The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-03-15
BARNWELL LYNCH|NC,
Senaf or Chandler Tells of the Ter
ror of the COlored People and
Indifference of the Whites.
List of Suffering Survivors.

The following communication has been
published in the New York Tribune:
Sir; Various contributions have been
received by me in response to nv an
peal in behalf of the families of tho
lynched Barnwell Negroes, which I have
acknowledged to the donors. Mrs.
Helen c. Brayton, of Columbia, S. c..
has also received contributions, due to
the notice published in The Tribune.
Since making my appeal have deemed
1t my duty to obtain full information of
the names and condition of the widows
and children for whom the aid is solici.
tated, and 1 have obtained statement
as follows:
Harrison Johnson; deacon in Baptist
Church; Leah, his wife, has eight chill
dren, six girls and two boys; age of boys
one and four years, names, so far known
Harriet, Mamie, Viletta, Harrison,
Charlie and January.
Judge Jones' wife's name is Susan:
has six children, three girls, three boys;
Oldest boy five years; names, Ben, Oscar.
Judge, Anna, Tuby, and Marthea;
names Of his aged parents who need
care, Ben and Melinda Jones.
Peter Bell; wife's name Rina: has two
children, ages two years and five months
name of oldest boy, Ben.
Hugh Furz; wife's name Rina; has
two children, two girls, one boy; age of
boy, 3 years.
Ralph Moral; wife's name, Clara; one
child.
Robert Phoenix; wife's name Marie:
married Thursday night before he was
arrested.
Ripley johnson; no wife, but aged
mother, Jane Winters, who needs care.
Mitchell Adams; wife's name Dicey,
has three children, one girl, two boys;
age of boys, eight and twelve years.
Seven widows and twenty-five chill
dren left destitute. Mitchell Adams
wife mortgaged her louise, COW and
everything for lawyers, fees to defend
her husband.
L have also learned that although the
South Carolina press expressed the
strongest condemnation of the lvnch-
ings, yet interest in the matter speedily
subsidized, and no adequate measures
have been. taken to .dlscovert the lynch
ers. 1t is, therefore, fair to conclude that
the horror and indignation which was
proclaimed was as superficial and transit
tory as was the declared purpose of the
Governor to see that the laws of the
State were fully indicated and Justice
done, AS matter of fact, no earnest
effort has been made to discover the
murderers or purpose evinced to face
the public opinion which protects these
Outlaws. Apparently, in these few short
weeks. this terrible and CHASTITY bar
barity has passed from mind, and is
mere tradition. No one with a knowl-
edge of the condition of ffaairs in this
State, and of the feeling of the whites
toward the blacks when such antago-
nisms arise, ever thought any real inten-
iion existed to detect and punish those
who did these fendish acts. And it was
because the Negroes knew there was no
remedy, and that like overthrow of
law might occur anywhere else as we'll
as in Barnwell County, that there were
SO crushed and dumbfounded. It NAV
throw light on the situation to kno " that
though an appeal was published in the
Columbia and Charleston newspapers,
and approvingly referred to in these
and other publications, yet not cent
has been received for this fund from or
through editor, minister, charitable So
ciety or Democrat, except in very few
cases from personal friends to whom
pecial appeals were made. This shows
how little sincerely there is underlying
the published expressions, and how
little concern and sympathy is felt for
those whose anguish and poverty would
seem to appeal to every humane and
Christian heart. Had it not been for
the unexpected interest evoked at the
North, and the contributions of the
Negroes, all efforts would have met with
surprising and humiliating failure.
A disheartening apathy has been felt
in the good cause by those who repre-
sent the controlling public opinion of
the State. But still more unlooked-for
inexplicable Development has been the
information received of the condition of
affairs in and about the vicinity of the
lynching. A missionary, acting under
the auspices of the Women's Missionary
Society of Western State, went to
Barnwell about three weeks ago for the
purpose of ascertaining the real situa-
ton. She visited the scene of the
Iynching at Barnwell Court House and
also the families of the victims. She
reports that she found the gloom of
despair and terror over whelming the
Negroes, and in their misery, dread and
despair they were helpless and hope
less. They said that they hardly dared
to talk among themselves about the
terrible atrocity, and, Incredible as it
seems, stated that not white person
had expressed the smallest word of
sympathy or extended helping hand.
The wives and children of the lynched
men who lived on the plantation of
Martin Whose sons murder was the
pretext for the lynching) were ordered
from their homes and of the plantation
after their husbands were lynched and
before they knew Of the horrible crime