Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-26
MEMPHIS APPEAL


THE KETILE CALLING THE Pc
BLACK.
II people, communities, sections and ms
tionalities could gee Themselves as others sc
them, there would be but few censors an
little proneness to scandal and fault finding
We are continually trying to pluck the mot
out of our neighbor's eye when We have
beam in our own. Before and since the wa
between the States il has been the common
practice Of the Northern partisan journal
TO give prominence 10 all reports from tn
South presenting instances Of murder snt
the miscarriage of justice, and TO embellisl
them with editorial criticism msnifeslly die
lated by political interests. 1t is 10 be re
GREETED that the lawlessness of the South
furnishes SO much pretext for these dispsr-
aging comments But the fault-fnders should
come to the task with clean hands. The
skirts Of the Northern people are not
clean while assailiDg the South. The
recent lsWlessness at Ashland, KY,
has been made fruitful theme
Cor partisan newspapers which suppress,
distort or deliberately fslsify the truth to
iDHame the Northern people against the
South. The recent murder If james w.
Burton, at Somerville, by mis- brother-in- law,
Prof w. H. Tharp, was teiegraphed to the
Northern papers, and as a matter of course
at is held up as another evidence that life is
not safe in the lawless South. The people of
West Tennessee and Of The whole South de-
plore all such murders. Bat these tragedies
are not confined to any particular section.
The partisan newspapers that have made
this murder a pretext for the purpose of in
flaming the Northern heart and prejudicing
the Southern people, should look at their
own doors. The very newspapers that COM
meut on The Somerville tragedy report the
most strocious crimes committed in
the Northern States. The Cincinnati
Gazette for seventeen years has made
full reports of Southern outrsges, The
murders and general lswlessness in the
South have caused 1t 10 wipe many tears on
its sleeve. But the Gazette contains a SER
mon delivered in Cincinnati on Sunday last
by the Rev. L. N. Stanger on the subject Of
Murder" from the text: "Thou shalt not
kill, or thou shalt do no murder" from
which we make the following extract:
There were certainly evidences that human life |
in The community was losing its sacred Character
and homicides and suicides were increasing. Be. |
1oTe him lay copy Of one OF me least sensati9oai
Death Daily-one Murder Every Three Days In |
were collAied the facts which justified the slate
pents Within thirty-fou days nine lives had been
Murder succeeded murder, suicide followed sui |
eide, until the cry of the newsboy or the mention
tive or arrested the serious attention of the men
who crowded the streets busy in their gain getting
an epidemic of murder" This phrase was cal |
SiS G9Sk or n SR b ioE
crime of murder was not without real cause and
suicide had very rapidly increased in Hamilton
county since 1871. AS nearly as he could compute
increase in these ten years had been at least lis
rer cent. This increase in the State during the
these years the increase in the population Of
both county and state had been about twenty
awful sin of murder in this city aud county
had grown apace five times more rap |
portion of us 70 twenty, ADD the sad truth I
emained TO be confessed that these figures ,
hose whose deaths were described as from causes I
Unknown were doubtless self-murders There
30. This death rate by violence was COMPARE 7
lively much greater here than in the northern
England or old England. said a high authority: u
yearly one-sixth of all the homicides in Ohio
to the population in this county is
greater than in the Slate st large Had these q
adder tale of woe and shame. This increase in
he crime of murder was serious matter for Il
hought to every man who respected law and
,Tder.
Had such sermon as this been delivered C
lere in Memphis priorto the late elections. it g
would have been made a most effective CAM Il
oaign document Snch revelation made from r
he pulpit, either in Mississippi or Louisi- Il
ina, wodld have been embellished in the r
Il - | .
10 word OF comment on the lawlessuess at b
heir own doors. We ere told in the above Il
xtract, emsnsting from q minister Of The n
ospel every way reliable, that murder sue o.
eeds MURDER" that "in thirty-four days Il
line lives had been ended By deliberate vic. ii
ance;" that there was IAN epidemic of muir Il
er;" that the increase of murder in ten o.
ears mad been at least lis per cent?" and u
bat 1.-THE increase in the population of both Ii
ounty and State had been about twenty per II
rnt.;" thai the 'fawful Gin of murder had "
r .wn apace five times more rapidly than CT
lie population" and that these figures "did Ell
OF tell the whole story" While it is thus st
)1fessed that murder in a Northern State al
as grown FIVE times more rapidly than the II
lpulatiou. here in the South murder HIS OF
unfinished five times more rapidly than the L
opulation has increased. La the face of til
sse facts the Northern newspapers shed vi
Tpecritical tears over the Somerville bt
agedy and the atrocious lawlessness of the hi
1uth. Murder is a crime which occurs ev
often in Ohio as Tennessee, and yet the In
artisan journals OF Ohio have been en- da
lsed for some twenty years in making party al
pitol out of the lswnessness in this State ex
e do not discuss this subject in sectional Is
irit, but for the sole purpose of showing tn
at those who take malicious delight in ret
posing the murders and lawlesspess Al the or
nth are doubly gully of the very crimes int
~ are SO ready to condemn in their neigh col
rs. OH