The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-21

One or the Race Denources Sueh Lawless
ExecuttSns In the south.

To Tur ENRON or TnE SuN--Sir: The few
friends the negro has in the North have permit
ted themselves to be misled in some points o
vital interest 10 the negro by the specious plead
ines OF their interested brother In white In tn
south whose interest 1t IL to cover up, palliate
deny, or present certain barbarous, inhuman
uncivilized, and un-Chrlstian occurrences IN
such u light cs would, in their eyes, mitigate the
devilish cruelties perpetratctl upon the negroes
in the South.
Tho negro is lynched. T. e., murdered by mob
His lynchers or some Of their accomplices say
well 1t il true the man was lynChed, but he
committed rape. Now, when his race stor
ravlshing our wives and daughters we will quit
lynchng We must do II in order that brutes
of his kind may he deferred from such acts.
Now, our white brother in the North knows or
should know that the above statement made by
Southern men, no matter II we dub them Gov
errors, Senators, or even Right Reverend Bish-
ops Of the Church. is misleading. was intended
to mislead. and among plain people would be
termed simply lie.
To prove the truth OF what I say, all one has
to do Is to read some Of the leading Southern
daily papers. and he will in their columns read
the different causes given for the lynching OF
negroes. The principal reason for the lynching
There is a sentiment Of fear in the breasts Of
Of that fear, that spirit OF unrest, is that they
know the inhuman manner the negro has been
treated by them both In the relation OF slave and
fellow citizen. and they reason that II the me-
gro is human that he will do as history has
shown oppressed people have always done. rise
against their oppressors. 10 they think to so ter
rOriZe them by incessnnt mob murders that
their spirits will be crushed and their bodies be
subjected to the will OF their oppressors Now,
these men are subject to public opinion to a GER
tain extent, tits true not as much as the people
OF the North for their scale OF civilization s not
high. so In order to soften the mass Of scath-
ing denunciatlons they cry rape.
do not remember to have heard Of a single
case in thirty years Of the lynching Of negro
for the crime Of rape where the negro had
gone through even the usual mockery OF q trial
before white Judge, jury, and criminal prose
cutting officer The negro Is lynched first by the
mob and then tried by the press, who do their
best TO minimize the Injury the murder has in
ficted on the character OF their section by In
voking higher lava law higher than con-
passions suddenly excited by the heinous crime
Of the man who was lynched.
Is being kin to murderer rapep 1s living in
neigh bOrhood where a crime was alleged to
have been committed rape2 Is buying a home
land improving III In an aristocratic watering
place by a respectable negro rape2 Iajustifia-
BILE homicide rape2 Ia theft rape3 II the ac
cusation of crime rape Wen. for all these
reasons negroes have been lynched. Even the
cases where rape was alleged. was 1t proved be-
yOnd n reasonable doubt
Why perJure themselves any longer2 Why
not simply say that law and equity are for white
men, and for white men only. Judge Lynch Is
for the negro. NEGRO.
GALVESTON, Sept. 10.