Show STRIFE IN GEORGIA THE bloody conflict which has been in progress for several days at jessup jt issup georgia is another indication of the inflammable elements which constitute the population of many portions of the south the account of the occurrences reads like ad a ime dime novel yet the details are substantially true it is the old story of colored rene gades shooting white men the latter flying to arms and the negroes to the swamps the battering down of jail doors and assassination of the inma es the appearance of troops on the sanguinary scene colored people flocking to the kitchens and out houses of white friends for protection being in terror of a general massacre of their race the conditi conditions or s have only to by be come mure more unmanageable and unmixable to render the south a gigantic arena for the bloodiest scenes of modern tidies when such a man as general sherman asserts to the world through the columns of a popular magazine that a race collision is inevitable unless certain steps are taken the subject is a serious one the preventive to which he referred was the recognition by the white population of the colored maus mauls legal right to an untrammeled exercise of the elective franchise it may be taken for granted that where there is a prospect or probability of colored voters car yi ying ng an election their legal right will never be conceded by the southerners the latter would probably prefer blood slaughter and death to negro domination consequently if the general be correct in this prediction the conflict must come if it does the same veteran says it will be so disastrous and appalling as to cause the war of the rebellion to be practically forgotten even now the colored population seem to be nearing the point when all they need to cause them to arise in revolt are strong aspiring spirits to lead them to the fray when such eb characters raters appear upon the scene the bloody work will begin the frequent local outbreaks that occur are but the symptoms of a shouldering ing fire susceptible ot of being awakened into general activity |