Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — THE CURSE OF THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE CURSE OF THE SOUTH.

Our Miami, Fla , visitors D. H. Yeoman and family and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Washburn, have no doubt ere this learned something of the “negro question” in the south. A couple of weeks ago Miami was thrown into a furor of excitement over a black brute’s attempt to assault a respectable white woman. The woman’s face and throat were slashed with a knife in the hands of the burly negro and only the timely passing by of a pedistrian who heard the noise and struck a match to investigate, saved the woman from being cut to pieces. Unfortunately the fiexd made his escape, or David and William might have assisted in carrying a few faggots or in pulling at the rope.