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• Heaping the Whirlwind.The assassination of the Chief ofthe New Orleans police is calculated to make people reflect most seriously; for while it is a murder in cold blood, it is but a natural outcome of lawlessness that runs rife elsewhere in the land. - ' ..One of the Cineinnnati morning papers speaks' of the assasination of Chief Hennesey as “something new’in the land. The truth is that murderers did uo worse crime when theyshot the courgeous noble public officer, Jupon bis own door steps and in the act of joining his family, than have thousands of others who red handed have visited at the midnight hour, the humble cabin of poor and offensive Negroes and tortured and shot them to death for no reason than the Italiansfer the killing of an honest uprightpublic officer. * 1 •: ,'-AThe cases differ some, but the greatest difference is in the fact that those who killed the New Orleansofficer were not native Ameris' m * - ^ * - -X. but of the lowest order of anoer country, while those who have been shooting Negroes claim to be the bestblood in America. Bo in this thesecases differ 1^..’*; ‘Would it be too much to say thatthese murderous wretches, but borrowed cow rage and example from•thers in the land ?JLet the courts of justice be thrown•pen, let retribution be visited swiftand sure upon all criminals alike for offenses and we will not reap thewhirlwind.
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American Catholic Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Oct 18, 1890
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