The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-11-23
SOME PLAIN TALK.
Mrs. Felton Says White Women
Must Be Protected.
OUTRAGE AT ANY COST.
Lynch One Thousand Each Week
if Necessary to Save Them
From the Lusts of the
Rayenous Beasts.

Mrs. W. H. FELTON,, who is at her
home near Gainesville, Ca, in card to
the Atlanta Journal on the Negro issue,
and whose speech before the Georgia
Agricultural society a year ago last Au-
gust, is said to have been the cause of
Manly, the Wilmington Negro editors
editorial, says the white women must
be protected at any cost. She deals
with the situation in North Carolina,
which she attributes to corrupt politics,
in most masterful manner. Mrs. Eel
toms card in the Journal speaks for it.
self, and is as follows:
Gainesville. Ca, Nov. Is.
To the Editor of the Journal:
In reply 70 your telegram concerning
the statements made in the New York
papers that Manly's editorial was made
in reply to my address before the Agri-
cultural society at Tybee one year ago
last August, | here repeat what was
said at Tybee and re-affrm the same.
Addressing farmers, said the crying
need Of women on farms is security in
their lives and homes.
1t is disgrace in a free country
when rape and violence are public re-
proach, and the best part of Gods crea-
tion are trembling and afraid to be left
alone IN their homes.
With due respect to your politics l
say that when you take the Negro into
your embraces on election day to con-
troll his vote and used liquor to befuddle
his understanding and make him be-
lieve be is your man and brother, when
you honey-smuggle him at the polls and
make him familiar with dirty tricks in
politics, so long will lynching prevail,
because the cause will grow and iu
crease with every election, and when
there is not enough religion in the pull
pit to organize crusade against this
sin nor justice in the court house to
promptly punish the crime, nor man
hood enough in the nation to put a
sheltering arm a bout innocence and vir-
tue, if it requires lynching to protect
woman's dearest possession from raven
ing, drunken human beasts, then I say
lynch one thousand week if it is ne
cessary.
Since that address was made the
crime and lynchings have decreased so
per cent. in Georgia.
The condition in North Carolina is
the manifest result of corruption in
politics and undue familiarity with
North Carolina Negroes at the pells. 1t
is the unwritten Law in Georgia that
the black fend who destroys a white
woman in her home or on the highway
and is identified with proof positive
must die without clergy, judge or jury.
I know that tens Of thousands of hon
orable colored men and women in Geor-
via approve this verdict.
The race will be destroyed by the
whites in self-defense unless law and
order prevail in regard to the crime Of
rape and the lynching that follows.
[ placed the blame where it should
be in my Tybee address. Such politics
will ruin the prosperity Of the South
and destroy the colored race at last.
When the Negro, Manly, attributed
the crime of rape to lewd intimacy be-
tween Negro men and the white women
of the South the slanderer should be
made to fear lyncher's rope rather
than occupy place in New York pa
pers. Mrs, W. &, FELTON,.