Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-11
DEFENDS THE SOUTH.
Governor Nofthen on the English
Lynchins Investigators.
hi POINTS OUT BRITISH CRIMES
He Calls ON the vlsitors Ia Clear the skirts
OF Their Own Country-Tiii-
man-O'Ferrsii.

SAVANNAH. GA. September 1o.-A
special to the Morning News from At
lanta says: Governor Northen has again
come to the trent as defender OF the
South. He sent to-day to the New York
World telegrf m, TO which every lover
Of the South. as we'll az every true pa
triot, will say amen. The Governor. WING
language on the subject Of Islander against
the South, is still more emphatic In his
message to-day. He does not mince
words. no one can misunderstand his
meaning.
This morning the following telegram
from the New York World was received
by the Governor:
NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER O. 1894.
ITO Governor w. J. Northen, Atlanta.
Ga:
IAN English committee has been sent
here to investigate and denounce southern
lynchings. VIII you please telegraph us
what you think Of English meddling with
our affairs7'
I In reply to this query Governor Northen
this morning wired the following reply:
ITO the World. New York:
Say TO the English Committee who
have come to this country to investigate
and denounce lynchings at the South
that ! am in position TO know that they
have received their information from ire
sponsible 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 defence OF the South by
Englishmen who are now residents Of the
South. Under these conditions. We do
not want any further outside hypocritcal
cant upon false ideas of our government
The people of this State are quite able to
administer their own affairs. and they are
doing 1t In full justice to the negro. as our
laws and our conduct will attest.
THE BEAM AND THE NOTE.
I'VE have already endured more outside
interference in our local matters than we
will submlssiyely tolerate in the future.
Let these kindly-disposed Englishmen re-
turn to Their own country and prevent by
the law the inhuman sale OF virtuous
girls to lustful men In high places; hang
all such demons as Jack the Ripper: pun
ish as II deserves the barbarous, whole
sale slaughter of negroes In Africa by
Englishmen, who go there 10 steal their
gold: supply the necessities Of working
men to prevent bread and labor riots and
strikes. which are wholly unknown TO the
people of the South: feed and give en-
ployment to the poor. as do the people Of
my section. and give to the oppressed
Irishmen the rights humanity demands;
and when they shall have pulled the beam
out OF their own eye. then they may. with
better grace. appoint themselves a com,
mittee to hunt for the mote that may be
in ours.
while we have Irregularities at the
South, and negroes are sometimes lynched
they are never slaughtered by wholesale
as Englshmen sometimes destroy them.
II send you by mail the law and record
OF my State on these matters. and
not only the English Committee
on Lynchings at the South. but the civ
iized world. to show better
"Why comes there committee 20 in
vestigate and 'denounce' the South just
prior TO a congressional election. when
we have Just had a negro lynched I'm
April I'd. another in Ohio on the
Sabbath. April 18th; land when white
Poles and Hungarians have recently been
brutally butchered in Michigan and Penn
sylvania. and negroes run out Of Franklin
Park. n. j.. in herds.
I'VE challenge investigation by all per-
sons who have the right TO investigate
these charges. but any attempt upon the
part of Englshmen. tainted with their
own national crimes. TO arraign US for
trial must be considered as gross i'm
pertlnence.
(Sgned) "W ]. NORTHERN.
Governor of Georgia"
GOVERNOR TILLMAN'S REPLY.
COLUMBIA, s. c.. September 10.-Gov-
ernor Tilman sent the following reply
to a telegram from the New York World,
asking for an expression OF opinion as to
the reported visit Of an English lynch
ing investigation committee.
"COLUMBIA, s. c., September ., 1894.
ITO the World. New York:
I'm reply to your telegram of this date
would say the Englshmen are welcome
to South Carolina and to learn the truth.
They can't investigate US from New
York. / will afford them every facility
TO get all the facts.
(Signed "B. r. TILLMAN,
Governor of South Carolina"
Governor O'FerraII.
Governor O'Ferrall was also called on
for an expression OF his views touching |
the subject above referred to. and his re-
ply will be found elsewhere In this Issue