The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-07-31
WHO Is RESPONSIBLE.

smack with Booker Washington and
opeued M an interminable discussion
of the race question and the rights
of the negro, there have been more
criminal assaults by negroes on nor
thern white women than for ten years
before. Within the last two weeks
no less than a dozen have taken place
In states across the Ohio. The latest
is the lynching and burning of negro
in DanyiIle, Ill 1t seems that the
mob was en- route to the county jail to
secure negro rapist when another
negro standing on the street became
involved In quarrel with the mem
pers of the mob. They started after
him and he pulled pistol and fired
One of the members fell mortally
wounded. The negro was captured
and swung TO a telegraph pole. His
body was cut down and carried on
run to the public square in front OF
the Jail where the negro rapist was
held prisoner. Hay, store boxes and
barrels were collected and the corpse
was thrown upon the pile. A tor"h
was applied and the flames shot up.
While the mob's vicuim was burning
several men fired bullets into the
flames. Several knives were drawn
with which they hacked the burning
corpse. The ears were chopped off
and the feet, which prOtruded from
the flames. were hacked to pieces.
The mob then stormed the Jail to
secure the negro rapist. but the sheriff
and his deputies repuised it by firing
into 1t. Two dead and twenty four
injured are the total casualties for the
day. The town is now in the hands
of State troops.
Ana 10 this occurred in old Illinois,
the state of Lincoln, which sent more
soldiers, or at least as many. to the
South to free the negro as any other
state in tine Onion. The Chicago
Inter Ocean and other partlsan repub-
lican newspapers of the North that have
hitherto exhausted their vocabularies
at the South for it's denial of the right
of trial by lures to negro brutes VINO
commit that CRIME of crimes, can now
turn their attention to Danville. Ill.
And when they get through with Dan
Vile, ILL.,, they can &c to New York,
Wilmington. Del, Evansville, Ind,
and then back over to Minnesota, and
to several other northern cities which
have recently been the scenes OF negro
lynchlngs ana burnings.
In the meantime, this fact stands
out beyond dispute: that the unpar-
donable and insane actions OF the
Broncho Busting, Bunco-S Steering Man
on Horseback at Washington with
regard to the rights of the negroes
IS principally responsible for the
scourge of negro crimes which have
lately been committed In all parts OF
the country. and especially in the
North. He has convinced the negroes
that they are as good as the Anglo
Saxons; that they are white men with
black skins, and entitled to as much
voice in the control of this government
and to hold official positions as the
white man. He has said by his actions
that negro when educated Is entitled
to social equality with the white man,
and he has by SO doing played the
very devil with the peaceful relations
between the whites and blacks, and a
hitherto thorough understanding on
the part of the latter that they are
inferior to the whites and must &C.
cupy inferior positions. The North is
simply reaping the whlrlwind which
nas followed the seed sown by Theodore
Roosevelt. Experience is a dear
teacher, but if it gives the North the
thorough understanding that the South.
ern people are entirely able to settle
the SO called race question without any
outside interference, and there 10
evidence that 1T will, then that ex-
perlence Will be of 1ncalculaple benefit
to both sections of the country.