The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-12-21

Constitution guarantees to every one
of.its citizens that he shall not be de-
priVed Of his life and liberty without
due process of law. 1t is notorious
fact that this provision OF the Con-
stitution has been set at naught and
that men and women and even child
rem have been deprived of their Iiber-
ties and their lives without any pro-
cess OF law whatever.
.Anarchistic events of this kind
have, to our shame, occurred in diff.
ferent parts of our country, but they
have been frequent in that part Of the
country whore the slave power was
dominant before the civil war and
where the spirit of the slave-driver. is
still dominant. The victims of these
violations of the law in ninety-nine
cases out of hundred are members
Of that race which was formerly in
| bondage to the race that now murders
! them. as
so common is this method Of pun
ishing supposed crimes in the south
ern section of our country that it has
displaced the regular proceedings of
the law courts. Last year more than
$50 human beings charged with crime
died without trial, at the hands of the
/ mob. More than three a week. And
/ the perpetrators of this treason
against the majesty Of the state are
today living at large, their crime I'M
punished, many Boosting of their
4 crimes. and their sym pathizers sit in
the congress of the United States.
i Surely anarchy can go no further than
! this except it murder our rulers, raw
ish our women and burn our homes"
/ The speaker dealt at length with
the feelings of the shareholders be-
fore the war, and then declared that
ss'the political difficulties Of the north
or of the south, are to be solved not
] by Acknowledgement but by enfran-
chisement. The enfranchisement Of
the mind from ignorance and pride
and prejudice; the enfranch1sement
of the heart from base hatred and un.
:, holy fears 2
He then said:
"The white race has a cause of quar-
rel with: the black race. While we
have spent blood and treasure to Sc
8 cure your political and civil rights
we find that you surrender those
rights without a struggle. Your ole
white masters or the sons of YOU
white masters say you shall not. vote
and you stay away from the polls
/ They make laws placing upon you {
degrading badge of inferiority, an6
( you give your broWs to the branding
iron They shoot you down in the
streets and drive you into the swamps
and you do nothing to guard you
homes and protect the lives of you
wives and children. s ss
"Your excuse for this submission t.
outrage and wrong is that if you re
sist you will be killed. Killed.! Wha
if you are killed? Were not whit
+ men killed by. the hundred thousan,
|, to secure you, under the Constitution
, the political and civil rights whic]
!; you SO easily surrender? Do you
|, duty by your country, and, whethe
. you live or die, your country vii
s bless you. 81.
: !"God forbid that you should lift u
n your hands save in defense Of tn
: rights of man and the lives of wome
: and children. Do. al not kill, but b
3 killed until your blood becomes as
river defling all the land; until, lik
!. the blood Of Abel. it cries from tn
= ground for vengeance. Be killed Ill
= til you have lost from your veins tn
last drop of the blood of the slav
!: and can stand up as free men in
Il free land. BIB