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. The negroes know and feel this as well as the whites. This course of lawless cruelty cultivates the very spirit that leads the negro to commit rape. The lawless gratification of the passions is the moving cause in both cases. It is the same spirit that led to the shooting of President McKinley.
Mob law is anarchy.
In both cases men gratify their passions in a lawless manner. The passions of the mob decide and inflict lawless punishment. The example of the whites setting aside law to gratify their feeling of vengeance licenses the negro to gratify his lust by violence as it does the man who feels society oppresses, to murder the leaders and rulers of the State. A rehash was made of this book by Payne to get money from the same class during the carpetbag rule. Now, when the people are frenzied by the rapes of the negroes, it is again rehashed to get money from those who take counsel of their passions rather than of reason.