Gov. Tillman’s Explanation
June 9, 1894
Summary
Ida B Wells reveals that Gov. Tillman is in supportive of lynchings of people who commit crimes.
Transcription
Miss Ida B Wells is doing a grand work for our people.
The portrayal of the inhuman outrages now being perotrated Upon Us throughout the South man cannot do otherwise to a result in arousing the entire Christian world to the enormity of the senses, and causes a concerted movement to be inaugurated for the admiration of our pitiable condition.
Miss Well’s mission in England has borne fruit and the house mingled with falsehoods of the bourbon press of the South shows to the most casual Observer that her clear cut true for ulcerations have cut to the quick the element that has been forward in countering these outrageous.
As to inducing immigrants to locate in the south [ unintelligent].
[Unintelligent].
Our readers will be induced to smile regardless of the solemnity of the subject when they read Gov. Tillman’s with demonstrate conclude that he is a demagogue, devoid of principle and careless of the obligation of his oath of office. Here is what he says:
“ I said during my Canvas 2 years ago, and I say now, Governor as I am, that I would lead a mob to Lynch any man, white or black, who had ravished any woman, white or black”.
This comes from a man who has sworn not to do the very thing which she shamelessly declares he will do.
She would be no more justified in leading a mob to hang a white man who had raped a colored woman then he would be to lead one to ask you a colored man who has criminally assaulted a white woman.
However, a man who would violate his oath as brazenly as this one declares he would do can hardly be relied upon to tell the truth even about this matter and accordingly his high-sounding assertions go for naught…..
The portrayal of the inhuman outrages now being perotrated Upon Us throughout the South man cannot do otherwise to a result in arousing the entire Christian world to the enormity of the senses, and causes a concerted movement to be inaugurated for the admiration of our pitiable condition.
Miss Well’s mission in England has borne fruit and the house mingled with falsehoods of the bourbon press of the South shows to the most casual Observer that her clear cut true for ulcerations have cut to the quick the element that has been forward in countering these outrageous.
As to inducing immigrants to locate in the south [ unintelligent].
[Unintelligent].
Our readers will be induced to smile regardless of the solemnity of the subject when they read Gov. Tillman’s with demonstrate conclude that he is a demagogue, devoid of principle and careless of the obligation of his oath of office. Here is what he says:
“ I said during my Canvas 2 years ago, and I say now, Governor as I am, that I would lead a mob to Lynch any man, white or black, who had ravished any woman, white or black”.
This comes from a man who has sworn not to do the very thing which she shamelessly declares he will do.
She would be no more justified in leading a mob to hang a white man who had raped a colored woman then he would be to lead one to ask you a colored man who has criminally assaulted a white woman.
However, a man who would violate his oath as brazenly as this one declares he would do can hardly be relied upon to tell the truth even about this matter and accordingly his high-sounding assertions go for naught…..
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Upper Right Quadrant
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Carlos Serrano
Citation
“Gov. Tillman’s Explanation,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed December 7, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1526.