Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-04-09

Is brains bespattered over the person
IF that sanity form who had 50 often
IullOd it to sleep and three Of the other
children were horribly wounded. Re-
wards were offered by the national
governments for the murderers and the
fends who perpetrated the outrage
laughed.
Up to this writing, President McKIN-
LEY has made no recommendation for
an appropriation OF either twenty-five
or fifty thousand dollars for the family |
Of this murdered official.
Condolences and empty expressions
abound, but material help is not offer
ed and around and about Washington
all talk of the relief of this mans fam
lily has been suspended.
When q German half-breed citizen in
Haiti was imprisoned by the latter
government for thirty days an indem-
nifty of twenty-five thousand dollars
in gold was demanded by the German
Consul. General and enforced at the
mouth Of a cannon.
When Consul-Gsneral LEE reported
that American citizens in CUBA were
suffering Congress voted at once an
appropriation of fifty thousand dollars.
This was so much that the Consul Gen.
eral could not find way TO spend it,
and asked permission to establish al
orphanage in a foreign island in an
other CLINE.
Mark you, those so-called Americans
in CUBA were naturalized. and could
not speak word of English. and many
of them possibly have never seen the
! shores Of this country.
When an appropriation of fifty mil
lion dollars was asked for to satisfy
! public clamor and to enable US to in
terfere within the confines OF the ter
; ritory Of a friendly power, Democrat
E and Republicans, Populists and Silver
! ties stumbled over themselves" il
the effort to comply with the reques
{ and the money was voted.
r Wsr-ships have been purchased
!; troops modified, men enlisted ant
t ammunition bought.
|
7 and colored troops are to be forwards
= to do and die in a foreign land.
War with its attendant evils vii
D involve US in struggle, from the ei
y feet of which it will take years TO re
10 cuperate.
re The colored brother, as usual is for
a gotten, save when it comes to usin
him in an engagement OF this kline
i,e he built the breast works for th
ID southern armies, nursed the whit
men on the battlefield, protected tn
g wives and children Of the planters an
; won for himself the lasting gratitud
= CT those whom he benefited an
- around whose bedside he prayed.
: He fought for the northern armie
he directed them through the tract
= less wastes of the Wilderness, handle
he the musket. and used the bayonet in
warfare which was doubtful as it ws
stubborn.
j. His blood flowed in steady stream
and crimsoned the tides. From Bull
Run, the second to Gettsburg, froi
70 Cold Harbor to Appomattox. he fougl
) fox a glorious heritage snd had b
d name emblazoned upon the roster
the grandest achievements of til
northern armies.
D. Port Hudson, Fort Wagner. Oluste
nt Richmond and Petersburg were SON
~ of the battles with which his name WI
G. associated.
Sc But now, no appropriation is mad
tor him. Fifty millions for the islar
7. OF CUBA, with the possibility of te
"A times as -m1ch in prolonged war al
the colored brother is forgotten. b
it will not be always thus.
The conscience OF the nation mu
sooner or later be awakened, and v
"A think we see in the reddenDing we
10 across which have been written in Il
= rid characters the symbolic characte
war, q harbinger of hope the sev'
colors of the rainbow of promise, viii,
tell US that other times will come al
=. with it the recognition of 1.-THE broth
,ls in black" whose appeals for iusti
~ have gone so long unanswered.