Year: 1878

Your race is but q small fraction OF
the people in these United States. You
are but 100000 against 10000. 600
of whites. You are but tenth part
of the great mass of the people of
America, and, moreover, that race of
white men who are now treading this
continent are the most earnest, the
most enterprising, the most active, the
most aggressive of all the people that
ever walked upon Gods earth. If
any other race places itself in opposi-
ton, it must give way before the ad-
vancing tide and dio out, as the In
dians have done, while the white man
will go on bearing the flag of clviliza-
ton and Christianity until the last
trump shall sound from heaven. 1t is
the law of God it is as fixed as the
law which fixed that sun in the firma-
ment. 1t will not be changed, and l
say to the colored people Of South
Carolina that if they array themselves
against the white men as race, if they
draw the color line which have been
trying to obliterate-if they say, be-
cause we are black we intend to be
Republicans always-I beg you to
mark that have not made predic-
ton since 1876, which has not been
fulfilled to the very letter. tell you
here to-day that if you place yourself
in this attitude toward the white race,
as long as the seas beat upon your
shores, never will you have control
over South Carolina.


You can, my colored friends, have
your share of South Carolina-you
can have all the share that any citizen
has-you can aid in choosing its rulers
and if you show yourselves worthy,
honest and capable you can become
office holders yourselves. But yon
can do it only in.one way, and that is
by joining this strong, grand old Dem
ocratic party. We hold out the hand
of fellowship to you. We say to you
our platform is broad enough and
strong enough to hold you all, and we
have men enough on it already to hold
that platform forever. We have room
enough in the great Democratic party
to take in all who want to come. We
give an earnest welcome to all. We
stand upon the pledges we have made
and the ever living principles of the
Democratic party that every man is
the equal before the law of every 9TH
er man, and his position must be
worked in life by himself, his destiny
must be controlled by his own works.
We will try to aid you, my colored
friends, in every way. We have tried
to aid you in an educational point of
view. We have done much, and
would have done more but for one
thing: When we took this govern
ment we found that your Radicals
had left debt of $3.50 to be paid
to school teachers for past services,
and we have been paying off that debt
out of our educational fund. We be-
lieve in paying as we go. We don't
believe in opening schools and making
teachers trade off their certificates at a
discount and allowing the Office hold.
ers to bag the money. We believe in
giving you education for your chill
dren, and urged upon the Legisla.
ture, and they adopted my suggestion.
that they should ratify the amendment
to the Constitution which gives to the
counties two mill tax for educational
purposes. That has been honestly ap.
propriated. The amount will increase
and in a few years you will find sys
tenn of education SO broad and so per.
feet that every mans child, black and
white, can participate in the benefit.