The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
introduction and greeting, although every other incident of that morning
6541 words | Chapter 17
was published. The failure to submit a lynching resolution and the wording
of the one above appears to have been the result of that Southern caucus.
On the same day I had a private talk with Miss Willard and told her she
had been unjust to me and the cause in her annual address, and asked that
she correct the statement that I had misrepresented the W.C.T.U, or that I
had "put an imputation on one-half the white race in this country." She
said that somebody in England told her it was a pity that I attacked the
white women of America. "Oh," said I, "then you went out of your way to
prejudice me and my cause in your annual address, not upon what you had
heard me say, but what somebody had told you I said?" Her reply was that I
must not blame her for her rhetorical expressions--that I had my way of
expressing things and she had hers. I told her I most assuredly did blame
her when those expressions were calculated to do such harm. I waited for
an honest an unequivocal retraction of her statements based on "hearsay."
Not a word of retraction or explanation was said in the convention and I
remained misrepresented before that body through her connivance and
consent.
The editorial notes in the _Union Signal_, Dec. 6, 1894, however, contains
the following:
In her repudiation of the charges brought by Miss Ida Wells against
white women as having taken the initiative in nameless crimes between
the races, Miss Willard said in her annual address that this statement
"put an unjust imputation upon half the white race." But as this
expression has been misunderstood she desires to declare that she did
not intend a literal interpretation to be given to the language used,
but employed it to express a tendency that might ensue in public thought
as a result of utterances so sweeping as some that have been made by
Miss Wells.
Because this explanation is as unjust as the original offense, I am forced
in self-defense to submit this account of differences. I desire no quarrel
with the W.C.T.U., but my love for the truth is greater than my regard for
an alleged friend who, through ignorance or design misrepresents in the
most harmful way the cause of a long suffering race, and then unable to
maintain the truth of her attack excuses herself as it were by the wave of
the hand, declaring that "she did not intend a literal interpretation to
be given to the language used." When the lives of men, women and children
are at stake, when the inhuman butchers of innocents attempt to justify
their barbarism by fastening upon a whole race the obloque of the most
infamous of crimes, it is little less than criminal to apologize for the
butchers today and tomorrow to repudiate the apology by declaring it a
figure of speech.
9
LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1894
The following tables are based on statistics taken from the columns of the
_Chicago Tribune_, Jan. 1, 1895. They are a valuable appendix to the
foregoing pages. They show, among other things, that in Louisiana, April
23-28, eight Negroes were lynched because one white man was killed by the
Negro, the latter acting in self defense. Only seven of them are given in
the list.
Near Memphis, Tenn., six Negroes were lynched--this time charged with
burning barns. A trial of the indicted resulted in an acquittal, although
it was shown on trial that the lynching was prearranged for them. Six
widows and twenty-seven orphans are indebted to this mob for their
condition, and this lynching swells the number to eleven Negroes lynched
in and about Memphis since March 9, 1892.
In Brooks County, Ga., Dec. 23, while this Christian country was preparing
for Christmas celebration, seven Negroes were lynched in twenty-four hours
because they refused, or were unable to tell the whereabouts of a colored
man named Pike, who killed a white man. The wives and daughters of these
lynched men were horribly and brutally outraged by the murderers of their
husbands and fathers. But the mob has not been punished and again women
and children are robbed of their protectors whose blood cries unavenged to
Heaven and humanity. Georgia heads the list of lynching states.
