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Benjamin Tillman
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“As governor of South Carolina, I proclaimed that, although I had taken the oath of office to support the law and enforce it, I would lead a mob to lynch any man, black or white, who ravished a woman, black or white.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 396.
“I have three daughters, but, so help me God, I had rather find either one of them killed by a tiger or a bear [and die a virgin] than to have her crawl to me and tell me the horrid story that she had been robbed of the jewel of her womanhood by a black fiend.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 397.
“The citizens of this great commonwealth have for the first time in its history demanded and obtained for themselves the right to choose her Governor; and I, as the exponent and leader of the revolution which brought about the change, am here to take the solemn oath of office ... the triumph of democracy and white supremacy over mongrelism and anarchy, of civilization over barbarism, has been most complete.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144.
“The whites have absolute control of the State government, and we intend at any and all hazards to retain it. The intelligent exercise of the right of suffrage ... is as yet beyond the capacity of the vast majority of colored men. We deny, without regard to color, that 'all men are created equal'; it is not true now, and was not true when Jefferson wrote it.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144.
“How did we recover our liberty? By fraud and violence. We tried to overcome the thirty thousand majority by honest methods, which was a mathematical impossibility. After we had borne these indignities for eight years life became worthless under such conditions. Under the leadership and inspiration of Mart[in] Gary ... we won the fight.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Question of Race in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1895" (July 1952), by George B. Tindall. The Journal of Negro History, 37 (3): 277–303. JSTOR 2715494., p. 94.
“In my state there were 135,000 negro voters, or negroes of voting age, and some 90,000 or 95,000 white voters.... Now, I want to ask you, with a free vote and a fair count, how are you going to beat 135,000 by 95,000? How are you going to do it? You had set us an impossible task.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the United States Senate (23 March 1900).
“We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men, and we never will. We have never believed him to be the equal of the white man, and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him. I would to God the last one of them was in Africa and that none of them had ever been brought to our shores.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the United States Senate (23 March 1900).
“We made up our minds that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution were themselves null and void.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the U.S. Senate (23 March 1900).
“[A]s white men we are not sorry for it, and we do not propose to apologize for anything we have done in connection with it. We took the government away from them [negroes] in 1876. We did take it. If no other Senator has come here previous to this time who would acknowledge it, more is the pity. We have had no fraud in our elections in South Carolina since 1884. There has been no organized Republican party in the State.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the U.S. Senate (23 March 1900), regarding the Hamburg massacre of July 1876.
“The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they learn their place again.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding Booker T. Washington's meeting with Theodore Roosevelt on October 16, 1901, as quoted in Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000), by Stephen Kantrowitz. University of North Carolina Press,…
“Is President Roosevelt ready to act up to his own theory and have his children marry men and women of the other races? Would he accept as a daughter-in-law a Chinese, a Malay, an Indian, or a negro in accord to the doctrine laid down in his message which I have quoted? We all know that he would not, and while "fine words butter no parsnips", words like these are a source of incalculable evil.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1907 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tillman's address to the Senate on the Brownsville affair on January 12, 1907. Roosevelt had issued a statement saying that each of the accused men at Brownsville would be dealt with on his merits, without regard to rac…
“We reorganized the Democratic Party with one plank and only one plank, namely, that this is a white man's country and the white men must govern it.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding the Democratic Party's goals (1909), as quoted in Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life, by Lawrence Kreiser and Ray B. Browne, p. 27.
“We did not disfranchise the negroes until 1895. Then we had a constitutional convention convened which took the matter up calmly, deliberately, and avowedly with the purpose of disfranchising as many of them as we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. We adopted the educational qualification as the only means left to us, and the negro is as contented and as prosperous and as well protected in South Carolina to-day as in any State of the Union south of the Potomac. He is not meddling with politics, for he found that the more he meddled with them the worse off he got. As to his "rights"—I will not discuss them now.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the United States Senate (23 March 1900).
“Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is supreme. That is why we [white] Southerners are all Democrats... History has no record of Negro rule. The situation is grave, and calls for wisdom and all manner of statesmanship. If we had our say, the Negro could never vote. I believe that God made the white man out of better clay than that which the Negro was made from... We don't need another race to help us at this time. In some of the states, the Negro holds the vote of control... In Chicago, the Republicans needed the Negro vote to elect their whole ticket, so a nigger was nominated for judge and elected.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech (1906).
“The purpose of our visit to Hamburg was to strike terror, and the next morning (Sunday) when the negroes who had fled to the swamp returned to the town (some of them never did return, but kept on going) the ghastly sight which met their gaze of seven dead negroes lying stark and stiff, certainly had its effect ... It was now after midnight, and the moon high in the heavens looked down peacefully on the deserted town and dead negroes, whose lives had been offered up as a sacrifice to the fanatical teachings and fiendish hate of those who sought to substitute the rule of the African for that of the Caucasian in South Carolina.”
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an address to a reunion of Red Shirts in Anderson, South Carolina, in which Tillman recounted the events of the Hamburg massacre of July 1876, as quoted in The Struggles of '76. by Tillman, Benjamin R. (1909), pp. 1,…