The Truth about Lynching and the Negro in the South: In which the Author Pleads that the South be Made Safe for the White Race |
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Page 47 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that any provision which may be adopted by such State government in relation to the freed people of such State, which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet...
Page 21 - ... the state, in the name of our insulted laws, of offended virtue, and of slaughtered innocence, to aid us in exterminating this deep-rooted vice from our land. The revolution has been conducted here by the most respectable citizens, heads of families, members of all classes, professions, and pursuits. None have been heard to utter a syllable of censure against either the act or the manner in which it was performed. " An Anti-Gambling Society has been formed, the members of which have pledged their...
Page 106 - By the first section of the ordinance it Is g made unlawful for any colored person to move •Into and occupy as a 'residence, place of abode, or to establish and maintain as a place of public assembly any house upon any block upon which a greater number of houses are occupied as residences, places of abode, or places of public assembly by white people than are occupied as residences, placea of abode, or places of public assembly by colored people.
Page 20 - ... and baleful class of society — and we invite Natchez, Jackson, Columbus, Warrenton, and all our sister towns throughout the state, in the name of our insulted laws, of offended virtue, and of slaughtered innocence, to aid us in exterminating this deep-rooted vice from our land. The revolution has been conducted here by the most respectable citizens, heads of families, members of all classes, professions, and pursuits. None have been heard to utter a syllable of censure against either the act...
Page 107 - Richmond shall not issue any permit in such case unless the applicant complies with the provisions of this section. 4. That nothing In this ordinance shall affect the location of residences made previous to the approval of this ordinance, and nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent the occupation of residences by white or colored servants or employees, on the square or block on which they are so employed.
Page 106 - The Richmond, Ashland, and Winston-Salem ordinances are in substantially the same language and may be treated as one. Prohibitions of the Ordinance. — It is unlawful for any person to occupy as a residence or to establish and maintain as a school or place of public assembly any house upon any street or alley between two adjacent streets on which a greater number of houses are occupied as residences by white people than by colored people; and, similarly, it is unlawful for a colored person to occupy...
Page 62 - While your women may walk from suburb to suburb, and from township to township, without escort and without alarm, there is not a woman of the South, wife or daughter, who would be permitted, or who would dare to walk at twilight unguarded through the residence streets of a populous town, or to ride the outside highways at midday. The terror of the twilight deepens with the darkness, and in the rural regions every farmer leaves his home with apprehension in the morning and thanks God when he comes...
Page 20 - Society may be compared to the elements, which, although ' order is their first law,' can sometimes be purified only by a storm. Whatever, therefore, sickly sensibility or mawkish philanthropy may say against the course pursued by us, we hope that our citizens will not relax the code of punishment which they have enacted against this infamous and baleful class of society — and we invite Natchez, Jackson, Columbus, Warrenton, and all our sister towns throughout the state, in the name of our insulted...
Page 132 - A friend, going to see him one night at his rooms, found him sitting at a table, by the dim light of a tallow dip, laboriously counting a pile of money, and chuckling to himself. " Why," said his visitor, "what amuses you so, Uncle Cuffy ?" "Well, boss," he replied, grinning from ear to ear, "I's been sold in my life 'leven times, an', fo' de Lord, dis is de fust time I eber got de money!
Page 17 - The charge of Judge Lawless (his real name) to the Grand Jury is a sufficient commentary upon the state of St. Louis society. He told the jury that a bad and lamentable deed had been committed, in burning a man alive without trial ; but that it was quite another question whether they were to take any notice of it. If it should be proved to be the act of the few, every one of those few ought undoubtedly to be indicted and punished : but if it should be proved to be the act of the many, incited by...