The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-07-14
ioveth or maketh q lie, and SO I was
wondering where the Beechers are now.

but the trouble Is they won't stop. |
Almost every mail lrings me news /,
papers with marked articles denourc- |
ing US aud threatening US for this !
iynchlng business, and they all .ity ,
the fate of Sam Hose and weep ove-
that incendiary s~coundrel whom they
call that good, inoffensiye Old preacher
Lige Strickland. My the Lord have
merc- upon Us and keep Us calm and
serene. 3 my prayer. NV last comes
from The Humane Alliance, of New
York, and says: "Three thousand
demons turned loose upon q helpless
prisoner. They cut off his ears and
fingers and plucked out his eve balls
aud plunged knives into his body.
His liver and heart " ere cntinto small
pieces and sold to the highess bidder.
Not long before the mob took Zine
negro prisoners from the guard and
shot them all to death save one. That
one was Sam Hose, who escaped.
Crawford WAS one of the mob aud Sam
Hose was only avenging the death of
his friends when he killed Crawford
After burning Sam Hose the mob
found an old honored negro preacher
named Strickland and lynched him"
Then comes the usual anathema, and
the article winds up with the assertion
that race conflict is inevitable.
And o comes the Atlanta Age and
Wesley Pleger. the mulstto editor,
says, in answer to j. Pope Brown, "the
negro is ready to go. There is not
u negro in ten that will not gladly
welcome an opportunity t. go. The
negro longs t. get away from Pope
Brown and his iIk. He wants the An
glo-Sa2on ace to buy q piece Of
/ ground from China or anywhere that
will enable him to leave Pope Brown
and others who have robbed him for
years. We are anxious to go-we ar
ready. This crowd brought olr moth
ers here and debanched them and out
ragged them till We find 5000 900 Of
mnlattoes, kinsmen of this man Brown
the children Of Israel from Egypt, and
harden not yonr heart when we get
ready to leave"
Then he copies Joseph Henderson's
reply to Governor Northen,
which contains more lies to the square
inch than anything [ have yet seen.
Henderson belongs to the Thomas
~Fortune-Ida Wells gang, who are max
ing big money out Of Yankee hate and
rredulity. He made his speech in
Boston and said be was a Georgian and
his mother obeyed the slave-master's
whip and felt the bloodhound's bite
What Il liar. but he has made those
Yankees believe it. In all my expert
ence l never knew a negro woman tC
run away, nor did [ ever hear of q
bloodhound biting man or m
Sometimes bad negro men ran away
and we're properly punished when they
came back, or were taken up AM
brought back. l never heard OF hal
u dosen runaways In our county
AS q rule all negroes were humanel'
treated. Every master knew that l
impaired their value to treat then
otherwise. Percy Gregg declares, il
his history, that the Southern Slave
we're the best treated servants th'
world ever saw. The young and tn
ola were cared for kindly and n1ec
tionately by master aud mistress. an
their condition was infinitely bette
, than the poor Of England or German,
or Of the Northern United States
Pledser gives Hendc.son's speech |
large headlines and calls it "Plai
] Words" The article Is mallgnas'
m~endacious and incendiary, aud TIL
t man Pledger conld not rue his pape
8 in Wilmington nor in any countr
a town in Georgiu. 1t IS a weekly mel