The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-07-01
ALgvEL HEAD.

lowing to say:
i ''Some Of our weekly exchanges
are inclined to take The Journal to
task because it does not believe in
the divine rights Of Judge Lynch,
and seem to think that upon occa-
sions there is divinity that hedges
him in.
Now with all due respect to our
emotional brethren The Journal re-
iterates its former uttsrances, run
ming back for years, upon this sub
ject. fthey will apply to logic the
facts and think . little, just little
they will see that the Journal is
right.
There is no middle course be-
tween the law and lynching. Once
allow a mob to take possession Of
the functions of the law and the
next occasion till be taken advan-
tage of although there may be only
half the justification in the facts
that there was in the first case.
And when the third occasion comes
there may be still less occasion.
We have seen this exempliGed in
our own city. tN''a'
As was to have been expected at
least one of our brethren became
hysterical and nervous over the
Bristol lynching and smites the
Journal hip and thigh. He even
goes so far as to put words into our
mouth. Of course this arises from
his hysteria and nervousness.
He quotes from the Journal a
part of our editorial without giving
it the benefit Of the context and
then gets hysterical again ,.g '
WHO doubts what that sentence
would have been, especially since
he was a negro without friends or
money ?" Thank God he had no
friends and the Journal is the first
yet to champion his hellish name. .
Now our hysterical friend is in
formed that the Journal did not
champion his hellish name and il
our aforesaid h. {. had been in a
frame of mind fit to read and under
stand plain English he would have
been the first to see tiff perchance
his mind be large enough to see
anything. ao
Further along our h. f. become:
rabid and his senses straightway
leaves him and his utterances be.
come only the gibbering of an idiot
Says he:
"We hope the Journal has not {
large circulation in Bristol. The
man who loves his mother, sister
wife or daughter, and who honors
the name Of woman, in righteous in
dignation and contempt will cpi
upon such an article, but the savage
brutes, the foam feeced rabid dog
of hell, such as hung from the chest
nut tree in Bristol, such an article
is calculated to stimulate and en-
courage them to running homes"
For the information of our Ii.
we take great pleasure in saying
that we do have ga large circula
ton in Bristol"
1t is the emotional fellows lik,
our h. f. who encourage" the in
fraction of laws and not the MAJ
who upholds the law in her majesty
If the negro who was murdered haC
been tried and hung-as he surel,
would have been-it would hav
been of more benefit to society an,
the sanctity of the home than doz
en- lynchings. There is a majest
and power behind an execution un
der forms oflaw, and by the solem:
manner of procedure, with tn
dreadful black cap and the gallow
and the low-voiced admonitions c
the clergyman, which is extremel
impressive. Such an execution
an incarnation, if the word be a
lowed, of the State, Of the Law, {
the Civilization.
!. Now gaze on the other side of tn
picture. A thousand men akin
each other only through baser pas
5 ions of humanity. Shouts of angl
5 men, oaths high-sounding, all I'll
s veneer of refinement and gentili,
: thrown off, the education ola Ii
: time, the sense of righteousness 70
e gotten, all forgotten save that b
n fore them is man guilty Of a hei
n Gus crime, and they the self-appoin
n Wy, n