Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-09-11
LYNCH LAM AND CSf1-IESf$1E
NORTH AND sOJrsH.

cl0r muIOlc, the more SO DIS 10 VIC
working OF their "higler law" doc
trine, says the Augusta Con@t5t6ion-
alist, was thereby exhibited in all its
hideous responsiveness, several cases
of lynch law in the South suddenly
gave them material for another sensa-
ton. These distur Dances, grossly ex-
aggerated, came as a most grateful re-
lief to men who were struggling n the
mire of political unpopularity and
moral collapse. The famous "skinned
nigger," which Col. Forney, on the
eve of important elections, was accus-
toned to display with SO much sue
cess, came again into requisition, and
the Northern heart was fred in the
same old style and by the same patent
process.
It mattered not that the political and
social life OF the God and Morality
people had become rotten; il mattered
not that deeds of dreadful violence
were common in the East and West;
it mattered not that these very cases
of mob law at the South were the
natural outgrowtL Of Radical instru-
mentality. The all-absorbirg and
dominant idea sought to be conveyed
by the Republican press WAS that the
hated South had dared to do wrong,
OF, by an extra-judicial process, rid
herself of an intolcrable local nuisance.
All these thing were conveniently for
gotten or put aside, and the wrath OF
the Central Government was invoked
to smite again that accursed people,
who, stuny to fury by barbarism back
ed by bayonets, had, il wild moment
of rash extremity, turned to sting the
heel of the oppressor.
When the whole PACK Of Radical AID
semi Conservative journals was in full
yelp at the heels of this distracted sec
ton; when lynch lazy applied against
negroes was represented as the sum OF
all villainies; when the p, ople OF the
South were branded as brigands and
pea breakers without conscience OF
civilization, the electcic telegraph
spead the following message all over
the country:
HARRIsBUgG, Penn, Sept. 1-Albert
Brown, negro, who outraged Cora
Greenleaf. girl five years Old, near
Canton, Penn, last week, and then
cut her throat, was being taken to To-
wanda jail. when he was taken from
the wagon by masked men and riddled
with bullets. He was an active mem
Der of a Sunday School, and quite a
favorite with the children. He was a
bad char cter, however. He was lib
Grated from the Eastern Penitenti2rv,
at Philadelphia, May 10th, 1873, llav-
ing served Il term of three years for
attempted felonious assault in Brad
ford county.
Think you, reader, that the Phara
seical editors of the Republican press
halted a MON ont in their dcnunciation
of the people of Georgia, Tennessee
and South Carolina, to read q lessen
in propriety to the Pennsylvania Ku-
KIux? Not a bit Of it. That little
telegram from ''loyal' Pennsylvania
staggered them for moment perhaps;
but not one word of protest escaped
their lips, because, it would seem, that
"higher law is the stale of innocence
in Pennsylvania and the state of in
fanny in q Southern commonwealth
But there were not wanting sensible
men who perceived the hypocrisy of
this yell against the South, and were
impressed with the frantic effort of
proving, by most significant silence,
that sauce for the goose is not sauce
for the gander.
Under these circumstances, it could
hardly have been expected that any
words coming from Jefferson Davis or
General Forrest, in sentimental pro-
test against mob-law, would have any
but bad effect at the North. Their
utterances were not calculated to do
good, because they are personally dis
tasteful to the Northern people and,
in any event, their motives were bound
to be distorted and aspersed. The
adroit way of doing this base thing
may be best explained by the annexed
extract from the Newark On. j. Id
ucrtisCr
A letter from Memphis received in
Washington furnishes an explanation
of the recent meeting st Memphis, in
which jeff Davis and others participa-
ted, and which was called for the pur-
pose of protesting againstthe outrages
upon the negroes. The letter states
that the meeting was called in compli-
ance with suggestions from Northern
Democrats, who urged that if these
outrages are continued they will have
a very serious effect upon the future
OF the Democratic party North. In
accordance with these suggestions the
was called, to be used for
Democratic capital North. Whatever
the motive, it was a sensible policy |
that dictated the movement, and we |
should hope for its success could any
argument make anything else than |
nadmen of the irreconcilable Southern
Democrats who are graduates of the
bitter rebel school. They seem de-
ermined to revive all the most vital
dement's of the struggle of RECONSTRUCT
ion, and force us back to the time
ghen the national self-respect demand
ID that we should use the army for the
of four millions of citizens
q the South. They were cowed at the
lme, but they are such inveterate
'ourbons that they never learn and
ever forget. The Republican party
as been eager to be generous, but
ach liberal concession has been met
3 If it were an apology, until forbear-
nee ceases to be virtue. Their allies,
ne Northern Democrats, comprehend
ne situation better, and we do not
onder that they can make their ap-
cal to their most distinguished leader
| the South to call off his dogs and
i've the colored people at least a sem
lance of their rights.
The voice of Mr.. DAVIS was as that
a little child ''wailing in the throat
volcano" Of course he had no .
ought of the Democratic party and
) policy, much less of its dictation {
1t thousands will believe the lies of
a Advertiser. and the Soutb ;e fbora ;