The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-26

No Discrimination by Judge Lynch.
Many OF the more rabidly partisan Re
publican party newspapers throughout the
east and west appear 70 be reveling IN the
throes of frenzied surprise because an
inpetuous throng of louisiana citizens
while excited with indignation at the
; brutality Of a drunken white man who
willfuly shot down "a respectable negro
women wrested ths offender from the
prison officials aod sutnmarily hanged him
TO the most convenient tree.
Such an occurrence merely exemplifes
the serupulously impartial if somewhat im-
| patient sense OF exact justice that prevails
in Louisiana. Taking into account the
motley elements that predominant in the
states of New York and Illinois that have
been for years dominated bv the practical
politicians of the Republican party, one can
much more readily perceive why these
trained partissns of the most bitterly
partisan press on the American continent
find themselves completely bewildered by
actual justice and utterly unable to under
stand such condition Of affairs.
To their biased minds the hanging OF a
negro by an alleged southern mobn has
apparently always meant merely one less
negro and another substantial republican
vote lost forever. However repulsive the
character OF the man or however horrible
the nature Of the crime he had committed
to bring upon him such penalty in ex-
piation was wholly lost sight of in the
raving resentment of partisan hostility
toward the people mainly and incidentally
the occurrence that had de-
prived them of voter in the
interest of justice. Yet IL would mani
festly be very bad policy to allow outlaws
and malefectors to run at large merely
because they habitually vote the republican
ticket. Were capital punishment abolished
and state prisons demolished the frenzied
hosts OF the Republican party might with
the resistless sweep of one wild tidal wave
override the whole country. Obviously
that could not be allowed. Our national
constitution provides that the rights OF the
defenseless and the unoffendlng must be pro-
tected.
Confessedly the numbsr OF negroes sum-
marily executed in the state of Louisiana
let US say-far exceeds the number of whites
similarity punished for crime. Yet that is
but natural. Close study of the most accu-
rate statistics of crime in the gulf states
will show that an overwhelmingly large pro-
portion of the criminals are negroes. That
is also but natural They are yet compare
lively ignorant and have by no means fully
recovered from the into1ication Of a sud-
denly acquired liberty that under the incen-
diary teachings Of inscriptions partisan
republican adventures they blunderingly
construed as license to violate any Ia Y that
tended - trammeI the widest freaks of
their unbridled desires.
Conseqsntly hundreds Of ignorant negroes
have within the past quarter of century
paid with their lives the penalty of merely
following the malignant teachings Of crafty
and uuscrupul5us visiting political counsel
ors wEo incontineatly deserted them as
soOo IS they got into the clutches of the
law.
But the negro has learned better than
that now. Gradually be is forsaking the
evil WAYS Of schsming vampires who merely
wish 70 profit by his difficulties and bis
/ downfall
With tbs rapid requirement Of educz-
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prospsring and cutting sirift from the
''eDtangling alliances" that Fave hitherto
retardei his advancement. Thus lie gets
his actual rights ard enjoys Them. And
any person Of any shade OF color who at
tempts to deprive him Of them is very
promptly and peremptorily punished.
Nowhere within the broad expause Of
this great republic do the people manifest a
more profound regard for law aud
order than do tine white men OF
that particular portion Of this union
of states thas is commonly denomi-
mated the SOUTH That is plainly at
tested By tho intolerant impatence with
which they hasten to express their very
positive disapproval Of any gross infraction
Of the statutes.