Show nie mo wm at tho emancipation celebration in Chi capri last week 0 H SHOTWELL a colored editor of new orleans de livered an oration he commenced with the following words I 1 will hesni by aal ing you the question has the united states power to protect its citizens in addressing addres you 1 beall aim to be very abnet and to the point tha ao called problem is now a life and death question with a part of the citizens of this country they are being shot murdered and burned at the stake without the sem blance of law he then proceeded to relate a ghail ly ricord for the last year of of faed women and children who had been lynched and nine burned he gives names and dates and many circumstances are quite familiar to the newspaper rending public dinty nino per cent of those lynched or burned he said died protesting their innocence and in a number of in stances when it was too lato innocence laa been proven mr declares that not one anest has been made by soother officials because of these crimes we will faive two instances of the ago deaths related moss chase and stewart were aiken out of jail at memphis tenn march ath aej shot on suspicion of shooting deputy sheriffs these young men were rinaa of a white man named barrett in tho grocery business barrett envia ed thair sought a personal difficulty with them and bot worsted himself and break up their busine ea he threatened to braug his hoodlum crowd and clean them out not having the coa raisa of his convictions he manufactured a dalae charge that the negroes at the curve were against the whites deputy sheriffs she riffa were sent to arrest them the officers went ia half anink and cod fenced firms in every direction to frighten the negros they shot each other and acore tho ahot ahmo the truth la that no negro fired a shot that moss stewert Ste wirt were jailed A mob went to the jail tha fact ia they ere invited in alie jailer unlocked tise gate and dpn the acor the innocent nun nu n opre oon foon f it ane hands ol 01 the inah and hurried away they plead d gieir and begged for lavt s acea begged to be sparred long enough to see his invalid cifa and infant child and on deeina that he must die he cried out let us turn our faces to the coith the word borth infuriated the mob and a dozen bullets were fired through his head ana his brains were scattered to the winds think of it while hot lead was rattling at nis bead for admittance to the citadel of life he made his last appeal to that section of this country which had been most friendly to hia race chae and were dispatched similarly moss was a sabbath school teacher an officer of the church an industrious honeas and honorable citizen loved by all hia own race and trusted and re by the best white people of thaia city in texarkana Tex arkana ark ed boy wes lacerated with knives tied to a tree saturated with coal oil piled up around him and burned to ashes A white woman applied ane torch while uio flesh was broiling on his bones aud the names licking up bis lifeblood life blood the ft bretches retches could not extort a confession confes aion from beai he looked his accuser in the face aid said to her in the presence of the bowling demons yon know I 1 am not guilty thus in testing his innocence to the last his wretched accuser has since admitted his innocence anil it ia stated upon good authority that she is a raving maniac the other southern states furnish the world with eight more exam qually horrible 1 and thus continues the record for moro three hundred and fifty times in one year all the cases which mr SHOTWELL mentions are not as bad as these but they are bad enough such a condition of affairs within the borders of mhd most civilized country iii the world should awaked serious thought and in considering the eject it should be remembered that all these wholesale murders occur ia democratic bbate whether that is a natural tendency of democracy we are not prepared to say but the bictory of the french revola tion when the people took the law in their own lands famish a like bloody record the writer rode through the south by rail a few years ago and in discussing the negro question with an intelligent conductor the question was put what 13 the solution of the race question in the opinion of yon southerners he answered without hesitation there is but one solution we have to kill the off whan they become too officious the negroes themselves say that whenever one of their number begins 0 o ise as a political leader he is thrown nto jail on some trumped up charge ind then lynched they deny that be wholesale lyn chinga are for crimes committed ted history tells us of no rapes when the negroes were left on the plantations to care for their masters wives and children while the ownby off fighting against the the colored men had gruidl opportunities tuni ties then but all praise them for their faithfulness and honor then followed tho reconstruction period after the war and crimes of rape were then laid at the door of the not until we find tiie colored race as a factor in poli we find them charged with an ungovernable passion and with as daulta on white bomea that charge in our opinion is largely false and is used as an excuse for the wholesale lyn chinga that is carried oa for political effect and supremacy |