Another Outrage

A black man and his wife were tortured and killed by lynchers, and the paper advocates for return violence.

The report of the outrageous treatment of Jim Beavers and the barbarous punishment to which his wife were subjected in Alabama is the most fiendish that we have been called upon in recent years to chronicle. It arouses all of the passion inherent in the human breast, and leads me to enquire as to how long the American people expect us either as individuals or as a race to submit.
Mr. Beavers' treatment was bad enough, but that of his wife was beyond the pale of reason. Although in a delicate condition, she was beaten in a manner which rivals the most brutal tortures of the Middle Ages. What is our opinion about it? The American citizen of African descent must protect himself. All the talk about hunting down the guilty parties is the veriest sham.
Jim Beavers should have owned a repeating rifle, and should have used its contents upon the fiends who so cowardly assaulted him and his wife.
Womanhood must be protected, and the men who would take out in the dead hour of the night his wife in a partly nude condition and lash her until great welts formed and the fingers could be laid in the furrows of the flesh should be sent to their long home.
We feel like assisting him in this matter although he is no kin to us. When colored men determine to die in defense of their homes, then these outrages will cease.
What we say relative to outrageous perpetrated upon colored men and women by white men would be equally applicable to outrages perpetrated upon white men and women by colored men.
Liberal minded, justice-loving white men will commend our course. Colored men, make up your minds to die in defense of yourself and your families. Be true, and fear not. Lynch-law must go!

“Another Outrage,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 19, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1656.