The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-09-03
COMMUNICATION.
In Woman's Petticoats.

TO the NASHVILLE GlODe.
The press of the South has been
called upon to jot down something rel
alive to a nameless- crime-case, in
which a white man, caucasian
white man, an Anglo-Saxon white
man, real flesh and blood white
man, down in eccentric, hayward
Georgia, was enmeshed up to his
eyes. Ironically speaking, the gentle
man, rich and prominent according
to the press, was caught with the shell
the crime-which he was unable to
hide. AS serious and as heinous
as the crime was, it is hardly pos
sible to think of seeing that gentle
man, rich and influential, diked out
in the frilled and furbelowed petit
coats of an old colored lady, false
haired and bonnetted, assuming all of
her airs, voice and characteristics,
without even the imagination of such
ludicrous sight touching our risi-
bilities. So successfully did he plan
his disguise that his victim, a femi-
nine member of his own race, fell
an easy prey to the deception. But
the "old colored lady," who was
none other than the prominent gen.
tleman," was not so successful in
concealing her" (his) personality.
During the assault the victim man.
aged to penetrate the "old lady's"
disguise and afterward proclaimed
"her" (his) identity. While that
gentlemanly white man was CARRIED
in the furnishings or paraphernalia
or apparel or buds (take your choice
of name) initiative of an old Negress,
term used by the newspapers, won
der if he possessed the soul of one?
He assumed a new role to deceive
his victim, because he knew the old
one of burnt cork on his face and
hands as a Negro man would not
work, for the reason he could not
succeed in getting his victim from
her home.
Here is the gist of the whole mat
ter: such cussedness, such dastardly,
villainous cussedness as that Georgia
gentleman" planned and attempted
has been so horribly costly to limo
cent men, and had he escaped detec-
ton, by any manner of means, there
is no doubt but what one or more
colored people would have died on
the limb of tree or at the stake for
this gentleman's crime. The white
man is a convertible quantity. He
can be a white man this hour and the
next with little burnt cork or other
"plunder" he can assume the role Of
colored man, and then by the Wig
orous application of water and soar
he is back in trice to his Original
color. If he is villainously inclined
to do some deed which he wishes Il
be saddled upon some colored man
the foregoing is his receipt for turn
ing the trick. Other instances are OF
record where gentlemen" such as
, the Georgia one have by playing the
= role of colored man escaped
the consequences of their crimes
: The Georgia gentleman committed {
capital offense, but owing to his be
ing rich, prominent and influential hi
practically goes scot-free. Poor OLE
Georgia! Where was her outraged
; public sentiment, her outraged popu
lace or "best citizens" her restrain
less heroic and bloodthirsty mobs
= Oh where were they, when that des
ecrator of Southern womanhood, un
der the guise of an old Negro woman
: was pointed out and identified by hi
victim? Oh, where were the usua
chivalrous regulators OF the law
Can it be they saw who it was, rich
t prominent and influential, and decid
ed it was best to take kind of Ri
r Van Wrinkle nap? Yes, it was RICH
that he should have a trial as 1t i