MURDER
Jan. 9, Samuel Smith, Greenville, Ala., Jan. 11, Sherman Wagoner,
Mitchell, Ind.; Jan. 12, Roscoe Parker, West Union, Ohio; Feb. 7, Henry
Bruce, Gulch Co., Ark.; March 5, Sylvester Rhodes, Collins, Ga.; March 15,
Richard Puryea, Stroudsburg, Pa.; March 29, Oliver Jackson, Montgomery,
Ala.; March 30, ---- Saybrick, Fisher's Ferry, Miss.; April 14, William
Lewis, Lanison, Ala.; April 23, Jefferson Luggle, Cherokee, Kan.; April
23, Samuel Slaugate, Tallulah, La.; April 23, Thomas Claxton, Tallulah,
La.; April 23, David Hawkins, Tallulah, La.; April 27, Thel Claxton,
Tallulah, La.; April 27, Comp Claxton, Tallulah, La.; April 27, Scot
Harvey, Tallulah, La.; April 27, Jerry McCly, Tallulah, La.; May 17, Henry
Scott, Jefferson, Tex.; May 15, Coat Williams, Pine Grove, Fla.; June 2,
Jefferson Crawford, Bethesda, S.C.; June 4, Thondo Underwood, Monroe, La.;
June 8, Isaac Kemp, Cape Charles, Va.; June 13, Lon Hall, Sweethouse,
Tex.; June 13, Bascom Cook, Sweethouse, Tex.; June 15, Luke Thomas,
Biloxi, Miss.; June 29, John Williams, Sulphur, Tex.; June 29, Ulysses
Hayden, Monett, Mo.; July 6, ---- Hood, Amite, Miss.; July 7, James Bell,
Charlotte, Tenn.; Sept. 2, Henderson Hollander, Elkhorn, W. Va.; Sept. 14,
Robert Williams, Concordia Parish, La.; Sept. 22, Luke Washington, Meghee,
Ark.; Sept. 22, Richard Washington, Meghee, Ark.; Sept. 22, Henry
Crobyson, Meghee, Ark.; Nov. 10, Lawrence Younger, Lloyd, Va.; Dec. 17,
unknown Negro, Williamston, S.C.; Dec. 23, Samuel Taylor, Brooks County,
Ga.; Dec. 23, Charles Frazier, Brooks County, Ga.; Dec. 23, Samuel Pike,
Brooks County, Ga.; Dec. 22, Harry Sherard, Brooks County, Ga.; Dec. 23,
unknown Negro, Brooks County, Ga.; Dec. 23, unknown Negro, Brooks County,
Ga.; Dec. 23, unknown Negro, Brooks County, Ga.; Dec. 26, Daniel McDonald,
Winston County, Miss.; Dec. 23, William Carter, Winston County, Miss.
RAPE
Jan. 17, John Buckner, Valley Park, Mo.; Jan. 21, M.G. Cambell, Jellico
Mines, Ky.; Jan. 27, unknown, Verona, Mo.; Feb. 11, Henry McCreeg, near
Pioneer, Tenn.; April 6, Daniel Ahren, Greensboro, Ga.; April 15, Seymour
Newland, Rushsylvania, Ohio; April 26, Robert Evarts, Jamaica, Ga.; April
27, James Robinson, Manassas, Va.; April 27, Benjamin White, Manassas,
Va.; May 15, Nim Young, Ocala, Fla.; May 22, unknown, Miller County, Ga.;
June 13, unknown, Blackshear, Ga.; June 18, Owen Opliltree, Forsyth, Ga.;
June 22, Henry Capus, Magnolia, Ark.; June 26, Caleb Godly, Bowling Green,
Ky.; June 28, Fayette Franklin, Mitchell, Ga.; July 2, Joseph Johnson,
Hiller's Creek, Mo.; July 6, Lewis Bankhead, Cooper, Ala.; July 16, Marion
Howard, Scottsville, Ky.; July 20, William Griffith, Woodville, Tex.; Aug.
12, William Nershbread, Rossville, Tenn.; Aug. 14, Marshall Boston,
Frankfort, Ky; Sept. 19, David Gooseby, Atlanta, Ga.; Oct. 15, Willis
Griffey, Princeton, Ky; Nov. 8, Lee Lawrence, Jasper County, Ga.; Nov. 10,
Needham Smith, Tipton County, Tenn.; Nov. 14, Robert Mosely, Dolinite,
Ala.; Dec. 4, William Jackson, Ocala, Fla.; Dec. 18, unknown, Marion
County, Fla.
UNKNOWN OFFENSES
March 6, Lamsen Gregory, Bell's Depot, Tenn.; March 6, unknown woman, near
Marche, Ark.; April 14, Alfred Brenn, Calhoun, Ga.; June 8, Harry Gill,
West Lancaster, S.C.; Nov. 23, unknown, Landrum, S.C.; Dec. 5, Mrs. Teddy
Arthur, Lincoln County, W. Va.
DESPERADO
Jan. 14, Charles Willis, Ocala, Fla.
SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM
Jan. 18, unknown, Bayou Sarah, La.
SUSPECTED ARSON
June 14, J.H. Dave, Monroe, La.
ENTICING SERVANT AWAY
Feb. 10, ---- Collins, Athens, Ga.
