The Forrest City times., 1892-02-19
WHERE CRIME ABouSps.

The Little Rock Democrat is correct in the following concerning the danger emanating from the massing of the ne- gro population within restricted bounds and isolated communities. It IS in these thickly populated colorod dis tricts that murder, arson and rape hold high carnival. The telegraph teens with hideous stories of almost daily outrage. and these outrages increase instead of diminishing. There appears to be no remedy save in the migration of the negroes, or the introduction Of sufficient white population to re- strain them from the gratifying Of their savage passions. The citizens of Miller county are securing the woods for a black fiend who last week raped q helpless white woman; Pine Blnf witnessed double lynching of negroes Sunday night in revenge for the brutal murder and robbery of an old and prominent business man on the streets of that city; at Keo, Lonoke county. last week three negroes, one of them woman, were killed for shooting an officer who attempted to make an ar rest; few weeks ago the little town of Linwo0d was terrorized by negroes, who stole freight, burned the depot and drove the agent into the woods, burned and burglarized business houses, gins, etc. Those criminals were arrested, however, and, together with their two white leaders, are now serving terms of from one to twenty one years in the penitentiary. A short time ago a negro was lynched near Warren. Bradley county, for the at tempted rape of a l4-year-old white girl, and there is negro brute in Lee county jail for outraging little girl of his own color near LaGrange. These arc unpleasant things to publish, but they are facts, and must be dealt with as any other henious facts are dealt with. There must be change from this state of affairs-and the change must come speedily. Where the negro population does not too largely pre- ponderate the colored people make gUod, law abiding citizens, industrious and desirable; but in localities where they are in ar overwhelming majority they seem to lose all respect for the laws of God and man and degenerate into savages. The following editorial in the Democrat points a remedy:
 It is from the thickly populated black districts that the horrible sto- ries of Outrages, assassinations and lynchings come. And it seems that they are coming of late with greater frequency and more horrible circum- stance than ever. It will always be 30 while these dense masses of black ignorance and crime exist in our midst. How much they have injured the good name and reputation of the state; how they have retarded it's growth and progress, kept ont capital and men of enterprise we can never estimate. If the black districts were the only sufferers the case would be deplorable enough, but all Arkansas must suffer on account of them. Still there are men, men who are sensible On all other subjects, who will calmly tell yon that it will be the ruin of the country if any considerable part of this black population should remove from the state. The Democrat is more firm ly convinced than ever that the re- moval, this spring, of 100000 negroes from Arkansas to Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and the Indian Territory, would be the greatest blessing that could bc bestowed upon the state. It would be blessing to whites and blacks alike.