The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-01-20
FRIDAY. JANUARY go. 1853.



dew Persecution IN Mississippi.
Ifanything has occurred lately to
make Americans blush with shame
more than an other. it is tho manner in |
which the Jews arc treated down in
Mississippi, According to reports
from Southern newspapers for few
weeks past a systematic effort Is being
made to drive the Jews out of the
,5tate by destroying theirproperty and
making II impossible for them to
carry on business. And who are these
nfafas engaged in this disreputahle
b I? The same class OF white
pf6 that have taken prominent
6rt In stamping out the Republican
ty In that State by bloodshed aud
Fascination.
The usual method is for q company
kof so-called whiteeaps to take posses.
Picn of q plantation, drive away the
bands, sack and burn the store houses
Ind then post up placard reading
pomething like this: This jew place
rs not for sale or rent, but will bo used
hereafter as pasture,
The state OF society that has result
sed in Mississippi from tho tolerance
OF this lawless spirit Is strongly pie
tured in the Mcrlden, Miss, News. In
speaking of tho condition Of society
In Kemper County, it says:
THE reign OF terror is complete.
Able-bodied men, knowing not wiiat
,t,fs I,,tN 4, .trt, -
leave their houses after dark Wood
and water to last through the night
are laid in ere the sha,les OF night lalt.
The doors and shutters are closed and
securely fastened when the evening
lamps are lighted. No one feels In
ciined to venture out after dark for
fear of finding himself target for
aasassins' bullets.
A correspondent of the New Or
leans Times-Democrat writes thus
from Pike county. Miss, in regard to
lawlessness there:
The tawless element seems to be
very strong in numbers and permeates
every neighbcuiIood. They are SO
strong and aggressive that tEey have
succeeded in terroli1lnE the law-abid-
ing citizens and paralyHed all efforts
on their part to stay tie maraEders in
their hiph-bandel course or to brlug
them to Justice
Such stories Of lawlessness would he
hard to believe did they net como
from the dark and bloody ground or
n Mississippi, where tho blood of hun
dreds OF white and black Republicans
still cry from tho ground for justice
and vengeance There are many who
still have vivid recollection OF the
assassination OF Judge Chisholm and
his family. the Matthews family and
Dixon simply because they chose to he
Republicans and Insisted upon the
game rights to themselves accorded to
p ocrats.
his persecution of the jews, how.
iyen 10 only the natural Eresuit of this
immunity given TO crime in that STAT
nor many years past Tho coioroi
element was the first victim OF this
epirit, and finally after twenty years
OF persecution and assassination tie
blacks have been complctely.awed into
submission and disfranchised. The
outrages committed on the negro,
cord of them has been kept Nov
that their submission is complete, the
riess element has turned it's alton.
h to another class Of tho popula
bn and the jew has been singled gu
Ethe viction Of thirst for blood an
outrage. The Philadelphia Press CON
Vomiting upon this dts.racefnt state d
irs in Mississippi, very properl.
s-lis state of n llAls affected a few
lntieS In Miss issiPpi alone, or eve
whole State. il might lie left to il
But, unfortunately, society
closely bouad together III thes
rs TO admit His l.awipeauess i
hbissippt encourages iaWlessntss i
ksyivania, Society attacked u
point is always weakened at ever
Ar point. Tho bucks hlNe Gue
wSI into submission hy crime, All
b same methods are now to be tiie
bon The Jews. Where VIII tho hex
lsault lie! When The Jow bt!ters Q
Middle Ages wero given ire
ling the authorities did not reaiLh
ut they were encouraging Il spirl
sat would lead 10 reEo us and Whe
Mississippi encouraged uHtrases :"
the blacks she did not expect that II
kame element would naXt attack an II
aistrlous class OF whites. But til at
st what the result has teen.
the great Democratic matott!e
my OF tho Southern State, hay
g been built up on the persacutio
BID murder OF eo!ofad and White IL
iblicans, what else can be expaete
VI what We now see III MIB5ieslpP