Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1899-07-22
AS AN ENGLISH JOURNALS SEES IT.

Our people here need not despair.
We have staunch white friends, who
have neither iorssken US nor yielded
to the prejudices Of the age.
The London, England, FRIEND for
June Both. 1899, Is before us. Under
the caption Of "Lynching in America"
it says:
''If the Christian Church OF Ecgland
can do any thing to uphold the protest
OF the American Churches against the
atrocio1s lynchings or Negroes in the
Southern States, it is our urgent duty
20 maintain that protest. That such
abominable travesties of justice can
occur in civilized communities at the
close of the nineteenth century is a
disgrace to our common Christianity"
1t continues:
"The banner OF England often trails
in the dust in our treatment of the
coloured races In Africa. Our specula-
tive mining and trading companies and
prospectors in their greed for gold
sometimes seem to hEve consciences
as hard as the quartz they grind We
therefore have q be am in our own eyes
But this mob law in the Southern
| States. which is often the cruellest
mob injustice, must be subdued under
the force OF the great international
conscience ofmankind F; and would that
any words of ours might strengthen
] enlightened public opinion in America
| Conscience is often strangely spasmod
ic. 1t awakes and liberstes millions OF
slaves. 1t takes al opiate and appears
| oblivious of their treatment when lib
II n
political rights of man as man, and
goes to sleep again when il has given
manhood franchise TO millions OF Ne
groes."
After speaking Of the "noble Four.
teenth Amendment" it says:
cit is not slavery such as was ar
merlY legal, but the present condition
(which prevails in the Southern Slater
il in open defiance OF law. Under
these conditions Of the law being tram
pied under foot. IL q coloured man II
accused, justly or unjustly OF violating
a white won an, he IL often seized bY I
wild mob, and burnt alive under TIT
most revolving conditions, without AM
legal trial whatever"
And again:
/ 1T has come to pass that the Amefi
can newspaperEh have recently hsd hug
headlines with the narrative respecting
some 5000 English-speaking white peo
ple going out by train from . city o
Churches TO see q fellowman burned Il
death, and sCrambling TO carry AVA,
bits of the mass bones rs keepsake
and memensoes u
1t says:
1--WE are not advocating the indis
criminate mixture OF the white ant
coIoured races, but mere prejudice
against color is ungodly and vicious
The administration OF justice mus
cease to be . question colour. Tit
Iguilty white man must be punished
exactly the same IS the guilty biscA
man."
i This has been 1.-The burden of GU
ssnR." To secure . realization Of /
here now would be the beginning o
the millennium. ~
The FRlnNp speaks in . strain whicl
, has been the source of much common
when it says:
"One Of the most extraordinary fast
respecting che attitude OF the twt
races is that with all this injustice col
CURED men and wsmen still devoutl.
believe in the Christ whose white pro
tessors are the open and avoweo enc
mics Of their equal rights"
1t states what We know to be tru
when it says:
"All white men are not unjust. Al
Americans do not sanction the eruelt
that prevails"
Yes, Con is raising up friends for as
and brighter day for Us Is just be
; yond.