The daily gazette., 1878-03-30
MARCH :sOth. 1878.
A BRIEF DEFENSE OF OUR JUDGE

of the Republican, prepared by its sympa-
thizing partizan friends, in the regular
"bloody shirt" style, over the hanging of
Chambers and Collins, were knocked
into oblivion by few lines of the GA
zErTH. in which the "bloody shirt" peo-
pie were reminded, that the thirteen
negroes who had in the last forty years
been hung in this county, were sentenc-
ed to their fate by Whlg and Republican
judges and juries, who fairly and honest
ly represented our people.
We did not suppose there was any harm
in merely mentioning this fact, in the
defensive way we did. 1t was in vindi-
cation of our courts and judges. Most
people feel pride in their civil institu-
tions, and although the judges have been
mostly opposed to us we feel so high a
respect for them-the living and the dead
that word in their defense seemed
necessary. But this has created great
disgust in the Republican, that boldly
denounces our people because as it.says
"Those bald facts show that in those
forty years thirteen colored men and
two white men have been hung, that
of all the colored men tried for capital
offences, all were convicted and hung
and that of the eighteen or twenty white
men tried tor similar offences, only two
were hung.
We have never referred in any in
stance TO politics, and neither did we
stoop lOwer still and refer to The religion
or rather the want Of religion, of The
woman O'Toole. These aIe low, de-
spicable subterfuges, that we leave en-
tirely to the GAZETTE"
Well, we did not suppose that it was
"despicable" to mention the mere fact the
Democrats did not hang all ofthe negroes.
Judges Booth, Harrington and Gilpin,all
presided for various periods during the
forty years, and we have never before
heard Interpretations ofthose late able and
accomplished jurists, for justice and
mercy, called in question.
The fact that only two white men have
been hung in forty years, is remarkable,
when contrasted as it is in the above. But
il is to the credit OF the white race and the
more so when the great disproportion Of
the number of the whites and blacks are
noted.
If the white men were as bad as the
black men there would have been the
same number in proportion hung M
doubt. And the Republican with few
figures could show It's readers the result
To be equal to the negroes in transgress-
ing the laws, in this county in the last
forty years, there should have been
about ten times thirteen or 130 white
men hung in the forty years instead OF
two. Had this been done we presume
the "bold facts" would not have beer
presented by the Republican.
But the horrible part Of the facts is tina
majority of these negroes were hung TO
rape upon phite women, and one onl.
for rape upon negro woman.
in the recent case OF Kate Smith, or n
Kate O'Toole, this poor woman ha
been abused most unpardonably by tn
Radical negrophilIsts. She has been calle
all manner of vile names without
particle OF proof that she was not virtu
Gus woman. This was the most unmanl
outrage upon a poor destitute whit
woman we ever heard Of 1t could no
have been excelled among the savage
and uncivilized races. If she does nc
return here and prosecute the Republi
can and Herald for libel it will no dout
be because she is destitute of money all
friends, and is, like many other womeI
the mere slave Of a drunken husband
We have never seeh this woman, but IL
people about the courts says he bore ev
dence ofintelligencesand refinement. o.
. only object is to defend our courts an
peopN, from the wholesale charges mat
against them by our own papers, TIL
should defend the judiciary of the Sta
rather than join in the assault made upc
them by papers in New York and Phil
delphia.