Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-02-29
War, Massacre and Ruin.

Our eccentric and excitable neighbor, the Call,
whose surprising antics in the way of political
disquistion are to us a rich and perennial source
of amusement, has recently taken to Initiating
Brick Pomeroy and trying to tune its squeaking
little fiddle to the villainous bass of the great
Bricks frenzied violincello. Bricks style of
music, however hideous to civilized ears, has
proved immensely popular with very large
class of people. 1t is rumored that his literary
cursing machine enjoys a circulation of over
hundred thousand with advertising in proper
ton. This has probably caused enterpris-
ing and wide-awake neighbor to prick up its
and induce it to rush into the same field of
usefulness in the hope of sharing the harvest.
At any rate, for some reason or other, the Calls
Democracy has been steadily increasing in in
tensity from the moment it set up In that line,
and of late it has been doing the bowling dervish
foam-at-i e-mouth business in a style worthy of
a lunatic under the influence of tangle-leg 1t
has screeched anathemas against this wicked,
corrupt and usurpipg Congress until it fairly
wheezed for breath. 1t has shrieked forth its
venomous hatred of the black man with ma
| lignity of spirit worthy of that one of Satan
chosen subordnates in whom the most diabolical
qualities united with the meanest. And
now it is predicting massacres, instructions and
war of races" all to be inauguratcd by the
negroes. 1t fills its columns with these bloody
prophecies, with accounts of negro outrages and
hints at negro devlishness. endeavoring TO pro-
duce and intensity IN ignorant minds the most
cruel and mischievous prejudices. That the ne
gro is abnornally depraved; that he is blood
thirsty and ferocious that heis continually COM
mittng "outrages - that if any troubles arise
at the South it will necessarily be the fault OF
the negro-these are the lessons that the Call is
continually enforcing, sometimes by direct false
hood, sometimes by sneaking insinuations. The
simple truth, known and admitted by candid
and intelligent men, and capable of proof by
statistics, is that the negro of American birth ~
not bloodthirsty, savage or revengeful. The
wrongs inflicted on his race have not produced
the feelings of hatred and malice towards
his oppressors that similar wrongs have pro-
duced in the bosoms of white The fact
is the American negro is more docile and less
revengeful than the white people of the South.
His patience, meekness and good behavior since
being released from slavery are calculated to ex-
cite astonishment. He is nevertheless human
being, with human wants, instincts and pas
sions and there is question but what he can
be goaded into committing "outrages," and
even to fighting for his existence or his rights.
The ex-rebels to be doing great deal of
this sort of goading, and such papers as the Call
sympathize with and encourage them. What
they and their abettors want is to have the
freedmen driven into some demonstration which
will justify these croaking prophecies and false
accusations and so afford the prosecutors pre-
text for numbering their hated victims by whole
| sale.-Dramatic Chronicle