Horrible Crimes
May 12, 1894
Summary
A black man from Arkansas who had been diagnosed with smallpox is burned to death by a group of white man.
Transcription
The outrageous being perpetrated Upon Us in the Southland tends to arouse the worst passions and cause the spirit of retaliation to have full play. The announcement that a colored man in Ouachita Co, Arkansas, who was presumed to have the smallpox was burned to death Monday April 30, 1894 by white men is one of the most atrocious crimes ever perpetrated.
One has but to image himself sick, thirsting for water, longing for some kind friend to relieve his wants. Instead of kindness comes brutality and murder, and this poor colored man no doubt Endeavor to leave the burning house when the crack of a rifle cause him to stagger and fall to the floor. The greedy, DeVoe come work.The torture that man in the world, the pain he suffered will never be known until the last day. He had committed no crime. She was sick and his murders were heartless and enough to subject him to a punishment worse than death.
Amos Hicks, another colored man who was suspected of burning the gin and Stables of a white armor near Jackson Mississippi. There was no evidence against him, so armed men entered his house Friday night,4th inst, hand him and field his body with bullets. What have the liberty-loving white men of this country to say to this? what do the Patriotic colored man propose to do about it?
Shall these hellish crimes continue forever?Is there not enough manhood in the race to demand a halt and to enforce that demand? is it possible that Christianity is too, weak and that its Believers falter?
The only remedy for this which we know is to adopt that used by white men at and before the beginning of the present century, and treat these Lawless white men as the Indians of bygone days were treated.
Every colored man should have a rifle or a shotgun. Ammunition should be cats on hand in order that the supply of game may be diminished during the hunting season, and that Wallace men may be given an opportunity to go over the river by the bullet route.
Colored men, see to it that when your cabins are attacked and you murdered that at least one of your assailants is sent on ahead of you...
One has but to image himself sick, thirsting for water, longing for some kind friend to relieve his wants. Instead of kindness comes brutality and murder, and this poor colored man no doubt Endeavor to leave the burning house when the crack of a rifle cause him to stagger and fall to the floor. The greedy, DeVoe come work.The torture that man in the world, the pain he suffered will never be known until the last day. He had committed no crime. She was sick and his murders were heartless and enough to subject him to a punishment worse than death.
Amos Hicks, another colored man who was suspected of burning the gin and Stables of a white armor near Jackson Mississippi. There was no evidence against him, so armed men entered his house Friday night,4th inst, hand him and field his body with bullets. What have the liberty-loving white men of this country to say to this? what do the Patriotic colored man propose to do about it?
Shall these hellish crimes continue forever?Is there not enough manhood in the race to demand a halt and to enforce that demand? is it possible that Christianity is too, weak and that its Believers falter?
The only remedy for this which we know is to adopt that used by white men at and before the beginning of the present century, and treat these Lawless white men as the Indians of bygone days were treated.
Every colored man should have a rifle or a shotgun. Ammunition should be cats on hand in order that the supply of game may be diminished during the hunting season, and that Wallace men may be given an opportunity to go over the river by the bullet route.
Colored men, see to it that when your cabins are attacked and you murdered that at least one of your assailants is sent on ahead of you...
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Carlos Serrano
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“Horrible Crimes,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 17, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1542.