New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-06

ing sdei the regulators. But the proceedings win all
be iaroe. dispatch OF March II tells the story.
/ take It from THE Washington Post of March Is,
1889
THE NEw-IBERIA oUTRAGEs.
Jury to-day reported 10 the iberia Parish ourages or
regulator case" in which some seventeen persons
Of iris case, the deep interest Of the people Of our
parish therein and the good name OF our people a.
home and abroad We spared neither time nor effort IN
taking and Eeghing testimony and c& M b We
could not elicit evidence against the accused Wh0n
would justly this body in sendns the case 'e'oro 'O"'
VIII "The Times Democrat" which has taken con-
| siderable part In demanding the punishment Oh uo
iberia criminals keep the country informed co'uel
ing the progress II makes, and either sho" lV' s'C'
| or admit its failure .
Now do not hesitate TO charge that the motive In all
these brutal and always unpu murders Of negroes
Is political The oolorod IS TO be Kept suOuuou
In order that the colored may not when elecon
DAYS arrive dare 10 e the polls and vote inc kepno
lIcap Ticket There IS other adequate nouVo lor
all the outrages that arc occurring and recurring III
all tbs Southern sections where colored voters are
numerous. Tho negroes are peaoeaole, orueHJ anu
we'll disposed and as a race do not endanger m inc
pbtest degree the lives or property Of the white race
| Rut they do wish to vote the Republican ticket
contrary 10 the wishes Of the great body OF whites
Therefore they are htlndsHed. tortured and
slaughtered and no one Is punished for such OF
| fences.
! The effect rpon tho white people OF the South OF
these criminal and brutalling methods is fcarfuly de-
gradng, and will, II not checked, utterly demoraho
socety How oan the young men Of the South grow up
! peaceful, wsll-behaved and refined members Of
,ocety, when IN order 10 carry political Govern
ment they inolted TO brutal assaults upon help
less and defenceless racei Tho people OF the South
should look to themselves the ultimate sufferers
from that treatment Of the negroes which they arc
encouraging.
Mr. Henry ". Grady, who lately spoke so charm
ingly at a Nev-Engand dinner, can doubtless psuh
ate In some way these barbariues but the people of
the country can best understand them by realizing
that In sections o. the South, In order 10 Keep
tho negroes down politically the brutaidos OF the
days Of slavery not yet ended. Tho Atlanta
Copsututtonn Of December co. 1885, has tho follow
ing:
DOGS FOR SALE:
For Sale-Ffve bloodhnunds trained % trail negroes
or oonvics. Price 1926 for the lot. Address H. +.
Kelley, Cosldae, Ala-Five times"
wei any one tell us why boodhounds should In this
year Of our Lord be trained to trail negroes m
Georgia. We all know the horrors of the convict
camps of Georgia, which against all public sentiment
are deliberately kept up and are Alled with cocred
Victims sentenced for petty offences, In order 10
keep the Georgia negroes subdued Consider two
more recent incidents showing the brutAlLng effects
upon the young men OF the South OF the prevail
| ing disposition and treatment Of the coored race
"Tho Philadelphia Press Of January 4, 1850. has
| the following:
| EXTRAORDINARY CRUELTY OF BOYS REPORTED.
Hopkinsvtlle, KY, Jan. 3.-At saubria Ky. re-
Gently, sallc Wall, hveyear-Oid colOred giH was
left By Mrs Wilson, whom She visiting, 81 charge
OF her two half grown sons while she went from home
The boys stripped the child Of her clothes tied her 10
a post, and beat her IN terrible manner. Not satH
6od, the young brutes then stuck her In tho FRO and
held her there until her eyes had been burned out and
her body so nutiated that she cannot possibly TO
cover The two boys escaped.
Tho Crusader Of February %, says that q
colored man named James Major was serving out .
sentence OF twenty days in tho parish prison at
New Orleans for carrying concealed wespons, At the
end Of which time Deputy Sheriff Paekwood, Of East
Felicians, came to take him to that parish TO he
tried for forgery. PaekwoOd handcuhed Major and
Aen put q rope around bis neck and thus bod him
through the streets Of ewOrleSns from the parish
prison 10 the Mississippi! Valley Railroad station
The captain OF the parish prison said that this Wa
not the first tine that deputy shsrlfs from the
country sections hAd led negro prisoners through
the streets OF New-orleans by rope or chain around
their necksi
Arc ali these dis gracefu Incidents merely sporadic
hrutalIty or arc they the natural result Of deliberate
system of degradation Of the negroes Intended 70
suppress the votes which FREQ and equal citizens
thew arc entitled to cast and designed to keep the
South soidly pemocraacl That is tho question TO
be decided W. L. NhA'DI-Hh-
Washington. May 4, 1889.