New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1903-09-12

only daughter Of Mrs --. Hell
father was lawyer, for many terms
the mayor, commissioner, register OF
deeds, etc Every detail Of my story
is frE~. as vou can find out by apply
Ing 20 the mayor or to the clerk Of the
court.
Mote names given above
are eliminated i'll Difference to the
wish of the writer.
You people of the North say that
the people of the South have never
settled any question satisfactorily or
wisely: that we are entirely incapable
of solving the negro problem. Won't
you, for humanity's sake for mercy's
sake. i'll your superior goodness and
SO that he white females CT the
South will be safe from the unutter
albe outrages Of the black man? Try
to realize our danger, and be sorry
for us Surely, men who can be sc
wrought up by the black man can he
moved by the unspeakable wrongs of
the woman of their own race.
will you listen to a true story
1t is horrible, so horrible that not
even the gifted Harriet Beecher
Stowe could have described its heart
rending misery. 1t happened ye ster-
day. The defled, mutilated body of
the little white girl is still unburied
| Come with me and l will show you
| the very spot where the horror took
place, not two hundred yards from the
courthouse, a stones throw of the
child's home.
'She enters the stable beautiful
blue eyed, fiaxen haired maid of twelve
years, the only daughter of a widowed
mother, her joy, her pride, her darl-
ing The child has been sent by her
mother to get some eggs that she
knows are in nest there. A black
man sees her go in and follows her.
If the child knows he is behind her
the host!er; she has known him all
her life, sees him every day around
the barn.
when he reappears he locks the
door. His hands and clothes are
bloody and he steals stealthily away.
''Soon the mother, wondering that
her daughter does not return, goes to
the stable to look for her, finds the
door locked. Possessed with the aw-
full uneasiness that seizes every white
mother of the South when her girls
are long out of her sight, she calls to
little boy passing by, helps him to
the window. He calls the child's
name, but there is no reply. Peering
about, he sees n bag in a corner.
There is blood running from it, and
he thinks he sees it move Mortified.
he screams, the mother faints. Soon
a crowd from the village is there.
The lock is broken, they enter the
stable, the bag is opened, the muir
dered child is before them.
''That she was choked into insen-
sibility to prevent an outcry is evid-
ent, for her pretty blue eyes have
started from their sockets To be sure
that she will never be able to tell who
has SO defled her, the fiend has cut
her throat from ear to ear.
Now, 60 to the widows house;
friends have carried her home pllysi-
clans are about her bed !; one is admin
istering sedative, for on regaining
she becomes frantic and
is III commissions.
Her two little boys, both younger
than their murdered sister, are sobb-
ing and begging their mother to speak
to them. Friends grouped around |
her in tears or awe-stricken silence
In the whole realm of nature can
there be anything as deep, more pitt |
ful, more narrowing? Do you won
der that the only brother of that wi
low, that his village friends, maddened
Dy such spectacle, frenzied by such
Jobs and walls, should wreak savage
That black man was hanged six
hours after the crime was committed;
vas caught in his bloody clothes, con-
'essed his dark deed, said he. put the
,ody in the bag, intending as soon as
t was dark to throw it into the river
lear by.
Once more, beg, try to be sorry
or the white woman of the South.
Ill are in danger, from the four year
Id babe to the grandmother Of silky
I've.
Aye, and pity the white men, too,
hat are frenzied by such crimes.
leason with them like brothers.
)on't outrage them, by calling them
rutes, cruel bloodthirsty savage out .
avs. Acknowledged the indisputable T.
ruth, that they are surrounded by ::
blacks, none of them
nrther than three hundred years
rom the lowest form of savagery;
thousands of them not one hundred
ears away from the wilds of Africa,
u sixty thousand slaves were inn
orted from Africa in the nineteenth
entury, before the slave trade was
rohibited
Can they be governed by the same
Iws that restrain the Anglo Saxons,
18th 80 many centuries Of civilization
shind them? Once more, in your
Dtices and editorials ON lynchings,
Zpressysome CONCERN. some nitY for |