The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-12-22
Lynchings in the North.
From the Baltimore Sun.


The recent fiendish negro lynchings which
have taken place north of Mason and Dixon's
line have attracted the attention and excited
the horror of law abiding citizens. In the
South, which is the home of the negro and
where the white people are his friends, there
should be some movement 10 protect the negro
from the bitter racial prejudice which exists
among the white people of the North. Not
long ago there was an organized negro hunt
in New York upon small proyocation. limo
cent colored people were mobbed and beaten,
although there was an ample police force
present. Indeed, it was stated that the police
joined in the mob and aided in clubbing aud
beating the unfortunate negroes, whose only
offense was their color. A short time before
that the anti-negro feeling in the North broke
out in the Carbonate coal region of Illinois,
and the negroes were treated with great bru-
tality. The only offense of which they had
been guilty was their employment III the
mines. A riot took place; many negroes were
killed and the rest driven away. In the South
the negro is permitted to engage in any occu-
patton he may see fit, but in the North for
him to make his living as a skilled laborer is
not tolerated. He can vote the Republican
ticket on election day, but there his privileges
end
The most recent and dreadful exhibitions
of Northern intolerance Of the negro took
place in Colorado and in Indiana. In both
these States the lynchings were done openly,
and it was boastingly said that the "best peo-
ple- took part in them. They were not masked
and it is perfectly well known, so it is de-
clared, who the men are that were guilty of
the horrible atrocities. The Colorado lynch
ing was unique among lynchings. The VIC
tim was captured and arrangements were made
for his taking off with admirable decorum and
order. Newspaper correspondents were in-
vited and time was given TO string wires and
fix telegraph instruments for their conven-
fence. Then the shrieking negro was burned
at the stake, with nothing omitted which could
add TO the horror of ''the occasion"
And now comes the Indiana negro hunt and
triple lynching with which the approach of the
holiday season was celebrated in the Hoosier
State. Two negro men who had murdered a
white barber were taken from the Jail and
hanged TO a tree by unmasked men. The
mob then went for third negro, who was
employed in hotel, but were convinced by a
man who had some sense of justice that this
negro was innocent. But the thirst for negro
blood had not been quenched by the two
deaths on Sunday. On Monday the mob re-
organized and went for the third negro,
who had been implicated in the crime by one
of those first captured, and he was lynched.
There is said to have been no attempt at con-
eealment. and if this is true we shall see
whether the lynchers are punished or whether
lynching is upheld in Indiana by public senti-
ment. All these lawless and murderous do
ings did not take place in some remote back
woods settlement III Arkansas, where the arm
OF the law is feeble and people are sometimes
driven from the necessities of the case to take
the law into their own hands. They took
place in the centre of civilization in Northern
State but IL short distance from the State cap
ital 1t really does look as if there should be
some organization in the South to protect the
defenseless negro in the North from the fe-
rociy of the white people.