St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-01-09
Obe Californian.
THE RACE WAR IN THE SOUTH.

The war between the whites and
blacks in many of the Southern
states Is assuming alarming proper
lions. The hope that education,
public sentiment and time would cure
these troubles is being sadly disap-
pointed. The Springfield Republican
groups a batch of these barbarisms
as follows
Isolated murders IN the Southern
states, the past week, pass almost
unnoticed beside the various race
riots that disgrace the names of sew
eral communities The lumber and
turpentine district near Jesup, Ga,
has been little short OF q slaughter
place for some days. Assistant Mar
shall Barnhill killed negro a few
weeks ago while making the arrest
of negro gambler Bow Brewer,
negro outlaw, threa tened the mar
shaI's life for the act. Chief Marshal
Leggett with a posse undertook on
Christmas day to arrest Brewer,
who shot Barnhill dead, and Sc, erely
wounded Leggett. Bre,Her and his
friends retreated to tie swamps, and,
in the running E.e that followed,
two more E>n1te men and negro
were k',.ied and several wounded.
White parties then visited several
negro cabins and stripped and fog
ged large number of women claim
ed to be prostitutes; others were
driven out of the country. One OF
the Brewer gang was caught and
lodged in Jail Gov. Gordon sent the
Georgia Hussars to Jesup to main
tain order, but the company was sta
toned half a mile from the Jail. A
white mob OvcrpOWered the JaIler
and shot dead two negroes, neither
of them charged with murder, and
both held upon suspicion of friend
ship to Brewer. After that the GeOr-
gia Hussars took the train for home.
There was a series of fights at and
around Augusta, Ga, Christmas
night. One negro was killed and
several wounded. The police had
hard fight with a negro mob bent
upon rescuing some prisoners that
were being carried to the station. A
similar fight at Clarksv1lle, Tenn,
at the same time, ended i'll the fatal
shooting of two blacks. The Charles
ton IS. c. News and Courier in
speaking of the Jesup and Augusta
riots saws: 1T is folly to ignore the
state of affairs which makes these
outbreaks possible. 1t is not pecu-
liar to Georgia, or Louisiana, or
Mississippi. 1t is common to the
whole South There is race prob
lem in the South, and it is the most
serious problem that cOnfrOnts the
people of this whole country. 1t can
not be settled by the negro vote 'di-
viding at the polls. 1t can only be
settled BY the complete separation OF
the races"
The News and COurier's editorial
appeared Friday morning. On Sat
urdav mob of 100 white men broke
into the Jail at Barnwell in that state
and carried off eight negroes; whose
bodies were afterwards found tied tC
trees and riddled with bullets. Two
of the men lvnchcd were under indict
ment for the murder of two white
men; three more were indicted as &C
cessories, and the remaining three
negroes were held i'll jail as witnesses
After the News and Courier had writ
ten the Southern whites down a:
brutes, itmay feel a kind of CORY sat
isfaction to see Barnwell furnishing
such evidence to cOrroborate its
theory. Gov Richardson has order
ed out the militia to preserve ordel
at Barnwell, and a committee OF c1t1
zens have issued a statement which
amounts to this: The assassinat io1
Of Sever-,,I whites nv blacks the ar
rest and Indictment of several blacks
the lynching of said blacks by white
in consequence of "a state of indlg
nant resentment among our peOpl
that can be better imagined than de
scribed." This committee should b
put under lock and key. This Justifi
cation of murder almost in SO man.
words seems beyond belief i'll tow
advanced far enough to adopt som
of the customs and ways of civiliza