The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-13
No Chance for an Outrage" Issue.

No Chance for an Outrage" Issue.
1t is hardly probable that the Republican
party will attempt to make alleged southern
outrages an issue in the presidential cam
paign. Several black men have been
lynched 10 the north recently. and the north
ern papers are beginning to admit that
black criminals are just as likely to be
lyncheS in the north as in the south for sim
liar crimes.
All the talk to the effect that the blacks
are not we'll treated in the south is the purest
nonsense. AS stated in the MORNING News
several days ago, the best evidence that they
are well treated is the fact that they remain
in the SOUTH They do not emigrate 60 the
north. few of them have gone to Kansas
and Oklahoma, but they would be glad
enough to get back to their old homes.
| Why do the blacks remain in the south ?
The reason is plain. They have more privi-
| leges IN the south than in the north and
they receive better treatment. 1t may be
| that in one or two respects in the north
privileges that are denied to them in the
south are granted them, but these privi-
| leges, for certain well-known reasons, are
not highly appreciated.
Every intelligent colored man knows that
all this talk about the i'll treatment of the
blacks in the south is without foundation.
Indeed, there is no difference so far as the
laws and their administration are concerned,
between the treatment receiv ed by the blacks
and that received by the whites.
There are blacks who are shown very lit
tie consideration. They are worthless vsga-
bonds who wander from place to place, and
who do not hesitate to commit the most
terrible crimes They are the ones who
commit murder and rape and they are the
ones who are lynched. The intelligent and
respectable blacks do not protest against
these lynchings In many cases they are
ready to assist in lynching the criminals.
Only few days ago in Mississippi black
men attempted to lynch black tramp for
an outrageous attack upon a black woman.
aud last week, in Arkansas. crowd of
black men nearly succeeded in lynching
black murderer. In Monroe county, in this
state, last Wednesday a black man was
beaten almost TO death by men of his color
for having made an indecent assault upon a
colored woman.
Last Sunday, in Scriven county, this
state, Mr.. Upchurch was murdered by one
of these vagabond negroes. AS he lay
mortally wounded be had sufficient strength
to draw bis pistol and kill his murderer,
thus, perhaps, preventing lynching.
These worthless black vagabonds haven't
single redeeming virtue. They are cruel
and oowardly. They prey upon the COM
munities IN which they live. They get
their living by stealing commit murder if
anything is to be gained by the crime aud
attempt to commit rape whenever a favor
able opportunity presents itself. Is it
strange, therefore, that some Of them are
lynchedf When one of them is caught
after having committed a particularly
atrocious crime, the desire to punish him
summarily is sometimes too strong to be
resisted. And yet very few of such crimi-
mails are lynched In comparison with the
number of them
The vast majority OF the blacks are re-
spectacle and law-abiding citizens. They
ere satisfied with the treatment they re-
ceive. They are not interfered with in any
manner, and are at liberty to improve their
material. moral and intellectual condition
in any way they please. They make no
complaint. There is nothing of which
they can reasonably complain.
A great mistake that is being made by
the northern press in commenting on lynch
ings in the south is the failure to point out
that the negroes who are ynohed come from
vagabond class. They create the impress.
sion that the property and lives of law
abiding blacks in the south are not safe, and
that the lYnchings are the result of feel
ing Of hostility to the blacks. Nothing
could be farther from the truth.
Mob violence is wrong, OF course, and,
throughout the south, is condemned, but as
there is such violence it is better that the
truth with regard to it should be under
stood.