The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-09-19
GOV. NORTuEN'S REPLY.

GOV. NOhIAEN IEElI L.
ATLANTA, Sept. 10.-This morning
the following telegram from The 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 affairs =
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
South" that l am in position to know
that they have received tneir informa'
tion from irresponsible sources, and
that the English people have declined
and refused to be properly informed
about our laws and tue conduct of our
government. The English papers to
nv 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 at-
fairs and they are doing it 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 Tirtuous
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 Eaglishmen who 60 there to
steal their gold; supply the necessities
to prevent bread and labor riots and
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 tc 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 De in our eyes.
While we have irregularities at the
south and negroes are sometimes
lynched, they are never slaughtered by
wholesale as Englishmen sometimes
destroyed them. | send you by mail
the law and record of my own State on
these matters and challenge not only
the English committee on lynchings at
the South, but the civilized world, to
show 8 better. Why come with this in
vestigatlon to denounce the South just
prior TO Congressional election, when
we have just had negro lynched In
Kansas April 9, another in Ohio on the
Sabbath, April 18th, and when white
Poles and Hungarlans have recently
been brutally butchered in Michigan
and Pennsylvania and negroes ruu out
of Franklin Park, n. J :, IN herds? We
challenge investigation by all persons
who have the right to investigate these
charges, but ans attempt upon the part
of Englishmen tainted by their own
national crimes to arraign US for trial
must be considered gross impertl-
nence. w. J. NoRTuEN.
Governor of Georgia.
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