Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-10
fear. forced % Ieare town.


fear. forced 10 leave town. SUNDAY i
during the day the number Of regulators sas
greatly increased and they spent the day in |
whipping and driving away coiored people
4 correspondent in Mr.. Mzrtinet's .-Cras- /
sder" of February 20 says Of Mr.. Gunner
s'He loves bis people and be izbored hard
FIR their elevation He vas 4 leader in edu-
cational work and the head of the movement
that resulted ia the building up of the Hove
Institute our eolored high school. ofcourse
after this there vas nothing else to do
Gunner was positively dangerous negro,
and be "a. gotten nd Of at the first chance
He ga. not merely notified to leave; be vas
led 70 the depot by mob and vas struck and
wounded in the face by one Of them ~ilh the
butt of pistol. and wa, bleeding profnsely
and va. bathed With bis blood when put on
the train
The Louisiana Standard of February 2,
say. Of Jim Rosemobd
Jim Rosemond il swung up on the bridge
across the bayou and his body left dangling
10 mid air from the eenter beam. He had
expressed sympathy with the family lof
Wakefield and had helped carry the lead
boys body to hi. mother. house. This
the sum total Of his offending Jim had been
gwen notice 10 leave the parish. but had
come back 10 town that night TO get ms
clothes and was trying to get away when
caught
To satisfy Northern public sentiment some
show Ia. been made by Governor NicholI.
Of an intention to prosecute the iberia regu
atars and murderers Attorney General
Rogers appeared before Coroner Wolfes
jury; witnesses were heard, and The Jury
rendered verdict that Ro-emond died Of
'stfanguiation at the hands of unknown
/ parties Nevertheless Captain c. T Cade.
Brigadier General Dudley Avery. and others
were held 10 $500 bail on the charge of hav-
ing aided the regulators But the proceed
/ ing- will all be farce dispatch of March
( Il tells the story. | take it from The
Washington Post of March Is, 1889
THE NV IBERIA OurRAGEs.
New Orleans March Il The New iberia
Grand Jury to-day reported to the iberia
/ Parish ogtrages, or regulators case" in
which some seventeen persons were charged
! It'll conspiracy 10 Danish certain parties
The Jury says Fully approaching the
I grave nature Of this case, the deep interest
Of the people Of our parish therein, and the
good name of our people at home and
abroad We spared neither time n Ir effort in
talking and weighing testimony and carefully
[ examined all witnesses appei rlng before us,
1 but could not elicit evidence against the
accused which would Justify thi, body in
sending the case before your honorable
[ court"
VIII The Times Democrat, which has
taken considerable part in demanding the
punishment of the iberia criminals, keep the
country informed concerning the progress it
makes, and either show its success or admit
its failure7
Now. DO not hesitate to charge that the
motive in all these brutal and always unpun-
ishei murders of negroes Is political The
colored race is to be kept subdued in order
that the colored voters may not when cleo.
ton days arrive dare To go to the polls and
vote the Republican ticket There is no
other adequate motive for all the outrages
hat are occurring and recurring in all the
Southern sections where colorel voters are
numerous The negroes are peaceablc, or.
DERBY and we'll disposed, and as race do not
endan ger ia the slightest degree the lives or
property of the White race. But they do
wish to vote the Republican ticket--contrary
to the wishes of the great body of whites.
Therefore they are intimdated. tortured and
slaughtered, aud no one is ever punished for
such offences.
The effect upon the white people OF the
South Of these criminal and brutalizing
methods IS fearfully degrading, and will, if
not checked. utterly demorslize society. How
can the young men of the South grow up
peaceful, we'll b. hsved and refined members
of society, when in orderto carry on political
Government they are melted to brutal assault,
upon helpless aud defenceess race, The
pecp4 of the South should look to themselye,
rs the ultimate sufferers from that treatment
of the ncgro,s which they are eucouragiug
Mr. Henry w Grady. who lately spoke SC
charmingy at New England dinner, car
doubtless pslliate in some way these barbara
ties, but the people OF the country can bes
understand them by realizing that in some
sections Of the South, in order to keep the
+ negroes down politically the brutalties Of
the days of slavery are not yet ended "Tht
r Atlanta Constitution" of December 20, 1888
, has the following