The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-01-14
A FEARFUL RECORD.

Official data show that, in Philadel
phia, during the year 1868, inquests
were held on 80 homicides, ga iufanti'
cides and az suicides.
This is the annual record of blood
presented by the "City of Brotherb
Loue"-the home of purity, virtue, mo-
rality and unadolterated Radiclism
Yes it is.in Philadelphia that Forney's
Press the Inquirer, the Morning Pos
and other malevoleut journals are pub.
lished. These sheets are accustomed To
denounce the Southern people as bar
barians and murderers to convert eve
ry justi6able homicide committed in the
RECONSTRUCTED" States into horrible
Ku Klux outrage and to call on Con.
gress to place arms in the hands of the
loy-y.y-al militia that they may outrage
dcfeuccless women and butcher helpless
old men and children.
Thirty-nine homicides, ninety-four
infanticides and forty-,wo suicides,
known to the law, in single year, in
the godly city of Philadelphia! How
many more escaped the heavy, drowsy
eye of police?. How many victima OF
the slung.shot, or the dagger, were sunk
in the deep waters of the Delaware ?
and how many unfortunate. crraturesj
tired of Brothery Love, sought refuge
from their troubles sin+the same dark
and rushing stream How many ruined
women sought to hide their shame from
all, save Him who made them, by crush
ing out the life Of their newborn babes
and consigniug their bodies to the sinks
and sewers Of the great city Of Brother.
y Loee?
Let Philadelphia hereafter enjoy the
well-carned title of City Of Blood!-
And let Mr.. Forney's Press and its
Radical coadjutors search for the beams
in the eyes of their own flock before
they seek to cast the notes out of ours.
IL We doubt if, for ten years past,
ninety-four child murders have occurred
amongst the entire white raceof the
Southern States. 1t remains for Phil.
adelpbis and Chicago and other North
ern cities to startle the civilized world
with their record of prostitution and
blood. And yet our people are de.
nounced and vilified by the very men
tremble as they walk the streets of their
own cities, at nigkt, lest the dagger Of
the assassin pierce their rotten hearts;
and whose very wives and daughters
may we'll hesitate to step beyond the
family threshold after the shades Of
evening have begun to gather over their
homes.
God knows we would gladly blot out
the fearful record that damns the city
of Philadelphia for all time to ceme.-
But there it stands, monument Of the
vice, depravity ond prostitution of a
people claiming all the exeellencies Of
which human nature con boast, and who
are continuously, like the Pharisee,
thanking God that they are not as other
men.
Thirty-nine homicides, ninety-four
infanticides, and forty-two suicides, all
in single year, in the City of Brother.
Ia Love-! How the heart sickens at the
revolving recital! All! Forney! the
history of the Ku Klux Klans becomes
beautiful and bright when compared
with the Official record in blood in your
own favored (?) city.
"Judge not, that ye be not judged
For with what judgment ye judge, ye
shall be judged and with what meas
ure ye mete, it shall be measured to
you agar. And why beholdest thou
the mote that is in thy brothers eye
but considerest not the beam that is in
thine own eye? Or, how wilo thou say
to tiny brother, Let me pull out the mote
out of thine eye; and, behold! beam
is in thine own eye2 Thou hypocrite