The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-02-06

Bloody Work OF the Mississippi Savages.
The white savages OF Mississippi are
still a. their devilish work of mas ,a-
cring colored men, burning and pill
Laying their cabins, and driving the
women and little children away from
their homes. The so-called "better
classes" OF our Southern brethren
have been appealed to over and over
again, but all in vain. The Sheriff
and authorities of kemper County,
where the crime is being committed,
have been asked to interfere, but sit
idly 10y, either Indifferent as to the fate
of these innocent victims or terrerized
into inacsion by the drunken, murder
Gus thugs. The Governor of Missis-
sippi has been appealed to, and we are
inquiry and VIII take all necessary
measures to suppress lawlessness." is
it diligence to allow this killing and
burning g on for month without lift
ing finger to stop it2 Is he waiting
until the negro population of kemper
County is exterminated before he tIkes
measures TO suppress lawlessness He
has known for two or three weeks that
this brutal business has been going on,
and that it's victims are innocent of any
ofiense. Why did he not stop it long
ago? Is it because his victims were
only "niggers" and of no account?
The motive which has actuated this
devilish work should be kept clearly
in view. In the original affray at
Walhalall the whites were the trans
gressors. This is conceded even by
Democratic papers in the South. A
fisticuff encounter happened between a
white man and negro, in which the
former was worsted. His friends
thereupon rallied and without warrant
or any legal authority, not one of them
being an official, attempted to arrest
the negro. He resisted as any man of
spirit in the North would have resisted.
His friends came to his help as they
would have done in the North, and the
assailants got the worst of it, as they
deserved. Thereupon mob of drunk
en- brutes gathered in sufficient
strength TO chase the negroes into the
mountains. After killing all they
found they returned to Walhalak and
commenced killing those who had no
connection with the original affray,
burning their little cabins, robbing them
OF their hous ahold goods, and driving
women and little children away from
their homes. This devils work has
been going on nearly a month with the
knowledge Of the county authorities
and the Governor, and it still con-
tinues, with no other action on the part
of the authorities than empty promises
that they will look into the matter. A
single company of well-armed militia
could have stopped this vandalism
weeks ago. III it took the whole militia
of the State, it should have been done.
The least that the Governor of Missis-
sippi can do now is to collect these
poor fugitives, place them on their land
again, restore their homes and indem
Nifty them for their losses, and then
ferret out the scoundrels who have
been engaged in the internal business
and punish them to the full extent of
the law. Every day that the authori
ties neglect this act of simple justice
they are participes criminis. Their
responsibility for this great crime
one of the blacklist that ever stained
the annals of any State-is as complete
as that of the thugs Themselves
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