Show STOP assassinating I 1 the discuss discussion I 1 oa of the outrages at wilmington a nd and phoenix shows no ai signs ns of growing less but it is a sin singular gular tact that those who engage in the discussion white and ba black ack as a general rule pity pay nu no attention to the really serious question t involved in it it is not a question of the end sought to be obtained but of the method of obtaining it it is not a local question it is not a political question it is not a race question it is a question of civilization it is a question of whether the american people are deliberately going to adopt murder arson felonious assault and intimidation as modes of procedure for the redress of wrongs real or fancied in place of the enforcement of the laws said and as political agencies instead of appeals to reason and the exercise of a free suffrage this is ia the real question that conf confronts routis the american people north and south east and west without regard to party or race the causes for which such methods are used vary ila in localities and at seasons but the principle is the same in all cases and the people who defend the use of such methods in in some cases usually denounce them in ia other cases to foreia foreigners ders who are not interested in the controversies which beget resort to these methods the great problem presented is the I 1 effect of tree free government on deiv civilization what d does oes it mean there is no other cavid civilized country on earth in which mobbing and lynching lunching lyn ching are resorted to as here it is is gro growing wing to be regarded as aa a dis american system and there is only too much cause fur for this opinion there is absolutely no excuse or justification for outrages in the south as have recently occurred grant every claim that is made of the objectionable traits of the southern negro grant all that may be said of the influence of demagogues and disreputable schemers grant all the dangers of negro domination still there is no justification for mob violence the whites have the intelligence the wealth and the actual control in the south sooth they have the legislatures the executives the schools the policed power the political control in every southern state and have had it for years cc certainly they can find some mode of governing govern irig that does not involve resort to thi the shotgun and mask sorely Star elv our free institutions there ISDO bisno occasion for a revival of the medieval system under which they who had taw civil power reinforced in forced it ty liy poison and the atil letto yet act it is ia that j W worse one if oon lion that sends bands af f ca WM ed and d often dis di enforce jall vt a u upon their allo i e sentinel ef has denounced nd protested ted agama I 1 ta usi law ben 1 ever and wherever it occurred and will continue to do so it would urge on all that this is a case where here reform should bein begin at home w because the common excuse is the statement you do the same thing there is an illustration at hand yesterdays sentinel contained three articles bearing on this question one was an account of a shooting affray between a colored man recent recently lv mobbed in this state and the mayor of seymour whom i he bad accused of participating in the mobbing it is not questioned that the mob was composed in part of colored men another was an account of a speech bv a colored man from wilmington who insisted that theat the trouble there was not racial but purely political that the democrats would not allow republicans white or black their political privileges the third was a sermon by a col colored or ed preacher who maintained that the whole source of trouble was states right or local self gov ern ment and that the remedy was national control in local affairs he forgets that this mob spirit is jug just t as aa bad in on olaf part of america as in in another that it is is as opples give sive in in the territories where the national government is supreme as in the states he did not even refer to the mobbing of the col ored man at seymour by colored men in part which was as in the I 1 south for political reasons he almost condoned the crime crime in in his bis contemplation of the cause saying even the slaughter of hundreds hundred I 1 of our people by mob violence in many of the southern states when properly considered is a cause for thanksgiving it marks the progress of events as nothing else can indicate the nearing of the end i there is nothing in murder itself 1 to be thankful for but when life is I 1 lost in the promotion of a just cause it is saved the popular thought is that slavery was the I 1 cause of the civil war it was i i only a subordinate cause underneath it as a bed rock was the damnable political heresy of state rights what a delusion every one of these outrages is perpetrated under the plea that it is to further a just cause no matter what the actual cause may be it is an application of the theory that the end justifies the means and martyrdom of this character is not going to do away with states rights the people p le of this country believe in local self government and will adhere to it they know that national control would not stop atop lunching lynching lyn kyn ching and mobbing the remedy is not for one part of the people to control another part but for the people everywhere verv where to control themselves and the colored people have their part in this work they must learn the lesl lesson on of tOl toleration Crati and respect for law as well as the whites though they are not so much to ie be blamed as the whites from whom they learned mo mobbing abbing and lynching lunching lyn ching unless this is done american civilization will become a byword and a re reproach throughout the world this ilia feature of our existence is not civilization it is barbarism of the worst type no matter in what cause it may may be exercised indianapolis sentinel dem if ar all the great southern journal would gird up their loins and follow in the footsteps of the great democratic organ of indiana and refrain from urging the southern people to mob and lynch ivner ne negroes groes upon the slightest provocation they could coald render invaluable e assistance si in belp helping i ing to sow the seeds of liberty and i justice asti re the advice which the sentinel imparts to the negroes is is timely and just josi the negro negm must become tolerant and absolutely refuse to assist in helping ma to mob and lynch burn human n brings ingabe be they black blick font he hickes noldo do so he has no right or cause to grumble or complain if he is mobbed and lynched and idaet bated by the whites so far the great trouble has been with the negroes is that when aney are collected together they are always ready and willing to fight and to cat and shoot each other but bat if they are called upon to defend their wives their children aud and their homes the most of them will run like jack 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