Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-12-17
TIE OLD MASTER AND THE SLAVE
THE Richmond. Va. EVENING LEADER
in its issue of the 14th inst. says:

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in its issue of the 14th inst. says:
"The Richmnud PLANET. the Negro
organ in this city, took occasion to say
In a recent issue that the kind feeling
that existed between the slave aud
master in old times has extended even
90 this day and forms the bond OF I'M
ION between certain elemeuis OF the
white aid colored people Of the South
today adding that 1T is not the old
ex. slave owners who stab, shoot and
kill colored people in the South
In reply the fredericksburg Star
aptly remarks nor is it the ex -slaves
who are stabbed shot and allied.
1t is indeed unfortunate that this apt
remark is not susceptible of true aP
pication. Mobs do not consider wheth-
er colored man is an ex -sla7e or
free-bo citizen, for 1t Pn@nix, s. Q
during the recent November race
butchery. ex.slaYss were killed, and u
white man was shot in the neck in an
effort to save the life of faithful black
serv ant.
The EVENING LEADER says:
"The old time Virgins Negro was
we'll raised, was brought up TO be hon.
est and genteel and to respect woman
hood There was hardly Negro man
| in the South who did not fairly wJr-
shin his old mistress and her daughters
anu he would willingly have sacrificed
his life in defense OF their honor. He
took care of them during the war when
the men we're all away and il there was
ever q case OF criminal assault in those
days, we do not recall It."
This is trua staten ant. and the
same conditions prevail throughout the
Southland today. The citiz N of color
born since '65 ia the same as the citizsn
OF a white complexion, born since the
same tins. The poor white man and
the poor colored one are very similar
when not operated upon by the civil
izinr Influences to which we refer.
Both are impolite, careless of dress,
boisterous and in most cases insulting.
Il the case OF the one, you are chart
table; in the case of the other, you are
exacting. The assaulting of women is
not confined to any race in this couu =
try, neither is it q characteristic OF any
people. 1t has existed in all ages OF
the world and even the leading nations
of the world havs not been free from
its concentrating influences in their
conquests in Africa, if reliable re ports
are to be accepted and believed.
Then why attempt to have people be-
lieve that lynching is visited upon the
colored people, in most cases for the
crime of criminal assault.
Another fact must bs apparent to al
who are in position to know; the col
ored people themselves are most Sc
we're against the criminal classes Of
their own race. The only trouble il
that colored culprits are always pun
ished, for crimes against both whit:
and colored persons and white culpritt
are nearly all released, when they VIC
lats the person or take the property OF
an individual OF color.
No, no, innocent persons are lynched
and the persons. who commit the MUIR
ders are not the arts .ocratic ex-slave
owners. The Richmond, Va, DAILY
TIxEs IN its issue of the 11th inst.
said:
"At Monticello, Ga, on Tuesday last
Jake Glover, Negro, who was accused
of being an accomplish OF the Negro
Merriwether who was lyuched on No
Ivember 22i for murder, was himself
swung of into eternity by NIB. A
special dispatch from Monticello says
that Glover's trial took place on Taes.
, day, 'but that nothing being produced
which tended to convict him he wai
discharged from court" whereupor
the mob took him out and lynchet
him."
And in con menting thereon said:
"That is a most shocking story Her,
was q man accused of cri ne and reg
ularly tried by jury which investi
gateo the case. and finding no evidence
against him, discharged the prisone
from custody. Yet in the very face o
: this mob, without any trial whatevs,
! and in utter Disregard OF the law ant
the evidence. deprived this man OF hi
life. We do not understand how sucl
things can be in a Christian land. I
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bance OF justification and in defianc:
and contempt OF the laws OF man and
! the laws of God"
! Do you suppose that ex slave-owner
, were concerned in that deed OF ssvsg
cry? We do not. Neither do we be
lieve the flends paused TO ascertain
; whether or not their victim was an an
. te-bellum or free-born citiz n. TIL,
, Leader concludes:
"The days OF slavery are gone snC
} the Southern people are Renuinei.
|, glad OF it. II the question of SLAYER
, were voted on II the South to-morroV
it wou' be defeated by an ovs rwhelm
lag majority. There is no disposition
to enslsve the Negro or to make hin
perform slavish part in the govern
, m mt. We are perfectly willing t.
treat him with al the respect and con
siderAtiNn that he deserves, but we d.
say tbst if all the Negroes of to- da,
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