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What Governor O'Fsrral, OF Virginia.
and Governor Northern, OF Georgia, Has
to Say to Them-They Were Treated
Just Alb out Right.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 10.-The fol-
lowing appears in the Evening State
here this aiternoon:
Governor O'Ferfall received last night
the following Telegram, from the New
York World:
New YORK, Sept. 9.-To Governor
Charles T. O'FERRALL, Esq.:
Au English committee has been sent
here to investlgae and denounce South.
ern lynchings. Will you please tele-
graph US what you think Of Eoglish
meddliug with our affairs"
The Governors reply:
Commonwealth of Virginia, Goyernor's g
office,
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 9th, 1894.
To the World. New York:
Things have come to pretty pass in
this country wnen we are to have LOT
Of English morallsts sticking their noses
into our national affairs. It is the
quienteseence of brass and impudeuce.
They had better sweep ia front OF their
own doors before seeking to regulate
US. We might as well investigate E lg-
llsh affairs in India, her White Chapel
muderes, her Jack the Ripper'e slash
ings, the Maybfick trial and her alleged
injustice an; cruelty to this woman, her
rapacious coloaial policy in Africa and
the degrading effects upon the Chinese
resulting from the opium war. What do
they propose to do in case they fiod that
the law is not administered here accord
ing to their ideas? Declare war against
us, or open the vials of their wrath upon,
our heads? What information do
shey sees?. Do they want to know that
the white people in the South have
l7Eched negroes whose miserable lusts
led them to the commiss sion Of the black
crimes Of rape upon white women. II
80, they need not investigate, for such
is the fact. Do they d,sire to know that
this has been done by lnfuriated com.
munities for the protection Of their white
women and to save tne victims OF these
6ends from the humiliation of testlfyiug
In courts? If 80, this Is the fact. Do
they want to know whether there was
any doubt as to The guilt of the men
lyncheG? If 80, for the satisfaction of
their Yearnlng souls, they could have as
certained without encountering the
perils OF a sea trip, that their guilt was
clear in every instance. If they had
desired to learn whether these lynchings
were permitted or countenancsd by the
civil authorities, they could have learned
through the regular channels OF cores
pondencs that in every case the civil au>
tborities were either without knowledge
or were oYerpowered. In Virginia, the
authorities ia eyerv case have asserted
all their power to suppress the lynchIRg
spirit and within the last few months
have protected from violence with mill.
tary, at heavy expense to the State,
thee negroes who were charged with
outraging white women. They had fair
trials, were convicted and executed.
While lynch Law is to be condemned,
and every effort has heen made and
will be made to suppress it in the South,
without the advice of those would.be
philanthropists, who have saken 30 much
upon themselve, lynching will surely
cease when the crime of rape ceases.
These sympathetic Eaglishu1en might
fod missionary work among the negroes
Of the South In warning them against
the consequences ofthe forcible gratldca.
ton of theirsdevilish lusts.
(Signed) Charles r. O'FERRALL.
Governor OF Virginia.
GOV. NoRTHEN'S REPLY.
ATLANTA, Sept. 10.-This morning
the following telegram from she New
York World was received Dy Governor
w. J. Northen: "An English committee
has been sent here to investigate and
denounce Southern lynchings. Will
you please Telegraph us what you think
of English meddling with our atfairs?'
In reply to this query, Governor Nor
then, this morning, wired the following
reply:
To the World New York:
Say to the English committee" who
have come to this country ito investi-
gate and denounce lynchingS at the