The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-13
THE LYNCHING QUESTION.
FaIsehOOds That Are Scattered
broadcast in the North.

FaIsehOOds That Are Scattered
broadcast in the North.
Editor Morning News: I noticed in the
Boston Journal OF a recent date The re-
port of an address delivered by the Rev
Charles S. Morris at the Peoples Temple
in Boston prior to lis sailing for Africa,
in which lynching in the South were dis
cussed. In the course of his remarks the
speaker referred 10 The address which En-
Gov Northen delivered in Boston some
weeks ago. In that connection he said:
"Ex-Gov. Northen deliberately msrepre-
scented the facts when he said that lynch
ing was the invariable penalty for out
rage, no matter whether the man was
white or colored. Nay, colored women are
outraged almost daily all over the South
by white men, and in many cases they
cannot even get a warrant issued for the
arrest of the man. They caSfot get a
grand jury that will indict him. They can
not gel petit jury that will convict him.
The foregoing shows how essential 1t is
that one should go abroad in order to
learn what is going on at home? VINO
would have supposed that NOrthen and
Gambler and individuals, communities and
lilt press an TN OtS4l Jul AoChtiAte'Ain NNAN
liars? And that only a perpatetic negro
preacher could carry the truth TO these
people of Boston And what Is still more
wonderful, is thar there are some who i'm
pucitly believe the negro and upon his
sole 'ipsit diXit," without evidence of any
kind. Indeed, nothing seems too absurd
or Joe Millerish for those long distance
phlauthropists to swallow, provided it is
against our Southland and told by a ne
gro or renegade of any kind-they need
no other evidence. But not all the Boston
folks can be thus fooled. 1t is especially
the fanatic and the fakir of the abolition
prohibitions law type, who takes this
Tommy rot" in, and ask for more, and
they could not be induced to doubt these
stories, though one rose from the dead
to testify. Having sojourned among these
Eastern people for dozen summers, L
have freely conversed with them on The
condition of affairs in our Southern states,
of which they know almost moth
ing The papers here do not
publish anything that does not tell against
US; and we do not use any means to make
the facts known. Whilst we take North
ern papers generally and they circulate
freely among our people, / do not find any
Southern papers in circulation or on sale
here.
As l go round among the people of Mas
sachusetts and Maine, I find the individ-
uals generally with minds in state of
receptivity. All they need is to have the
real facts presented, but they never hear
the truth, only the one side as the press
and politicians give this out for their own
selfish ends.
l wish more of our people would visit
this section l do not mean the large
cities only, but rather the small towns
and villages. 1t would serve 10 make
our side better known. and the more the
people as individuals can be brought to-
gether TO know each other as we are
and not as the pot-house politician and the
yellow journals paint us, the better win
it be for our great country
l can testify TO the real kindness and
cordially, with which these country folks
treat a Southerner when he goes among
them in friendly fashion.
Joseph A. Roberts,
Boothbay Harbor Me.