The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-09-17
NO. 3S.
The "SVar Of DGssces.''

+ Yes, that was evidently .swar o.
races" Three negroes were killed
I But If one white msn had been killed
instead, thst would have been a bru.
tai murder and horrible trsgeiy.
We are getting a little tired oi
this "war." II always begins, con-
tinues and ends IN the killing of black
men. We have been Watching The
thing pretty closely, and cannot Al
this moment recall any instance in
which war of IA cs Welded any list
of killed ot wounld a ON the white
side of the war | a gang of white
skins, drums or sober, with or with
ont prov"catia ~, empties It's revolvers
into party q negroes. thai is a war
ul races. H course. The whole coun-
try Is called upon 10 ne alarmed
aboui IT, and wr. as white men, are
expected /" sympathize with our own
color IA this dcsperat. struggle.
Down in Mississippi. the other day.
white man shot colured girl, and
angry coEdrca men seized. but were
persuaded no, 10 hang him Shortly
afterwards. we heard that bands Of
white men from all quarters were
concentrating - relieve the town. be
cause the negroes were .'hesieging'
it. When the white armies had
reached there. the bodies Of some
ten or twenty colored persons were
subsequently gathered up and buried
We think II WIS said that one white
man was wounded Ia the Engagement
or course. this wa> war ot races
Now. we learn from Kentucky that
several hun, ired white troops are
marching upon Lancaster. The
blacks, 10 the number uf eighteen,
'1narehed upon the court house, and
subs uuentiy fortified themselves
in Sellers house, which was SET on FIRE
and burnra, and fonr neer res were
killed. while white men IN horses
went through The fields aud woods to
hunt up the negroes, and returned
with about thirty FIVE black prisoners.
On the whi,c side in this battle, one
man, named Foley, u barkeeper. was
killed. aud the dispatches say that he
fell from "A misiir,eted vollev fired by
white soldiers. Plainly, this was a
war OF races of the ntost desperate
kind. The vast army of eighteen
colored persons who ':marched upon"
a court house. but retired rs soon as
they saw white troops approaching,
plainly intended to externinate all
the white race in this country. The
wonder is that they did not do it, as
they seem to have had no arms, or, il
thcv fred at all contrived to miss
everybody,
By way Of history Of this latest
conflict between h stle nations, we
ar. informed bv ielegraphic dis
patch ot Saturday, from .sncaster,
thai 'wr are really having a terrible
war between a party OF whites and
black.. Fighting has been going on
since "Wednesday night" Daring
all that 'ime, i, appears tha, one
white mau WAS killed, which 81 exas-
perstcd the whites that they tool, po-
sesaio. of'Me to,ra this morning, and
firing ha> been kept up all this even
lngn Now, the Town II Lancaster,
Garrari counte. hai IN 1870, a pop
ulation of 40 whites and 81 blacks
Of all ages When about IuO male
,dul'> get So exaspera'el that they
take possession Of the town in
which they live, aud IN which about
sixty black male alulis also live, on
tv to. what is the net result. APP
parently four negroes killed, and
thirty-hve ''huntcd mp" by mounted
men. But to accomplish this honora-
bic achievements State militia from
Lincoln county and Garrard county
to the number of several hundred,
and forty United States soldiers,
seem to have been required. Some
how. in war Of races. the whites
usually telegraph all over the face OF
the earth for reInorcements, and the
blacks drop down dead. or are hunt
ed up through the woods and fields
by mounted men. The thing is get
tino nunotonous. ~. Lou,s DeUtp-
rruf.