New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-09
SOUTHERN COOKS.
CHIEFLY FRIERS AND GEEASERs. g


CHANGE OF TONE ABOUT THE B\ENWELL
MURDERS
A.hc.illc. Y c. Feb. : l-pccan.-Good cooking is
am important factor In the upbuiding Of the new
south That i, q fact readily apparent to the casual
oi.crvcr The race Of good. old "aunte' cooks Of
ante bclum day, has well nigh huled oil this mortal
coil. Few descendant, left capable 81 preparing
meals such a, the old regime boosted about. The new
generation of cook, lricr," and grcascr,' That
- they frs everything they and get Just much
crease into food said food will absorb # the
southern cool, of today fry and grease things she
is happy suggest broilng meats and she Is almost
horror struck A. Gail Hamilton says OF European
monArchie, and customs. they are mbcdded in
precedent, - centuries ago. They look backward in
stead Of forward. Because their negro cook an
oc- tor fried food with skill. the descendants think
they can fry food without possessing the skill needed
10 make fried things delicious. 80 into the frying pan
20 chops, steaks. Chickens aud whatever else can pos
,lIy Dee pat there until the unaccustomcd Northern
stomach might well wish that the cook be fried too
and forever removed from "A Kitchen. To the Northern
man in the south this cookery question Is source
Of a.grayaon until he feels Ike the iratc hotel guest
who asked the waiter if the coot in the coo pie could
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Yes, sah,7 was the answer.
~Thcn don't give any coot in mine. Anything
that had wing, and could fly and didn't get of this
blasted country dcspsc too much even to cat"
The pre-, Of this section at first openly approved
the BdruWcll, =. g., Nucilng OF clght dcfcucceSp
uc,roc, owing to the vigorous exposure of "A public
sentiment hcrcabout, favoring the ynching of defence
les, black men, which appeared In The Tribune aud
other papers, the chvalrou, southern editors have
changed their from open appreciation to that of
covert condemnation of all, the Banwcll Knchings
a. the following from "I Tie Ashcvillc Citizen" in
l;nt scarcely had the agitation aroused by mon
.frr- A tragedy subsidized and the assumption gladly
reached that under the Indignant rcprObatiOn of
rrmo 40 cruel and needles, repetition of il 10
ie anprchcndcd when the county which had
dyed Itself deeply In dccncccss blood repeats its
itinuitt ina more caI,clcs,. WantOn and mcNCuSablo
defiance Of law and public opinion. negro man
charged with burglary I'm BarnWcll County, while
nj, v,ny 10 Jail taken from the sheriff. tied "A
tree and shot to DEATH presumably by mashed white
men. \ negro youth who had Just completed
n term in the pcnitcntiary for stealing clothing and
returned home. tied Ia tree and shot 10 death by
a white man named David Ready. In this case there
was no prctcnce AT disguise the deed done openly
a, IT the murderer felt sure Of the approval Of the
uuhllc sentiment. When these things done
opcny. dcnantly. wantOnly. bwally. We might feel
that The south stripped of all defence and stood
naked before the world Ina all the hldcousness Of i'm
hcrent barbarity. did not know that the shock To
"A, keen and terrible 1t Is TO Christian SenSiby and
the instincts Of society everywhere else.
4 few week, ago this paper upheld the Justice
of the Banwcll lynching In these words:
Frequent ciuscess murders OF white men had re
Gently taken place. and the negroes showed pur
pose to aid In bringing the offenders - Justice. but
on the contrary exhibited "a dangerous hostile feeling
which threatened to manifest rrn more cnlamitOusN
and therefore had 10 be suppressed by resort to
trcmltics.
Now. after the merIted criticism OF this outrage