Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-01-21

the journal of a previous date in order to
ascertain whether he had done us justice
in his criticisms of what we had prev
iously written.
Rev. DR.. JOHNSON says
HE asserts that my proposition is
condemnation of him for praising those
who try 60 put down the mobs, and
abate the violence, which repeat are not
the facts in the case. / repeat that
nowhere have condemned Editor
MITCHELL for such praise, but rather
endorsed it.
If our readers will read again the ex-
tracts from Rev. Or. JoHNsoN's prev.
ious communications and these last
assertions of his own. they will reach
the same conclusion, namely that
when Rev. DR.. JOHNSON was writing
his last communication, he did not take
the time to read his previous ones.
Wa have been waging a relentless
warfare against lynching and the
lynchers for more than twenty years,
telling the white men of the South that
the interest of this section demands the
putin g down of lawlessuess in all of its
forms, that with its elimination will
come the dawn of brighter day. Capital
and desirable immigration will be it.
portion if this advice be needed and
when they accept this view of the mat
ter and proceed to punish the guilty
parties, DR.. JOHNSON blames and crit.
cizes us for commencing them. Nay
more, he charges US with apologizing
for the lawless elements in the South
and with virtually defending them.
We aver then that it comes with poor
grace Tor the Elder to allege that we
have done him an injustice. It seems
to us that 1.-The boot is on the other leg "
We have been condemning the
murderers Of Negroes and have time and
again demanded their punishment.
Judge WILKINSON of Mississippi agrees
with this position and sends one Of the
lynchers to prison for life and another
TO the penitentiary for fifty years, which
is practical life imprisC nment, another
to the penitentisry for fifty years,
another for life, another for twenty five
years. another for twenty years, another
for fifty years, another for fifty years
and still another for fifty years, and
still another for life, and another for ono
year and because we commended Judge
WILKINSON for so doing Rev DR.. JOHN
SON says to us in his communication of
the 10th ult.
And again he says, II have no mora
use Tor the Negro than you have Now
Editor Mitchell, this is one Of your
goody: goody, high class men of the
South, not Negro hater as you style
tacm; and yet he says he has no more
use Tor the Negro than the "white
cappers, than the Ku Klux, or Farm.
ers Leagues or any of the class that tak.
MIN out and whip him with a buggy
trace. Won't you be kind enough to
put this in your paper?"
Have we misrepresented Rev. DIR.
JOHNSON? In his communication of
De,omber Gath, 1904, DIR. JOHNSON
said
Editor MITCHELL Editor MITCHELL 7
ask you again, how can you in the face
of the looseness of this administration ef
government in the South for these
many, many years past, and at the pres
emit time, stand in the breach in it's de-
fense?"
Has Rev. DR.. JOHNSON misrepresent
ed us? We have been in tnyor NJ
hanging and imprisoning the lynchers
OF either white or colored men for more
than twenty years and we do not o.re
whether they are hanged or imprisoned
by the white judges and juries. We
have not gone over to the Negro. h ater,'
position in the Southland, but some of
the Negro-haters have come over 30 us.
We have ell along claimed that their
own selfish interests and those of the
communities in which they lived would
justify them in so doing.
DR.. JOHNSON has underworld to place
us in the attitude of having gone over
to them. The leaven, my dear Doctor
is working in this section. why should
we interfere with the fermentation
The national government, executive,
judicial and legislative has refused 60
interfere and has given Us to under
stand that we must look To the ststes
and make our pleas to those amongst
whom we live.
What do we care about what Judge
WnKERsoN says concerning the Ne
groes 30 long as he protects them and
Furnishes those Negro-haters, who NAL
treat and Kill them? We insist that
we are looking for results. We leave
the moral phase Of the question to the
future historians. We want Judge
WILKINSON and his kind to go on with
the work of hanging and furnishing the
lynchers of our people.
Rev. DR.. JOHNSON is rather anfortu IL
nate in his zoferenoes to President
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Tor according to
his rasaOOinU Mr. TJNCnrN daoarua1 y, -