Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — The Yazoo Tragedies. [ARTICLE]

The Yazoo Tragedies.

No one believes the Fagan brothers, at Brookville, or those* four Africans, at Yazoo, would ever have been punished had they been white. It was the hellish hatred of their color that doomed them to death. These atrocities are but fresh illustrations and proofs that in the South there is one law for the white man and another for the block put it mtn-e rectly, there is no law at all—it is impunity for the whites and assassination for the blacks. And yet, when these iniamies are mentioned and commented on, the Democratic doughfaces of the North join their allies “down on the Yazoo” in raising the old screed and yell about “waving the bloody shirt.”— Fort Wayne Gazette.