TRAIN WRECKING
Feb. 10, Jesse Dillingham, Smokeyville, Tex.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY
June 3, unknown, Dublin, Ga.
INCENDIARISM
Nov. 8, Gabe Nalls, Blackford, Ky.; Nov. 8, Ulysses Nails, Blackford, Ky.
ARSON
Dec. 20, James Allen, Brownsville, Tex.
ASSAULT
Dec. 23, George King, New Orleans, La.
NO OFFENSE
Dec. 28, Scott Sherman, Morehouse Parish, La.
BURGLARY
May 29, Henry Smith, Clinton, Miss.; May 29, William James, Clinton,
Miss.
ALLEGED RAPE
June 4, Ready Murdock, Yazoo, Miss.
ATTEMPTED RAPE
July 14, unknown Negro, Biloxi, Miss.; July 26, Vance McClure, New Iberia,
La.; July 26, William Tyler, Carlisle, Ky.; Sept. 14, James Smith, Stark,
Fla.; Oct. 8, Henry Gibson, Fairfield, Tex.; Oct. 20, ---- Williams, Upper
Marlboro, Md.; June 9, Lewis Williams, Hewett Springs, Miss.; June 28,
George Linton, Brookhaven, Miss.; June 28, Edward White, Hudson, Ala.;
July 6, George Pond, Fulton, Miss.; July 7, Augustus Pond, Tupelo, Miss.
RACE PREJUDICE
June 10, Mark Jacobs, Bienville, La.; July 24, unknown woman, Sampson
County, Miss.
INTRODUCING SMALLPOX
June 10, James Perry, Knoxville, Ark.
KIDNAPPING
March 2, Lentige, Harland County, Ky.
CONSPIRACY
May 29, J.T. Burgis, Palatka, Fla.
HORSE STEALING
June 20, Archie Haynes, Mason County, Ky.; June 20, Burt Haynes, Mason
County, Ky.; June 20, William Haynes, Mason County, Ky.
WRITING LETTER TO WHITE WOMAN
May 9, unknown Negro, West Texas.
GIVING INFORMATION
July 12, James Nelson, Abbeyville, S.C.
STEALING
Jan. 5, Alfred Davis, Live Oak County, Ark.
LARCENY
April 18, Henry Montgomery, Lewisburg, Tenn.
POLITICAL CAUSES
July 19, John Brownlee, Oxford, Ala.
CONJURING
July 20, Allen Myers, Rankin County, Miss.
ATTEMPTED MURDER
June 1, Frank Ballard, Jackson, Tenn.
ALLEGED MURDER
April 5, Negro, near Selma, Ala.; April 5, Negro, near Selma, Ala.
WITHOUT CAUSE
May 17, Samuel Wood, Gates City, Va.
BARN BURNING
April 22, Thomas Black, Tuscumbia, Ala.; April 22, John Williams,
Tuscumbia, Ala.; April 22, Toney Johnson, Tuscumbia, Ala.; July 14,
William Bell, Dixon, Tenn.; Sept. 1, Daniel Hawkins, Millington, Tenn.;
Sept. 1, Robert Haynes, Millington, Tenn.; Sept. 1, Warner Williams,
Millington, Tenn.; Sept. 1, Edward Hall, Millington, Tenn.; Sept. 1, John
Haynes, Millington, Tenn.; Sept. 1, Graham White, Millington, Tenn.
ASKING WHITE WOMAN TO MARRY HIM
May 23, William Brooks, Galesline, Ark.
OFFENSES CHARGED FOR LYNCHING
Suspected arson, 2; stealing, 1; political causes, 1; murder, 45; rape,
29; desperado, 1; suspected incendiarism, 1; train wrecking, 1; enticing
servant away, 1; kidnapping, 1; unknown offense, 6; larceny, 1; barn
burning, 10; writing letters to a white woman, 1; without cause, 1;
burglary, 1; asking white woman to marry, 1; conspiracy, 1; attempted
murder, 1; horse stealing, 3; highway robbery, 1; alleged rape, 1;
attempted rape, 11; race prejudice, 2; introducing smallpox, 1; giving
information, 1; conjuring, 1; incendiarism, 2; arson, 1; assault, 1; no
offense, 1; alleged murder, 2; total (colored), 134.
