"[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."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States SenatePoliticians from South CarolinaWhite supremacistsGovernors of South Carolina
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Speech to the U.S. Senate (23 March 1900), regarding the Hamburg massacre of July 1876.
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Benjamin Tillman
Benjamin Ryan Tillman, Jr. (11 August 1847 – 3 July 1918) was a politician of the Democratic Party who was Governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and a United States Senator from 1895 until his death. A white supremacist who often spoke out against black people, Tillman led a paramilitary group of [[w:Red Shirts (Southern United States)|Red Sh
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