Jul 30th, 2009
It would seem, therefore, as if it was inevitable that the question of
emancipation is to be thrust upon us, and we must be prepared to meet
it. It is in this view, and irrespective of the question of right and
wrong in slavery, that some considerations present themselves, which can
not be ignored.
Jul 29th, 2009
While the white Mississippians were laying
the corner stone of a Confederate monument at Jackson, the black
Mississippians were holding the closing exercises of their university
at Tougaloo, only seven miles away.
Jul 27th, 2009
Efforts of four policemen were required to arrest a Negress and as a result there is the following list of injured: Patrolman Dubach, left arm bitten; Patrolman Harding, right arm bitten, Patrolmen Schneider, face lacerations; Patrolmen Reardon, left ankle bitten and a pair of uniform trousers damaged. The trouble started when a white man, Frank Brickler, Newport, Ky., met Patrolman Dubach and Harding at Fifth and Smith street and told them that a Negress had robbed him of $3.
