The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-09-19
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THE LYNC4ING REPORTS.

What Governor O'Fsrral. OF Virgins
and Governor Northern. OF Georgis, Ha
to Say to Them-They Were Treste.
Just Alb out Right.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 10.-The fol
lowing appears in the Evening Stat'
here this afternoon:
Governor O'Ferroll received last night
the following telegram from the New
York World:
New YORK, Sept. 9.-To Governor
Charles T. O'FERRALL, Esq.:
40 English committee has been sen
here to investlgae aud denounce South
ern lynchings. Will you please tele
graph US what you think of Englist
meddling with our affairs"
The Governors reply:
Commonwealth of Virginia, Governors
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
quientescence of brass and impudence
They had better sweep 10 front of their
own doors before seeking to regulate
US. We might as we'll investigate Elg.
llsh affairs in India, her White Chapel
muderes, her Jack the Rjpper'e slash.
ings, the Maybrick trial and her alleged
injustice an. cruelty to this woman, her
rapacious colonial policy in Africa and
the degrading effects upon the Chinese
resulting from the opium war. What do
they propose to do in case they find that
the law is not administered here accord.
ing to their ideas? Declare war against
us, or open the walls Of their wrath upon
our heads? What information do
they seek? Do they want to know that
the white people in the South have
lYEched negroes whose miserable lusts
led them to the commission of the black
crimes of rape upon white women. II
80, they need not investigate, for such
is the fact. Do they desire to know that
this has been done by lnfuriated com.
munlties for the protection Of their white
women and to save the victims OF these
fends from the humiliation of testifying
In courts? II 80, this ls the fact. Do
they want to know whether there was
any doubt as to the guilt of the men
lyncheG? If 30, for the satisfaction OF
their yearnipg souls, they could have as
certained without encounteriag 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 countenanced by the
civil authorities, they could have learned
through the regular channels of CORES.
pondence that in every case the civil au-
ttorities were either without knowledge
or were oYerp2Wered. In Virginia, the
authorities ia everv case have asserted
all their power to suppress tho lynching
spirit and within the last few months I
have protected from violence with mill.
tary, at heavy expense to tho 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 il in the South,
without the advice of those would.be
philanthropists, who have taken 80 much
upon themselve, lYnching will surely
cease when the crime of rape ceases.
These sympathhtic Eaglishmen might
Gnd missionary work among the negroes
of the South In warning them against
the consequences ofthe forclble gratlica-
ton of theirIdevilish lusts.
(Signed) Charles T. O'FERRALL.
Governor OF Virginia.
GOV. NORTHEN's REPLY.
ATLANTA, Sept. 10.-This morning
the folio wing telegram from The New
York World was received by 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 affairs p
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 "to investi-
gate and denounce lynchings at the
South" that | am in position to know
that they have received their informa'
tion from irresponsible sources, and
that the English people have declined
and refused to be properly Informed
about our laws and the conduct of our
government. The English papers to
my knowledge have declined time and
again to publish statements made to
them in defense of the South by En-
glishmen, who are now residents Of the
South. Under these conditions we do
not want any further outside hypoc-
rical can't upon false ideas of our gov
erment. The people of this State are
quiet able to administer their own af-
fairs and they are doing 1t In full jus.
tice to the negro, as our laws and our
conduct will attest. We have already
endured more outside interference in
our local matters than We will sub
missively tolerate in the future. Let
these kindly disposed Englishment re-
turn to their own country and prevent
by law the inhuman sale of virtuous
girls to lustful men in high places, hang
all such demons as Jack the Ripper,
punish, as it deserves, the barbarous
wholesale slaughter of negroes in
Africa by Eoglishmen who go there to
steal their gold; supply the necessities
to prevent Dread and labor riots aud
strikes, which are wholly unknown to
the people of the South; feed and give
employment to the poor, as do the peo-
pie of my section; give to the oppressed
Irishmen the rights humanity demands,
and when they shall have pulled the
beam out of their own eyes, then they
may, with better grace, appoint them
selves a committee to hunt for the
moat that may be in our eyes.
While we have irregularities at the
south and negroes are sometimes
lynched, they are never slaughtered by
wholesale as Eoglishmen sometimes
destroyed them. l send you by mail
the law and record of my own State on
these matters and l challenge not only
the English committee on lynchings at
the South. but the civilized world, to