The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-25
BRUTAL NATIVE STOCK.

The action of the native born and bred
inhabitants of Long Island, in refusing to
permit the unfortunate cabin passengers
of the Normannia to land at Fire island
until they were coerced to do 50 by tho
military authority of the state, was most
inhuman. These brutal Long Islanders
had not even the excuse that they feared
the cholera; they knew that there was no
sort of danger Of cholera from landing
these cabin passengers. The fact is, Islip
has had . good share Of its taxes paid for
some years by the Fire Island hotel, and
when the state becomes its proprietor they
lose good deal. It is this sordid motive
which was at the bottom Of the inhuman-
ity of the Islip people, who refused food
and shelter to the wretched passengers
and attempted by mob force to prevent
their landing on state property.
These Long Islanders claimed great
credit to themselves for not setting FIRE to
the hotel on Fire island, since Eve had
possession of it for hours and might have
fred it If We had felt like it." They re-
fused to allow even the infirm and ill
women and children to be landed, yelling.
"Get out Of herei You are going to spoil
our trade" It was not merely an insur-
rection Of ignorant clam-diggers, fisher
men and oyster dredgers panic-stricken by
stupid fears OF cholera, for the mob In
Guided among ITS leaders number Of men
of intelligence. lawyers and doctors, who
knew perfectly well that the released
passengers were just as healthy A. the mob
that insulted and despitefully used them.
Even assuming that the mob was in
dread of cholera, it is q pitiable spectacle
to see intelligent men so possessed by q
cowardly fear of death as to deprive them
utterly Of all humane sympathies for the
rights and sufferings Of their fellow men.
It was not the fault Of the Long Island
savages that the passengers did not perish,
for they refused food for the hungry, sick,
sleepless and storm-beaten women and
children. It was not the fear Of the
choera half 30 much a. 1t was . stupid
attempt on the part of the mob to prevent
the occupation Of Fire island by the state to
the possible injury Of the business" and
property of Islip; it was the American"
hog running frantically to and fro on the
shores of Long Island.
These Long Islanders are of pure an
cient American lineage, but they are de-
generate Americans, nevertheless. The
native population on Long Island and Jer-
sey Shore is notorious for its exceed.
ingly sordid and selfish character. They
are dull, heavy, dissolute. stupid folk,
but exceedingly penurious and mean
souled in all their dealings. They are de-
generate whites, more prosperous but not
less brutal than the degenerate Yankees
that are found in some of the small
hill towns Of the Green mountains in Yer
mont, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
These Long Island shore people are prone
to acts Of mob law; they are of the same
quality as the fellows who compose the
ruffian white Cap" organizations in In
diana: they tarred and feathered man
named Kelsey some years ago, then mu
tilated him frightfully and probably
murdered him, as the unfortunate man
has never been seen since the assault
OF the miserable and repulsive native
white population that affiict Jersey Shore,
Long Island shore and the small hill
towns of New England 1t is sufficient to
say that they are not much above the
CRACKERS" of Georgia or "the conchs" of
Florida, or the rudest mountaineers OF
Tennessee, West Virginia. Kentucky and
North Carolina in intelligence, and are
inferior to them in morality and humanity.