The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-08-25
RACE RIOTS IN THE NORTH.


1t will be remembered thai a lew
weeks ago there were serious distur-
Dances in New Orleans, caused by ne
gro lawlessness, and finally resulting in
IL riot in which the negroes were indis-
%criminately set upon aud m~altreated
by hoodlums and thugs. The occur
renee did not have the support OF de-
cent white men and the civil forces
were quick to suppress the riot and are
now busily engaged in furnishing the
ring leaders. This outbreak was bread
and meat for newspapers OF New YORK,
Boston and other centers OF prejudice
against the South, and the Examinations
and protests were something awful to
read. Before the ink was dry on these
protests against the South's inbuman-
ity toward the negro, New York her.
self was Ia the midst of a colored row
which equalled in severity that OF New
Orleans. A negro killed a policeman
and then the fun began. For u Il
mob pursued every negro it could reach,
beating and ~maltreating them ia the
~severest manner. The police are said
to have lent their encouragement to The
rioters rather than trying to suppress
them. In New York the negro makes
up a very small per cent. OF the popuia-
ton vet its race war almost equalled in
proportions that OF New Orleans,
where the colored population Is equal
to that of the white.
The conclusion must be thai human
nature is pretty much the same the
world over, and that the passions OF
men are aroused in New York as easily
as they are in New Orleans. A change
has ca me over the papers which were
SO ready to heap abuse upon New Or
leans, and we append a sample to show
that they appreciate the situation.
The following is from the New York
Mail and express, a strong Republic
can paper:
The riot in New York was u crying
disgrace @ that civilization which ar
raigns Southern treatment OF the ne~
gro; a humiliation TO the first commu-
nifty in the land, where the civil and
political rights Of the colored man have
for IA seuertion been jealousy defend
ed. Il was "a performance so astound-
ing as to be we'll nigh uncomfortable.
The force of humiliation is enhan-
ced by exact analogy. The cause OF
the New Orleans outbreak was the as
s~assination of white policemen by a
negro desperate. The cause of the
New York outbreak was the murder of
"a white policeman, in tie performance
of his duty, by IA negro desperate. The
incentive was no greater here than
there: and when we take into consld-
Grafton the vastly different relations o!
the races in the two cities and the gen.
eral absence here, as Il rule, OF intense
racial prejudice, the riot OF last night,
with its frenzied mob OF several thous'
and and its wholesale shedding OF blood
was a grosser outrage against the COM
muuity than wa that which ~recently
gave Louisiana's metropolis such un
enviable distinction.
1.-THE police controlled the situation
after a prolonged struggle, and some
sacrifice of blood on their own part
Credit for suppression is theirs, ant
we gladly award it. Nevertheless, i
is due to the people OF this city hat
rigid and unbiased inquiry be set OF
foot-in view Of certain rumors-to de
termine whether the officers on bea
in the vicinity of the house where la.
the body of their murdered colleague
did all that might have been done, il
the way Of preventive effort, while tn
mountain was yet IL molehill.
1--WE await Southern comment o
this incident, with our only defense ih
assurance that no man and no woma
among our more than three millions
who claims a place in the ranks OF dc
cent citizenship, will attempt for
moment to defend or condone the dc
ings of this army of hoodlums.'