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DENIsoN, IOWA, NOVEMBER "A. 1899.
More Southern Outrages.
Austin, Texas. November sl.-Today Gov.
Sayers was in receipt of a telegram from the
commanding officer. OF the United States
nation that there had been a race riot at
Rio Grande City last night between the fed
eral negro troops stationed there and the
this telegram was. received another came
from the county judge at that place and
they are somewhat confusing.
Gen. McKibben, telegraphs that the report
he received from the commander at Fort
Ringgold, near Rio Grande City, states that
at o'clock, when the citizens of the town
advanced on the fort
FIRED UPON THE GUARD
The guard returned the fire and the entire
garrison was at once called to arms. The
and the soldiers returned the fire and finally
had to bring their Calling guns into play to
disperse the attackers; The commander
states that he fears further trouble and asks
for more troops.
For still another time southern peo-
pie have fired upon the flag of their
country. La Texas there is little
frontier fort garrisoned by a company
of United States soldiers. They are
colored soldiers and therein lies their
chief offense. just think of it, 5000
American citizens attack at dusk, an
American fort, flying the American
flag and manned by American soldiers
Thank God, the soldiers repulsed the
attack, thank God, that the white off
GERS ordered the Calling gun turned on
the mob. 1t is now time for their
sympathizers in the north to begin to
clamor, time for southern lecturers to
pirate of southern loyalty and christian.
ity. Can you imagine such an uprising
in any notnern citsp We will probably
be told that the United states does
wrong to station colored troops in the
south. 1t was not a mistake to send
them to Cuba whore they fought with
such great bravery, only to be insulted
by southern patriots (yJ on their return,
IL is not d mistake to send them to the
Philippines, but they should not be sent
to the south lest they offend the tender
feelings Of the 'best citizens OF the
southern states. Damnable outrage,
crime abhorrent and unspeakable,
every star in the dag cries out for VEN
geance, every drop of Union blood shed
on southern battlefields that all the
people might be free, cries in rebuke to
1.-THE stolid and Indifferent north.
| In 1851, when the flag of Sumter was
fred upon q thrill went through the
north like an electric shock, but we are
i grown used to it now, used to seeing
officers of the United States shot down
lncold blood, used to seeing the Old
blue uniform insultef' because the
breast that wears it in the battle is d
breast oof bronze; used TO seeing oul
constitution trampled under foot by
southern planters; used, Oh! God, tc
seeing the stars and stripes fired upon
by the offspring Of that same reba
horde. sl44 sA
The conservative Des Moines Leader
tells we'll the story of southern insult
| to American arms: s9' ssss
The unreasonable prejudice Of
many southern communities has
been manifest on many occasions.
For example, just after the Santi-
ago campaign, 1t twas announced
that certain regiment, on it's re-
turn to. its western post, would
pass through considerable south
ern city. The number of the regi.
ment was given in the news dis
patches. but not the fact that it
was composed of negroes. The :
city in question made elaborate
preparations to receive the Santiago
heroes, as the local paper called
them, q lunch was prepared and the
band was called out. When the
train was pulled into the station
and it was seen that the soldiers
were not white men, the spirit of
welcome quickly changed to one of
rage. The committees refused to
serve, the food was carried away,
| the band was dismissed, and to
crown all, with the apparent ap-
proval of all present. insults began
| to be heaped upon The men leaning
out of the car windows, even to the
extent of throwing rocks and bricks
at the cars. If it had been regi-
ment of white men which had en-
countered such treatment we NAV
easily imagine what would have
happened. AS it was, the regiment
was hustled away as quickly as pos
sible. 1t is lamentable that the
occurrence at Shreveport is typical
| of what would have occurred at
many other southern cities under
similar circumstances. 1t NAV
easily be imagined that the COLI