The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-12-27
NE EvD.
NNuTHEE RNUE WAR.

7 Z afIr .r'H NlrFNu
bn'' more there il war between
whites and blacks at the south.
| This time the outbreak il in Mi-sis.
~ipri. A. usual. the first report re-
presents the ne gTues as the aggres-
S"rs. There has not been case nf
Sl'"uiiug along the line of race dis
Iinctium since the war that the whites
uf the locality did mot make haste Ia
assure the public that the rOIOred
folks began Il. ID generally turns
out that they were unarmpd and
defrnSrleSs victims of mot
yiulrncP, and la no case did ID
prove that they were the aggressOrs.
In this ease the first reports were
conflicting. The IHf.,. L-'un yes
tp-dRy published several accounts,
uu two agreeing ia details, but all
representing that several white men
were killed and Others wounded,
while the blacks got off without a
scratch. They also agree i'm re-
presenting the cause al the trouble to
he that n white man undertook to
separate his sou aud n rulOreh boy,
who were lighting. when the father
"f the rolurrd boy, Maury, pitched
into the white man, Nicholson, and
gave him thTHshing. u IL highly
probable that The immediate cause Of
the trouble was a quarrel between q
couple uG urrl ins uI different roIOrs,
and that the parents were drawn into
u. There H. nothing improbable in
that, and. very likely, too. the colored
man got the better at his ant Ignnist.
II seems, from all accounts, that
after the parties had separated, aud
MauTy had gone home, Nicholson
gathered dozen or fourteen white
men, among them Constable Cobb,
and they started out after Maury.
There have been 81 many cases Of
lynching in the place of arresting
that the natural suppusition was that
this WaS mob bent un shooting or
hanging the niger that had dared
Ia take the part Of his own son in n
fight with a white boy, and in doing
- had come out ahead. According
{" the topographic reports, however,
the white men were posse acting
under authority nf law aud bent on
only lawful proceedings and the
shooting 10y the negroes from uehind
trees ar baTTicadr or here reports
differ WAS Nith' at excuse. In the
dispatches published this morning
Il appears that the armed bodies of
whites riding about the country are
acting without show OT authority,
are, ~ n matter nf fact, keeping away
from the sheriff. aud making no pre-
tense nf being other than men handed
together for revenge. The leaders of
the whites seem iu believe there IL
only one way tu settle the difficulty,
aud that il tn hunt the negroes down
and shoot them. The armed negroes,
WHO violated the law, are Icing
pursued by armed whites acting out
side the law. aud y condition of war
prevails
The lamputahle outbreak il another
~ i'ipnrs ~. ~. Tact that outlRwry
breeds nuilawry. aud the blood OF
nuh VIolrurr T. the seed Of more
viuirurr. u the result should be
u far more general war Of races u
would only be another proof that
like hrgpts like. and that the more
blood there j. shed the mo'e may be
Unless the South turns q
new leaf, Eirminghams aud waha-
lax may lee expected on greatly en-
lsrged scales. Justice pushed aside
tu make ru"u for lRwlrss vengeance
j. = general menace tn the society
that tolersIes such relapse into bar
iari~m