The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-30
LYNCH LAW.
Tho morning journals yesterday all pub
liahed The following dispatch

Tho morning journals yesterday MI pub
lahed the following dispatch
ANTE C1rs. In Dee ~ About 10 O'clock thia
evening y mob ngmhe, Ing net lessathen nfty.
pnlla,l on Sheriff r L Mix aud demanded lhn
kala If the ial After tho Rays wnIe obtained
thp mob then took sis negroes who were con
hned N iail about Q hell milo IRON town, on
what Is known aa the Avenue. and iuug four
nua liberated two, fUr soma cause not known.
When tho fpnr bodies were found they were
lying cloan tag 81 hnr anA were idalad with bal
10 Rnpea weie around the neeks 81 three.
rneir nauas wcte htoR aniih. who wna on Il lat
for killing white women Hentga Garr"lt
charged with nnfdarlnu his villa nj Hammond
La IIarrlenn johnson and the Other one were
arreatsd 90 the vhatga IT numbering u MIR. Phil
ltra. ~ Tansipnhna, ~ dhrlatmaa Eve lasi.
In Tho evening papers yesterday we found
the following dlepatoh
nEnvsR, Dec. ~. 1--we, men. Sam woodruff
pn,i Joe Reminol"- he latter halt btasd In
If j .lI"taon county. on HauEnmhnl -. wnro
ifknn f IN itl n Aplfon md lynnh"d ri !
o'olock tile m"rninR hv n" masked mon
liern ara two ncepunta Of lynaltlng. ono
from or own State and the other from Dol.
nln,En Tho probability Ia that the action In
bntl, e,aoa was rauaaa by the fear In the
minds If the people iitat justice would not he
uup,lY melted out Ia the criminals 81 that
thn tedioua processes ~ tho law would Oh
nblo thn mu,,iororR to- finally escape punish
mont altogether In Wild and apataoIy settled
border lande whnt" tho assembling If
courts raloly dieiuIha tho rural quiet Judge
Lynch may i,o n Unnecessarily funoitnnaiv. and
hia rough wild law must often take the place
Of that aIovnr but moro certain justice
which Ia tho emnuaiIon "f law and tho Ilopf
If a higher civilization but In communities
whrro th"rn atn eotuta duly orlani1ad. aud
whore thu laws MO urnporly adunistorad
thern can ho me- axruae Tor an appeal Ia thu
violence Of lynch law The good which II Is
hupod To- achi"vo IL more Than of act ny tho
evil cffoota IF loaaenng The public respect for
tho law md tholotme "yny lynching may
tn aaid t. load lo etmn.
What the plnrnrnrou wac IN nnnVnr VS. 10
moi know. but We have talsou spcninl pains to
asca, Cain tho ftrti IN relation 30 tbs trouble
at hmltn City. II app"afa that tho negro
Richard Smith was convicted Two Yoars npo
In tbs parish ar Washington Of II" murder Of
p young whrtn gill. Nils Huntingdon. ~
ynal4 old. and WAS Rentencod 10 bn hung but
obtained a now traI and change 81 veuu" 10
lang pnhoH p31tet. whore Il" convicted
again nntl sentenced 10 tho renttontiaIY for
lite whom Ills lawyers took u scrpud appeal
ana tho caeo Is now p'Hdng hef"ro The Su
promo court. This man had Cpnf'epod his
clinc aud alleged tttat be had hsou bttbed e.
murder his drfenarless victim which hc did
~ ling into hnr traa [ il load OF burAahoL
Tho nngro G.,rrge Carroll muraorrd HE
vile ~ choking heT Is Death In November
tAi7 Ito was acntrnred to ho hung, but was
grant NJ new trial about wcrE ago.
IlairTaon Johnson ANA peiry walker. on
Chratmas E,yc last, committed most afro
eiotIs murder Iii .rangipahna for tho purpose
81 robbery rnry killed MIR j. r. Phillip@
tson III MadiRon Fnilila, the Republican can
dtdate for sheriff nf the pariah nf ~. Helena
~ he lnte eIectiunl BY striking him snu setss
with fsuca rail. ana th"n choking him To
dsath, after which they robbed the
body Thia lmu murder seems 10
have aroused tho most infnnan
csetemnut III .Iangipahoa md adjacent pnr-
iRIies. nBi the II nit was the drplorabln All ,ir
rotated in tho telegram quoted ah 80. and
moro fully III tho DEMoCKAr'a account Of tho
matter iii the local columns.
Tho cascs wcr" all OF n eli tracter deserving
capital punishment, hut II "a do"ply to he ra-
pretted that tho law was not permitted to
take is course. aud that any circumstances
should eccm 10 warrant In Louisiana n re-
course to the wild justice of Judge Lynch.
These lynchlnEs occur III all tho States and
arn all attributable to the same cause de-
sire to mete out prompt vengeance upon those
who commit atrociou4 crimes, but society Ii
1cst protected by rigid adhorence to legal
and our people will ilnd that they
,ln attain the end desired by conforming to
he law much more readily than by taking
he law into their own hands.