Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-18
COLORED MEN IN TIE SOUTH
Why They Cannot BE Democrats
-Outrages of the Last Few
Weeks.

The day may come when the
colored people of the south can
become democrats, but as yet that
hour has not yet arrived. When
the democracy shall say to the
colOrcd voter. You arc a man
and are entitled to the rights OF
other men before the law, then
the negro can afford to Join III
with them. While it is true that
the co1ored men Of the south
fought against the thought during
t he war of raising up against his
master by striking down helpless
women and children, yet these
same 1uen when they came home
and en- Hraced their beloved
TURNED Upon THE PROTECTORS
Of the helpless women and chill
dren and shoot down the wives
and murder their children and
outrage the virtue of their daugh-
ters, and say what we may their
name is still democracy. Within
the last four weeks the outrages
committed right here in Georgia
are enough to make any colored
democrat in Ohio or Indiana
blush. While we believe every
man has q right to vote and act
for himself, yet he has no right to
sell into slavery all his fellow
men: no right to help into power
the party that fought against the
abolition of slavery, and after 1t
was secured fought against the
recognition of freedom: that man
that does it is a hireling and not
worthy of the respect of his fellow
men.
During the last four weeks the
democracy, according to the Sa-
vannah News and the Atlanta
Constitution, have formed a vigi~
lance committee in Banks and
other counties and are chasing
colored people ali around the diff
ferent communities as soon as
their crops are laid by, and max
inc them leave the country, thus
dcpriving them OF their Year. la
bor. They have visited several
families and given them
SEVERE FLoCGING3
Just below Harmony Grove a
poor colored woman was beaten
by Il mob because her cotton was
NOT laid by, and a little later a
coIorcd boy was shot in the cheek
and beaten because he kept ''too
much fuss a few days afterward
a poor siX-year old child was raw
ishcd near Eastman, and the per
uetrator WAS told to go free; in the
same week Anderson Mathews, at
Athens. was shot down by the
chief Of police because he was sup.
posed 10 have stolen a COW; the
same week colOred man at
GaimsviIlc was shot down AMI
buried without inquest: the next
week after "a man at East Point
was arrested and carried by
the jIdgc Of the court into the
woods and has
MEYER BEEN HEARD FROM;
this week Il poor woman and u
little boy We're shot down in the
streets OF Atlanta and not Il thing
i,as been done. All this WAS done
by democrats.
Now we want our readears in
Ohio and other Western States
and Northern States to ask them
selves what is thcir duty. Buck
le on your armour, and prepare
for the conflict OF 81. Caesar Is
now filing the Golfers Of Rome
with tie wealth OF the Carthagl-
mans, and it is the duty OF col
ore,l men II see that none but
good republicans or liberals are
selected to manage the affairs OF
state.
There will come. a time when
we can divide, but while bour
bnnism stalks through the land
as it does, there can be no divls-
ion. Discretion and patriotism
must be the watchWord. Men to
the front for good government.
Organize through the land once
more for the party OF liberty
[Atlanta (Ga.( Nidicator.
After duly considering the
bloody mania that are going ram
pant through the country, more
particularly through the southern
states, where the poor blacks are
made the only victims of their
prey. We can only add Arkan-
sas' woe to thc misery Of Georgia
and appeal to the strong arms of
the national government for pro-
lection of life, liberty and the
pursuit o. happiness, that right
which this government declares