The Washington bee., 1889-07-27

pills In daily attendance In our |
schools and the hundreds of fine
looking, we'll trained and highly |
cultured young women who grad
uate every year, ard yet there
are but few self.respecting ones
among them. 1t Is lie and this
spastor" knows it. No where
else but in the South, could such !
charge be made without bring
ing down upon the head of this
slauderer, the indignation of the
public-white aud black But in
a community that believes in
Iyncbing, what remedy is there
for the poor unfortunate Negro?
If you doubt that this fend, this
wolfin sleeps clothing is not an
advocate Of iynching, read the
following:
"But with regard to lynching Tor rape,
it is, indeed. a d, sperate remedy; but
whit other can he used for so desperate
a disease? Our wives and daughters are
surrounded By "A people among whom
hundreds are brutal savageS III their pas
sions. When passion is aroused and OPP
portunity occurs, the laws delays, the
chances of escape. the time for ''gettins
religion AMI the chance for gloriilica-
ton on the scaffold, all so modify the ter
rors OF the death panalty that it fails to
restrain them from this most brutal of
crimes. If nothing but the certainty that
an outraged community will rise AMI eX-
ecute swift vengeance will check the
crime, who shall say that a community
must not SO defend itsell? It does, in
| decd, reveal a state of civiliZ ition but
little removed from barhariSm, but it is
| the barbarism OF race that has been fore
ed into contact with civilization, and civ
| iliZltion must pro ect it-elf by methods
that would not be needed if the barbar-
ism were not there.
A Southern Pastor.''
He says that sour wives and
daughters are surrounded 10y bra
tai savages'" hence the necessity
of ignoring statute law and resort
ing 10 mob violence, always Lead
by some ''high-toned South Car
Gilman" Twynty-eight years ago
when this christian ~ and his
brethren went TO war IL order to
keep these "savages" among
hem, they left their wives AM
daughters to their care. We
challenge him or any other OF his
kind to name an Instance during
these trying times, when a single
Negro betrayed bis trust. Name
it, any one. You can't do it.
Never III the story Of the world
was such devotion and loyalty to
detenselesS women and children
shown. The conduct of those
people stands to day monument
to their greatness, "a crushing re-
buke to this "gastor" and IeFu-
tation Of all SANDERS like him.
lie calls them barbarianS, and
says civilization must protect it.
self. Why did not civilized
South Carolina protect the thou
sands OF innocent Negroes whom
she murdered? Why did civil
lied South Carolina send one Of
her high-toned associate al d lead
er Of assasins to the u. S. Senate
to represent her if she was oppos~
ed 10 barbArism; Is there any bet
ter evidence Of what constitute
barbari'y than the killing without
cause of the thousands and ten of
thousands of poor, helpless and
inofensive Negroes in the South?
If so, show it to us.
The murder Of Dawson, him
self a murderer of colored people,
aid the acquital of Mellow, an
other murderer, comes as reDrihu-
ton to a class OF people who
have no fear of God and none OF
those christian attributes that
belong to civilization. This spas
tor" himself Is a sample Cf the
kind of white christians that live
in the South. The day is not dis
Iant, when the wrongs OF long
oppressed and much abused race
will be corrected with vengeance
more powerful than man can affi ct.
1t is the duty of the colored press
throughout the country to take
this slander up and defend their
people against such cowardly aud
contemplate assuits. Will you
do it, brothers?