The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-01-21
washington Letter.
NEGRO POPULATION IN WARRINGTON
ULUI,ArINa vAGRANT HIGHWAYMEN-
ARRIVAL OF UTE CHTBFs-THR POOR
INDIAN SENTIMENT.

NEGRO POPULATION IN WASHINGTOR-
u1U1,ArINa vAGRANT HIGHwAYAIEN-l
ARRIVAL OF UTE CHIEFs-THR POOR
INDIAN SENTIMENT.
wAsH1EGToE, D. c., January 11th, 1880.
To the Editor Of the Morristown GaEette'
Under the shadow Of church, with
in a stones throw of the palatial resi-
dence of the British Minister, and but
short distance from Castle Stuart" now
in ruins, q young grocer was murdered
last week for the paltry sum OF four dol
lars. The occurrence has created pro-
found sensation, and on Sunday the
scene of the tragedy was visited by
thousands. who looked upon the blood
stained Dayement, and unused upon the
insecurity OF life even in this age of
civilization, and in Populnus capital.
WHY this murder should be more talked
about aud written about than the many
others that have been committed IN the
city is not easily explained, except upon
the well-knoWn fact that communities
will apparently tolerate the grossest out
| lawry for long time, but will finally be
shocked, by some deed Of peculiar
atrocity, into wreaking vicariOus ven
geance on the perpetrators. The MUIR
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| now under arrest. 1t is to be hoped that
| no other city has such an excess of
worthless, idle, vicious, cOlored people
as Washington. Nine-tentbs of the
| business of the Police Court is supplied
by this class, and it is known that many
of them, too lazy to work, commit petty
| crimes for no other purpose than to Sc
cure food and lodging in Jail, from
which they emerge sleek and fat, pre-
pared for new adventures. Able bodied
colored men inlest the street corners,
with shoe backing apparatus for an ex-
cuse for livelihood; content to earn 10
or 20 cents per day, andG happy in the
lack of employment that enables them TO
joke and gossip with their friends, when
the weather is too cold for the prefer
able pastime of doing in the sun. These
lazaroni cannot be induced, by the offer
Of wages, to tackle heavy work, and not
Italy or Spain can show more idle or
worthless class. The four that have
been arrested formed singing quartette,
which, during the past summer, paraded
tho streets at night, serenRding on the
corners, aud passing hat for pennies at
the end of their performance. No one
who has lived long il Washington but
is familiar with the hideous music OF
these ululating vagrantG, and they
should have long since been arrested as
disturbers of sleep.
Ouray and his Ute chiefs have arrived ,
and have been qusrtered in q second
class hotel. They come to secure better
terms than hanging fer the murderers
and raVishers OF the MeeksF family.
When We consider the ignorance and
savageness of these people, it seems alb
| solutely obscure that we should make
treaties with them or consider them as
! politically intelligent entities. There
has been a great deal Of sentimentalism,
now happily declining, in the press, and
pulpit, and Congress, about the rights
and wrongs of the poor Indian" Ii
the history of civilization for the last
5000 years teaches anything, the lesson
is that the tools belong to those who can
use them, and the soil of this beautiful
| earth to those 1ho SOW and reap. With
sentimental people the tiger may have
right to his native jungle, but the same
necessity that is exterpating him with
| bullets, charged with explosive poison,
and transforming the jungle into gar
den, is at work on our frontier, and has
| been at work for three hundred years,
| in benifcent slaughter of tigers, from
jamestown and Plymouth Rock, to
Colorado. The fittest will survive in
| spite of obstructive romantic sentimen-
talism. 1t is the law Of Nature, the law
| of God.