The Indianapolis journal., 1890-01-11
THE NEGRO AND HIS FOES.
The Brutal and Murderous Persecution
Practiced by Southern Whites.
Spence's Pe0nle,a paper


Practiced by Southern Whites.
spence's Peoples Paper.
There is no race war in the South, but
there is an organized band of cut-thrOats
worse than those led by the infamous
Qauntrell, aided and abetted by leading
politicians, who have sworn to dlSfran-
chise that portion of the citizens made free
men by the Constitution Of the United
States, and debar them the privileges
guaranteed by the fifteenth amendment.
thus prohibiting them from enjoying any
and all the rights of the white inhabitants
political power welded by the black citl-
zens that they have organized into
companies all over North and South
Carolina. Alabama, Georgia, Mississip-
pi, Texas and Louisiana, and purchased the
latest and most improved patterns OF hre-
arms and placed them in the hands OF the
whites TO shoot down and kill, upon the
slightest pretext whatever, any attempt on
the part of the colOred citizens to meet for
the purpose of given expression to griev-
ances or consult together on the enormities
OF the wrongs inflicted upon them. There
Is not a single instance wherein 1t can be
shown that they have ever organized ex-
cept for self-defense, and it positively can
not be shown when they ever attempted by
mob violence to commit an infraction of
the laws, much less the reinforcement of
laws obnoxious or distasteful to them.
1t ill becomes the Southern cut-thrOats
Guu 10 u6uOuuCb tucSc COfOTcu
people as dangerous element to society.
after. leaving their mothers. wives and
daughters In their protection during the
four years of bloody war that deluged the
North and South These patient. human
tOilers were the nucleus around which
gathered the aged whites. the lame and the
infirm. the mothers, wives and sweethearts
and the prattling little ones were left with
them for protection; and the live stock.
and the cotton gin. the loom, the plow and
ha IN <ha,r Laa for
the purpose of providing and furnishing
subsistence. Did you hear of any
Outrages committed on the females by
the colored people while the white pop
No, never! but on the other hand, the lives
of those left in their keeping were jealous
ly protected. the plantations were titled,
crops raised in abundance for family use
and vast quantities furnished the confed-
crate armies. But, now that peace reigns.
the armies disbanded. the soldiers having
returned home and assumed their former
vOcatiOns, and the fate of war decreed
that the slaves should be free and enjoy
freedom in it's fullest sense, life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. these coward
ly whites pretend they see their utter
annihilatiOn at the hands of those that
succOred them in war and defended their
hearth-stOnes from guerrillas in the rear.
The fate of the black man is indeed a
sad one; captured and dragged from his
native home on the dark continent. driven
through the wilderness, morass and jungle
to the coast, and then thrown into the
holds of slavers, infested with pestilential
| fevers and vermin, carried to foreign
shores and sold like cattle to brutal task
masters. and compelled to labor in sunshine
| and storm from early morn till 1.-The senti.
| mel stars set their watch in the skies, y
lashed with the blacksnake, leaving scars
as deep as they are damnable in the sight
| of God. Thus it is. that these creatures
| made after His image, endowed with
| all the senses of the human. dragged
from their humble abodes against thei,
| will. and made to suffer as DO other human
| beings are should have additional wrongs
| heaped upon their already heavy loads is q
crime that should call down the execratior
| of the whole civilized world upon their
| heads. States have no right to infiict mur
| der on its citizens for attempting to exer.
| else the rights given them by the Constitu
| tiOn of the United States, and when any
| State attempts to nulllfy the fundamental
| laws of the land. the strong arm that gave
| us and made us a nation should be exer
cised in behalf of its poorest and weakest
| citizens. be they white OF black. Negroes
are citizens; as such, must be protected il
| all rights guaranteed them by the COnstitu
ton. These are our sentiments and we viii
stand by them.