The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-07-07
SOME SOLID TRUTHS.
4 hCO-ORED BISHOP GIVES GOoDAO-
VICE TO HIS PEOPLE.
he Has n , maulain sympathy for Dast

arGiy OItreGes and Advocates Speedy
! Trial ard eromps Purishment for the
Guilty.
The following recently appeared in
/ tt+ Atlanta Constitution
Eiit0r Constitutional leave early
taiS week for California aud will be
cone for nearly three months. Our
church IS growing on the Psciic slope,
anG as bishop OF that district, it is my
/ GUty % look af ec her interests in that
| far Off section Of our country. There
! are more negroes in the west than
many oaorle suppose and we have
nsay hoGrSliug churches there.
Before J. laave | would like to say
few things through the columns of
your val.ss:ole and widely circulated
paper wiz. reference to the question
OF ly0cn law. which, since the late
lynching e Oaio, is a matter il which
the who country IS interested, and
not the sci;:rern section alone.
While I AN no apologist for mob
law Uns.er any circumstances, am
free to aIm:a that there are two sides
to the qxcstion, and there is danger of
forgetting Eae enornlity OF the crime
in the sUcSs AID emphasis We put on
the observac &c Of law.
Because co'ored people have been so
pronOUncGa II their denuaciation of
lynch laoq many have reached the
conclusiotA nat they are in sympathy
with rapis's and other fagrant crini-
palS VINO are generally the victims Of
/ such law.
This i great mistake. The better
class CT colored people all over the
south are unanimous N their condem-
nation Of the Wretches who are guilty
ot 1GeSe unmentionable crimes. They
!recognIze the fact that the whole race
| is suferiog in the eyes Of the world
torougb the conduct of the vile scoun-
/ drels who perpetrate these crimes.
And in many places the white people
regard q nepro with detestation and
suspicion, believing him to be capable
Of a4y criminal act where ne is lett
uare-!rained
From experience and observation I
kcow this to be true. I for one am
1ot willing to be thought in sympathy
with crime or criminals, and especial
y with those cf the character l am
row considering. If the colored peo-
ple as race exeect to gain the conf
dance and respect OF their white
Ieighbo-s, and to elevate themselves
il the scale Of civilized life, they must
emphasiz. IN no uncertain way their
dstastaaion of tne more brutal OF their
race who commit the horrible offences
of rape, arson and the like. There
must ba no maudlin sympathy for
isuch characters who disgrace their
own rae3 and bring the negro into
shame and contempt.
While I say these things, I would
not be understood as favoring lynch
.Ia8. Could the real criminal suffer it
would not be SO bad, but when inno'
!cant men are frequently the victims
OF excited and infuriated mobs who
take the law into their own hands the
necessity for legal conviction IS apps'
rent. Lynch Law, too, no matter how
Justly administered, is bad in its ten
de1cy, working q disregard for all
law, and educating the people in the
very lawlessness it is intended to pre-.
vent.
Let the legislature provide for spec
dy trials in cases of this sort and let
tie people understand that the guilty
must suffer. am sure that the better
class OF my people are in sympathy
with every legal method to stop this
awful crime OF rape It is to their
INTEREST," to be SO. they cannot afford
to be in the attitude of palliating or
5exeUsiog Or apoloeizing for this blot
upon their people and upon their civ
iliz2sicn.
The white people OF the south are
rot alone in their lawlessness in deal
ing with this class of criminals. The
recent lyaching in Ohio shows that
sentiment every where in this country
IS IN favor OF dealing out speedy and
rerribl9 punishment to the despoller
:cf women. A stop must be put to the
crime of rape, aDd he who commits it,
% he white or colored, must be made
70 know that terrible retribution will
follow.
All our people ask is that justice be
dona-that before the law the same
evidence 5e required to convict ne.
gro that is required to convict a Whlts
man, sad thaT Lne same punishment
be neted out 10 the one as to the other.
Wherever the proof is conclusive,
speaking for my people, let the guilty
suffer though the heavens fall.
Ly0chiDg, SIS another has said, Is
not race question, but a national
question, a0u it is proven by the fact
ta&t O: 14l persons lynched in 1896,
iiGy-four were White men.
I have now in the printers hands
book for publication entitled THE
Nrgro and t1e White Man." in which
! discuss this and many other vital
questions touching the relations OF the
.iwo races. l hope, Mr.. Editor, in that
oJok 70 help forward better feeling
betceen the two races in this section
Of our country. recognize the fact
tnat ia tne order Of Providence we
uust live together, and I would like
20 contribute my part toward lncul.
GAZING ia my people those great prin.
cipies of righteousness, truth and re-
sJacs for law which are the founda.
Io0s upon which alone they can build
Up 2 sell specting manhood.
". J. GAINES.
Bishop &. NJ. E. Church.
Atlanta, Ca, June 81, 1897.
G:n7rsIiisLo Booming.
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