An Appeal for Protection.
ARCHIBALD, O., is a town that boasts that “No ‘nigger can live there.’” The place is eighteen miles west of Toledo. George Morgan, a young colored man, went to the city and appealed to the United States marshal for protection. He was turned over to the attorney-general, who advised him to appeal to the sheriff. But he had already done so, and had been advised to move out of the town. He could secure no promise of protection from any authority. He has done nothing wrong, and proposes to remain in spite of the objection to his race. The existence of such towns and people almost makes one long for the short, sharp, and decisive work of a despotism. That, however, would be like leaping out of scattered frying pans into Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace. A man who unconsciously acts, under the influence of prejudice, to the detriment of a fellow-man is a fanatic. One who does it consciously is a sinner, and, if he invades vested rights, a criminal.