Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch says: “Popular indignation against an article in the Herald, a weekly paper edited by a colored man named Jesse Dukes, reached a climax here yesterday. The article came out Saturday, and is as follow : Every day or so we read of the lynching of some negro for assaulting some white woman. Why is it that white women attract negro men now more than in former days ? There was a time when such a thing was unheard of. There is a secret to this th i.g. and wo greatly suspect it is the growing - appreciation of the white Juliet for tbe colored Borneo as he becomes more and more intelligent and relined. If semething is not dene to break up these lyi.cl ings it will be 30 that after awhile tbey will hijeh every co'ored man that looks at a white woman with a twinkle in his eye. A large public mectng to-day adopted resolutions denouncing him a id warning him to keep away from Montgomery at the peril of his life. Dukes’ pt per has been bitterly partisan and more than once con'ained articles to which the white< seriously objected. An Atlanta dispatch says that in 1858 Claiborne Vaughn, a prominent citizen of Cumming, Ga., was murdered by five men. They

were all found guilty; some were sentenced to life imprisonment, others to the death penalty One Jake Pettyjohn escaped and made his way to the Indian Territory. A son of one of the prosecutors moved there a month ago, and in one of his neighbors discovered the murderer. Officers will take him back to the scene of his crime.