The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-25

on. Inc wnft0 account is tDaI upon
the road one of them stopped and 'cursed
should arrest him." Then the others at
tempted to run, and all were shot, and at
one volley. In talking with two citizens of
Atlanta, one lately from the northern part of
the State and the other from the southern, l
put the question plainly to them if they did
not believe that since the civil rights agita-
ton there had been an average OF negro a
day killed in Georgia. They both answered
that they believed the average would
reach two a day, and gave me instances that
were painfully confrmatory. They gave as
a reason that "negro equality" as contem-
plated in the civil rights bill was feared by
the majority of Southern born men almost as
much as death ITSELF and that the agitation
of that subject had aroused race feeling to a
greater depth of bitterness than had ever
before been experienced, and the conse-
quence was ordinarily small trifies precipi-
tated race conflicts, and the negroes suffered.
They declared that while in the army
to fight. but out of the army one white
man with a shotgun could put so to flight.
They gave me an instance of where white
man had lately gone through his county on
horseback with no other arms than pistol
and a horsewhip, and actually whipped 200
negroes, not getting blow in return. He
whipp1d only those whom he considered to
be "bad niggers," and who in his estimation
were getting to be trifie inflated. / do not
believe the story to its full extent, for there
would be no sense in such conduct; but do
believe just that thing could be done
in half the counties of Georgia.
In any county of that State not con-
tanning city or populous town, under the
present exasperated condition of the public
mind, a resolute white man could take a
pistol and horsewhip, and whip 200
negroes, and not get blow in return.
Now this most unfortunate state of affairs,
arising in large degree from the late civil
rights agitation, will have a tendency to
concentrate the negroes in the cities and
large towns in the South. This will be bad
for both races. Already the evils arising
from the propensity OF the negroes to crowd
themselves into the cities are apparent
They have no certain means Of support, and
live in novels and cellars, in
WANT, DEGRADATION AND wRETcHEDNEss.
Disease feeds upon them, and epidemics.
with the exception of yellow fever, take
them off by scores and by thousands. Put
ting this and that together-the disposition
of the northern republican party to force the
civil rights issue; the determination of the
southern whites TO resist to the last-the race
conflicts which will certainly ensue, in which
the negroes will invariably be the sufferers,
and the consequent gathering of them in
cities and large towns for protection, where
they Will i've IN Wr6bcleQ00SS anu poverty
and fall an easy prey TO the ravages of dis
ease. Such will be the result of the civil
rights bill lift becomes law and there is
any attempt to enforce the law. The very
agitation of the subject is of the greatest
harm to the negroes. 1t makes them feel
insecure in the country, and they flock to
the cities. there to live in novels and
and all the diseases and epidemics
which affect humany. These facts
lead me to say that the census of
1880 Will most certainly reveal a startling
falling off in the negro population of the
Southern States. have studied the mortu-
airy reports of the Southern cities for the
past few months, and almost invariably the
death rate among the blacks is largely in
excess of that of the whites. The population
of Richmond at the last census was $4,000
whites and $1,000 blacks, in round
numbers. Accordingly the death rate
should be about twenty per cent. larger
among the whites than the blacks. But it
is very much the other way. For the week
ending August L, there were nineteen blacks
died and only twelve whites, or an excess of
blacks of about two to one in comparison
to population. For the week ending Jnly
26, twenty-six blacks died, and but eighteen
whites. The same week one year ago, thirty.
five blacks died IAN d twenty-six whites. Can
this ratio keep up in all the Southern
cities week after week, and year after year,
without telling fearfully in the ranks of the
negro race? The history of the world pre-
sents no instance ola race highest in the'scale
OF intelligence living upon terms of equality
with the race lowest in the scale; and the
attempt in America, as contemplated by
the authors and supporters ofthe civil rights
bill, will be failure, and we may be thank
full if it is not bloody failure. The feel
ing in the South is one of desperation.
We have been warned by the wisest of phil
osophers and most eminent of thinkers,
that when our government falls it will be on
account of majority driving minority
to desperation. The Southern whites are
now desperate. They feel that they have
touched bottom. The rebound will be
terrible. We may laugh at their prejudices,
and say that it Is a foolish sentiment, but
this sentiment and prejudice against
the equality contemplated in the civil
rights bill is of two hundred years
growth; it is flesh of the flesh and bone of
the bone, and you can not get it out of the
heart OF the Southern born man without
taking off his head at the same time. The
bare agitation of this subject has killed the
republican party in every Southern State
but Louisiana, Mississippi and South Car
olina. BY killed, I mean reduced to mi
nority. How? BY driving the whites out
line. witness the democratic gains
in North Carolina and Tennessee.
But this is but small rumble to the thun-
der that you will hear in November.
From Tennessee, for instance, there are now
seven republican congressman. After No
vember doubt if there are more than two,
and possibly but one. This issue takes
Southern born white men above party. Nor
can any candidate for the presidency carry a
single Southern State, with the exception of
those three mentioned, who indorse the
civil rights bill. AT last Congress has struck
hard pan down there.
The North British Daily Mail, a few days
since, announced the death of the Hon.
Camden Mcclellan, daughter and only child
of the last Baron Kirkcudbright. BY her
death, one of the oldest families i'm Scotland
indeed of Great BritaiE-becomes extinct
The MacLellans emigrated to Galloway from
Ireland, and in the reign of Alexander III