New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-07-30
Southern Brutality.

BY a communication from Georgia, We come
into possession of facts which prove how
easily pretcxt for outraging the negro can
be manufactured. The communication is else
where printed. In the first place the diaboli-
cal spirit of savage contempt for justice,
which controls the better classes OF the South,
and giving countenance to the brutal acts of
the illiterate and semi-savage Of that section,
makes it possible for rutlians to give full swing
TO their disposition to mur;;er and outrage
cOlored citizens in the late home of the most
abject slavery known to the world. The
bloody instructions of such refinement as
the South recognizes as desirable, are ac-
copied and followed by the lower class of
whites. If the church, the education, the
high commercial interests Of the South were
to denounce and discOuntenance outrages
that shock the refined sensibilities of the
civilized world, there would be an end to
the brutal hostlities constantly being chrOni-
cled as true of that section. The barbarism
of slavery is constantly being exemplilied
by the atrocities perpetrated in obedience to
the lingering spirit of that accursed institu.
ton. Its dire effect is not only to lie seen
in the treatment of the freedman il is also
apparent in the savagcism of the lower class
of whites in the South. What justification
can be given for the cowardly assassinations
of which columbia writes: Can it be
true that there is 70 remedy under this Gov
ernment for the wrongs and suffering the
negro has to endure.' Can the people Of
the North, boasting as they do high cviliza-
ton and enlightenment, give countenance to
political party whose tendency is to strike
hands with that element in the South that
assists by its countenance the perpetrators
Of fiendsh outrage merely to crafty VEN
geance that they are powerless to wreak
against the nation? Why is the protested
Christianity of the nation silent with the
evidence Of these outrages constantly before
il, outrages, too, for which churchmen plead
an excuse because of the difference of race
. What becomes of belief in the Bible, and
that God has made of one blood all nations ?
Indirectly, the churches Of the land aid and
abet the spirit that outrages the negro.
Christianity in this country, day after day,
week after week, year in and year out,
stands silently and contemplates the foulest
wrong in the treatment of black humanity
in the United States.
Christianity, in the persons of Doctors of
Divinity connected with powerful church
organization of the country labored against
the establishment Of equality before the law
in this city but a few weeks ago. From no
pulpit have we heard rcmonstrance against
this action. From no pulpit do we hear
regret or. rcbuke for the murders in the South.
Christianity is silent. Protested Christians
give their votes to the Democratic party,
notwithstanding that that party is the re-
lance and hope Of the murderers in the
South.
An organization of white men i'm Loulsi- |
ana is made up for the express purpose of
making war upon the negro. It's members |
are pledged not TO give employment to col |
ored persons, and to use every endeavor to |
discharge from their employ all their colored
help. The object Of the White League is, by |
driving the colored majority from the State,
to get control of the political offices for white
men, and more especially for the men who
were foremost in rebeiling against the Gov
eminent Of the United States. In the White
Leagues we have organized brutality and
Al ally of The Democratic party-a party IN
which professed Christians Of the North are