Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-09-14
THE GOVERNORS REPLY.
Commonwealth of Virginia.
Governoi's Office

RicLmon W., Sept. 9 1894.
The World, New York:
Things have come to a pretty
pass 10 this country when we are
t. have a lot OF English mOralistS
sticking their noses into our in
ternal affairs. 1t is the quintes'
cence of brass aud impudence.
They had better sweep in front of
their own doors before seeking to
gulate us. We might as well
investigate England's aft ,irs in
IIdla, her White Chapel murders.
her Jack the Ripper slashlngs, the
Maybrick trial and her alleged IN
justice and cruelty to this woman,
her rapacols colonial policy in
Africa and the degrading effects
upon the Chinese resulting from
her opium war.
What do they propose to do in
case they find that law is not ad'
ministered here according TO their
ideas? Declare war against us or
open the walls of their wrath upon
our heads!
What Information do they Seekf
Do they want to know that the
white people in the South have
lynched negroes whose miserable
lusts led them to the commission
of the black crime OF rape upon
white women? II so they need not
investigate, for such is the fact.
Do they desire to know that this
has been done by infurate CON-
manities for the protection OF their
white women and to save victims
Of these 6endS from the humilia-
ton of .testifyIng in courts? If so
this is the fact. d. they want to
know whether there was any doubt
as to the guilt of the men y nched?
If so for the satisfaction of their
yearning souls they could have
ascertained without encOuntering
the perils OF sea trip that their
guilt was clear in every instance.
II they had desired to learn
whether these lynchings were per
mitted or cOnntenanced by the civ
IL authorities, they could have
learned through the regular chan.
ne,s of correspondence that in
every case the civil authorities
were eth without knowledge or
were OyerpOwere1. Ia Virginia
the authorities in every cIs3 have
asserted all their power to sup
press tbs lynchingspirit, and with
in the last few months | have pro-
tect, d from violence with military
at heavy expense to the State,
three negroes who were charged
with outraging white women. They
had fair trials, were convicted and
executed. While lyGch law ia TO
be condemned and every effJrt has
been and will be made to suppress
1t in tue S )uth without the advice
of those would-be philantroplsts
who have taken so much upon
themselves, lynchings will surely
C ,ase when the crime of rape ceases.
These sympathetic EnglIshmen
might hnd missionary work among
the negroes OF the South IN warn.
ing them against the consequences
OF the forcible graf ficatiOn of their
devilish lusts.
CHARLES t. O'FERRALL,
Governor of VirglniI.
The above is the outgrowth OF
tie lying ISLANDERS Of a negro wo-
man, / da Wells, who psraded
over England will f, ing the S)uth'
ern people because she was driven
out Of Memphis, Tenn, for the
vilest wholesale SANDER of the
white ladies Of that city.
This woman is the worst enemy
the colored people of the South
could possibly have. She is doing
all 10 her power to bring about
rlce war which every Intelligent
colored man knows would be a
most disastrous thing for his race.
The sooner they repudiate this cres-
ture aud her foul lies the batter
for them.