But the inequality of the races excites to, the crime. The negro is naturally ambitious of social equality. He feels this sexual intercourse is the acme of this equality. His ambition excites his lust and he commits the crime. It is his way at once of gratifying his lust and elevating his race.
Human ingenuity is exhausted on devising torture to deter from the crime.
He persuades himself he is a hero and martyr for his race and is so regarded by other negroes. The negroes are stoical and he bears the torture with what seems heroic composure, and he is regarded a martyr for his race. On the same principle that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, his torture, instead of deterring from, excites to like crimes and sufferings by others of his race. While the treatment given the negro criminal makes a hero and martyr of him in the eyes of himself and his race, it makes cruel cowards and demons of his tormentors. For a thousand men to gloat over and torment a helpless victim, no matter how steeped in crime, makes them feel like cowards and depraves them.