The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-08-28
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kansas aud Texas, aud horrible scene'
have been enacted In those States I,
the last few days. The worst feature
OF lhese tragedies Is The fact that thoy
we're moi all the results Of tho crime
which Is now almost inevitably fol
lowed by death at the hands ~ \ m b
but ia more than Que instance were
the sequel OF murders, even the sc-
completes or companions ut lh" crimi.
ual sharing his fate.
lIIs All ugly topic, II ia = subject
before which the mind stands aghast,
aud thoughtful men do not care 70
prophecy what l.. will lead to. If II
continues Gud il is daily ipcreasing)
it mast, to be perfectly plain, lead
sooner or later TO a war Of extermna.
ton. It is perfectly monstrOuS that
such q condition should exist, and
that no woman should be safe FIR an
hour unless guarded by shotgun.
Such a state of affairs as that cannot
be expected II continue. Nothing
like it was ever heard OF before In the
history OF suy nation. 1t is perfectly
natural that the crime of rape, espec-
tally when combined with murder, as
is generally the case, should arouse q
perfectly uncomfortable fury and call
for the immediate death Of the perpe-
traitor. Southern newspapers have
almost ceased even TO deplore or apol-
ogise for lynchIngs. But when a ne
gro murderer, and even bis possibly
innocent companions, are hunted down
aud lynched like wild beasts, It argues
something beside the legitimate ven-
geSnce which follows the crime of
rape. 1t looks ike a vehement race
hatred and determination to crafty it
in defiance of all laws 10 the contrary.
In short, is the time coming when the
negroes will either be killed or driven
entirely out of the country2
The class of laboring whites-peo-
pie who are unable to hire tho negroes
as their servants or tenants, and who
are unwilling to work beside them,
are the men who cannot get along
with them, and who will eventually
drive them out, either by peaceful
means, or, as now appears possible, by
actual destruction. In the river tier
Of Delta counties we have few white
people of this class. There is no CON-
petition, and consequently no friction,
between the races. In Warrington
county there are about $4,000 people.
IF this number 1t is safe to say there
IRE not more than ten or twelve thou
and whites. The land is divided ill.,
o immense plantations, and frequent.
y one white family will be surround
d for miles by negroes only; yet, In
his remarkable condition, and with
he tremendous disparity in numbers,
here has never been single case o:
ssaut on white woman by 4 negro
u the history of the county, and never,
ven in 1873, has there been clash, q
race war" or any evidence of enmity
etween whites and blacks. The re-
atoms between them, and the conduct
f both, resemble, in a measure, the
which existed before the
7ar, aud will probably continue un-
hanged as long as the white popula.
on retains Its present character. But {
7hen the south becomes generally {
copied with a laboring class of whito !
eople for whom the negroes enter. a..
lin no awe or traditional respect, and
-ho have no means OF utilizing negro 3
Dor, the catastrophe must come, and 8
lie doom Of the inferior race is indi- '
tied by the occurrences which are
DIV daily darkening and smSaring
lie columns of the press.