myster-
ious ways his wonders to per.
FORM" Humbled into the dust,
the heels of her former slaves
placed upon her neck: the south
has learned patience and wisdom
under the hand that loved while
it chastened. Southern honesty,
genius and craftsmanship now
has the opportunity to build on
lines broader than party and
wider than section.
The greatest issue before the
world today is the race question,
not the negro question, but one
embracing the races of the world.
The dominance of the Anglo
Saxon race for centuries has
been unqestioued, but if the ad-
vance of China TO a republican
form of government and of Japan
to a world power, does not mean
the introduction of elements be-
fore which the tariff and mere
industrial issues are paltry, then
I utterly misread the signs of the
times. We settled this race ques
ton in the south in 1876 in spite
of written constitutions and Fed
eral bayonets, in the only way it
can be settled, by declaring the
supremacy of the white race and
pIedging our manhoca to main.
tain it. We know that no two
races differing in blood and col.
or. can exist in nearly equal
numbers in the same community
as an equal social aud political
basis. There has always been
and always will be one dominant
race. With a justification for the
position of the south is the situ-
alton on the Pacific slope. Here
is California crying out in 1913
for States Rights as South Caro-
lima did in 1860. and proclaiming
as we did in 1876, that her civili-
zation can only be preserved by
maintaing white supremacy
against a mere threat by a few
thousand japanese immigrants.
The south can read the way in
this fight for a white mans coun.
try and 7 trnst that the govern