Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-07-24

gumentRtive side OF his anatomy Is AT
least an inch thick and years seem to
make it more callous to facts and log
io.
But it is to tbs great American peo-
pie so whom we shall appeal. Con in
His. divine wisdom will soon permit
the funeral director to wend his way
into the sanctum Of this moss-beck,
who has so long misrepresented u.s.
from whence he will be carried TO his
final resting place.
What q pity that his associates IN
eternity will in all probability en-
brace those whom he has been against
We know we have people amongst
Us who would be a disgrace to any race
and stigma upon any nation.
But we have too another class who
are laboring, and making an honest
living. They have won the respect
and esteem OF both the white and col
ored neighbors.
This is no time perhaps to indulge
in harsh expressions, but the editor of
the DIsPAToH transcends all bounds.
| We oAC COAACA4AAAh nAOh6 III
our people. What is the DTsPArcH do
ing along this liner
JOHN HOUsEMAN, white, charged
with raping his own daughter was con-
victed in the Henrico County Court
and given ten years in the penitentia-
ry. He never landed in the peniten-
tisry and was subsequently discharg-
ed
A white man from Amelia County is
at present confined in the Richmond
J city jail. he is charged with having
criminally assaulted colored girl in
thesame county. Has the DIsPAToH
condemned either the crime in this
case or the criminal?
, A white man in Surry county brutal
I ly raped twelve-year-old girl during
the absence of her grandmother.
j, Upon her learning of the facts and
accosting him about it, he shot her
? down, fatally woundiDg her.
The county authorities made a show
Of trying to spprehend him, but all ef-
forts in that direction have been sus-
n pended.
e Ton PENN, white, Of Danville, Va,
+? brutality raped LIMA HANNA, a colored
o girl. The crime was one of the most
q atrocious in the criminal annals of
this country. The girls life was de-
n spared Of. Although white and color
Is ed people condemned the fiendish act,
i: PENN was tried in the Corporation
IT4v~k Of n VI oil
% Did the editor of the DISPATCH read
lecture to the white people about
n the usual crime"
W We hate hypocrisy, we dislike Negro
!. haters and we are Disguised with
e these whited sepulchres essaying to
It advise our respectable colored people
n as to what course to pursue.
" JESUS CHRIST when on earth could
not stand sponsor for the good beha-
vior of the Jews, neither for the Gen
tiles, nor finally for His own disciples,
as Judas betrayed Him.
We cannot expect to be responsible
. for the devils who prey upon virtue OF
the scoundrels who commit crime
y against the community.
- The RICHMOND DIsPAFCH endeavors
> to arouse white people against the
u kind-hearted, patient colored man. II
: will never entirely succeed in its mis-
Ie sion.
, Thank Con there is bond of union
L and thousands of liberal minded white
10 men are as out spoken in their denun.
g citation of this kind of journalism al
are we who are suffering from its mis-
u representations.
is Crime is not confined to any race o.
"a people.
One more case please: MosBY MEL
U TON, (white), brutally kicked Mrs
e. HANNAH GREEN, colored. She wa
" zen ciente" and the blows killed hel
10 unborn babe, crushing it's skull ant
producing a premature birth.
MELTON was tried. The crime wa
n admitted. He was given thirty day
a, in Jail and fnsd ($5) five dollars. H,
lie lives in Henrico County, and the cas-,
% was decided in the court for that sec
N tion.
% The DIsPATcK knew of these facts
WAAo UiO 10 say CONCERNING Gn0m
"Silence here forevermore."
III But when the case of JOE FIFE wa
IS under way, it fastened to write an ed
ut itorial in order to forestan the action
tn of the jury.
or The law in this city is amply able t.
protect. 1t has shown it's willingness
s! 20 punish. Why then this excitement
w Why this arraigning of race for tn
alleged act Of an individual.
ne We have advised our people to b
industrious, honest, upright, moral
te religious and they are generally fol
TX lowing this advice.
rs When such material as the editor O
the DISPATCH attempts to advise u
r. we call halt and direct his attention
I'd to the ballot-box suffers. the thieves
to the vapists, the murderers, the de
in spoilers of colored mems homes.
We are raising ourselves just nov
sn and beg our contemporary to exercis
" itself and do its perspiring in dealin,
at with the deprayed of its own race O
people. Lynch-law must goI
is WORKED TO THE FRONT.