The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-12-01

i
otism was their only motive for they
owned no negroes whose slavery was
in peril. And besides, red-handed
swaggcring Williams do not fight.
They are towards. ] remember but
two or three town bullies in Rome
" hen we were making up our compa-
nies, but they didn't JOIN us. They
dodged tile war. They had no influ-
ence in bringing abontthe war-and
took no part in the perilous conflict.
They never do.
Who the bullies are that now have
their ''last hold" as Mr.. Page says,
we are at a loss to know.
II he means the lynchers, we must
defend them from everything but
lynching. They are neither red-hand-
ed, deformed nor staggering. They
are not Williams. They do not pre-
tend to the traditions Of the old
Southern gentleman. They are not
class. They are a community. You
cannot go into any town or settle
ment and pick them out and say this
man will be Il lyncher when the hor-
rlble crime is committed.
Mr.. Page processes the highest re-
spect for Bishop Haygood, as every
body does who knows him, and yet
does not seem to respect his assertion
that "the Southern people are not
cruel and never were. They are u
kind hearted people good to one an
other and to all men. They are kind
to dumb brutes. Whatever may be
true or false about them, they were
never cruel-hearted. They were kind
to the negroes when they were slayes,
they are kind to them nOw."
If this be true, then where are the
bullies that these sweeping reproaches
are hurled at, for ii was this same
kind-hearted class Of people who
burned the negro at Paris !; the same
kind who slew the negro rapist at
Port Jeryis, in New York the same
kind that have avenged the purity OF
woman In Illinois and Michigan. The
same red-handed, staggering Williams
The only difference between the
| North aud South is that the female
victims are hundreds to every single
one at the north. Over 500 have beer
recorded in the last twelve months
The human nature that prompts the
lynching Is the same everywhere
everywhere where the innocence and
virtue Of woman is respected, and lie,
me add the greater the respect tht
more speedy and terrible the punish.
ment. Bishop Haygood says "tht
South has always been peculiarly
jealous Of its women" Mr.. Pagt
throws a sneer at this when he says
it is the staggering william who struts
around and leads mobs to avenge 'Oul
women" Perhaps he is not aware
that the marriage is much more Sd
cred at the South than at the North
especially among our common people
who have not much else to live tor be
side wife and children. Divorces ar
, very rare in our courts, especial.
among our country people, the yer.
people who compose the mobs wheI
the outrage happens, but who in al
other things are the best citizens TIN
world ever saw. Compare them Will
the North for obedience to law ant
order and for every white convict TO
felony In Georgia will show ten il
Massachusetts, and twelve In New
York in an equal number Of popula
tiOn. These are the tables from til,
last census. We have but two whit
female convicts In Georgia. Ther
are hundi eds in New York. And tn
: State board of charities of Massacllr
= setts in summing up their report use
this language, "And now we find tina
!. there is hardly country in the civi
' lied world where atr0cious and fla
), grant crime Is SO common as In Mas
!, saChusetts."
Now am not arralgning an
Northern State for its sad condition
q but l am defending the South frOI
n slander0us assertions concerning 1t
4 morals-not only its morals but II
,. good, Industrious citizenship. Fo
"a every paupcr and every tramp tina
). can be found in Georgia will shO'
ri you fifty In New York and nearly a
n many IN any northern State. II idl'
- ness is the parent Of vice, as Be
70 Franklin said, then our people al
: not idle, nor Is ''oyer the hills to til
poorhousc" any song Of ours.
d No, the red-handcd staggering bu
N lies domicilcd among our people, bt
If woe be to the negro or white man VII
IS violates the sancity Of the househds|
70 How low down this sancity can fall
i. know not, but Mr.. Stetson, the State
q man Of Massachusetts, says In his r
Df port, "Within the last ten years d
=. vorces have increased three times
It fast as marriages, not counting tt
Is separations that do not get into Il
m courts, and now 1t 10 stated that nj
a. more the eight families In ten ha'
rs preserved the honor and purity Of Il
" marriage relation"
IT This Is enough on the subject
10 that myth called the Southern bull
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