The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-23

PIE II lie County,. ne SblFfSu up SlI1G between
the white and colored people. The witness
heard many runors why Sam Wallace was killed,
one to the effect that he stole seed cotton and
sold it to Matthews.
Ready for a War of determination.
Washington Letter in Cleveland Leader.
A tall young gentleman, with eyes as black as
jet and hair and luxuriant beard of the same
color, was standing and leaning against the tele-
graph desk, in the Ebbitt House, last night. He
was elegantly dressed, and his linen was of the
whitest. There were rings on his fingers, a dia-
mond stud in his shirt front, and his
beard, parted bushily down the center,
gave him quite u d~istingue air. One
Of the richest sons of Mississippi's old families,
he is spending the winter in the society of the
capital. 1 asked him as to the Copiah massacre.
This was his reply: sit was a work of necessity.
This question is not with us a political question.
1t is one of races. 1t is whether we, the intelli-
gent Saxon Caucasian race, shall be domineered
over and insulted by the low-browed African,
Just out Of monkeydom. In my part of
the State there was no necessity of
force to accomplish our supremacy,
but it was different in Copiah county. The Mat
thews family stirred up the negroes in sedition.
1t organized the election. There was only one
way of it. The Matthews family had to go. John
Matthews was warned but he disregarded his
warning, anu he fell with twenty five buckshot
in his body. No one of the sensible whites of
Mississippi will disapprove of it."
You have no idea" the Mississippian went
on, 'of the kind of a man Matthews was. He
was a muscular Samson. He could take a bulls
head under his arm and pound out his brains
with his fist, He made money
gangs, and turned Republican to feather his own
nest in the days of the carpet baggers. We got
rid of the carpet-baggers, but Matthews re-
manned. He was once our brother. but he waSa
renegade to his race and we slew him. We are
ready to do the same with any more like him
who shall arise"
But what is to be done with the negro?'
LET him keep the place of servant where God
placed him. There may yet be a war of the
races, but it will not be until some great organ
izer or leader rises among the negroes.
''I was talking with a Cabinet minister and
q Northern congressman, the other day, when
the congressman said:
1.-THE state of affairs in tho South is shameful.
If l had the control of the government l would
take the money used to investigate these out
RACES and put it all in one State, where | would
arm the negroes and let the two races settle the
question
"'Yes, that would settle it, said I.
Indeed; | am surprised at your believing as
I do said the congressman.
q 1t would settle it, l went on, and quickly.
In one week there would not be a negro
left in the South. The South are pre-
pared, and fully prepared for any such state.
We have ourselves organized and armed with the
latest of arms and cannon, and in a few hours
could muster an organized army of thousands,
and we could ca. together a hundred thousand
men. The negroes would be massacred. even to
the babies, and a few days would wipe them
from the face of the South" As the young man
repeated this his eyes flashed. and his teeth
shown. If a war of the races does come, lie will
be one Of its leaders.