The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-01

Captain Williams and Lieutenant
jackson said that every negro should
carry Winchester, and wherever a
negro was killed, their brethren should
go out on the highways and byways,
and the first white man they saw
should be shot down."
This Is one way to settle it, accord.
ing to the colored people of Boston
Not one word about the villainous
scoundrel who did the double tragedy
"a human tiend. Kill every white
man you meet, who dares defend the
women of the South against such ini-
quitous outrage, and the race problem
will be settled at the South.
The colored people of New York mo
about the same time, and banded to-
Rether to invoke the vengeance of God
lynching OF Sam Holt, and not one
word of sympathy for the homo de-
stroyed, the man murdered, the wife
outraged and the children besmeared
With the blood and brains of their mur-
dered father.
May l say to my friends, the color ed
people OF the North, If they will look
after their own business and attend to
the lawlessness that occurs in their
own bailiwick, they will possibly have
quite as much as they can prUiitably
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what they said about tho mob of l5O
men that strung up Bradley, near New
York, charged with stealing Martin
Kelley's pocketbook, as reported in
The New York World, April 2lst.
There. 1t Ia said. some of the mob
wanted to burn Bradley, and that
women tainted while the deed of horror
was being enacted. There is q diff
ference, a great difference, every one
knows, between tweedle-uum and
tweedle-dee."
Make the case your own: (Will you
pardon me If In this presence, tell q
part of this horrible tale of Voc and
misory and loathsome wretchedness
that you may somewhat understand y
Let 1t be your daught sitting at tea
with husband and iittlo children happily
enjoying an evening meal. a bloody
murderer stealthily approaches, and
with the blow Of fiend, buries an AK
to the eye in the husbands head he
| tells him; beats his brains till they
spread In sickening horror over the
floor. He raises his devilish hand and
strikes stunning blow upon the face
OF little child--your grandchild, can
you Imagine? He drags it across the
bleeding, dying body Of it's father
your daughters husband, and leaves
it senseless, it's fathers blood dripping
from Its little skirts. See him as he
takes another child, your grandchild,
by the heels in one hand and his ak in
the other, while he demands of the
mother her consent or the cruel MUIR
der of her child. Be present in your
thought at that supreme moment, and
hear her saying, Save my child J."
See him then as he confronts, in all
the Sppalling horror Of fiendish glare,
H1th uplifted ak, the trembling form
OF the wife-your daughter (can you
lmagtne?) curses as only demon from
hell eau swear; jerks her down-your
daughter, (cau you imagine?) and rolls
her In the warm blood Of the only one
she had hoped to defend her from such
awful, awful, awful cruelty and shame
Hear her piteOus cries as she writhes,
for two long, long hours in the EN- brace
Of the villain, and then see her as she
falls At her fathers gate-your gate
(can you imagin?) half clad and in
death swOon, to tell her horrible, sick
ening, disgusting, loathsome story, Ca
STORY | cannot tell here, and which has
not yet been told because OF the loathe-
somencss) Hear her tell it into her
loving mothers cars, and tell me,
would you not feel that the punish.
ment OF the nethermost hell, whether
administered hero or hereafter, was
not too much for such human fiend :?
What would you do? What would
your noighbors do? What would q
mob in Massachusetts Gop | am not
asking what ought to have been done.
AS to that, you and | are fully agreed.
am asking what was done, under
similar conditions, in Ohio, Oregon,
New Jersey, Nebraska, Pennsy ylvania,
Minnesota, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois,
Now York and other States that have
had similar or even less otfenses. No
State claims greater or more advanced
civilization than New York, and vet,
1t Ia only few years since wild and
irenzled mob cruelty murdered eleven
innocent negroes, whose only otfense
was that they were negroes, then
burned the negro orphan asylum over
the heads OF three hundred little help
less negro children, simply because
they were negroes, and the little ones
barely escaped by the back door, while
the maddened mob beat down an en-
trance at the front. Why did not the
great State OF New York control the
mob better than Georgia did ?
Is the State of the president lacking
In civilization? II not, how did it
happen that an unhindered mob seized
the rape fond, Seymour Newland, and
lynched him upon a tree near by, be-
cause OF an outrage upon respectable
white woman OF eighty. one years ?
10 the State Of Illinois without civili.
zation, when her State attorney says
they have had half q dozen lynchings
In the last few years, and the
world knows how the mob shot down
negroes with the approval of the gov
ernor, for no other reason than that
they had entered the State in search
of work. In the presencs Of all this,
the pious press Of Chicago points to
Georgia and thanks God that they are
not as that publican.
Do you ask me how these lynchings
can be stopped at tho South | an
swer promptly--just as they can be
, stopped at the North, and in no other
way. Stop the outrages and the lynch,
, ings will cease. Continue the out
RACES, and the lynchings will always
: follow, regardless Of threats by the
!, law, whether in Georgia, Minnesota
+ Illinois, Ohio or other States.
La 1t forgotten that the people o
| Massachusetts, themselves, burned &