Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-06

about tho lynchins of the neyio near
Fulton. No.. about tho same timer No
body has heard OF Il since.
y few months ago negro was iynchcd
In Western New York for the same CT inc,
another in Nebraska and one In Maryland.
Who made fuss about thesnl
+ But when an occurrence OF this Kind
takes place down South" the changes
are rung month after month. II
1t Is injustice. Tho idea cone
veyed is that the Southern poop,c are
more cruel and unjust to the negro. and
more brutal In their lynohings. and per-
rttrate more OF them without cause. thnn
tho people OF the North. THIS Ia not true.
There are no people 30 kind to tho negro
as the Southern people. All honest me-
groes will bear testimony TO this fact.
There is Just ono thing the Southern peo-
rle Will not ana ought not TO lo-neithcr
will the people of Missouri--neithor will
the people OF the North--submlJ TO the
laws delays In punishment OF brutal,
fiendish negroes for the ravishment OF lit
Ito girls or lcfenseless women. Every
perpetrator Of this terrible inc should
suffer death instantly, Oh b, < caught.
IL this Is wrong-N this encourages mob
law-makc the most OF It.
The Herald says what harnesses tho
law-abldlng citizen IL how TO prevent It,"
We t@tu ttli lHt tttINll now 10 prevent
II, Stop tho hcllish crime and lynchings
will stop and not before. Let tho good.
easy. philanthropic souls all over the
country quit giving aid and comfort to
the ignorant negro by denouncing tho
swift punishment tho people visit upon
tho rnvlshcr, and 30 to work and educate
him. Teach him the enormlty OF auch
conduct. Rcorganizc the courts OF jNs-
tice 50 that crime can he punished legally
and speedily The punishment must he
adequate TO tho crime. suppose that the
negro who was lynchod In Tennessee had
porpetratcd tho same crime In Kansas. lie
would have been lynehed Just "a quick.
But suppose he had not been lynched.
Then he would have been put IN jail. and
lawyers would have been Hppointed 70 de-
tend him. They would ask for contn-
uGrco at the frHt term, which would have
been granted. And at the second term OF
count the lawyers would ask for a change
o. venue to another county on account Of
public opinion being so strong against
him. Tho good-souled, impartial Judgt
would grant II and, finally. nftcr nino
months or a year Is past, he would DO
convicted and sent to tho penitcntiary for
life. ls that adequate punishment WIN
such nunlshmcnt ns that ever deter the
brute from crlme7
Just as brutal a lynching rs that IN
Tennessee was inflicted upun negro at
Fort Scott. kas.. about 1875. when he was
tied to Il stake IN the public SQUARE AMI
boxes and kndling piled around him.
coal oil poured upon It, and set on lire.
and the brute literally burned M In the
rresence Of hundreds " people THIS wus
the first burning or negro after the war
The people OF the South IN several In
stances have followed this example.
Tho statement that the people who
lyrched the negro IN Tennessee. and those
who lynch negroes for rape. are worse
than outlAws.' "murderers," and that
their act surpGsses IN brutality the worst
crimes OF the middle REeE'-that It
Is "nendlsh"-ia not only news
paper balcdrdush and dlscrcditable |
rot. but II ia uniustinnble slsu- |
der against hundreds OF "a good !
Non Rs live. We happen TO know those !
Veopie iown In Tennessee. aud In point % |
morals. scbrlety, good character and rev
orenco for law, they are the EQUALS Of |
any rural community In Missouri or any |
Northern State, aud FAR superior to many |
These lynchingH do not occur IN law
less dlAtricts The negro In New York. |
the one In Nebraska, the one In Maryland. |
she one In Galloway county, No, tho one |
In Tennessee were not lynche1 IN law |
less districts, They would have been, and |
win be lynehed In st Joseph. or sodnlln, |
or IN Iowa and Ohio. for the same crime. /
Editors may write, cronks may howl, |
rroaclurB may preach, but tho law TO
punish tho helllsh brutal negro raplft, |
il written upon tho hearts and souls Of |
the people, aud is az unhlterablo as "thc
laws Of tho Atedca ard Peraplns,' TINT |
the brutal negro ravishOr OF white girls |
and women shall do at the hands OF Judge |
Lynch as soon aa caught
We may DO abused for these sentiments, |
so be 1t.
We nro opposed TO mob law IN general. |
We believe In the enforcement Of pil laws,
We believe our courts ought 10 be- far |
more than they Rrc-courts OF IuHtlcc--
our criminal courts holding the scales o.
Justice evenly between the criminal aud /
tho people-but wo believe IN the protec-
ton Of the women and girls Of our coun-
try from tho hands OF tho sensual, brutal
negro,
In all the history OF Judge Lynch'u
court thero can not a single Instance he
found where an innocent negro was
lynched
Another point. md II is greatly In favor
OF the Southern States. Take States that
we have n personal knowledge OF. Ten
nersce, Georgia, Mississippi. LoulsiIna aud
Texas and tho laws are more rlgldly aud
In artlally administered than they arc In
tho moro Northern or Western States.
mans family, charact r or money does not
give him iInmunt, from punishment In
these stR;ca. Judges. lawyers, members
OF the legislatures, and members OF city
{ ounclla are IN ialls and pcnitentiarios Of
AL these States today.
In tho North and West the trial OF an
or a rich man for n crime Ia
farce.
II ~ time for this abuse OF tho South
to stop. II IN slanderous and unjust.
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