The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-09-12
ENGLIsHMEN TO INVESrI-
GATE ISLANDERS.
Governor O'Fsrralls Seathing Denuncia-
ton of English Pharisasism IN Inter-
meddling With Southern Norals-The
Quintessence of Brass and Impudenes-
Lynching 1Yal Cease With its Cause.

RICHMOND, Va, September 1O.-The
Evening State this afternoon says that
Governor O'Ferrall received last night
the following telegram from the New
York World:
New YORK, September 9, 1894.-ro
Governor Charles T O'Ferrall: An
English committee has been sent here
to investigate and and denounce South
ern lynchings. Will you please telegraph
US what you think of English meddliug
with our affairs :?
The Governors reply was as fellows:
RICHMOND, Va. September 9,
lS94.-To The World, New York
Things have come to a pretty pass in
this country when We are to have lot OF
English moralists sticking their noses
into our internal .afaiss Its the
ouintessence of brass and impudeDce-
They bad better stop in front of their
own doors before seeking to regulate
US We might as we'll investigate
English affairs in India, her White
Chapel murderers, her Jack the Rip
per's slasbings. the Maybrick trial and
her alleged injustice and cruelty to this
woman, her rspacious colonial policy
in Africa and the degrading effects
upon the Chinese resulting from her
opium war.
What do they propose to do iu case
they 6od that the law is not admins
tered here according to their ideas ?
Declare war against US or open the
vials of their wrath upon our homes ?
What information do they seek? Do
they want to know that the white peo-
pie in the South have lynched negroes
whose miserable lusts led them to the
commission of black crimes of rape
upon white women I? If so they need
not investigate, for such is the fact.
Do they desire to know that this has
been done by infuriated communities
for the protection of their white women,
and to save the victims of these 6ends
from the humiliation of testifying in
Courts If so, this is the fact. Do
they waps to know whether there was
any doubt as to the guilt of the men
lynched ? If so. for the satisfaction of
their yearning souls they could have
ascertained without eDcountering the
perils of sea trip; their guilt was clear
10 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 cor
respondeuce, that 10 every case the
civil authorities were either without
knowledge or were overpowered.
10 Virginia the authorities in every
case have asserted all their power to
suppress the lyncbiug spirit, aud with
in the last few months have protected
from violence with military, at heavy
expense to the State. three negroes,
who were charged with outraging white
women. They bad fair trials, were
convicted and executed. While lynch
law is tc be condemned, aud every effort
has been aud will be made to suppress
it in the South without the advice Of
those would-be philauthropists who
have taken so much upon themselves.
lyncbings will surely cease when the
crime Of rape ceases These sympa-
thetic Englishmen might 6ud missionary
work among the negroes of the South
in warning them against the conse-
quences Of forcible; qualification of their
deyilish lust.