Herald of Kansas. [volume], February 13, 1880, Image 2

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HERALD OF KANSAS,
H. C. Rutherford, W. L Eagleson,
Editors and. Publishers.
For a State Convention of
Colored Men.
At the request of many colored citizens
of this citj and various farts ot the
state, the undersigned have determined
to call a convention of the leading col
ored men of this State, to assemble in this
city, on
April E~3h, SBSO,
at 12 o’clock, m
For the purpose of considering the exo
dus in all its phases, and such other mat
ters as may be brought before tha conven
tion.
Delegates will be chosen upon* tne basis
of hne representative to everv lot) voter*,
or fractional pait over that number. Let
there be a full representation Lorn all
parts of the State.
C Signed)
Rev. L. Fulbright. J. J. Jennings, John
t. arter, R<*v. J. F. Thom e*, Joseph Jones,
•{. W. Smith, A. W. Kuykendall, James
Martin. J. H. Stuart, C. L. de Rand unie
W. A. Syzemore, Rev. W O, Lynch. C,
M. Johnson. A. de France. IL Shattio.
E. Matthews. M. VV\. Overton, W. L.
Easleson, E, il, White, Topeka.
C. 11. Langston, John M. Waller, J. M.
.Mitchell. Rev. Ricketts. Douglass county.
Rev. I x . Parrh-h, Atchison.
G. S. W. Lewis. R. T. Diingee, Emporia.
Hoses Holt. F< rt <eott.
Rev. L, W Winn, Baxter Spring*.
Tayloi Jackson, Kinsley. Hodgeman Co.
OHJJX XGBL'W r.M.
W. B. Townsend, Leavenworth.
Rev. Rufus Sparks, Baxter Springs.
John L. Waller. Laurence
Xoses Holt. Fort bcott.
A. B. Coleman, Enterprise, Miss.
Special Notice,
. The editors of The Herald are not
josponsible for the views expressed
by correspondents.
Our columns are open to all. Per
sons writing communicatiofis to this
paper MUS T cut it short, or we will
he competed to consign your pro
ductions to the waste basket. Write
as often »• von desire, but if you
wish to see it in print YOU MUST
WRITE T< > TH E POINT.
Friday Morning, Feb. 13.
N«tice.
By mutual consent on the part of
the publishers of this paper and an
other firm of publishers, v? e change
the head lines of our paper so as to
read “HERALD OF KANSAS.”
This change saves us from having
to pay some $200,000 damages.
Mississippi never gets in the fix
(ha Maine is in. Down here we
“make our calling and election sure.”
—Carroll (Miss.) Courier.
We should t»<y you did. You
have a fashion “down here’’of calling
a fellow to his door at night, and thai
his “election is sure” no one xvili
doubt. What the bt;U-d‘»z»*rs ot Mis
sissippi don’t know about •‘calling’’
isn't worth knowing. They call when
juu least expect them.
When a white in»n commit* mur
der he is hung. Wl.en an Indian
does the same itnno he is treated to
a trip to Washington.—Atchison Pa
triot.
How this world is gr j n to lying.
How many “whi e men” have been
hung in the South for murder
ing inotTensive colored men ? The
Patriot is calle i upon to investigate
this murdering and we
think it will discover that it has mur
dered truth horribly.
The New York Herald ba* started
the Irish Ballet Fund, by contributing
SIOOXOO toward helping ’he Rufferera
This knock* the polish otT of Gould’s
gitt oi $5 000 tor tie relief of the ne
groes that have setiled out on his
railroad land.—Kau.-ae Democrat.
We are coaatrnZned to s’v that our
Democratic contemporary diticra
from Washington in somv respect*.
1t is *aid of George (Lal hu “never”
not even “hardly ever” told ’em. The
Gould donation ter the relief of the
te ogees alowg Lie road went aln o*t
entire io the whites. m there are to*
colored settlers in the extreme wnft
?rn counties. The Lfmocrst lit*
Negro on th. brain, nee 4, „
>'hj»ic, which will be gives ii in No
member in the .hap. „f »
"IcUtcribe lor fuTk.iTlt
‘‘HELL’S BROKE LOOSE IN
GEORGIA.”
Worse Thau Slavery.
Sentenced for Life for Stealing
ji Usickerel--Tlie Ante-llrl
liuu Slavery Days Outdone.
—t hawed by ESloiedliou
and Wizinped to Death.
A correspondent for tho Chicago
Inter-Ocean gives a description of the
convict chain gang system which is
practiced in Georgia that seems too
horrible to believe, that human beings
would be so lost to fueling a» to tole
rate; but facts are stubbora things,
and he professes to deal .with facts.
