The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-25
rxrrrsurros roE wEose-Dorso.


IN 1875 the white voters Of Mississippi or
ganized shotgun canvass and murdered
the blacks 90 rapidly that the Republican
majority Of 40 600 was extinguished. This
terrorism was justified On the ground that
these bloody revolutionary proceedings
were necessary TO protect society and
property against ths supremacy OF
the ignorant black vote. The
sorthern Democratic press condoned
this great crime on the ground that civil
lied government couId only be secured by
the Mississippi plan" This 'plan" has
now been on trial for eighteen years. and
IL seems 70 haze been about as successful
- the ancient Tory plan OF governing Ire
land from IDS down to 1852 The Irish
peasant vas regarded and treated a.
Wild beast by the English government;
and the English landlords of Ireland ruled
the Irish peassntry about as bru-
tally, il not quite as successfully.
with the bayonet. as the Mississippi ku-
kiux did the negro with the shotgun.
The hangings. shootings. burnings and
other heroic measures OF tyranny did not
quiet Ireland. for never was Ireland more
turbulent than IL was during this period of
Tory bayonet rule welded by the hands
Of Irish Tory landlords.
Today Mississippi Is suffering retribution
for her stupid crime Of 1875 A corre-
spondent Of the Atlanta Constitation writes
as follows:
sIn every county In Southeast Missis-
-. Il -
equipped white cap bands. Neither life
nor property Il safe in such neighborhoods.
Ii is estimated that there have been no
less than a hundred cold-blooded assassI-
nations committed in this state directed
by the white caps within the last twelve
months. The criminal court calendars ara
crowded with cases, but q conviction is
rare. for the reason that there can be no
witnesses found who will testify against
them. They have forced all neighbors not
la harmony with them to move out under
the penalty OF death, and when negro
happens TO incur theft enmity nothing
short of death will satisfy them. Officers
Of tho law are powerless."
Mississippi is beginning to find out the
dircfnl consequences of the notification of
the rights OF man and the reign of Law
which she has enforced for nearly twenty
years. When the negro was q slave he
was black fox that Bit his way into his
masters bowels and destroyed him. The
master suffered more by slavery than did
the slave. Sotoday the worst sufferer from
the iawiess suppression of the negro vote
Is the white man who executed that crime.
II whites may murder and terrorize their
black fellow-citiSens In defiance of law.
then other whites will be sure in time to
murder and terrorize without distinction
Of color.
The Mississippi white cap" Of today Is
the natural outgrowth of generation of
mob law. The whites who eighteen years
ago mobbed the blacks have educated q
generation that does not hesitate to mob
whites or blacks. The South begins to
see ii. The Charleston News and Courier
recently said:
"we are appalled, at thinking that the
rising generation of white men at the
| South is being taught that elections are to
be carried, not by the honest vote of fair
| majority, out b. rank intimidation, sub
terfuge and evasion"
you mus; stop this ballot-box stealing,
force and fraud, or the title to your prop
erty will not be worth the paper it is
written on" said Judge Cunningham in
directing the grand jury to discover and
indict the murderers of Clayton.