LYNCHING STATES
Mississippi, 15; Arkansas, 8; Virginia, 5; Tennessee, 15; Alabama, 12;
Kentucky, 12; Texas, 9; Georgia, 19; South Carolina, 5; Florida, 7;
Louisiana, 15; Missouri, 4; Ohio, 2; Maryland, 1; West Virginia, 2;
Indiana, 1; Kansas, 1; Pennsylvania, 1.
LYNCHING BY THE MONTH
January, 11; February, 17; March, 8; April, 36; May, 16; June, 31; July,
21; August, 4; September, 17; October, 7; November, 9; December, 20; total
colored and white, 197.
WOMEN LYNCHED
July 24, unknown woman, race prejudice, Sampson County, Miss.; March 6,
unknown, woman, unknown offense, Marche, Ark.; Dec. 5, Mrs. Teddy Arthur,
unknown cause, Lincoln County, W. Va.
10
THE REMEDY
It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.
Herein rests our respect for law. The Negro does not claim that all of the
one thousand black men, women and children, who have been hanged, shot and
burned alive during the past ten years, were innocent of the charges made
against them. We have associated too long with the white man not to have
copied his vices as well as his virtues. But we do insist that the
punishment is not the same for both classes of criminals. In lynching,
opportunity is not given the Negro to defend himself against the
unsupported accusations of white men and women. The word of the accuser is
held to be true and the excited bloodthirsty mob demands that the rule of
law be reversed and instead of proving the accused to be guilty, the
victim of their hate and revenge must prove himself innocent. No evidence
he can offer will satisfy the mob; he is bound hand and foot and swung
into eternity. Then to excuse its infamy, the mob almost invariably
reports the monstrous falsehood that its victim made a full confession
before he was hanged.
With all military, legal and political power in their hands, only two of
the lynching States have attempted a check by exercising the power which
is theirs. Mayor Trout, of Roanoke, Virginia, called out the militia in
1893, to protect a Negro prisoner, and in so doing nine men were killed
and a number wounded. Then the mayor and militia withdrew, left the Negro
to his fate and he was promptly lynched. The business men realized the
blow to the town's were given light sentences, the highest being one of
twelve financial interests, called the mayor home, the grand jury
indicted and prosecuted the ringleaders of the mob. They months in State
prison. The day he arrived at the penitentiary, he was pardoned by the
governor of the State.
The only other real attempt made by the authorities to protect a prisoner
of the law, and which was more successful, was that of Gov. McKinley, of
Ohio, who sent the militia to Washington Courthouse, O., in October, 1894,
and five men were killed and twenty wounded in maintaining the principle
that the law must be upheld.
In South Carolina, in April, 1893, Gov. Tillman aided the mob by yielding
up to be killed, a prisoner of the law, who had voluntarily placed himself
under the Governor's protection. Public sentiment by its representatives
has encouraged Lynch Law, and upon the revolution of this sentiment we
must depend for its abolition.
Therefore, we demand a fair trial by law for those accused of crime, and
punishment by law after honest conviction. No maudlin sympathy for
criminals is solicited, but we do ask that the law shall punish all alike.
We earnestly desire those that control the forces which make public
sentiment to join with us in the demand. Surely the humanitarian spirit of
this country which reaches out to denounce the treatment of the Russian
Jews, the Armenian Christians, the laboring poor of Europe, the Siberian
exiles and the native women of India--will not longer refuse to lift its
voice on this subject. If it were known that the cannibals or the savage
Indians had burned three human beings alive in the past two years, the
whole of Christendom would be roused, to devise ways and means to put a
stop to it. Can you remain silent and inactive when such things are done
in our own community and country? Is your duty to humanity in the United
States less binding?
What can you do, reader, to prevent lynching, to thwart anarchy and
promote law and order throughout our land?
1st. You can help disseminate the facts contained in this book by bringing
them to the knowledge of every one with whom you come in contact, to the
end that public sentiment may be revolutionized. Let the facts speak for
themselves, with you as a medium.
2d. You can be instrumental in having churches, missionary societies,
Y.M.C.A.'s, W.C.T.U.'s and all Christian and moral forces in connection
with your religious and social life, pass resolutions of condemnation and
protest every time a lynching takes place; and see that they axe sent to
the place where these outrages occur.
3d. Bring to the intelligent consideration of Southern people the refusal
of capital to invest where lawlessness and mob violence hold sway. Many
labor organizations have declared by resolution that they would avoid
lynch infested localities as they would the pestilence when seeking new
homes. If the South wishes to build up its waste places quickly, there is
no better way than to uphold the majesty of the law by enforcing obedience
to the same, and meting out the same punishment to all classes of
criminals, white as well as black. "Equality before the law," must become
a fact as well as a theory before America is truly the "land of the free
and the home of the brave."
