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The Daily Tribune
Sunday Morning, May 5.

J.R Eggleston. editor
[[blacked out]] Mr. editor- Dear [[blacked out]]
It is making an issue; it is a formation of parties; it classes Southern people as enemies of the negro. These are not the sentiments of the negroes, and they should be warned against such teachings. Yours,
One of the most respectable and influential citizens of Mobile sends us this note. Certainly nothing can be clearer, to even the most ordinary comprehension, than the designs of the miserable Radical emissaries who are using every effort to impress upon the minds of the negroes the idea that the Southern white men are naturally and necessarily their foes. 
This is the main card in the game they are playing ; and it is the only card that can win the stake they are playing for. Can they succeed in imbuing the negro mind with that conviction? We see in the increasing frequency of outrages of unparalelled atrocity in different parts of the South, by negroes banded together and acting upon concerted plans, that the teachings of the Radical incendiaries have had the designed effect to some extent, for surely the utterly fiendish and wanton cruelty of such deeds as the recent one near this city can be attributed only to a preconceived, demoniac hatred. 
Who instigated that deed-at which the devils in hell may shudder- by awakening passions and instincts that would otherwise have lain dormant for ever?
Shall we name them?
They are seen upon our streets every day, and although notorious in the eyes of all, walk among men with heads erect and faces too brazen with conscious and accustomed guilt to show any blush of shame.
We say the fact that many of these outrages are committed by negroes banded together and acting upon concerted plans is evidence that they originate in an impulse deeper and more general than the immediate incentives of lust and plunder. Heretofore it sometimes occurred that a dire deed of crime would be committed by one or two negroes, acting upon some sudden impulse suggested by opportunity, but rarely indeed, did a number of them combine to carry out a concerted plan of outrage and murder, and even in cases of that kind they usually refrained from violence unnecessary to their success and safety.
We shall not fail in warning the coloured people against the hell-born ideas so industriously disseminated among them by these human devils whom we seriously intend to name, one by one, so soon as we can get the infamous catalogue complete. But will they heed any warning until their eyes are opened by sad experience to the character of their new and very disinterested friends and allies?
We fear that a large proportion of them will not, for these treacherous friends and allies have their ear, and the voice of the journalist reaches them but faintly.