Richmond planet., 1895-01-12
EDITOR McDONALD's GLOWING
TRIBUTE.
He Speaks Boldly OF the Action Of the
Editor OF the Planet-The Impres.
sion Produced Upon q Mind In Tex
asa Splendid Production.


sion Produced Upon Mind In Tex
asa Splendid Production.
The following letter which has
been received by Us has created upon
our mind q profound impression,
and caused us to wonder II by the
many thousands who have from
week to week perused our columns a
like cpluiOn has been formed.
We sppr sciate the t,ibute. We
have endeavOre0 to perform our
duty as God has given US light to
see it, and with a feeling OF exhilar-
alton reinforced by that due humili-
ty which has made our mission q
success, we extend to Editor VIM M.
Mcdonald of the FOrney, Texas
HoRNEr, the freedom of our columns:
FoRNEY, TExAs. Jan. 1, '95.
JOHN MITCHELL, in ESQ
Richmond, Va,
My Good Sir:
A number of Negro weekly
papers each week find their way into
my mail, addressed to the Texas
Hornet" and read the editorials of
them all carefully; and / must say as
my Judgment approves the assertion:
That not Negro paper In America
competes editorially with the PLAN
EFT on It's line Of fight. A sense OF
| justice, an impartial notation OF the
different editorial columns of the
papers Just mentioned force me to
make this statement.
The editorial columns of the PLAN
EFT seem not devoted to the interest
of some ambitious politician who
is for revenue only" but to the con-
6rary is devoted to the best interest
OF the cast-outs, the exiles from
home, the unfortunate, the oppress-
ed, the downtrodden, the fOrlorn
and hopeless. It seems to stand for
justice. equity, order. charity, union,
civilization, liberty and morality
the Fatherhocd of God. and the
brotherhood of men. In fact It takes
a firm STAND for the roses of love
and the vlolets of modesty.
Will. YET BE RATED.
Such noble thoughts grow anC
blossom only In the heart of hero
/ hatter no man, but my good sir
the time is coming when you viii b.
rated at your real worth and tina
by your brain ed heart. Som
times you draw suea. frightful, helm
ous and horrible pictures. o, eucl
bloody, sIckening, and heart-rend
ing deeds you h3unt In our faces
When read these frightful picture
it seems to me sometimes as thoug
/ had suffered ali these things my
! self.
It seems sometimes as though
had stood upon the shore of exile
! and gazed with fearful eyes toward
home and native land; it seams t
I me as though had been staked ou
: upon the sands of the sea, an
' drowned by the inexorabIe, advan,
0 ing tide; as though my nails ha
g been torn from my hands, and int
the bleeding quick needles had bee
thrust; as though my feet had bee
burned by slow fires; as though
. had been chained In the cell of
: dark dungeon where / could breath
}, damp and poisonous afr, and lister
e ened with dying ears for the comm
o footsteps of release; as though I ha
stood upon the scaffold and seen IL
q a glittering axe fall upon me, my ey,
= protruding from their sockets, 10
!. tongue loll out, and blood spurtin
II from broken veins; as though I ha
n been upon the rack and had zee
,s bending above me. the white an
ss black faces of hypocrite judges; 1
though / had been taken from NJ
II u hreside, from my wife and childre
= = taken to the public square, my bod
" riddIeG with bullets; as though ia,
Cts lad been piled about me;
ID though the flames had climbt
1t around my limbs and scorched N
lle eyes to blindness; as though hs
Le been skinned alive and my skin bur
T- 4 ed, and as though my ashes hs
n betn scattered to the four winds
/ the heaven by all the countless Chr
g. tian hands of hate.