Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-03-28
STILL MISUNDERSTANDING US.

seems never to weary in its self-imposed
task of discussing the Negro. This all
important parsonage is the subject for
It's nightly dreams and daily thoughts.
A sixteen-year-old colored boy killed a
white man in North Carolina and il at
once proceeds TO read a lecture to the
ten million Negroes about the depravity
of the younger element of the race, be-
cause one of them was brutal and muir
derous enough TO take the life of one
white man. 1t acknowledges at the
outset that it has bad case, but it pro-
ceeds to bolster" it up in the following
manner:
- s.iToady stated, ijhis Negro is only
sixteen years of age, and while we
would not say that he is a fair repre-
, sentative of his race, he is undoubtedly
a tyre. There are many other Young
Negroes like him throughout the South
and when the present training of the
Negro is considered we do not see how
it could well be otherwise Coming of
savage race, with the instincts and
passions and appetfes of the savage
still III him, brought up, as is too often
the case, without any SORT of moral in
struction at home and without any
moral restraints except such as the law
throws around mankind in general, it is
no wonder that he is thoroughly brutal
lied and fit for treason, stratagem and
spoils.''
Could more unjust attack be made
upon helpless people? 1t is virtually
a "war upon babes" The other young
Negroes have not killed white man.
but they all are made to share the odium
of this young Negro murderer's acts.
The TIMES DISPATCH speaks of him as
coming of a savage race, with the in
stincts and passions and appetites of
the savage still in him" Let us see.
This editorial referred to appeared in
the TMEs-DIsPATCH of the 22d instant.
and in the same issue appeared the fol-
lowing telegraphic dispatch:
FINDLAY, OHIO, March 2l.-On his
way home from school, eight-year OLD
Clarence Hummell, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hummell. of East Front Street.
was captured by five school-mates.
forced TO accompany them down the
Blanchard River, outside the city limits.
and there, IN secluded spot, was tied
to stake. Preparations for his Gre
nation were being made when the little
fellows cries attracted the attention of
men who We're employed in the vicinity
of the Findlay Hydraulic Pressed Brick
Works, and he was rescued by them.
Young Hummell's captors had wit
messed the production of Tracey the
Outlaw" and in talking it over made
plans for the capture and the burning
at the stake.
VIII our contemporary explain the
cause of this attempted act of savagery
The Negro boy shot his victim. These
white boys were preparing to burn
theirs. Would it be proper for us to
say that their action was due to the saw
age instincts of their ancestors?
But why discuss the matter further /? |
1t may be that this Negro boy is mu-
latto and his murderous disposition may
be due to the white blood in his veins.
History records no more fiendish acts of |
cruelty to any race than that which has |
been charged up to the white race from
the earliest dawn of civilization down
to the present time.
We might multiply examples of this
for in the telegraphic dispatches ap-
peared the following:
CORNING, N. Y Jan. 26.-Thirteen-
year-old Nellie Kinsley has confessed
that mysterious illness from which
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac b.
have been suffering is due to
poison she put into the food in order to |
obtain the If property after death.
do you know how to get money and
houses and everything you want?'' she
asked her pharmacies while her parents
were i'll. when your father and
mother are dead all they own will be-
long to you. l found that out a little
while ago; and l took some OF the rat J
poison papa got to kill the rats with and
put 1T In the supper / coob ed. | did not
eat the supper. but papa and mamma
did and then they got sick, if they die
l will have money"
AT the Susquehanna Home, at Bino
she repeated the story of the
Nellie was adopted by Mr..
and Mrs. Kinsley when she was two
years old. Recently Mr.. Kinsley had
bought some arsenic, and it was kept
on shelf in the pantry. Soon after |
Nellie prepared supper for her parents !
and they were taken violently ill. Tt
was traced 10 arsenic and Nellie was
suspected. Mrs. Kinsley will probably J
be crippled for life as a result of the !
poisoning.
Will the editor of the TIMES DISPATCH
argue that NELLIE KHsl.EY came of a