Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-18
LYNCH Law SOUTH.
Governor Northen Defends This Section
Against aVleSSneSS.
NORTH CANNOT THROW STONES
The Negro Here Has Opportunities Denied
Him There. Nor II He Free from
Mob Violence There.

the South. II Is inspired by certain edi-
torial structures upon the people OF the
South that appeared In a previous num-
Der OF the Christian Register, and 1t aims
to defend tina section Of our land from
the charge of lawlessness. particularly In
its treatment OF the negroes; to show
that the black is In reality more strongly
intrenched In his rights there than in
the North; and further, to convict the
North OF lawlessness unknown In the
South.
Negroes remarks Governor Northen.
have far better opportunities to main
tain themselves at the South than at the
North and East. Have you observed that
negroes are being put out Of the barber
shops In your section? They have al
ternate chairs with white men in the
shop where my halr-cutting Is done.
Have you observed that, with you, ne
grIes and white men never lay brick on
the same building? At the SOUTH, ne
groes and white men dip mortar from
the same bed and carry brick TO the same
scaffold. Just across the street from my
study | now see a white man saving on
one end OF a scantling and a negro saw
ing at the other. DO you see any SUCH
sights in Boston? A few years ago. when
the negro was a fad in the North. many
Of your wealthy people secured them as
coachmen. Do you see any or them as
| such in your section now? The negro
holds the reins' at the South Tor our
very best people. Why this difference In
the sections? Surely. this is not the rea-
son why the civilization of the South -
q reproach to the world"
CRIME NORTH AND SOUTH.
Coming to the specific question of crime
the Governor gives these comparative
| statistics. which were collected by Bishop
Penwick. Of Baltimore:
Georgia-Population, total, l~,s5',39S'
white, 1885,; negro, S5s,sl5. Prisohers'
white, 3R, l to every $50 whites; negroes
1855; / to every $50 negroes. Hofnicides'
whites, 81; | 10 every n'lU whites' ne
| croes. 2gO: | to every 1861 negroes.
New York-Population, total, o,s'I'@5;
white. 5.g23. gj2: negroes, 70,0s2. Prisoners,
total. il,4es; white, 1918; l to every 90;
| negroes. 7cl: | to every 100. Homicides'
whites. 40; | TO every li,i1S; negroes, %;
] ~ every l,Ws.
.Drbe negro. according to this he per
tInently remarks, lis either twice as DAD
| North as he Is South, or else we are twice
90 Ierient with MIN. We are paying
q a year to educate the negro.
"Ve have Iawlessness at the South just
| as YOU have lawlessness AT ihe No't".
We nave murders In Atlanta just as sou
have murders III Boston. sometimes ne
.roo, ar. lvnched at the South just as
tn are lynched at the North. Dld you
ever hear of "A labor riot In Georgia OF
a, the South? never did. II l nave
iveI here all my life-more than my
yrs Labor riots occur from week W
~, a,noug our brethren north OIL the
dividing line. ~. orious
1bis statement Is supported by various
.v,r.cts from newspaper telegraphlc ue-
snatches Of recent date, instahclhs cas,'
of murderous assault by Striking WIN.
men and by a reference to the |o~'
movement.
RoSTON CIVIL1ZATloN'
.Ual YOU observed, in TINS ue"a".e
law and marching against the "e"
Government. that there are no" On t"e
road thirteen distinct armies anu ""'
oue of them from the South!
Have we fallen so far behind tne
advance-guard that the CIVILIZATION Oh IL
South IL a reproach TO the worid'
THE following dispatch indicates that
these lawless mobs came ua"se'ou'''
near TO your " hcme
ROsTON. MASS. April
monium ragged on the Common to-day
nandemonium that ran dangerously near
the verge OF full-ledged 'riot. During It's
heigb, the New England delegation OF
tho Industrial army made It's escape from
tho midst of 5000 excited men, ana
started for Roxbury. This was not. how
! eyer. until their banner had been torn to
| fragments and several OF them pretty Sc
verelv handled. Speeches were interrupted
| Inv Kisses. drowned in c~atcalis. and blotted
/ out Of existence with derisive cheers.
~ have never been to Boston, and
therefore know nothing of the civilization
| OF vonr people, except what l hear from
| others.
Il will not. therefore. harshly c~riticise
| your civilization. but it does appear to
| me that this riot comes dangerously near
| the standard Of civilization spoken about
| I'm your editorial.
AS there never was n riot In my State
| in all its history. tell me. are not the
| lives and property of the people greatly
endangered at such times as you have
/ Just experienced In Boston,"
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES.
AS to the matter OF lynching negroes.
the Governor calls attention TO the fact
that within one week last month a COLI
| ored man was lynched in Ohio for as
sault upon a Woman and another in
Kansas for murder. Moreover. he says
| he learned that a Law and Order League
| at Franklin Park. y. j.. practically drove
out every negro In the community as an
| outcome of the murder by two negroes
| Of the W fe and child Of young Farmer
| Baker, who I'm turn killed them both.
II could give you many more such In
| stances. but as they do not bear upon
1ynchIng negroes at the South I must
forbear and proceed TO discuss the first
| part of the second proposition of the
| agreed analysis of your editorial, which Is
as follows:
THE clergy and journalists and edu-
Gators Of the South are acquiescing In a
governmental policy which makes the
Southern States Il reproach 10 the world
soon after | came into office a negro
was lynched in Georgia. | promptly Of
| fered n reward Of $40 each for the arrest
and delivery TO the proper officer of the
| parties to this mob. Every daily paper
In the State wrote strong editorials en-
dorsing my action and called upon the
| people to stand by the majesty OF the law
and demand a trial by jury for n and
all men charged with crime.
Now, understand me. l do not say ne
| groes are not sometimes lynched at the
South. but | do insist that people who live
I'm glass houses ought, at least, 10 be
careful how they throw stones"
GEORGIA'S STATUTES.
Georgia's law against lynching. the
Governor insists. embodies adequate pro-
lection for life and property. The act.
which he sends in full, and which was
| passed unanimously by the General AS
sembly. p%ronounces killing through mob
violence murder. and Furnishes all citi-
zens who become parties thereto az MUIR
derers; IL authorizes the Governor to
summon all citizens to aid him in sup
pressing mob violence; declares failure to
respond to the call a misdemeanor. and
holds any Sheriff or other arresting Of
fcer guilty of mIsdemeanor who fails to
attempt. in good faith. to suppress any
such acts. Concluding, Governor Northen
says:
WHAT CAN THE NORTH ANSWER?
Now, | challenge the North to furnish
from its statutes and from the machinery
of its courts and from the records or It's
Governors, any more adequate protection
BY law for life and property so FAR as
lynching negroes or mobbing Poles or
riotously numbering Slavonians Is con-
cerned, than l have given you ior my
State.
''On the face of all you have said about
the civilization of the South. l demand