The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
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ment is practically almost a dead letter in
the Southern States. The South has thirty
nine more votes in the electoral college.
which chooses the President OF the United
States. than 4 would have IL only its white
population were counted. but the white pop
ulation practically monopolizes the votes.
AS in the DAYS OF slavery, the Southern
white men use the negro vote, and by u are
supreme in the councils OF the Union. They
counted three-fifths Of the negroes in the
population basis before emancipation; now
they count them all, but do not let them
vote.
But this is not the chief nor the worst
point. We called attention fortnight since
to the remarkable votes against lynching In
the United States which had been carried
by many great religious bodies at their
meetings i'm the present spring. Mr.. Aked.
in his article. gives some of the facts on
which these striking resolutions were based:
More than one thousand men and women,
Mr. Aked says have been lynched I'm the
United States during the last ten years"
Even New York and Pennsylvania have SUI
fered mobs to murder blacks within their
borders, and have made no efforts TO pun
ish the lynchers.
negoes murdered by the mob: in 1892 there
were 100 Last year the number must have
reached 2Oe. In South Carolina last year there
were thirteen lynchings, in Georgia, six
teen; in Alabama, twenty-seven. The afro
cities perpetrated during the present year
Justify the opinion that IL the remaining
eight months maintain the record of the
opening four months of tne year. 1894 VIII
stand out as the worst year. i'm point or
inhitSiS anu ctiiNS AtAt Noe
Of the KukluX."
The representation usually made is that
these persons are criminals, but even IL
they are, they are condemned without trial.
At Jackson. Tenn. a few years since.
negro cook was arrested on the charge OF
numbering her mistress; the mob broke into
the prison, dragged her out to the court
house square. stripped her and hanged her.
IL was afterward proved that the mistress
had been poisoned by her own husband.
Last February, at Crawford. in Georgia.
a negro was seized i'm his cabin by masked
men, stripped and thrashed 10 death. He
was charged with persuading others to
leave their employment. Those he had in
duced 20 leave were his own nephews. A
Stroudsberg, Pa, negro was imprisoned
on a charge Of burglary. The mob burst
into the prison and brought out another
negro and hanged him.
There are far more horrible stories than
these in Mr.. Aked's article, but these Illus
trate sufficiently the anarchic condition OF
these States. Miss Ida Wells. who was ad-
dressing the Democratic Club last night,
has only told one-half of the hideous story.
The colored race in the Southern States OF
the Union is passing through what Miss
Martineau called a martyr age. The Adolf
tionists. of whom she spoke did not suffer
in vain nor will these victims Of mob viO-
lence in the South. The attention OF the
North needs only TO be called 10 the hor-
rors that are being perpetrated in its name
and the people who purged their Nation
from slavery at an almost infinite cost may
be trusted TO wipe out this greater stain.