In 1880 the chain gang became an
institution in Georgia by au act of
tbe Legislature authorizing the Gov
ernor to tense out the convicts to one
♦
person, or one compr.nv ot persons,
tor two years. This was the begin
ning of what has since developed
into the most brutal system of slave
ry the world ha* ever known —a sla
very in which the slave’s life is not
protected even by a market value.
The convicts were worked from day
light lo ten o’clock at night, and al
lo wed no rest for the Sabbath. Fe
males were worked indiscriminately
with tbe men, and were chained on
the same sleeping bunks with them
at night.
There are 1,275 convicts in the
chain gangs, and only 115 of them
white men. There are thirty-six col
ored woman, and but one white wo
man air.png them. A colored man
was sentenced to the jjpmtentiarv for
life for stealing a mackerel. A Demo
cratic Senator, who was opposed to
the system, stated on, the floor of tbe
Senate that two thirds of the negroes
went io the chain gang because they
stole bread to feed their children.
One colored man was whipped io
death; the clothing of another was
brought to the State officer, with the
statement that the convict had esca
ped but the clothing was bloody and
perforated with bullets. A nether
wa« thrown into a burning turnace
and burned t » ashes right in the city
of Atlanta. The average death-rate
of all the prisons of the United Slates
is less than one per cunt, per annum,
but there the death-rate leached as
high as ten per cent. Over twenty
five bastard children have been horn
in the penitentiary, the paterniiv ot
three of whom have been ascribed to
one of the lessees.
The convict slaves are leased out to
men who entirely control them, who
have to pay but six cents per day
for their hire and -only $20l) if am?
escapes. A white mm with money
can bribe his wav out, but there is
no chance for the poor unfortnna'e
colored people. If a colored man at
tempts to escape he is shot down like
a dog, and should the biiileia miss
him, they hive blood hounds to track
him down. Oiie escaped one day and
took refuge in a lake, to which the
hounds tracked him. The guard told
him to con e out. hut he was afraid
of the dogs, which they would not
call olF; thereupon the guards riddled
him with bullets, amt be sank in the
water dead
If a colored mnn breaks a contract,
bp is sentenced to twelve mnn’lis on
the chain gang. A guard deliberate
ly shot to death r* cook at one of the
camps, and the coroner*jury brought
in a verdict of accidental shooting.
Under a new lease the State agrees to
furnish one of the*e companies with
three hundred able bodied mentor
the next twenty years.
IV hen such atrocities are perpetra
ted upon a class of people with tho
States sanction, can it be wondered at
that they do-ire to leave for more
congenial c’.;mcc. These damnable
outrages arc «o well known that can
didate* promise to use their influence
•n abolish the evils of the system i n
order tn rstrh the colored vote. We
hope that *o long a* »he«e outrages
continue the colored people will con
iwiie to leave the South, until those
ii. power will see the error of their
and reoent sack cloth and
an J Accord cquil justice to all.
The Whipping Post in Virginia.
We copy below an article clipped
from the Virginia Star, in order to
give our readers an idea of what our
people suffer in some sections of this
country. He who can oppose the
exodus after reading this article, cer
tainly has no humanity in his soul:
Lizzie Perkins, the colored girl,
who by acting Police Justice Crutch
field, was sentenced to the citv j til
for twelve memths, and to receive
seventy-eight lashes upon her bare
back, tor stealing $5.50, bis through
thu clemency of his Exclleneucy Gov.
Holiday, been relieved of thirty-nine
of these stripes. The matter was
brought to the attention of the ciii
siens of Jackson ward, bv Capt. Ben
jamin Scott. The citizens of the
ward immediately became aroused,
and a committee was appointed to see
to the matter. They met at the Star
office and then went to see the Gov.
with the result as above staled.
They then reported to their ward,
r.nd prepared certain resolutions con
demning the inhuman action of the
acting Police Justice, which were
unanimously adopted.
9ent*£b£e to iSie S.ums.
We clip the following from the
Christian Recorder:
The colored American who does
not subscribe, pay for ami read one
or more colored papers now publish-:
e \ should he regelated to tke rear.
The tact that he i* looked upon as a
leader ought not to change the affsir
in rhe least: rather should it add to
Um intensity. How can any man
hope to lead when he Know not the
spirit of the people before whom he
nuts himseh ’ And as it relates to
the church, »tris is especialy true of
the Recorder. The African Me!ho
diat wbo does not sub cribe, pay for
and read Hie Recorder is not the msm
to lead on the church in her great
work. Nor is there auv exceptions
to this rule, know the man much or
liitle. If he would lead rhe Connec
tion wisely and successfully, he must
read the Recorder.