4th. Think and act on independent lines in this behalf, remembering that
after all, it is the white man's civilization and the white man's
government which are on trial. This crusade will determine whether that
civilization can maintain itself by itself, or whether anarchy shall
prevail; Whether this Nation shall write itself down a success at self
government, or in deepest humiliation admit its failure complete; whether
the precepts and theories of Christianity are professed and practiced by
American white people as Golden Rules of thought and action, or adopted as
a system of morals to be preached to, heathen until they attain to the
intelligence which needs the system of Lynch Law.
5th. Congressman Blair offered a resolution in the House of
Representatives, August, 1894. The organized life of the country can
speedily make this a law by sending resolutions to Congress indorsing Mr.
Blair's bill and asking Congress to create the commission. In no better
way can the question be settled, and the Negro does not fear the issue.
The following is the resolution:
Resolved, By the House of Representatives and Senate in congress
assembled, That the committee on labor be instructed to investigate and
report the number, location and date of all alleged assaults by males
upon females throughout the country during the ten years last preceding
the passing of this joint resolution, for or on account of which
organized but unlawful violence has been inflicted or attempted to be
inflicted. Also to ascertain and report all facts of organized but
unlawful violence to the person, with the attendant facts and
circumstances, which have been inflicted upon accused persons alleged to
have been guilty of crimes punishable by due process of law which have
taken place in any part of the country within the ten years last
preceding the passage of this resolution. Such investigation shall be
made by the usual methods and agencies of the Department of Labor, and
report made to Congress as soon as the work can be satisfactorily done,
and the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is
hereby appropriated to pay the expenses out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
The belief has been constantly expressed in England that in the United
States, which has produced Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Henry Ward Beecher, James
Russell Lowell, John G. Whittier and Abraham Lincoln there must be those
of their descendants who would take hold of the work of inaugurating an
era of law and order. The colored people of this country who have been
loyal to the flag believe the same, and strong in that belief have begun
this crusade. To those who still feel they have no obligation in the
matter, we commend the following lines of Lowell on "Freedom."
Men! whose boast it is that ye
Come of fathers brave and free,
If there breathe on earth a slave
Are ye truly free and brave?
If ye do not feel the chain,
When it works a brother's pain,
Are ye not base slaves indeed,
Slaves unworthy to be freed?
Women! who shall one day bear
Sons to breathe New England air,
If ye hear without a blush,
Deeds to make the roused blood rush
Like red lava through your veins,
For your sisters now in chains,--
Answer! are ye fit to be
Mothers of the brave and free?
Is true freedom but to break
Fetters for our own dear sake,
And, with leathern hearts, forget
That we owe mankind a debt?
No! true freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear,
And, with heart and hand, to be
Earnest to make others free!
There are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.
A FIELD FOR PRACTICAL WORK
The very frequent inquiry made after my lectures by interested friends is
"What can I do to help the cause?" The answer always is: "Tell the world
the facts." When the Christian world knows the alarming growth and extent
of outlawry in our land, some means will be found to stop it.
The object of this publication is to tell the facts, and friends of the
cause can lend a helping hand by aiding in the distribution of these
books. When I present our cause to a minister, editor, lecturer, or
representative of any moral agency, the first demand is for facts and
figures. Plainly, I can not then hand out a book with a twenty-five-cent
tariff on the information contained. This would be only a new method in
the book agents' art. In all such cases it is a pleasure to submit this
book for investigation, with the certain assurance of gaining a friend to
the cause.
There are many agencies which may be enlisted in our cause by the general
circulation of the facts herein contained. The preachers, teachers,
editors and humanitarians of the white race, at home and abroad, must have
facts laid before them, and it is our duty to supply these facts. The
Central Anti-Lynching League, Room 9, 128 Clark St., Chicago, has
established a Free Distribution Fund, the work of which can be promoted by
all who are interested in this work.
Antilynching leagues, societies and individuals can order books from this
fund at agents' rates. The books will be sent to their order, or, if
desired, will be distributed by the League among those whose cooperative
aid we so greatly need. The writer hereof assures prompt distribution of
books according to order, and public acknowledgment of all orders through
the public press.
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