The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-09
THE BARSWELL LYSCHISG.
What Some of the Northern Papers Say
of it.
From the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, Rep.

FROM the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, Rep.]
Whether the lynched negroes were
guilty as charged or not does not enter
into the question. They We're in Gus.
tody of the officer designated by the
law, and as they were negroes, their
conviction and execution We're certain,
if guilty. There was therefore not the
least excuse for the lynching beyond
the fact that it ministered to the blood
thirsty spirit of some two hundred men
who shot the victims. Such an act
would not have happened in a civilized
community. No self-respecting man
could have joined in a statement ex-
cusing the act. We have given the
names Of the apologists solely for the
purpose of putting them on record as
apologists for mob rule, and hence more
cowardly than the mob itself
[From the New York Press, Rep.]
The people of South Carolina owe it
to themselves, their section, and their
country, to hunt down the Barnwell
lynchers and hang them, as Chicago
did the Anarchists, for they are as
truly Anarchists as the ignorant foreign
born bomb throwcrs.
From the Indianapolis Journal, Rep. !
Our people express great sympathy
for the people of Ireland who are
wronged by British rule, and the ut
most indignation for the harsh and an
just treatment which the political exiles
Of Russia receive in Siberia at the
hands Of the Russiau Government, but
no wrong perpetrated upon Irish
patriots or cruelty inflicted upon Rus
sian suspects compares with the revolt
ing brutality which the Barnwell out
rage presents. 1t has had no parallel in
this country since the days when
Indian fiends murdered families on the
frontier or Sepoys in India massacred
English women.
From the New York Star, Dem.l
True to its traditions and the con-
stant example of its late lamented
editor, the Charleston News and
Courier deplores the mob executions at
Barnwell, and calls for the punishment
eff those who have usurped the supreme
power of the State. However great the
excitement or .aggravation leading to
such acts of violence, they must cause
infinitely more harm than good to the
communities in which they occur and
spread still greater evil in the wide
circle over which example reaches.
They furnish keen and ready weapon
to enemies and embarrass the good
offices Of friends.
From the Springfield, Mass, Repub-
lican, Mug.]
Governor Richardson has ordered out
the militia to preserve order at Barn
well, and committee of citizens have
issued a statement which amounts to
this: The assassination of several
whites by blacks; the arrest and in
dictment ofseveral blacks; the lynch
ing Of said blacks by whites in conse-
quence of "a state of indignant resent
ment among our people that can
better be imagined than described"
This committee should be put under
lock and key. This justification OF
murder almost in so many words seems
beyond belief in town advanced fal
enough to adopt some Of the customs
and ways of civilization.
From the Philadelphia Times, Dem.
True, five separate murders of whites
had been lately committed in that COM
munity. and it is probable that the
murderers were negroes, but it wa:
simply unmixed brutality to butche,
eight prisoners without even an at
tempt to punish murderers in th'
Courts. The South can have no hope
Of law and order while the ruling race
meets lawlessness with lawlessness.