[45:18] This recalls an account of the Texan Negro insurrection of 1860 as quoted by _The Liberator_ of July 21, 1860: “The old females were to be slaughtered along with the men, and the young and handsome women were to be parcelled out among those infamous scoundrels. They had even gone so far as to designate their choice. . . . The Negroes have been incited to these infernal proceedings by the abolitionists.” [45:19] _St. Louis Republican_, Aug. 24, 1875. Accounts of riots in Mississippi, in which several were killed, were given by the same paper, Sept. 5, 7, 1875. CHAPTER III LYNCHING FROM THE END OF CARPET-BAG RULE TO THE PRESENT TIME Beginning in 1885, _The Chicago Daily Tribune_[48:1] has kept a record of lynchings to the present time. Although statistics are to many very dry reading, nevertheless, to others, who are more impressed by facts than fancy, they are of the most intense interest. However that may be, here they appear to be indispensable to any satisfactory consideration of the subject. The following statistics which are based upon the records of _The Chicago Daily Tribune_ are compiled by periods: excepting the last which is for four years, these periods were taken almost indiscriminately for two years together, beginning with 1885 and 1886: LYNCHINGS AND LEGAL EXECUTIONS FOR 1885 AND 1886 In the United States there were 314: 159 whites, 149 Negroes, and 6 Chinamen; 62 in the North, 252 in the South. Of those lynched in the South, 144 were Negroes; nearly all the whites were lynched in the Southwest for horse-stealing and murder; the Negroes were lynched for the following causes: 51, _rape_; 65, murder; 12, incendiarism; 6, arson; 3, cattle and horse-stealing; 1, self-defense; 1, robbery; 1, threat of political exposures; 1, assault; 2 cutting levees; 1, cause not mentioned. There were also 191 legal executions in the country; 72 Negroes in the South, 63 for murder and 9 for rape. LYNCHINGS AND LEGAL EXECUTIONS FOR THE YEARS 1892 AND 1893 The whole number for the country was 436: 309 Negroes, 110 whites, 5 Mexicans, and 8 Indians. 53 lynchings in the North. 287 Negroes in the South: 74, rape; 18, attempted rape; 5, alleged rape; 1, attempted rape—_total, 88 for rape_. 99, murder. Nearly all the remainder for murderous assault, alleged or complicity in murder, arson, etc. 231 legal executions. 127 of these were Negroes in the South: 118, murder; 6, _rape_; 3, arson. In the North, 9 Negroes were legally executed for murder. LYNCHINGS AND LEGAL EXECUTIONS FOR 1901 AND 1902