The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1901-01-19
NECRO BURNED nv KANSAS

Kansas - bleeding Kansas has
burnt a negrp at the stake. AS is
we'll known, Kansas is the negro's
heaven, and the negro is Kansas
particular pet There the cOlored
brother has all his rights He votes,
serves on juries, rides on the cars
with white people, stops at white
hotels and eats in, white restauran
II has been the proud boast of Kan
sas that it accorded the negro not
only political, but social equality.
Kansas has always been first to- raise
ITS voice against the alleged Oppres-
sion .f the negro in the South. The
cranks and demagogues of that State
the South's hators, and all on &C
count of their professed friendship
for the negro. Since the time OF
old John Brown, Kansas has been
shedding crocodile tears for the
s'victims Of Southern mobs," every
one of whom has been held up as
sort of martyr to the cause OF
human rights That has been Kansas
CHIEF business since the war.
And it has come 20 pass that this
same Kansas-this sobbing daughter
of aboli,ion--has had first-class
Iynching of her own, accompanied
y heartless cruelties calculated to
give poor Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett
the horrors tor the rest of her life.
Press dispatches convey the in
for nation that negro named Fred
Alexander, who had attempted to
ravish white girl and vas charged
with the murder and ravishing OF
another white girl, was taken from
he Leavenworth Jail and burnt to
death, in the presence Of eight thou
sand citizens of the city.
Leavenworth was the old home OF
John Brown. 1t was the headquar-
ters of the most fanatcal advocates
of negro emancipation and negro
equality.
Louisiana, in common with the
whole South, does not rejoice be-
ters north of Mason and Dixon:
line. 1t is more in pity than il
| anger that allusion is made to them
But we would be derelict in our duty
to ourselves if we failed to point GU
to our former maligners the proof O
their injustice. We have always con
tended that North, South, East ane
West, wherever the awful monster o
African lust would lay his pollusin,
hands upon the fair brow Of a white
woman, his fate must be the same
it must not, 1t cannot, be else thar
death. swift. terrible and merc1less
Gen. FitzhuSh Lee to be HonOre(l
New Orleans Picayune.
The senate has finally agreed t
the amendment to the army reorgan
ization bill for the transfer Of Gen
erals Fitzhugh Lee and Wilson t.
the regular army to be placed on tn
retired list, and for promoting Gen
eral Shafter, now a major-general O
volunteers and brgadier-general,r re
tired, in the regular army, to be
major general, retired, IN the regula
army.
The promotion Of General Shafte
cannot be expected to create an
enthusiasm, as that officer has neve
gained much of place in popula
esteem Generals Lee and Wilso
have, however, merited transfer t.
the regular army, for retirement, b
their services in Cuba. The Sout
will be especially gratified-att the re
tention Of General Lee in the army
AS the volunteer army ceases to-exls
in June next, General Lee woul
have been returned to civil life If tn
senate had not adopted the amend
ment to the army bill. Although tn
amendmentwas elected in the house
mainly owing to causes with whic
General Lee was not connected,
is not feared that the senate amend
ment will now be antagonized.
; General Fitzhugh Lee was nc
only a Confederate soldier of rank
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