The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-08-05

"A gross outrage was recently COM !
mitted upon the person of Metho-
dist clergyman, the Rev. George w.
Honey, at Belton in the State Of Tex.
as, by band of masked men. The
Rev. Mr.. Honey is the presiding elder
of the Waco District, West Texas
Conference, Methodist Episcopal
Church. The district comprises both
white and cOlored churches. and Mr..
Honey was at Bolton for the purpose
of holding q quarterly conference with
a colored church. On his return from
service in the evening, he was attack
ed by ten masked men, dragged half
a mile to the verge of the town, and
thrown into creek. The scoundrels
undertook to rob him, but we're pre-
vented by his vigorous resistance.
The crime charged, and the reason
given, for the outrage was preaching
to negroes" One Of the gang said:
We'll teach you not to come to Belton
to preach to niggers if you come
again we'll kill you!
The case is similar to the outrage
we recently recorded, committed upon
a Chicago family, near Seguin, Texas.
Washburn was dragged to the woods
and whipped because he taught a day
school for negroes. Young Gesner
was violently attacked and threatened
with death, because he taught Sunday
school for colored children. Both
these men were warned to leave the
State, and left to save their lives. Now
the Rev. Mr.. Honey is thrown into a
creek and threatened with death be-
cause he expounds the faith of his
church to negroes. The inference
from these repeated outrages is that
the whites are determined to prohibit
education among negroes. Ignorance
was the corner stone of the institution
of slavery. 1t was only those colored
men and women that managed to ac.
auire smattering of education who
fed from the horrors OF slavery to the
North, and so made the fugitive slave
law necessity to the perpetuation o.
the peculiar institution. Education
is the foe of slavery, and, by conse
quence. ignorance its sure ally. Ban
ish education from among the negroes
of the South, and, although the titlt
slave may not be used, the fact, slav
cry, will exist. If the South consentl
in good faith to the citizenship of ne
groes it must logically consent to theil
cducation; for as q rule good citizen
ship depends upon intelligence.
the whites Of the South conspire II
prevent the education Of the negroes
such conspiracy is the confession of
purpose to force them into virtua
slavery. If the Democratic authori
ties of Texas permit these repeated
outrages, perpetrated on the educa
tors Of negroes, to 60 unpupished
they stand confessed as guilty of til
criminal intent to nullify the Consti
tuition and laws.
The Rev. Mr.. Honey has appealed t
Gov. Coke to take cognizance" OF tn
outrage committed against him, to tn
end that the protection of the Stat
may be guaranteed to all citizens i
the pursuit of honorable callines, an
that punishment may be visited upo
all such transgrcssors of law" Wi
Gov. Coke respond? Will the Demo
cratic party of the nation put its het
upon these new Kluklpx klans whic
its ill-judged expressions of sy mpath
WIFI the Olu Tepeiitou nave WdTme
into lie, or compel the Republica
party once more to invoke the aid ,
general government to put them dow
with Federal troops? The Democr,
tic party boasts that it is on the e,
of return to the control of nations
affairs; but it is a fatal delusion
suppose that it cannot mount to pow,
over the dead bodies of negroes mu
dered by the new order of Kuklu
. Klans. The negro must be protecte
+ in all his civil rights, and he must |
, educated. These are cardinal do
trines Of the reconstructed Unio
Woe be to the political party or fra
ton which dares openly to antagoni
them, or secretly conspire against the
full and perfect realization in eve,
Southern State.