Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-07

with whether iynching occurs in the
North or the East or the West? We
know that these barbarities are prac-
ticedin the South. We know that
burnings at the stake are advertised IN
advance, that excursion trains are run
to see the show and that all of the tor
lures of the Spanish Inquisition are in
fiicted upon men made in Gods image.
We know, too, thata man is more Sc
verely punished for injury to dog
than he is for injury to a Negro, pro-
viding the person INJECTING the injury
upon the Negro is a white man.
Then why veil our eyes to the truth?
Senator b r. TILLMAN has made an
open confession TO the world. 1t is in
delibly stamped in the records at Wash
ingtop. DR.. pARKHURsT is as much
opposed to this lawlessness in. the
North as he is to it in the South. 1t
should not be forgotten that the tolera-
ton of this species of outrage in the
southland has led to its spread in the
North and West.
You can no more contine lawlessness
| to one section without an effort to sup
press it than you can confine smallpox,
yellow-fever or the bubonic plague
without the usual hygaenic measures to
stamp it out.
The TDIEs-DISPATCH is doing us no
good by this eternal agitation. Z The
Negro is devoting himself now to bus
mess and industrial pursuits. But a
small proportion of them as compared
to the body polite is concerning them
selves about political questions. Then
lwhy not permit them to rest or rather
to work in peace?
You and your associates have thrown
pail over the Negroes aspirations and
sunk deep the dagger to the heart of
| his hopes. Is it too much TO ask in the
solitude Of his mourning to be let alone?
Under the "benefcent influence" of
Democratic rule, you have nulhfed the
Sumner Civil Rights Bill You have
copied after Louisiana, Mississippi and
Georgia and thrust out the best type of
Negro in the world, the Virginia Negro
into the Jim Crow Car as though he
was leper. With the most liberal
system of Democratic government in
the world in this state, you have brush
ed it aside and supplemented it with
the most ostraclsing, Negro-hating
| Democracy ever known in the south
land and last, but not east, you have
ATTEMPTED to keep from the ballot-box
every respectable Negro, while admit,
ting to the right of suffrage well-nigh
every white ignoramus and jail-bird.
What more then do you want Is
this not enough No, it is not The
cupidity of the Negro-haters grows
with what it feeds upon. The question
Twill have TO settled again, but it wi
never be done by war of races. II
will be settled by war Of white men,
and as strange as it may seem, even as
it was in 1861, the Negro will be found
on both sides of the conflict.
AS for us, we were born here. We
are true Virginia stock and we shall
say all that we please, keeping within
the letter of the law, until the end OF
the chapter.
You may veil your eyes, but you can.
not hide
The suns meridian glow.
The heel of a priest may tread us down
II fur mr. rNrl-
| But never truth has been DESTROYED
1 They may curse it and call it a crime
/. Hinder and stay, SANDER and slay,
Its teachers for time.
I But right Will conquer at the last,
AS round and round we run,
! And ever the wrong is proved to be
wrong,
And ever is justice done"