The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-08

Fort Worth, Texas, April 29--Race wars
are nothing new Read in the Bible who're
lamar one of Jacobs daughters. was out
ragged by one of the inferior race and how
these brothers of lamar wiped ont the
whole tribe. and you see there repeated
the same story in the Georgia lynchiugs
Denunciation by those at safe distance
from tho harm is no argument and adds
nothing to the solution OF the trouble. 1t
is the duty of the dominant race to ana
lyze the cause and remedy the evil That
it Is an evil in the land none will deny
and a deplorable one all will admit, hat
put yourself in the place of the people
who are impeled TO act thus, and while
all admit the remedy amounts to frenzy
in It's application, yet there is frenzy on
the part OF the race that perpetrate THESE
crimes.
What is more horrible than the deed
of the negro that met his fate?
What frenzy is greater than this act to
Il quiet. inoflensive family The father
murdered and the mother ravished in his
blood Like begets like is a principle as
old as the human family. Rowling be-
gets reyiling, ara while lngersoll. who LAS
ever reviled the people of the South. ELECTS
his venom at the act OF the whites OF
Georgia, he las no word 10 balance OF
these words condcmning the crime, He
shows himself Incompetent TO Judge, be-
cause he is a partisan,
New let us go back little in history
ana trace the cause of these dire effects
in these lyiching horrors peryadng tie
South, recently even at Pana. Ill, the anne
diabolical acts occurred on the pare nf the
blacks In the beginning OF this govern
mi all he - sfaN mi hal L.
except New Hampshire, Che constitution
guaranteed their free passage and recla
nation from State 10 State. The Northern
States gradually repealed these laws OF
reclamation 10 this species OF prnpsrty.
and instead of allowing the fires passage
OF the same from State to State they
made II a misdemeanor for owners Of
slave property TO recover II after escaping
there and emancipated them whenever.
they touched their soil and hoasted In the
doing Of Il as Gods service This Kept
UP such a disturbance and such a constant
threatening Of race insurrection IN the
South that she endeavored TO peaoAapl,
withdraw and manage the peculiar insts-
tuition as best she might IN her own vay
The acquisition OF Texas and all the terri
tcry west OF the Mississippi was done nv
the democratic party to allow an outlet
for the Increasing blacks. Fer these acts
nrst in the Louisiana purchase and LATER
piuci dtQulsllons, the East threatened tO
leave the Union because 0f the overn,t
aneing OF the South and West In 1888
when Lincoln engaged in the celebtated
debate with Douglass he first stated and
then retuted the idea OF the South adher-
ing to the established laws OF spreading
the evil over all the land as the constito-
ton guaranteed He stated the pollcy Of
his party was TO ring fire the evilin the
corner OF the Union where It was confined
TIL IL stung itself to death Born In the
South, but having escaped the evil by NIL
grating northward, he little dreamed ~
the great peril he was bringing "a his M
tive section. for when the million OF nan
We're dying IN the civil war in consequence
OF this declaration OF himself and psrtv.
stanton, his secretary OF war writes LIN
com as lying PROSTATE day after DAY In his
(Stantop's) office Vt the horror upon hor-
rors he had so unwittingly plunged his
country into. This part Of his history IL
s.aretully suppressed, but Don Plat tells
The whole story in his Memories ~ Ma
Who saved the Union and Plat was ON
Lincolns stan, chiefly as a correspondent