Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-03-03


accredited TO General I. j. MORGAN
With reference to his recent tour IN
the South and quotes from ZION il
HERALD as follows: a
"Mr. Cook introduced General Morgan:
late of the Indian Bureau. lie spoke Oh
the excuses for lynching, and after an eN-
tended tour in the South, had come 70 !
the conclusion that the sheer cause was
nreiudice. He gave an instance within I
his own knowledge. A teacher IN col
ored school, a peaceable man was taken
out and severely beaten. The sole rea
son given in the community for the act
was that ne was teacher IN the pigger
school and a preacher to niggers.
The RELIGIOUS HERALD says:
"Always and everywhere We have de-
nounced 1ynching as lawiess, Outra-
geous and disgraceful. There Is no pos
sible justification for such lawiessness IN |
any organized society. But TO say. rs
Gen. Morgan is reported TO have saiu,
that in the South the sheer cause OF
llvnchipg is 'prejudice'-by which ne
means race preiudice-is wholly untrue
and unjust Everybody who has looked
into the matter at all, and who II not
blinded bv dislike and distrust OF the
South. knows that there are many ana
various causes Tor these outbreaks OF
llawlessness. Race feeling may frequent
ly be among them. but is wholly wrong
T to say it is the sheer cause, or even the
[ main cause
We regret that we cannot agree
with our contemporary in it's conelu-
sions
We would to God that thu facts
J. which we have in our possession
would Justify us in having such an
y opinion. trace prejudice is not the
Is main cause, what Is ?
lie Would you argue that the crimes
r committee distinctively by coloreC
men produced the feeling agains
them ? For if you do, we have bu
y. to turn to the record and show yo'
ne crimes, even more heiDous commit
TO ted by white men aud for which the.
Is received lesser punishment, and whe
coIored persons we're their victim
u they were not punished at all.
ne Would you argue that the trea'
Ie- ment accorded them is due to the
ne individual condition
no Because if you do, we can cite 20
IL cases where colored men IN moderat
circumstances, charged with erin
nls had been severely punished Will
DE white ones charged with even giea
pit er ones were allowed to go scot fire
-
OF 1t will not seriously Inconvenience
"a to Law before the public a string
facts that will serve not only to ca
lch nv conviction to the minds of t
wavering but cause indignati'
us against the perpetrators OF SUI
OIL heinous crimes.
We beg leave TO state that in I
uc- catalogue of crime charged again
ap' the colored man there appears
so case which has not been at les
rise eaualled or exceeded by some OIL
IN committed by some white man. 1
the last named race in this as In otl
things perhaps, keep in the lead.
What caused the lynchiDg 60
81 cs5ls.ed msp,, WnLs LAW a,zrssH
ior Roanoke He was charged "
criminally assaulting white
ems, and was afterwards found to be
men men nocent, which was iD keeping "
man his dying declarations as they v
'E numbering him.
Ines What caused the failure TO Lyme
wen white man, FRALAIN who
sSs, charged with crlminally assaultir
p: Be white girl at Roanoke, Va? II
weth alive and well today, having
,n int been found innocent OF the cha
ances Here are two cases which occu
- - i.u In this state.
artist What caused the dissimilarlt
I'd an the punishment ? Ii not race p
1 un0' dice, what was iii?
= IN In the lynching of five cOlOred
~ n at Richards, Va, last year cha
with the attempted murder of
white men who are alive and
what was it that caused their
t1CE. der -?
Would five white men have
stiring ha1 ged for the attempted MUIR
made two white men Would they
been hanged for similar erin
ration on two colored men?
To be palmer, would five CO
to cri- men have been treated in this
o him, ner for a crime perpetrated upo
cord as cololed men If they would
ltion IN then what caused their murdC
lily dis was not race prejudice
i'm. We need not cite instances
Service ov,stenca of this race prejudice
ed HIM idenced by the verdicts Of iurit
I'd sub And yet in localities where
iticism. outrages generally occur, the j.
Ofhce, 1T white anG democrat, the
he law, white and the members are all
der this Gratis, the prosecuting attoI
Nepubh- white, and democrat, and tn
radical sci for the defense swhite and
to who crat. We use the word "dem
aside from it's political signi
swoRTH, as meaning opposed to the CT
"Cleve- political equality of the cOlore
nd "Un- The RELIGIOUS HERALD sh'