The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-06-17

GUS, but the fact that the perpetrator
is black and the victim white. Change
the colors of the parties and nothing at
all wrong will be though of it. We al
so have another letter from Seattle and
on the same subject, but it is written
by an Afro-American woman. Read it
and note the difference:
'tThe last lynching In the South has
not only touched the feelings of the
AfrO-American men, but has stirred in
the hearts of her women the deepest
sympathy for her Southern brethren.
There Is no crime in our history as far
back as we can read that is as horrible
as the. last lynching in the State Of
Georgia, even the crucifixion of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, can not
be compared with the Georgia lynch
ing: It looks almost impossible for
every crime that is committed in the
South for the Negro to be the guilty
party, and never have we read of the
white man being guilty of any crime,
but we can prove of time when the
Negro was not guilty and if he was not
guilty then he is not now.
In time of war, when all of the white
men left their wives, daughters and
sisters with their servants and knew
not if they would ever return again
there were no crimes committed on
their wives, daughters and sisters then,
and they were left with Negro slave
servants, most of them men. If they
reverenced them in that day and time
we feel they do not commit the crimes
that are laid on them now, knowing
what punishment they will receive at
the hands of the rebels. The Negro in
the United States was never accused
of committing an outrageous crime un-
til after 1864, and the rebels of the
South saw no other way to revenge
themselves for the loss of their prop
erty rights in slavery so sought to &C
cuse and kill as many Negroes as pos
sible. If the white man is not guilty
of rape, the Negro is not and never
was.
In the year of 1910 there were $4,000
white slaves immigrated to the State
of Virginia. All of these were pros
titutes, criminals and pickpockets, ex-
cept $50 young girls who were sold
to Captain John Smith as wives for
himself and men for 12O pounds of to.
bacco each, to stop him from COM
planning against Scotland and England
for shipping her lewd class of human
beings to Virginia.
= The white criminals were all brand
ed in the hands and you will find some
of the best men of today with this
stain upon them. So you see that we,
the Negro women, do not condemn
the white race of today in the South
for what they do. We blame their an
cestors who bore the stain before them.
Had there not been this class of white
slaves shipped to America we would
not have mullatto in our race, but
it was this low, degraded class of
human beings that caused the stain
on the Negro race of America today.
We, as race, have proven our loyalty
to our flag, we have stood up for our
Union in the sight of God and man
and If there is a race that needs pro-
lection, it is this down-trodden race,
the African citizen of America, and We
the Negro women, ask the assistance ]
Of the Union at large with the help Of
God togdo. for us as you@Woild have
our men do for you. We went into
slavery pangs without language, and
with the help of God we came out
Christians and speaking the plain Eng
lish tongue, and if the Negro race is
not worthy of protection, they are not
worthy to protect the Anglo-Saxon in
time of war.
MRS. G. M. SCOTT,
GA Fifth Ave.