The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-26
PLEA } ! J, I !. by A WOMAN. \.
The SOUTH I'll
Describes t'. Happening Of Her
Own Town as an Example
Of Common Danger.

OlRNUlllIllOIl DdllYOI.
TO the Editor Of The Herald. III.
peg You to publish this comniuiica-
tiof1, though IlneYcr wrote line for pub
l lit IN my life before. ain not, y
new woman, have nothing to do with
politics; and have no desire to pose before
tne PUBIC many way. But o.,r community
S WAS yesterday shocked by such 4 blood
arouse ~ some sympathy for the white wo-
men me-, OF OF the soutf-mist try to mako tho
i 4, a,, realize that we are not safe even
s sit,es or our husbands. These awful afro
clt!es are becoming so fearfully frequent
mat we begin to tremble and ask each
I Ii h y be Want 9 you y c nr
gentle birth and shrinks from having her
agony agony blazoned to the world. Lest you
g 9, give you the name Of tho locat!o
ana Of the Victim of tho tragedy. The
pace Is -. NC. The child was -.
Mayor Commissioner Register Of Deeds,
etc Every detail of my story is true,
az you can find out by applying to the
Mayo or to the clerk of the court
,fNote.-The names given above are
oiimInated In Difference to the wish Of the
YOU people Of the North say that tho
people Of tho South havo never, settled
any Question satisfactorily or wisely; that
we are entirely incapable Of solving the
negro !, s!' problem Won't YOU for human
n 1tyE sake Tor ercys sake IN your SUI
settle 1T soon, so that the white females
OF the South will be safe from the unut-
terable.& outrages Of the black man? Try
TO real re our danger, and be sorry for
us. Surely, men who can be so wrought
up by the black man can be moved by the
unspeakable wrongs Of tho women OF
their own race. 3IS
horrible. so horrible that not even the
gifted Harriet Beecher Stowe could have
described It's heartrending misery. 1t hap
odS se ie T wSe dq sr qasae
buried. Come with mo and I will show
you the very spot where the horror
took place, not two hundred yards from
child's home.
See enter this stable beautiful blue
eyed. naxen haired maid Of twelve years.
the only. daughter OF n widowed mother.
has been sent by her mother to get some
eggs that she knows are In a.Enests there.
a black man sees her go IN and follows
she doubtless feels no alarm. He is the
hostler; she has known him all her life,
sees him every day around the barn. "a
When he reappears he locks the door,
u
steals stenlthily away.
Soon the mother. wondering that her
daughter does not return; goes 70 me
locked. Possessed with the awful unTast-l
ness that seizes every white mother of the
South when her girls nre long out. of
her sight, she calls to a little boy passing
by. helps him to climb to the window He
calls the chlld's name, but there Is no
reply Peerlng about. ne sees bag IN I!
corner. There IS blood running from i.
and he thinks he sees It move Horri-
a crowd from the village Is there: The
lock Is broken, they enter the stable. the
bag lis opened. the murdered child is be-
That She was checked into inscnsibl-
| lty to prevent an cutlery Is evident. for
her pretty blue eyes have started from
| their sockets. ITO be sure that she Will
| never DO able to tell who has so detiled
| her the 'hend has cut her throat from car
Now, go to the Widows house; friends
have carried her home; physiciana are
about her bed: one is administering
sedative. for on regaining. consciousness
she became frantic and Is in commissions.
Her two little boys, bosS younger Hnlie tha s,a
hegrine their mother to speak to them.
| Friends grouped around her IN TEARS OF
awestrcken silence.
hs whole realm Of o nstq pf sin mers
hrother of that widow that her villa ge
| friends, maddened by such spectacle;
| frenzied by such sohs and walls, snould
! wreak savage vengeance lsl.
| That black man was hansea 81 ilo ~ >
! after the crime was commlttea; w was a.
caught In his blooS clothes o GTni IN tha
| bag Intending as soon as 1t was darR
n throw it into the river near by.
| Once moe, beg. try to pc sorry LOT
tina white women OF the South. Az are
in danger: from the four year-old oaoe
4 to the grandmother Of slxty-nVe: 49,
! Ave. and pity the white men. 100, ina, tha,
them like brothers. Don't outraen. !, mem zen.
bv calling them hrutess cruel; plooathlrsst,S'
savare nl,tlaws. Acknowledge the lndis,
nutablc truth. that they are surrou ,,'
Nv half civilized blacks. none OF ! .rl
| ffi,rther than three hundred wears lro ~
The lowest form Of savagery f;o,,,
Them not one hundred wears aWI ~, tro M
siaves We're imported from Africa N ~ t =
n;neteenfh century before the save traue
was prohibited. Z, t,,e ca ma laws
that restrain the Anglo,SaAon,ss,,, hoh,nd
| many centuries OF BciVlllzLtlo.tt, a n9' nd
| them? Once more, IN youI 90 soma con-
r VIM. ruim or murder brings them apo o"r
She belongs to your race; sue .o - a.
o on, trvwoman. Her ancestors I9u wv -Ts1s
W. RovoIution. bled In the War q e., a'i T.
A d,ed bravely In the CIV! - Us g, W ' her -
worth your protcctinrInn;17 1 l n n, WOMAN
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