Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-09-21

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barbarous tribes or heathern nations
drive out and murder the christian
missionary, or how does it shock the
enlightened masses to hear of the
slave trade, where the stronger are
hurried and herded to market like
cattle. and the weaker murdered ON
the road, prey to birds aud wild
animals. Christian nations protest
against the outrage, and christian
organizations work together for the
overthrow of these lingering sem
dances of brutal people Of bar
barrie age.
One need not, therefore, be a parti
cular defender of the colored race in
this free country, to see that man.
kind in its highest and most infuen-
tial capacities will call a halt to such
fragrant abuses of human beings,
and the lower and poorer and more
degraded their order, the stronger
the appeal to human sympathy. The
under dog enlists the Cry to the res.
cue.
A careful estimate will make the
number of deaths OF colored people
by lynchings, race troubles, out
right murder and cruelties, at one
hundred a month, and sometimes
one hundred a week. There is no
excuse for the shot gun and the
torch. There is no danger to the
rights of the white people. 1t is
political ennity, race hatred and
pure deviltry and willful defiance of
the law, and nothing else. The
Gouldsboro riot was an uncalled for
attack upon cOlored men, shooting
them down from ambush, and burn.
ing their church. When or where
did colored men burn churches or
shoot down defenseless people. The
New Orleans Democrat char
acterizes it us a " wanton, deliberate,
detestable crime, and the men who
committed it as "a disgrace to
their state and their race" At
Gretna unoffending men and women
we're shot down in their doorways or
dragged off to be strung up on the
tree or tied to the whipping post.
Taking the rights of a race to vote
or serve under the laws Of their
country may be justified by political
excitement and party rivalry, but
taking their lives without cause or
warrant is murder, which country
was never great enough nor
powerful enough to withstand with
safety to itself.
The work of the louisiana Regula.
tors at Lafayette on Sept. 9th was
fiendish in the extreme. They en-
tered an old colored mans house,
armed with Winchesters, killed him
and bis daughter, whipped fourteen
colored men that night, two of whom
are not expected to get over the eff
fects. These are but a few instances
of what takes place every day in
some part of the South.
A reaction is setting in, however,
and press and pulpit demand that
these outrages stop and the murder
ers be brought to justice. A better
sentiment is taking the place of the
bitter race hatred; and threats,
abuse and social ostracism are losing
their force in the face of the strong
appeal for justice that is going up in
behalf of the unjustifiable acts.
This reaction is strongly shown by
the condemnation uttered through
the press, few extracts being all
we have space for, though we should
like to give them in full :
Neto Orleans Picayune (Dem.).
The bloody occurrences in Lafay-
cite Parish can not be too highly
condemned nor too deeply deploied.
Memphis Aualanche (Dem.).
The outrage reported from Lay,
fayette, La, is almost too horrible for
belief. That a mob of white men
could be so far lost to every senti.
ment of humanity as to murder the
old negro and his innocent daughte:
because he defended his house from
assault is reflection that should
not be lost upon honorable, law .abid.
ing Southerners. Every drop of
blood wrongfully shed cries to heaven
and just as sure as there is God it
will bring curse upon the land that
drinks it up. The mob or individual
that does murders work strikes at
the root of society and brands the
fair front of civilization with the
mark of Cain.
Burlington, Ala., Age Herald (Dem.J
The report of outrages on negroes
in Louisiana by so.called "white reg.
ulators " is inconceivably brutal and
disgrace to that state and the
South. The hanging OF the men
who murdered the old negro and his
daughter would vindicate Louisiana
and the South, and the best senti
ment in this section demands that
no effort be spared to bring them to
justice.
Jackso nellie, Times. Union (Dem.)
The killing of the old man, and
cutting the throat of his daughter
would shame the most brutal savage
who ever brought blot upon the is.
lands of the cannibals.
atlanta Constitution
A blot rests on Georgia's escutch.
con until the men who whipped the
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