American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-02-10
Chicot and Rochester.
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try speedily to discover and apprc
ciate.
The one, a rich and populous cit.
l OF the dominant section. A negr,
! citizen commits q heinous crime, an,
he sufferer il not q guild, society
or a class, but only % poor, iH.fat
ed little child, not known bey0nt
: the streets nearest her home. TIL,
! news flashed like lightning from
tongue to tongue, and concourst
I gathered as numerous aid excited
as If some calamity were impending
over the city itself. Horror of the
deed that had been done, sympathy
for the helpless little sufferer, made
all forget the existence Of laws, Ill
thirst for the blood of the wretch
whose human form concealed a worse
than byena's instincts. They ragged
for his blood, while the villains
hands were still hot with his wicked.
ness. Withan eager lust they thirst
ell for his life, then and there, and
by violence, aud in defiance of law.
Thus the wrongs ola child, ten years
OF age, reminded thousands of their
human sympathies and passions. So
intense was the feeling that it was
necessary not only to call out the
military, but even to charge the ex-
cited throng with the bayonet, and
fire upon them. This 'unwoDted
scene in an American city terminal
ed by the sullen withdrawal of the
populace, leaving three respectable
citizens dead, killed by tie troops,
and several wounded. They retired
nursing thoughts of revenge. And
now, indignation meetings are be-
ing held, aud loaded cannon planted
by the troops at the jail-cover all
converging streets.
The other, a small town in the
conquered South. Here, too, a man
is in Jail but in this case respect
able achite farmer who has slain u
negro in self defence, and is ostensi-
bly, confirmed to protect him from
negro violence. The mans wife on
her knees besought the black magis-
trate to take other measures for her
husbands safety, and reminded him
OF his own personal obligations to
them for past assistance. He sol
EMMY promised that her wishes
would be obeyed. But with SUSPECT
GUS rapidity, considering the sparse
a negro mob is gather
ed from the surrounding neighbor-
hood. No white militia is possible
then under the thrice glorious reign
of the granite-hearted bribe-taker;
butthere is black militia enou oh and
nnder arms. So they naturally fra
ternize with the mob the magis-
trate quietly surrenders the KEYS
ana stands quiet spectator, while
he man SAUNDERS is dragged from
lis cell aud hanged by the neck tin
lead. But this is not all. Not ami
mated 10y the higher instincts Of the
colchester mob, which urged them
'peedily to destroy a human fiend Ii
whom the law would as certainly Il
'ut more slowly destroy, the Chicot ;
mob betrayed the fact that they
resinaamed not only BY race IN
ipathy but greed for booty. SAuN.
'ERs was dead, aud no others had
tfendfd them, but they levied a
Contribution ofmoney for his strick- {
n wife; they pillaged stores they {
rove the white population from the c
own and, to day, but for the negro |
'epoys, triumphant in vengeance [
nd robbery, Chicot would be virtu- c
Iva deserted village. d
Note the contrast. Tn the one |,
ase, a negro prisoner, guilty of a d
olrible crime, and Il sheriff, a mayor, 0
be police, the military, the mob p
II white. The popular voice is for p
lmmary vengeance on the guilty t,
cad, but the officers of the law do ri
leir duty sternly but nobly, al. n
lough it involved the slaughter of 81
sveral useful men of their own fell p
'w-citizens to protect for the ends Il
justice a black wretch not fit to
We. In the other case, a white CO
tizen, in prison for Staying negro 81
defense of his life, aud the Off v
ais the military, the mob, all a
lack. The results were natural. In
he sop was thrown to CERBERUs B
nd so, with similar Surroundings, IA
i'll BIZ the result until "lhe crack d
DOOM" "a
II Chicot were in New York, how Il
Ie newspapers of all parties would pt
'istie with startling capitals! How d,
e BEECHERS would thunder cleri- hi
u denunciation and vengeance al
yainst the SerOys! How the out. b,
ged New Workers in all the walks pl
life would strain on the leash like pI
'unds in sight of their quarry The q
hole North would be atlame. But of
Arkansas white men have moi M
en- prompt to take up the chal- ma
nge TO war of races. Her hardy of
ople have not sprung forth 10 sp
enge the murder OF SAUNDERS lii
d restore their white brelhern to To-
cir homes and business houses. re
oppose an English monarch, un.
enjly to the East India Company, th
ould disarm her forty thousand of by
'gllsh amid the three hundred afl
llious of natives, aud ann the tie
ter, half civilized as they are, aud tie
a different race. But even this be
es not cover the case, for the brave wi
omen of Arkansas would not be co
t to count the number of their de
emies in fight involving the hil
session of their homes. 1t Is IN,
) invisible aud terrible, because un
leGnite, enginery of the Kuklux no
|, inspired aud welded by cold wi
,oded tynnt; it is the example OF an
, high handed transactions in of