Posted on 09/12/2020 6:28:33 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
From the Chicago Journal of Saturday Evening. The steamer Lady Elgin, Capt. JOHN WILSON, associated in thousands of minds with memories of pleasant hours and pleasant friends; of music and moonlight; of voyages out of sultry and breathless Summer into the clear, cool regions of Lake Superior; of everything but the cares of business, and anything but sorrow, went down last night, off Waukegan, with hundreds on board, and -- for we must write it -- hundreds that did not see the reluctant dawn of this dark morning. Last evening a gay party of excursionists from Milwaukee, 250 in number, and including the "Union Guard," was in this city. Greetings had been exchanged, friendships had been pledged; it was as merry as a wedding. At 11 o'clock all were on board the Lady Elgin; laughing "good nights" were said; hearts and steps were light; there were music and laughter, but not a shade of sadness. There were others, too -- seekers of pleasure -- who were passengers; many of them widely known; all of them warmly loved by somebody who will wait for them in vain. The lines were cast off, the band played a lively air, and the gallant steamer, glittering with colored lights, and humming like a hive in June, moved down the river, passed out into open sea and the dark night, and was lost to sight then, and forever. Our reporters, who went up on the Milwaukee road to Winetka, returned to the city in the half-past one train. They traversed the beach for three or four miles.
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If someone wrote ‘A Gay Party’s today, it wouldn’t be the same as what was written then!!
A white man was hanged, not hung. People are always hanged. Stocking are hung by the chimney with care not white men.
I’ll fire the headline writer.
The man was neither legally hung nor hanged, he was lynched.
We are not told the nature of his alleged crime, or the evidence against him, but it has been noted elsewhere that lynchings before the Civil War were almost entirely of white people and were not restricted to any region of the country.
After the Civil War 2/3 of US lynchings were in Southern states and 2/3 of the victims were African-Americans, nearly all men, but including some women.
The 1866 Memphis white riots killed 46 blacks and injured 75, with 100 more robbed and 5 black women raped.
The 1921 Tulsa white riots killed up to 300 black men, women & children.
None of that was in evidence before the Civil War.
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