Three members of the Georgia
Legislature were found lying in the
i His of Atlanta the other night drunk.
They were arrested and incarcerated,
and when they become sober they
raised a power.ul howl—about their
•‘honah.”
That beats the carpet-baggers.
The legislature of Louisiana has
enacted a law making it a criminal
offence to encourage emigration, and
requiring persons acting as emigra
tion agents to. pay a license of $5tK)
f>r every parish in which -they do
bu«ine-8 This brings her up to the
Mississippi standard.
There seem* to be a little good
luck f< rcolored newsp iper men about
this lime Lieutenant Howard L.
Smith, of Waslrnglou, D. C., who ha?
hren coune’tel wiih -ev<T:il newspa
pers, saved two children from a wa
trrv grave three \ rars ago. ‘The
father of the children died a short
time silica and willed Mr Howard
$27 000 ns a token of his gratitude.
And now comes the pre*-man of the
Winchester Democrat and gets Sl.4lK'
pen-ion money from the government.
—Exchange
L e await with anxietv the demise
of i-ome of our vzea thy trieuds-
Please burry up the corpse.
f/Cts on Kansas, L’eiith. AVashing
loii and \re*:eru avenues at
C. L. d Raxliamie,
Beal K-tute agt.
lOd Kansas Avenue.
* ° ro ‘’ Gutter at Hindman’s.
243 Kansas Ave,
D. HOLIES.
9>Kl <4<£lNT and j n
® Oil t«illoncr t.
?urr Medicinal Wines and LHuor
e. Tokeka Kan. 2V, if.
J. 11. STUART,
ATTOUVI AM>
< O| XftLLOH AT I.A>v.
Will practice hi all the Cour" of this
bUte, nnl aiien<i to Law buiiiwu
general!?.
OFFICE- No. 128 Kansas Are.
i p-*tair».
ioixka, - . Kansas
Tlianioi
We copty the following complimen
tary notXre from the Common\vepJ.tU»
or this city : ;
The Colorsd Citizen has in part
changed i»s proprietors and fully
changed its name. Lt is now The
Kansas Herald, and Mr. H. C.
Rutherfora is associated with Mr.
Eagleson in its publication. That
paper is doing good work, ami should
be liberally sustained.
The Capital, of this city, says :
The Colored Citizen of thi* city is
en'arged and comes out ns The Kan
sas Weekly Herald, Rutherford &
Eagleson, editors and publishers.
Ihe Herald is the only paper in
Kansas published bv colored men,
and should have the most hearty sup
port ot the colored people of Kansas
whose battle it.dxearnestly fighting.
Hudson knpws a good paper when
he sees it, for he runs one of the best
papers in the State,
The colored people of Kan«es will
discover, when it is too late, that they
can let their present paper, The Kan
sas IIKiiALD, die much v:uier than
they can get another. Have they
never heard that “a stitch in time
saves nine ?’
We clip the above, from that ably
edited journal, the Christian Recor
der, for which we return our thanks.
DONNELL&HAY.
BLACKSMITHS.
HORSI -SHOEING a ePECJALITYs
Warranted to cure all sore feet, and stop
Lrscs from interfering, or no pay. Plows
and W.agous repaired whh neatness and
(ILpateb. shop corner First and Kansas
avenue. Give as a call. 4*-tt
W. M. DIGNON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
FURNITURE
Of the latest Designs,and Best
Workman-ship, at Prices
Lower than the Lowest*
Call and see mv Slock before pur
chasing, 232 Kansas Avenue, betweru
7th and Bih. TGLEKA. KANSAS
I6tf
W. STOKER
—general—
Furnishing Undertaker
AND
wholesale and Retail dealer in Wood and
Metalh- Burial Ca-ket* and Gases of the
Latent ami most improved Stsle*. The
largest mU finri.t stock in the City or
Male. ! sell at Granger’s price®.
Ail goods warranted. I
tee satisfaction in
PRESERVING, EMBALMING AND
SHIPPING BODIES TO EVERY PART
OF THE GLOBE.
I and Carriage* furnished on order.
Orders by mail and telegraph filled and
an-wered immediate!v. orfireepen
at all hours, at the old stand.
IVlisnsis Ave., near the Coin t House
Uuf KA ’ ’ ’ “ KAXSAS -
QUEEN CITY
Hoot
STORE
READY-MADE BOOTS
AND SHOES ALWAYS
ON HAND,
AMD AT
THE LOWES I LIVING PRICES
Call and examine
our stock and be
satisfied.
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busings) your utmauu
proves, I am HO-ain MfcatuhMi
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other turn. Yours,
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Corner Kansas v»-
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