Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-01-05

hands and eyes perhaps SLED with
tears be beseeched the murderers 70
allow him TO pray for their VIC
Tins.
If he can reproduce that prayer,
Mr.. PRESIDENT; II he can tell OF the
tremulousness of thai voice. II he
can describe that scene; he will have
rendered service far greater and
grander TO civilization than any eff
fort upon his part could possibly be
In far-away Armenia, where the
representatives of the greatest ma
tions of the earth are looking after
the interests of those unfortunate
people alleged to have been mas
sacred. These are only few In
stances In VIRGINIA, Mr.. President.
In none of these cases has q reward
been offered by the Chief Executive
of the state, nor an effort made to
hunt down the perpetrators of these
murderous outrages.
/ One more citation, Mr.. President,
of the many WILL TowLER, a color
ed boy was alleged TO have been
caught In compromising situation
I'm Plttsylvania Co, Va. There was
: no rape. Two white men 1t is al
legged carried him into the woods
They came back. de had disappear
, ed, they said. From that day to
this he has not been seen. His body
D could not have been left above the
D surface. his bones cannot be bleach
ling under the cleansing rays OF the
e sun. 1t is perfectly evident to our
e mind that his soul has gone to the
o spirit land, and all that was
). mortal of Kim is whitening in the
n dust.
o No, no, Mr.. CLEVELAND, with
n draw your request for an indepen-
he dent investigation of the atrocities
u. in ARMENIA, and carry out the idea
Of In your own native land.
ne Send him to NORTH CAROLYN
where they skinned man alive; tC
Id South Carolina, where they sho
a down eight defen' eless men after ty
"a ing them to trees; or to Georgia
IL where they whipped women, butch
d. cred men and hunted the children Il
the forests; or In Florida wher
nd blood-hounds hunted down the DE-
&C fenseless victims for the lynchers t
ar shoot; or In ALABAMA, where wive
he have been left Northumberland chi
I'D dren allowed TO cry fo
we bread; or In Mississippi wheI
nd for months trembling black me
tie and women sought. refuge In tt
nd wiIds of the southland, viii
nst profane and murderous white me
sought for them to wiring from the
bringing bodies all OF the life that
GoD ever gave.
'N Send Consul JEwETT, Mr.. Pres
dent to Louisiana, where the Go
ernor of state, MCENERY bold
seq suspended the law, allowed rapir
emu murder and various kinds of bloc
De shed In order that the so-calIed De-
1sn ocratic Party might succeed
axe that state, a place where mems
dies have been fayed, women OF
can ragged and children murdered.
Is And then, let him go to bloc
'nce Texas,-a state that is stepped
can blood and whose soil has been
III a generation red with the
streams of its victims.
Cne Let him write up, and publ
again to the world how the colo
'iVh- man HENRY SMITH was burned, b
oun- the scaffold was erected, how red
'orA irons we're thrust between his tC
ND his limbs, how his privates v
oenO burned out, how his bowels '
ouu scared through and through '
ming the heated instrument OF tort
how the iron was thrust into
o in mouth, his tongue burned out,
ze an nostriIs distended and made
st OF feel the effect Of the deadly heat.
lome. How his eyes, Mr.. President,
terial ing In their sockets, expressly
Presi- misery, were burnt out by
ience. same irons. smuggling and sputte
o to with white heat.
NDER, Let him tell how the srrugg
was swaying, totterings dying ma
body his thongs burned away stagp
of the to- the edge of the Burning
owing form. tumblsd off, writhing II
agony, while the populace che
lching Let him describe how he
e city pitched back Into the fire,
barred wood piled on, more kerosen
ndish- applied, and death came to II
his suffering.
of the When he is through with this
! and let him find In DANTE's INFERNO
10 per- suggestion to surpass in heIlis
be wo- the preparation of this crime.
till at Come home, Mr.. JEwETT, an'
your commission, and finish up
ous to Tennessee. where EPH. GIRL
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