The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-26
The Cause of Crime.

every item Wnlcn can go To increase the
prejudice and to embitter the feelings which
exist against the colored race. The Sentinel
has its regular corps of correspondents,
whose business seems to be confined to nose
ing about for points, upon which to con-
struct sensation letters. We are told of the
length of the criminal dockets and of the
crowded iails caused by decentralization and
crime among the lazy negroes"
1t instead of broad assertions and vague
generalities, these righteous editors would
examine the records of the Courts and hear
the evidence as it goes to the jury and pub
fish the naked facts without coloring or
comment, every rational and honest man
would come to the conclusion that the adj
ministration ofjustice in many of our County
Courts is mockery when the rights of a
colored citizen are involved
AS ii rule, those Courts are composed of the
most violent partizans, men who are impla-
cable in their hatred to the government and
the black man, and who have entered into d
conspiracy to bring the full weight of their
official power and influence to bear in op-
pressing this class under the form of law,
and of rendering them as oGious in the eyes
of the community as they are able to make
them.
How many are put to Jail because peace
warrant has been taken out by some terror
stricken individual who has been taught by
the Sentinel to believe that the "nigeers"
will rise and murder him or marry some of
his female relations2 How many are put
there because the bond for their appearance
is fixed so high that they cannot give secur-
ity9 And this in the face of the declara
ton that excessive bail shall not be requir-
ed"! Again, how many colored laborors
are able to give security for the prosecution
of their suits, or to employ counsel to main
tain their rights when they have been de-
frauded by their employers 2 Add to this
the thousands and thousands who have been
turned off homeless and starving for voting
the Republican ticket and who must either
cat or die, and it is not surprising that petty
larceny should he on the increase.
We have heard of man who bit off his
nose to spite his face This wide spread
conspiracy to reduce the blacks to bcggary
and starvation is a similar proceeding, and
will inevitably recoil upon the guilty heads
of its instigators. These men are deaf to the
voice of reason and justice. They are
transported with the gusts of passion, and
nothing short of reaping the whirwind
will recall their sober senses. Their cruelty
is only paralelled by their unspeakable mean
ness Shades of the chivalry To wreak
vengeance upon the poor negro, whose toll
and blood have built up your fortunes and
given you your position in society
The Douglas Monument, Chicago.
Col John w. Forney, in a letter to his
paper the Chronicle, dated Chicago, May
II, says:
at was late in the afternoon when we
reached the spot where repose the remains
of Stephen a. Douglas, on the banks of
Lake Michigan. and where the great mon
ument to his memory is gradually rising
He had selected this tract of land for his
family mansion. Hard by is the little hum
BILE cottage in which he resided with his
first and second wives, and within sight the
beautiful location which he bestowed upon
the great Baptist University, now one of the
noblest piles in the suburbs 1t will be re-
collected that Andrew johnson laid the
cornerstone of the monument in the August
of 1867 The design of Mr.. Walk, the
artist, is appropriate and imposing. In
few DAYS the remains of the great statesmen
are to be removed from his humble grave,
close at hand, to the sarcophagus, from
which the marble shaft, eighty feet in height,
is about to rise. Here, in view of Lake
Michigan, which spreads before you in one
apparently illimitable expanse-here, with
in hail of the great railroads which he adj
vocated with such surprising ability in
Congress, and in sight of the SPLENDID city
at once the object of his affection and his
pride, he sleeps his last sleep. Nothing is
needed to complete the lessons of his glori-
Gus life than that a similar testimonial
should be erected at his side to the memory
of his early opponent and later friend,
Abraham Lincoln. 1t is fit that these two
men, who commended, each after his own
method, for what they believed to be the
true principle of representative government,
and who, after frequent struggles as the
chiefs of contending parties came together
in the hour when the Republic, was just
entering upon bloody conflict with in
ternal traitors, should be joined in the com
partnership of the grave; Sc that all who
come to paw the tribute of affectionate re
memberance to the one should not withhold
the same tribute to the other. 1t is ex-
pccted the Legislature of Illinois will APP
propriate fifty thousand dollars to complete
the monument to Douglas, and similar
amount will be asked at the same time for
that of Lincoln. Probably by that time the
happy idea of placing the two great states
men side by side on the shores of Lake
Michigan will be carried into effect"
At a meeting held at Col. T. P. John
ston's Headquarters, owing to the declina-
ton of j. Brinton Smith, D. D., to serve on