The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-06

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| thy to live among good people, and we
| should be careful not TO let one word OF
! defense of them fall from our lips. Ihey
/ ought to die. 1t is punishable by dcaln,
/ even in Africa There is not a virtue-lov-
! ing people on earth that will put up wlln
/ it. IL is our duty to help put 1t down.
! We should speak out in the seVerest con
demnatiOn Of this awful sin. ! regret 10
/ say that in every case, so far as l nave
| seen. we have only denounced in unmeas-
ured and nguarded terms the lynching
/ of the negroes. without censuring even
/ mildly the rayishers. This oue-sided ac-
1 tion on our part has injured rather than
! helped our cause"
The speaker dwelt upon this point at
/ length, urging upon his hearers that they
| should. at all times, show their strongest
disapproval of the crime
KEEP THE RACES APART.
He addressed some plain words to his
/ congregation upon the subject Of race IN
| termingling He said There is such a
| healthy sentiment among the white
people, that if the negroes cross the line
they must do so by force, and this is
rape, and for this they must die,
and this we must approve. 1t
would be the same with white men
| forcing themselves on our side, If we
had the sentiment worked up among our
Be it said to our shame, that some of our
girls and women can engage in the bust
ness, and even marry our best and hard
est working young men. This is some
times done even after they have become
mothers As long as this is the case, we
cannot work up a healthy sentiment
among us on this line. If, for this state
of things, the vile class of negroes mean
TO get even with The whites by raping
fhpiT fhaxr cl1Cr1ld and die
every guilty man of them, Not in one
case out of a thousand is a cOlored woman
raped by white man, and hence the
raping of white women cannot be in re-
taliation."
THE RIGHT OF TRIAL.
DIR. Love then took up the question of
the right of the accused to a trial. He
urged strongly that the accused should be
tried, and if guilty, executed according to
the law. "When resort is had to law"
he said, 1.-THE results will be better, and
will the more effectually prevent the re-
occurrence Of these crimes. There is
something in the nature of law to prevent
crime, when it is allowed to take its
course. The administration of stern JUS
tice, adequately, for the violation of law,
always has a happy effect upon the
lawlessly disposed. To air mans crime
in the courts and have him executed ac-
cOrding to law tends to make men think
and creates profOunder respect, for the
law. 1t educates public opinion, and that
is always an important element in any
government. Mob violence creates more
evils than it COrrects. 1t is flooding our
country with the most desperate crimi-
nails and the most cruel, inhuman and
heartless murderers. Since it cannot be
denied that raping and lynching are on
the increase, the logical conclusion must
be, that lynchng is not the remedy for
rape. This all sensible men are begin
ming to see The remedy is in the open law.
Implead one another there"
DR.. Love read in full lengthy letter to
the Louisville COurier-JOurnal, by DR..
John A. Broadus, president of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, and
probably the most distinguished Baptist
divine in the south, discussing lynching,
and opposing it as remedy for the crime
of rape.
He also read several editorials, taken
from leading southern journals, showing
that the better element of the whites of
the south is opposed TO lynching.
The discussion of the subject was con-
tinued under the second head that mob
violence was inexcusable and all matters
should be determined in a lawful assem-
bly,.
The speaker said that when lynchings
were so public that the newspapers could
publish accounts in full, giving all the
Details it was time for coroners juries
to cease finding verdicts that 1.-THE de-
ceased came to his death at the hands of
parties unknown TO the jury"
SOCIETY IN DANGER.
He predicted the most fearful con
sequences to society if the present state
of affairs were allowed to continue IN
interrupted. Enough had been done. he
said, to acquit the people of the south of
any acquiescence in such crime
~ submit he said, that enough of
this unlawful and inhumane murder
ing has been done to vindicate the
pride and morality of the south. Enough
has been done to show that rape has
aroused the indignation of chrivalrous,
virtue-loving people. Enough has been
done to indicate outraged justice. O,
that a Duillius would appear at
this terrible crisis to utter such
words of wisdOm We are willing
to bury the past and hope for the future,
because God knows that enough of this
bloody work has been done. What it has
not indicated it cannot vindicate. What
it has not accomplished it cannot accom-
plish The terror it has not excited it
cannot excite. II is enough of that kind
of business and pray you, my country
men, in Gods name, to stop and stop
now"
A vote of the church was taken at the
conclusion of the sermon, indorsing it as
the sentiment of the church The in
| dorsement was unanimous. DIR. Love was
congratulated by a number of the white
people present, upon the position he had
! taken, and the able manner in which he
had expressed it.