The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-09-27
KukLux.sM REvlysDs


cry In Mississippi
The dispatches giving accounts OF
the alleged negro uprising" in Mis-
sissippi have changed suddenly in
tone. A few days ago ahey were quite
frank in admitting the slaughter of q
large number of negroes and in stating
the determination of the regulators"
to exterminate all the blacks who had
taken part in the so-called riot The
revised and later dispatches suggest
that comparatively few negroes were
killed and that they were engaged in
perpetrating outrages and had to be
dealt with summarily. These claims
are not at all satisfactory. Nothing
is said about the blacks numbering or
assailing white men, no names or lists
Of white victims have been furnished,
and specific mention Is made Of only
one outrage by the negroes-the set
ting fire to a country store. This is
conceded to be the ''most dastardly
outrage" perpetrated by the negroes,
and it is stated that none of those con.
cerned in it will be taken alive.
Arson is a serious crime, but not
ordinarily to be punished with death.
and it must be remembered in this in
stance that the store was not fired
until after dozens and perhaps scores
Of negroes had been wantonly muir.
dered by the inhuman ''nigger hunt
ers."
A dispatch from New Orleans says
J. c. Engle, representing New York sugar
house, and also interested in the cotton trade,
arrived here last night He had been in and
about Greenwood, the scene Of the recent riots,
and he says that the number Of negroes killed
will never be known. They were shot down
like dogs he says. In the dooryards, and even
in houses men, women and children were muir
dered.
"I saw q white boy Of SIXTEEN continued
Mr.. Engle, "beat out the brains of Q little col
ored girl. while o bigger brother with a gun
kept the little ones parents on II the whites
CT the North knew Of the atrocities practiced
in Mississippi they would feel like sweeping
the State from the face of The globe"
1t can not be overlooked that the
bloody and barbarous scenes thus de-
scribed took place before the negroes
perpetrated the "most dastardly out
rage" with which they are charged
viz: setting fire to the country store
near Shady Grove. The slaughter Of
the blacks-men, women and children
was begun before the alleged
NEGRO uprising had injured any
white in person or property. 1t would
seem that the fiendish atrocities to
which the blacks were subjected would
make them desperate and inspire them
to seek a fearful revenge, but the
worst outrage charged against any Of
them is the firing of the store! If
community Of white men had been as
sailed in this atrocious manner there
would have been more than one case
of arson to record and considerable
number of regulators" ready for
burial White men under such circum-
stances would have avenged the
slaughter OF their families and assault
on themselves by selling their lives as
dearly as possible, but the poor blacks
only fired store and fed to the woods.
where they are being hunted down.
1t would seem that if any thing could
cause desperate negro uprising it
would be this last race butchery in
Mississippi, but there is no reason to
fear such an event. Occasionally
when driven into corner and left no
other resource the negroes may make
violent and desperate resistance. but
they are incapable of any disciplined.
organized effort that could effectively
check the brutal tyranny of the whites.
Chicago Tribune