The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-09-20
CHEEKY INDEED.
ENGLISHMEN JUSTLY REBUKED

ing South to Investigate LynChings
They Should First Sweep Before
Their Own Door Before Undertake
ing to Regulate Our Affairs.
RICHMOND, VA, Sept Io.-Gov-
ernor O'ferrall received last night the
following telegram from the New York
WvM:
New YoRK, Sept. Q.
RifhmOnH, Ia.
! An English committee has been sent
here to investigate and dcnounce
Southern lynchings. Will you please
telegraph us what you think Of English
meddlng with our affairs?
THE WORLD.
The Governors reply:
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,
Richmond, Va, Sept. 9.
. The JHorla, Ntv Ioyk::
! 'Things have come to a pretty pass
in this country when we are to have a
lot of English moralists sticking their
noses into our internal affairs. 1t is
the quintesenCeo of brass and impudence
They had better sweep in front of their
own doors before seeking to regulate
U.s. We might as well investigate
English affairs in India, her White
Chapel murders, her Jack the Ripper
slashlngs, the Maybrick trial, and her
alleged injustice and cruelty to this
woman her rapacious colonial policy
in Africa, and the degrading effects
upon the Chinese resulting from her
opium war.
What do they propose TO do in case
they find that the law is not ad-
ministered here according to their idea ?
Declare war against us or open the
vials OF their wrath upon our heads?
What information do they seek
DO they want to know that the white
people in the South have lynched
negroes whose miserable lusts led them
to the commission of the black crime
of rape upon white women? If SO
they need not investigate, for such is
the fact Do they desire to know that
this has been done by iniurlated COM
munties for the protection of their
white women and to save the victims
of these hends from the humiliation
of testifyng in courts? If SO this is
the fact. Do they want to know
whether there was any doubt as to the
guilt of the men lynched? If SO, for the
satisfaction of their yearnlng souls,
they could have asCertaintd without
encountering the perlls OF sea trip
that their guilt was clear in every
instance.
If they had desired to learn whether
these lynchlngs were permitted or
countenanced by the civil authorities,
they could have learned through the
regular channels Of correspondence
that in every case the civil authorities
were either without knowledge Or were
overpowered. In Virginia., the au-
thorIties in every case have asserted
all their power to suppress the lynch
ing spirit, and within the last few
months | have protected from violence
with military, at heavy expense to the
State, three negroes who were charged
with ou,raging white woman. They
had fair trials, were convicted and
executed. While lynch law is to be
condemned and every effort has been
and will be made to suppress it IN the
South, without the advice of those
would be philantropists who have taken
so much upon themselves, lynchlng:
will surely cease when the crime o
rape ceases. These sympathetic English
men might find missionary work
among the negroes of the South II
warning them against the consequence:
of the forclble qualification of thell
devilish lusts.
CHARLES /. O'fERKAIL,
Governor of Virginia.
GOV. NORrHEN's EMPHATIC WOKDs.
Gov. Northen, of Georgia, received
a similar telegram from the UoyIN
to which he responded as follows:
Io tie W0rlI, Nfz0 l0,k::
Say to the English committee,
who have come to this country, II
investigate and denouncc IynChing
at the South" that | am in position
to know that they have received thei
information from irresponsible source
and that the English people hav
declined and refused to be properl
: informed about our laws and tn
canduct of our government. Th
! English papers to my knowledge hav
, declined time and again to publis
| statements made to them in defenc
of the South by Englishmen who ar
now residents of the South. Unde
2 these conditions, we do not want an
outside hypocrItical cant based upon
false idea Of our government. III
people OF this State are quite able I
, administer their own affairs and the
are doing it in full justice to the negroe
as our laws and our conduct will attes
We have already endured more out
side interference in onr local matter
< than we will submissively tolerate i
the future Let these kindly dispose
Englishmen return to their ow
country and prevent by law th
inhuman sale of virtuous girls to lust
ful men in high places; hang all sue
; demons as Jack the Ripper; publish
y it deserves the barbarous, wholesa
slaughter OF negroes in Africa b
e Englishmen, who so there to ste:
their gold to supply the necessities
prevent bread and labor riots an
strikes, which are wholly unknown
the people of the South. Feed an
give employment to the poor as {
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