North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-05-02
Fruits Of the Civil Right. Bill.

On Monday OF last week the negroes of
Norfolk, Va, had a celebration over the
passage Of the Civil Rights Bill, on which
occasion the commander of the post and
the Mayor of the city allowed the negroes
to carry arms, The Consequence was, as
predicted, the negroes got drunk and made
general assault on unofending citizens,
when two white men and one white wo-
man were butchered outright, and one
white man and boy wounded beyond re
covery, and not one of the assassins were
arrested. And this terrible outrage was
committed and not disunion Republican
paper North has word to say in condem-
nation of the affair. Had the victims been
negroes every blatant negro organ would
have been convulsed with rage over the
wrongs inflicted on the poor freedmen
The truth is there is certain party North
who desire to see the negroes ofthe South
rise up and massacre the whites of that
section. The feelings of such wretches
have been expressed on the stump here
by ferocious member of that faction, when
he hoped that the rivers of the South
might be tinged with the blood of its peo-
pie, and their bodies piled mountain high"
This incarnate spirit of hell is rife to-day
1t only wants some plausible opportunity
to be presented to all it to have full sway.
Despairng of driving the Southern people
into position that would allow these
frnds 10 glut tier sppetitc for biuod they
secretly incite the negroes of that section to
commit acts similar to what we have re-
corded above. But these negro equa!ities
had better forbear. There is always q
sympathy of race among the white masses,
and although it may, among portion of
that race, be buried beneath the passion of
intolerance and bigotry. the majority will
soon show. when a collision of races occur
that they will stand by the Caucasian
blood. We say again to these neglophol-
ogists, beware. The war ofraccs once be-
gun you need not expect to escape the
fury of the storm.
The Norfolk Virginian commenting on
this horrid affair, holds the following sig
nifcant language
The first fruits of this Civil Rights MUIR
der bill are bitter. All history is a cheat
the maxim that, like causes acting under
like conditions, produce ike results, is a
wretched lie, or this Greek gift comes
among us freighted with armed men to
provoke insurrection and incite the hor-
rors of finsurrectionary warfare
Our duty is plain. We must coatrol
our natural impulses of Indignation and re-
venge. We must guard against the injus-
tice of including our negro population prop
er in the responsibility attaching to the
events of Monday. We must gnard
against indiscriminate bitterness, and re-
member that the great mass of our free
population were not included in the pro-
cessior, or, as far as we can learn, ap
proves of the display. We advise this
moderation, not on ly here, but elsewhere
and the melancholy example of Norfolk
may serve to put the civil and military au-
thorities of other towns on their guard, so
that this murder-producing epidemic of
professions may be checked in time to pre-
vent further effusion of innocent blood
and the fierce retribution which will ulti
mately follow unless we have some guar
antee given US that the lives of our women
and children are not to be sacrificed to the
brutal passions ola drunken and infuriated |
mob. Where is this guaranty to come
from? Guizet's definition of the word can |
not apply to us as we now stand; cannot |
some organized power 6e put in our hands?
The man who stands at the head Of affairs |
has foreseen this state of things, and we
now call on him again to interpose his
authority to quell the rising waves of what
may become a red deluge. This may |
sound extravagant to those who are COM
fortably seated in their homes in New |
York and Boston /; but WE understand it.
We conclude this article with the very
significant fact that the bill of mortality
foots up-what horrid phrase-as fol
lows: two white men, and one white wo-
man killed, and one white man, and one
white boy, past all hopes of recovery, done
to death in the broad daylight, by men in
United States uniform, in sight of the Uni
ted States forces, and no one to crafty the
audibly expressed anxiety of the troops, to
move to the rescue.