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TILLMAN DEFENDS LYNCHING. lt;iWisconsin Crowd Agrees with Views of South Carolina Statesman.Marinette, Wis., Fni ted StatesSenator Tillman of South Caroli-na, addressed a large audience on the race question from a southern standpoint. One of the features of his remarks was a plea in justification of lynching.“In Wisconsin you have 5000black men,” said he. “Whv♦don’t you try the bleaching process and exterminate them by intermarrying. The idea is repugnant to you. In South Carolina we have 740,000 blacks and 550-000 whites. The ‘carpet baggers,' the ‘nigger' and the southern scallawags and scoundrels ruled us after the war until they had stolen everything there was in the state; then we went with our shotguns to the polls and took itaway from them. All men are *not created equal, and the *nig-;ers’ are not lit to vote. Come what may. the white people of(the south will govern their own country.”He condemned Hooker Washington's scheme of educating thenegro along industrial lines as anattempt to place him on an equality with the white artisan, something that would intensify race hatred in the south. lie said that among the 4,000,000 slaves during the civil war there were more Christians than there are to-day among the ‘,00,000 blacks in the south.“I do not want to uphold slavery, he continued. “1 thank Cod there are no slaves today under the stars and stripes.”Mr. Tillman made an eloquent plea in justification of lynching,
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White Oaks Eagle
White Oaks, New Mexico, US
Thu, Aug 22, 1901
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