San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-01-03
AUSTIN CORRESPONDENCE.
A New Years Chapter on the
Black Man.
A rrcuIN- Tax Tonnaru1 1890

the brother in black Is the most mis-
represented if represented at all by
some, / shall devote most of this artl-
Gle to him. 1t seems so strange that
disaster and misfortune should be
the everlasting portion of the south
ern negro, and ii we are correctly in
formed, these await him in his native
land, right among his friends; yes his
best friends. Where is the remedy
for the terrible evil of calling him
from his bed after nightfall to be shot
down by his neighbor? / believe
that the friendliest relations should
subslst between the races, but Inever
expect to see that day until lawless
| bands of night raiders cease to
get the state militia authorities to
| fight their battles, when their vic
| TINS offer resistance to their wicked
aggressions, who seem to cover their
| diabolism, under the pretense of a
race trouble, or negro uprising. If the
men who aggravate and precipItate
their foul crimes against the law of
God, and common human rights,
knew they could not cajole the au-
thorities to fight their wicked bat
| ties, the race troubles and negro up
risings, about which so much are
said and written now, would be
things of the past; not to be men,
toned by people of reason, and COM
mon sense. There can be no longer
a doubt, of lot of towards and idlers
strolling about less protected portions
of the country doing every kind of
deviltry under first one form or an
other, White Caps, regulators and an
archists, etc., etc., all of which are
common enemies to human society
and alike the vampires and vermin
preying upon the vitals of unsuspect-
ing and weak humanity; indeed, too
weak to offer real resistance. Their
ranks are filled with men who never
smelled any ones burnt powder but
their own. A handful of poorly
armed negroes makes them fairly
quake and shrek out a niger upris-
ing! niger uprising! And the au-
thOrities furnish the militia to put it
down. Justice with bandaged eyes
and stopped ears strikes olindly
right and left after finding out where
the scared out of wits negroes are
grouped together regardless of their
intentions. 1t is a terrible crime to
be found together when terroriZed. If
the White Caps are causing lands to
deprecIate in value in Ohio what q
cut in value of our lands from the long
bloody drama and this eXcruciating
ordeal. Though these wicked viii
lians fear not God nor regard men,
there is a text in the Good Book
which says: vengeance is mine.
and l will repay seth the LOrd.n
The words were carved on a white &C.
cedar cross and placed over the funeral
pile of the gathered locks of hair and
the bones of women, men and chill
dren slain at the massacre of Mount
Meadows in Utah, A. D., 1857. The
walls of the dying, slain on that in
eXOrible day sounded the death knell
of Mormondom. 1t is dying and will
soon be dead. What an awful record
are these actors in the CORY
scenes making! What a legacy for
their children. Think of the dumb
beasts of negroes at Wahalak, who |
did not escape the fury of the infurI-
ated mob. L am no lawyer, but do |
respect the law of God, and of my |
country. [ am quite sure the founders |
of this republic would turn over in |
their graves if they could know how |
little regard for the laws and constitu-
ton ordained and dedicated by them |
for the future government of the re-
public are disregarded and set aside
with impunity, by men of this gen.
GRAFTON. The immigration boards
ought to know their efforts will be
foiled unless these Outrages come to
an end. Any man who will kill a
negro or Mexican or poor white
man, can't make sensible rich men
believe their lives or prOpertV can be |
safe in their hands. Politics o. race
questions should not be considered
when we come to invite people to
leave one portion of the country to
show the advantages of another. If
neighbOrs are eternally at swords
points, they had best find the cause
and the remedy for the i'll before cast
ing their lots amongst them, etc. 1
believe firmly if negroes were ever of
any utility to this country at any
time in the past they are not less so
now. Christmas brought with it
much amusement of different kinds.
None more so than the Arsenal block
controversy, as it came so near letting
Gen. d. S. Stanley and Lieut.. Rom
borough see the inside of Travis
county Jail. Many of the state jour-
mails think the good general has
been terribly outraged. However it
holds good in reason that if the gen.
eral had attempted to execute any
order from the war department to
protect the lives of negroes and their
property, the same journals would
have published the facts that the
civil courts and peace officers were
all sufficient to maintain the law