Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-12

| 1t is the aged, however, VINO are most
effected by the reflections inspired by
funeral or church gathering, and the
majority of the members of the Calu-
met are young-very young-snd think
more of their attire than anything else.
lFor the Dlspatch.l
rr. John n. Swami on Cranixs, Crooks,
Fanatics, M0nGreis, &C., dc.
To Senator George +. Hodr:
Sir.-At the close Of the last days
Of Congress you introduced resolu-
ton in the Senate in these words:
Whenever any three citizens of the
United States shall under their oaths
present to any judge of Circuit Court,
either in term-time or in vacation, their
petition setting forth that within the
circuit for which such judge has juris-
diction any person has been killed or has
sustained any serious bodily injury, or
serious injury in his estate, or been
threatened with injury in his person or
estate, because of the race Of such per-
son SO killed, &C., &C., or because Of
any political opinion which such per-
son, &C., &C., may have held in regard
to matters affecting the general welfare
of the United States, or with design to
prevent such person SO killed, &C., &c.,
from expressing fully such opinions,
&C., &C., it shall be the duty of such
| Judge, so soon as may be, to open a
special session Of such court at such
place in said circuit as be may appoint,
and to bold On inquest into the circum-
stances of such killing, injury, or
threatening. and to cause to be sum-
moned and examined all such witnesses
as the Court may think proper.
80. That such judge shall forthwith
report the evidence by him taken and
his conclusion Of facts thereon to the
President of the United States, to be
by him laid before Congress.
SO. That the Judge may require any
district attorney of the United States
within his circuit to attend such in
quest and to aid in preparing for and
conducting the same, or he may at his
discretion appoint any other counsel
Tor at law to prepare and conduct such
inquest.
"a. The expenses to be paid By the
United States" &C., &c.
If the leader of the Anarchists, the
Chinese Minister, Fred. Douglas, and
the bleodiest Indian chief on the plains
had consulted together, they could not
have devised better law to the ends
aimed at by them than that contained in
this resolution for, ofcourse, it would
apply to each and all, and take from the
people Of both State and Territory the
right to legislate upon the subject.
An officer, under the law Of State,
srresting an Anarchist or any person
would be amenable under this law,
and pandemonium would reign SUI
preme. To follow you and your school
would very soon convert this Govern
ment into despotism so odious that it
would become hated Of all men and the
ridicule Of all nations; and now, sir,
let me say, if you will carefully observe
the animal creation you will find that all
have passions in common-envy, jeal-
ousy, love. hate, and you can, by careful
observation, judge of the predominant
passion in each by its countenance and
the shape Of its head. This would go
very far TO warrant the conclusion that
capital punishment is in itself murder,
for surely life should not be taken from
that animal for doing what the law OF
its life compels it to do. But, sir,
cOmmon-sense replies, Punishment is
used as an example to control the pas
sicns Of the vicious by terror, and, there
fore, it is not murder, &c. We notice,
too, that among every species OF ami
mails bodily deformity is common, aud
sometimes hideous; so their minds and
morals, or dispositions. In men those
mentally deformed, with badly-balanced
minds, are called cranks, possessed with
devils, as they said in the olden time.
Where the moral sentiment is disor-
dered they are called crooks. But, in
truth, the crank and tho crook are the
, offspring of the same mental disorder
J or deformity, and are but its different
I manifestations. When this mental do.
: formity is very prominent the man is
J insane. It is impossible to reform
D either the crank or the crook without
first removing, by medical or some
other treatment, the mental disorder.
, The crank and the crook alike see thing;
: with a diseased eye, and may be called,
, as to all practical wisdom,
/ CoLoR.BLIND.
, Whole nations sometimes 20 off into
! cranks or crooks. We have cranks
, on the Chinese question, crooks on the
) negro question, cranks on the Indian
, question, &c. These Chinese crAnks
can see many virtues in these heather,
and think it very hard indeed that our
J race will not endure them and allow
, them to contaminate or root us out
J from the vast Pacific slope. We, the
people, are moved by the instincts Of
nature instincts that come from that
God whose very existence is disputed
by your crank and your crook. They
think We of the South, who know the
negro, are monsters, because We use to.
wards him the only means by which we
can protect society, law, order, decency
and our women in particular, and even
the negro himself, and they would have
us give our fair land to his rule, &c.
The very thought Is abhorrent to all but
the crank and the crook and their de-
luded followers. As for the savage
and beastly Indian, he is, with the
crank, the noble red man. the Hia-
watbs OF poetry, the tiger Of the for
est. You will find another psculiarity
In the crank. He Is fond Of referring