The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1894-09-21


this country. has been followed by an En-
glish committee, which proposes to nrcstiyat,
the subject We do not know what she said
to the English people. She said that which
has made her laudably notoriou, in the eyes
OF some we'll meaning English people whose
heads have sweled so big as TO totally i'm
pair their eyesight. EngsnSs charity a.
ways did stay long way frolnS home In
fact it went off long ago ard has not been
heard Of Gu Eogland) since. Old England
has some Of the grandest, best men in the
world. These stay at home. Other little
fellows, nothing at home. nothing where
ever they are known, wander up and down
the earth, always steering clear Of English
dominions, trying to find some rottenness
When they find the object of their search
and desire, forgetting What they have left
at home, they throw up their hands in holy
horror at the dIprarity (of other people,.
Then they gloat. over the corruption they
have found. Then they devour il and then
''nrestigate' for more.)
Ida Wells has made herself notorious To
her own infamy in the eyes of all people
who are at all acquainted with the facts
Whatever she said il has left the impression
first that the negro only was lynched, sec.
ood that white men always did the lynch.
ing, both of which arc false
There is one crime which is so detestable
to all men who love their mothers and wives
aud sisters aud children that il inccuses
men against the pcrpctrator of it; and if
aggravated at all or accompanied with fcud-
lshness it drives people to madness. This
is the case everywhere, North aud South,
and whoever the criminal, be he black or
white. Negroes themselves do not hesitate
to inhict summary punishment when that
crime is committed on one Of their race.
We deprecate lynching, we dcpreciate
all mob law. 1t is our sober judgment that
every accused person ought to have the
benefit Of a fair and impartial trial. Fiat
JustH'a Sed an ctrta formd fat. We have
stringent laws against lynching in some cf
our Southern States. In North Carolipa
whenever person is taken out OF custody
and lynched it becomes the duty of the
solicitor Of the district to go to the county
aud search diligently for the lynchers and
to spare no pains to bring them to Justice
And for this service the county wherein the
lynch'ng took place, besides paying the ex-
pcnsc Of the investigation must pay the
solicitor 500 for his service, whether he be
successful or not. There may be such laws
in other States and we presume there arc in
some The trouble is not with our law. nor
is it with our people, but it is with the un-
bridled passions of certain class of negroes
and brutal white men. If the English com.
mittec can change these they might do some
good. In regard to this committe, however,
We disagree with some of our contempora-
ries, aud incline to the opinion expressed
by the Governors of most of our States
We regard it a. an officious intermeddling
and do not think that the committee ought
to be tolerated. We do not fear an invest-
CATION, but we do not think the English
committee competent, fitted or clothed with
the proper authority to investigate. En-
gland has never had but one ear for Amer
ica, an ear keen to slanicr and dull to truth
deaf to oil good. 1t has but one eye for
us, and that is the searching eye Of criticism
and fault-fnding-color blind to all except
black. 1t has but one nOstri, and that SEN
sitive only to stcuches. 1t has but one taste
in America and that is for filth 1t has but
one interest and that is 10 get all the gold we
have. We don't see what good the commit
tee could do and we see how they might do
a great deal of harm. 1t certainly would be
bad day for the negro, if the English
should bring into the South some Of the re-
form that they are now pcrpctrating OH the
negroes in Africa
We anticipate no trouble from this con-.
mittee however. The negro has been de-
ceiyed long time but he has at last found
out that the Southern white man il his best
friend. There arc some leading negroes
now who are intelligent men and througs
their rc.igious denominations they are max
ing better citizens Of their people. The reso-
lutions recently adopted by n national Assem-.
bly, of negroes in one of our Southern cities
were very commendable. They denounced
lynching, but they also denounced the crime
that occasions SO much lynching. They
begged the white people to desist from
lynching, but they also resolved 10 do their
utmost to check the commission Of crime by
the more brutal one. of their race. 1t is
true they csmmendcd the course Of Ida
Wells, but that was but natural for them,
and while not agreeing with them We may
we'll excuse them
We wish that lynching might be stopped
but we do not believe that it will be as long
as a certain crime is 50 prevalent, whether
the crime be committed by white or black
To the English committee and well mean
ing people who arc in favor Of investigating
VIC would say Beware that you do not
s',m TO couutcnancc the crime Beware
that you do not take sides with the wrong
victim. If all your words had come to the
ears Of certain low, brutal men there would