Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1884-02-07

and perhaps the most potent agency
that can be employed to assail absurd
anaclIronisns like Knight Errantry
and Bloody Shirtisrn is to make fun Of
them. Men shrink from ridicule,
though not from law" and certainly
the delicious satire of the New York
Times, which, bye-the-by, is the &C.
credited organ of Northern republican
thought, has done and is doing more
to cover the present Southern Out
rage investigation Of Mesers, Sherman
and Malone with confusion and con-
tempt than all the arguments that
have yet been brought against it, or
is likely to be brought To catch the
point and enjoy the humor Of the
Times, it is necessary to remember
that the Virginia and Mississippi "out-
RACES were purely of local and per-
sOnal origin and significance, not &C.
curing on election day either, and
were limited by the same conditions
which attach to the Long Island out
RACES spoken of by the Times, whose
article we now give without further
prelude.
FIT is to be hoped, in the interests
ofhumanity and party politics, that
aSAsoon as Mr.. Shernans investiga-
Afion Of Southern outrages on negroes
4 is finished, Senator Butler will move
for an Investigation of the outrages
on white men on Long Island. The
South is--or ought to be--horror-
stricken at the atrocities committed
by Long Island negroes. A few weeks
ago Mr. and Mrs. Townsend, two in
offensive white residents of Long
Island, whose only crime was their
"olor, were attacked in their own
house and beaten into insensibility.
for this cruel outrage a negro, one
Simon Rappalee, was arrested, but,
merely because be was found to be
innocent, he was released. The blood
of Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend cries aloud
for vengeance, but the cry continues
to 20 up from their back kitchen with
ont being answered by the punish
ment Of single negro. Still later,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague, white residents
of Long Island, were attacked and
partially killed by negro named
Rugg. The unfortunate Spragues had
committed no olIense, with the excep-
ton of possessing'white skins and
small amount Of money. The fiend-
ish negro who attacked them is still
alive, and there is abundant reason
TO fear that unless he is found guilty
and duly sentenced he will escape all
punishment for his crime.
"Outrages like these speak cornet-
tongued of the terrible state of bar
barism which exists on Long Island.
That Oldest of civil rights bills, the
Declaration Of Independence guaran-
> tees to the white Long Islander life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
but it is treated with contempt by the
dominant colored assassin class. The
deep-set hatred OF white men and love
of their pocket books which charac
terises the Long Island negro cannot
but fill with horror every intelligent
and humane white Southerner, and it
would be an outrage to ask the latter
TO remain silent while his fellow men
are being knocked on the head by
Long Island fiends in the Opaque dis.
guise Of negroes. Beyond any ques-
ton the Long Island outrages are po-
litical. The negroes vote the Repub-
lican ticket and the white men OF
Suffolk and Queense ounties have been
in the immemorial habit ofvoting the
Democratic ticket. This makes il
clear that The object of the negroes is
to suppress the white vote. They
mean to make Long Island "solid" for
the Republican party by terrorizirg
the whites. For this state of things
the whole North is responsible. The
attacks on the Townsends and the
Spragues are the legitimate results of
Northern civilization, or rather want
of civilization, This is as clear as it
is that the people of Virginia and
Florida are responsible for the MUIR
der Of a casual negro in Mississippi,
and any denial of it is an evidence Of
deep. rooted hatred to the Union.
at has been pretended that ever
since the date of the Kelsey murder
there has been no active organization
of evil-doers on Long Island. 1t is
true that the Second Presbyterian
gang of Huntington has not been
heard of since the Kelsey murder, but
who can doubt that the negroes of
Long Island--or at all events the me-
gro Rugg- are organized for the pur.
pose of terrorizing thu whites. Rugg
is unquestionably organized and we
may assume that he is the exponent
Of gigantic system of crime and out
rage directed against the simple, law
abiding white Democrats Of the North.
II Mr.. Butler viii expand these sue-
gestions into a fiery speech, and wave
the bloody overalls of Rugg before
the Senate, hefmay be able to accom-
plish almost as much good as will be
accomplished by Mr.. Sherman lnves-
LEGATION"