The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27
sANARcHY AND THE NEGROES.

70 the Editor of the Globe.
RI When Columbus discovered what he
supposed to be a portion of India; and
named it's people Indians, he introduced
anarchy ons-American SOIL, by establish.
ing precedent of slavery, outrage and
murder.
I, lanes L.. added to the products of an
s'arehy by shipping English cohyicts to
America, as slaves; and the Dutch naYi-
sgsator who. landed a cargo of twenty ne-
groes at jamestown added fuel to the
names. When colonists Pevolted against
1.-THE iron hand of England, the first blood
4 shed was that of Crispus Attacks and
.other negroes: they, too, added material
TOW ards building the temple of anarchy
ior anarchlstic worshipers by not equal
itzingf the men who had assisted in throw
ing off the English yoke, by act as well
! as by word, making all men free and
equal. Had such action been taken, the
loyal portion of American citizens, with
sense enough to distinguish between the
tIaWs of equal rights, and social equality.
would not now be disgraced by the cow
ardly assassins of the states, who, by
On. aiiIla4I4gdInatlon, nave made the negro race
all the colors of the rainbow
.Tne senators and congressman of the.
United States lent helping hand to CO.
operative anarchy, when they sat idly
IN the halls of Justice with such mon
as Ben Tillman and his Xix and allowed
him to stand on the statutes and boast
of his elevation by the murder of an in.
nOcent people
turn over prisoner to states in which
Justice is weighed by two sets of scales.
when he has been confronted with pre-.
cedents, and who will correspond with
the governor of the state making such
fequisition, may not be an anarchist,
: but he shows himself unworthy of the
support of honest men and doublv So
gWhen the following facts were brought
Gto bear:
4,Goncerning these hideous statutes,
sB1alne says IN his Twenty Years in.
Z Congress-:
assent to the thirteenth amendment
. to the constitution by the Southern
states was but a gross deception so long
as they accompanied it with legislation
which practically deprived the negro of
every prestige of liberty That which was
no offense in white man was made a
nfisdemeanof, a heinous crime, if CONS
united by a negro. Both in the civil and
crlmlnal code his treatment was different
from that which the white man was sub
Jected He was compelled to work under
a series of labor laws, applicable only
to his own race. The laws of yagrancv'
were changed SO as in many of their
provisions to apply only to him, and ,irl
der their operation all freedom of nove-
ment and transit was denied. The liberty
TO sell his time at fair market rate
was, was aiestroyed by the interpositfon of ap-
prentice laws. Avenues of usefulness
and skill in which he might specially ex-
Gel We're closed against him, lest he
should compete with white men. In
SAAo. Aito AiUCA ~ III UlTSCtlOuS was SO
curtailed that it was bitter moeEers
to refer to him in the statutes as Greed
man. The truth was that his liberty,
was merely OF form, and neteef fact,
the organic law of a nation was now to
be revised by the enactments of aFstate
:. some of these enactments were pecu-
Harly offensive, not to say atrocious. Tn
Alabama, which might, indeed, serve az
an example for the other rebelIfous
states, stubborn or refractory servants
and servants who loiter away their
time, We're declared by law to be wa
grants and might be brought before a
Justice of the peace and fined $50: and
IN default of payment they might be
lie outcry for a period of six months. No
fair man could fail to see that the whole
effect, and presumably the direct intent,
of this law, was to reduce the helpless
punishment which could \be repeated
whenever desired; a punishment sure to
be desired for that portion of each re-
curing year when his labor was st,eeiallys
valuable in connection with the cotton
crop, while for the remainder. of the
Stime he might shift for himself
For minors" more speedy and
more sweeping method was contrived bv
the lawmakers of Alabama. They made
1t the duty of all sheriffs, justices of
the peace and other civil officers of the
several counties ito report the names
of all minors under the age of eighteen
years, whose parents have not the means
or who refuse to support said minors ?,
and thereupon it was made the duty Of.
the court to apprentice" said minor
to some suitable person, on such terms
as the court may direct" Thens.foilows
suggestive proviso directing that s'if
said minor be the child of q freedman,
Gas if any other class were really re-
ferred tor ''the former owner of said
minor shall have the preference and
sthe judge of probate shall make a rec
ord of all the proceedings" from which
he should be entitled to. a fee of 81 in
each case, to be paid. as-this atfocious
law directed, by .'the master or mis-,
tress.'a To tighten the grasp of the own
.er on the minor who was now styled an