Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-05-11
GONZALES ANSWERS.

His Denunciation Delights Him
as q Journalist but Mortifies
Him as a Citizen.
The State of Sunday.
To the editor of The State as a
man this day is the proudest "f
his life as a citizen it is the most
humiliating.
The resolutions adopted by
mass meeting at Denmark are
printed elsewhere. They relate to
the editorial course of this paper
in regard to the brutal murder of an
innocent, manaaled and confding
Negro near that town several days
Eago. In so far as they villify and
denounce N. G Gonzales, editor
of The State ior what he has said
in condemn N of that shameful
act and toe shameful course of the
law officer who contributed to il
by his surrender of helpless
lprisoner to a'mob past discrimina-
tion between the innocent and the
guilty we are proud of it. 1t is
and will ever be, while this paper
lis under its present editorial
management, the purpose of The
stale to be obnoxious to the
Ecriminal classes; to the coward
Eand the murderer, whether he sit
high in the seat OF the brave and
I5ust who have gone before or wheth-
sr he stink in the dark to butcher
il ribald triumph poor, covering
fellow mortal, betrayed into his
brutal hands. In SO far, as they
fshoa n the front of brazen day
their contempt of the commad-
ment of the God they profess to
adore, in SO far as they spurn every
sentiment of that chivalrous man.
hood once the pride of South Caro-
|linons, in SO far as they add to a
crime which has aroused the in
dgnaiion of the entire South the
vilest of vile ISLANDERS against the
journalist who has dared tell the
truth about it, we are pitiful, very
pitiful, for South Carolina.
Whether B. R. Tillman directly
instigated the meeting which was
heidi in a store at Denmark yester-
day, in which 500 men are reported
tobaye participatedl. Or MhethAsj
political effect, we do not know
and we do not care. It is sufficient
that a meeting was held, whether
small or large, and wrote added
infamy against their own names
and across the map Of their Sec
tion.
The effort to prove John Peter
son to have been the guilty man
after his complete exoneration by
theyoung lady who was assaulted
and by her little brother would be
farcical if it did not prove that
beneath the skin of the murderers
there remain nerves which tingle
under the lash of public scorn.
The statement that The State or
it's editor has by word or sugges-
tion sought to 'excite Negro men
to attack and rape white women
when unprotected" and that this
paper has sought to ''array the
Negro race against the white race"
is so infamously false, SO utterly
without shadow of excuse, that
it furnishes the most complete
justification possible for every
word which we have printed as to
the brutality and cowardice OF the
deed for which these Denmark
murderers stand abhorred of men.
Those who make such charges
show their eagerness to murder
not only life but character, and
prove themselves to be in intent
moral as well as material assassins.
Governor Tillmon, of course, is
commended for delivering the
poor wretch who went to him for
protection into the hands of these
men, and the editor of The State
is declared to be as deserving OF
murder as John Peterson. These
resolutions quite beft their source
Bessie H. Bedloe, Burlington
VT, had a disease of the sclap,'