The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-03

show the Southern people TO be still as
bloody minded as when Lewis bu,chcred
his negro boy. lie continues thus, OF
an occurrence In Tennessee:
"Cne JEFF. Ellis. black man. VINO
| had assaulted, without Killing. seven
teen-year-old white girl, was snatcheo
I from the authorities by white noD'
| We quote from the New York beraln
| dispatch Issue Of October l1th); 'E'ils
1 was taken TO "A point ABOUT i"'
yards from the house (oi ms Wv
| f,ta,. where a huge fire was built, ana
he was told to prepare for death a
man pushed through the crowd
brandishing a knife, and yelled: "kneei
down and pray, you dog; I'm going 10
cut of your ears" The negro knelt, but
did not pray. and the man began cut
ting Off his right ear. Then member OF
| the mob yelled: "Give me his other ear
Il want finger" The Negroes other
oar was cut from his head, after which
each OF his fingers was cut Off. He was
then mutilated In a horrible and unmen-
tionahle manner. member OF the mon
favored roasting the negro alive.
He was strung up TO the telegraph-pole
-. and while his pulse still family
heat ne was lowered TO the ground and
bloody head was placed In a sack
| (and) send to the family Of a little girl
living in Mississippi. whom Ellis thed)
attempted to assault.
The Nations reviewer then adds tho
following:
"on October %. 1926 at Tyler. Texas,
Henry Hnlard. black man. assaulted
and then murdered a white married wo-
man. and mob took him likewise from
the hands Of the officers Of the law
We quote again from the Herald Issue
OF October 30th):
".It was unanimously decided to burn
Hnlard. and II was decided that he
should suffer his penalty in the public
square I'm this city Twelve thousand
persons were assembled there. Large
| crowds Of women and children were
| spectators. A scaffold was erected IN
the centre Of the square. ana kindline
wood. coal-oil and straw were placed In
| position The negro was dashed 20 an
iron rail that extended through the
platform. and Mr. Bell, the husband OF
the murdered woman, applied the match.
The flames shot upward, enveloping the
man in sheets of fire. He begged for
mercy. but was not permitted 10 burn
| at once The fire was frequently
auenched. and after the lapse OF Tow
minutes started again. From the time
the match was applied until his death
was fifty minutes.
These instances, the Nation saws. prove
"thc unchanged spirit Of slavery
other words. are fair indexes Of the char
acter Of the people Of the South.
The first remark 10 be made upon this
long extract. which we have quoted in
full. that no injustice might be done IS
that the writer is ignorant. When he
speaks of the negro JEFF. Ellis having
assaulted. without killing. seventeen
year-old white girl" he shows that he
has not the faintest idea Of the negro's
crime. or the state of frenzy which IT
arouses amongst the white people. And
that causes him to collocate the alleged
Kentucky case Of Lewis with the other
two. where there is no sort Of relation
between the first and the last two, as
any one with. information enough to
write on the subject would know.
so far as Lewis case is concerned
without knowing anything whatever about
the facts. we say that any intelligent man
i'm the South will al once pronounce the
statements untrue. There was never a
time i'm this century. in any part OF
the South. where such thing could have
| happened. Every locality in the South
has its hends. no doubt, as every To-
calitv in the North has. but whoever has
lived i'm the South knows perfectly well
that if Lewis had been the hend he IS
here represented to he. and ne had muir
dored one Of his slaves I'm this barbarous
WAY. he would have been brought 10
Justice by his neighbors. in spite of every
thing. That case can. therefore, be
dismissed without further consideration.
The thing never happened.
Events like those described in the two
extracts from the New York Herald have
unfortunately happened in the South
but. instead Of proving the whole peo-
plc to be the savages and brutes the
Nation would represent them TO be, the
great body Of the Southern people de-
plore such awful deeds as earnestly as
the Nation can. But they result from
the horrible condition the North forced
upon Southern society when it freed our
negro slaves. and thrust them suddenly
into our body polite as a mass Of ig-
norant. brutalized citizens, with all the
| full rights of citizens. though utter
| " unprepared for the state and condition
of citizenship. These lynchings are al
| most wholly confined to, cases where
brutal negro men have outraged white
women. Ferocity and bloodthirsti-
ness in the mob are deplorable and most
horrible. but they are at least no more
| than the most intense and unreasoning
resentment at the grossest and most
| cruel outrages that human feelings can
| be subjected to.
The writer of the Nations article
plainly knows nothing of the condition
OF society here which produces these
scenes But if he would learn some
! thing Of il. we recommend him to consult
William Henry Thorne. Esq. editor of
the Globe Quarterly Review. Of New
York. This gentleman was an old
time. ante-war abolitionist. but lie has
been in the South a good deal since the
war, and has learned the trials that
the brutalized negro subjects the peo-
pie here to. and he has come TO the ex-
IRENE conclusion. with which Southern
people do not agree, that we must either
murder. re-enslave. or deport the ne