The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1891-04-01
DIXON ON THE LYNCHING.
THE BAPTIST CLERGY MANS
LESSON FROM NEW ORLEANS.

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LESSON FROM NRW ORLEANS.
There's No Room for the Malta in
AmeTica---The ProvOca ion More
Terrible Than the Event-.-.s Few
More Pat DIVERS aud FIack Divorce
Cases'' Would Make Trouble in New
York
New YORK, N. Y, March 23d, oil
The Rev. Tnomas Dixon pfefaced his
sermon Sunday III association Hall, cor
ner Of Fourth avenue and Twent third
street, with a few remarks on the lynch
ing at New Orleans He said the prov
ocation was more terrible than the event
it had produced He went into his
tory OF the work of the Malta in New
Orleans and compared the uprising of
the people to that which took place over
the Berner Case in Cincinnati, and to
the profound agitation in Chicago
over. the cases OF the Anarchists. OF
the Malta be said There is
no room on this continent for such
gangs. We are again reminded of
the fact that We have in our midst
unassimiiatcd foreign elements that We
must either spec Oily sssimiiate or spew
out. The | aianS of New York made a
grave mistake when, IN the excitement
OF the moment, they raised the cry, 1--WE
are Italians; let all Italians stand togeth-
er We never forget! Vendetta! Those
flaming headlines and wild cries for ven
geance were sad blunders. There is no
room in this nation for Italians as Ital
iAns. We want Italian American citi-
zens. But we have no use for Italians
as Italians, especially if they rejoice in
the stiletto and slug. Law abiding Ital
Iau ci.izens have maintained most
painful silence on the subject of those
hellish societies Of murderers. Do they
approve them3 Or do they fear them?
Some we fear secretly believe in their
methods, and some we know aIe ar. :,
to express their opinions.
"Pasquol Corito, spokesman for the
com nittee that went to Washington on
the 18th, said to a reporter in Pittsburg:
If the Italians in other cities will fol-
low cur example, there will be raised in
few days fund of $500. 600 to aid
the work Of securing justice or revenge.
believe that the killing in New Orleans
will result in war, but if the Italian
government does not force to a complete
and satisfactory issue the reparation
,
of Italians will assemble in New Orleans
which will fully aud eventually avenge
the murder of our countrymen.'
You believe IN the Mais and ven
delta 2
Il believe in revenge. Italians are
revengeful when anger.d; We are terri
bly, angry
Not one word Of '.isapproval for the
Malta, but only words of vengeance.
One prominent Italian said to re-
porter: L do not thirk our people will
do anything If the, do 1 shall believe
the action is instigated by the Malta !
don't see what the people of New Orleans
could do These rascals, who We're de
f, ing the law and carrying on wholesale
murder, seemed to be able, by money or
other means. to defy the law still further
when it attempted to punish them. l:
seems to me the only thing to do was
what was done. Shall assassins go un-
puDlshed because they have obtained
control of the administration of justice
in a city2 The fact that they are
my countrymen does not make
me the less anxious to see them pun
ished. am sorry that such a step was
necessary; the men should have been
convicted. don't believe the Italian
Government will ever Interfere. 1t
knows the outlaws that come here, and,
in fact, was in communication with Chief
Hennessy about some of them, as [ well
know But don't quote my name in
anything you say. l would not have my
am worth. Some of these Siciliaus are
desperate, and we all fear them
"The time has come in this nation for
+l,o v,oonlo r;oo D,ioht op1 oroon
from the face of the earth this pestilent
brood who breathe the breath of hell
and vet revel in the liberties of a free
Republic. Let all good Italian Ameri-
cans co operate in the God given wolk.
"Another cause of this tragedy we see
at once to be the contempt of the popu
lace for the verdicts of the courts. The
conviction that bribery is not only posi-
BILE, but is almost an every day occur
renee. The conviction that trials of
criminals are coming more and more to
pe farce. 1t is an awful thing for the
masses to lose confidence in the courts
of justice. Give US few Pat DIVERS as
JUDGES; Flack divorce procedures; few
more rich scoundrels who wear purple
and fiue linen, who ought to be wearing
striped clothes. Let this thing go on
q while longer, and it will be necessary
to turn the cannon at the Battery up
Broadway, plant your Hotchkiss guns
in City Hall Square and sweep your
avenues with grape and canister.
''The decay of public confidence in our
judicial processes is one of the most
startling phenomena of the day. It
means certain resolution of some sort
either the reconstruction of method
peaceably, or a lapse into the chaos of
an anarchy out of which new civiliza-
ton will be built. When all classes lose
confidence in courts, and money and ia-
f1uence and threats rule supreme, the
hour has come for q deluge of blood.
We should ask ourselves seriously width
er we are drifting? We should ask our
selves, as citizenkings, who is, after all,
really responsible for these thingsa'