Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-01-24
was stated that 155 negroes were lyn;hed in
Mississippi last year.
A wafufnsr IN he So.tth

was stated that 155 negroes were lyn,.hed ir
Mississippi last year.
Warning to the South.
The negro, the senator said was 1 o cow
ard. He had been brought here prisoner
OF war. The Athenians had erected statu,
TO Esop, who was born a slave. The Amer.
lean nation should also place the slave @upor
an eternal pedestal" His conduct hsd beer
most admirable. Despotism made niIilists
tyranny communists; injustice was the
greatest manufacturer of dynamite The
murderer wounded himself when he abbed
his victim. The south should remember that
there was nothing 50 Improbable as injus-
tice and that God was a relentless creditor.
The south was in greater danger thsn the
enfranchised slave. II had loaded itself
with heavier manacles than thoss with which
it had burdened the negro.
No Real Cancellation Yet.
There was no affection between the north
and the south. The south had not o'given
the north for its supremacy and its sulerior-
ity. II the south could hold the purss and
the sword it was patriotic. The south had
not accepted the amendments to the oonsti-
tuition in good faith. They had their own
heroes and universities. They exalted their
leaders above the leaders of the Union ,ause.
Until these conditions were changed coop
GRAFTON in solving the southern problem
could not be expected from the north. The
south must tread the wine press alone. He
could understa the reverence of the outh-
ern people for jefferson Davis. He no iored
them for their constancy to that heroic
man. Ideas could ever be annihilateo. Nc
man was ever converted by being overpow.
cred. Davis had not crooked the pre- ynant
hinges OF the knee that thrift might follow
fawning."
The Incident I'm Aberdeen.
On the occasion OF the death OF JEFF arson
Davis, the town of Aberdeen in the st ate of
Mississippi was shrouded in mourning. The
court house was draped, and one evidence
OF their grief the people of that tow had
strung upon cable an effigy which they
had tabled "Red Proctor" Laughter The
senator then recounted the facts rega riding
the assault on a man named Fautz a timer,
who in mending the roof of the house, II owed
the cable and let it fall He protested that
1t was an accident, but a man
named Mcdonald gave him 200 lashes
with whip. The citizens bought Foutz a
ticket and sent him out of town, while Nc
Donald was fined $50, the citizens raising $50
for him TO pay his fine. Said the senator:
"lf such an outrage had been perpetrat I'd on
an American citizen IN England million
men would have sprung TO arms to avenge
the insult" He had said that he did not be-
leve In the Authorization of this country or
any part of it; but If this was specimen of
Mississippi justice he would rather q thou
sand fold that that state should be inha Dited
by negroes than by the people now living
there.
The Negro Capable of Civilization,
The black race, he said, was capable of
civilization. 1t had already made greater
progress than could well have been OK pect-
ed. There was nothing in his origin o, his
tory to justify the belief that the AT lean
could compete with the Caucasian in art or
practical affairs but there was no reason to
believe that he was not capable of higl civ
ilization. Measured by the standard OF the
race that still existed in undesirable deg
radiation and inexhanstible fecundity" on the
dark continent, his development had been
magnificent
Coming Down TO Solutions.
There were five means of solving this race
problem. The first was amalgamation the
second determination; the third separation,
and the fourth Acknowledgement The fifth,
the universal solvent OF all human difficult
ties, had never been proposed or tried. and
that was the solution of Justice, for which
WI piaNC Shpuiu Dc q bcillpie anu iii 10 aces
sanctuaries.' He appealed 10 the south to
stack its guns and to register every voter,
black and white. And if, when the ex peri
ment had been fairly tried, it SHOULD be
proved that the complexion burned on
the negro by an African sun was
Incompatible with freedom, he pledged him.
self to unite with the people of the soutl in
finding another way out of this difficri ty
Till then nothing could be done. "Those who
freed the south ask nothing more; they will
be content with nothing less, said he THE
experiment must be fairly tried This is
the starting point and this the goal The
longer it is deferred the greater will be the
evaporation, and the more doubtful will be
the final result"
ingalls, finished his speech at D. IN and
upon taking his seat was loudly applaudad,
The senate at once adjourned until on
day.