The Kansas blackman. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1???, 1894-04-27

But the fends grew holder with
each succeeding hanging and now
a Negro is swung into eternity on
the slightest pretext. The burn
ing, or alleged burning Of barn,
was considered sufficient ground
for hanging three Negroes in
Tuscumbia, Ala, Saturday night
and Kidding their dead bodies with
bullets. For being suspected of
assassinating a white man at Mad
ison Parish, Miss, four Negroes
were murdered, one being shot
and three lynched, Saturday night,
and it is daily expected that at
least four more will pay the same
penalty, as they are being hunted
down with blood hounds. And
now comes Kansas, with her boast
ed liberty and equality, and hangs
a Negro because a white woman
says he is one Of the men who
came to rob my house" He is
charged with murder, simply
charged. But the bloodthirsty
fends said chang him. and, as
dispatches said "the citizens gen
orally appeard apathetic and little
attempt was made to assist the
officers" so he was hung without
any semblance of trial. When this
is looked at as the record of but
thirty-six hours, the situation be
comes at once grave and sad.
Well may the Negro ask does
Justice sleep, and is the conscience
of the American people forever
dead. When these outrages are
permitted without opposition, in
all parts of the country, and nc
effort is made to apprehend these
halt-civilized brutes; when the eal
of the law is stopped and the eye
of Justice is blinded by an Unsuitable
desire to crush out the Negro:
when mans inhumanity to man is
felt by the Negro both north and
south; when the plaintive plea fol
mercy is hushed by the gurgling
of death in the throat and the echo
of a prayer for justice is borne
away by the report of the Win
chester and the innocent Negro is
murdered without law; when reas
on is thrown back and brutality
and carnage is given the scePtre.
when, here in our own state, the
home of our sainted martyr Of the
civil war, Negro is hanged il
broad daylight and not voice t.
protest, well may we view The
situation with alarm and seriously
consider our condition.
We do not excuse vice or palli
ate crime. We believe that thC
criminal should be punished
But we believe in the supremacy
of the law. We have waited fo,
years for Justice. We have prayed
for fair play. We have PLEADED
for mercy. But all in vain. Th'
hand of the white man is agains
the Negro. The prejudice, instead
of decreasing as we get farther anC
farther from the curse of slavery
seems to grow and grow until /
stands as an insurmountable bar
rier between the Negro and th(
rights of the true American citizen
Will the people of Kansas len(
their silent encouragement to thi
monster skeleton of slaverv, 0.
will they seek to make PREPARATION
by bringing these human tiends tt
the gallows! The Negroes o
Kansas await with bated breatl
the action. But God is not dead
The philosophy Of eternal justice
tells us that a reckoning day mus
come and who will be able to stanC
with his brothers blood on hi:
hand. The Negro will not forever
remain passive under such outrage
but some, day, with knowledge
that there is noiustice for him, ht
will rise up in his might, though
small, and the wrongs of the pas
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