The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-10
Some Remarks OH Lynching.


the Peoples 4drGcdtc of this weeks
issue Il full account of the lynching of
the negro Hose ut Newman, Ga. and
iis the public demand to be educated
i'll that direction suppose that ii is all
right. But the editor goes further. and
dilatrs on the .horriblc savagcry and
the heart sickcning sight" He says
that there is nothing in the history of
the country. not even in colonial days,
to equal it, Che has forgotten perhaps
"t the burning of negroes in the city of
New York.: us to the wild savage orgy
around the victim az the stake. Now
! do not believe any sucli savage orgy
was indulyrd i'll hy the good people of
Georgia one thousand or more
that composed the lynrhin% party. II
II was ndnlgcu in at all. it WAS Il few
drunken drslWra,lors that infest every
country and only want an excuse TO act
the savage. The editor should not be-
so sweeping in his ,lclunciation. In
one thousand ii will not b, :: difficult
matter to find Il few men who neither
care tor tod. man nor the devil"
he editor goes oil to say. after Il dis
gushing recital of the demons crime.
that "thcrc is another sid. to .l: mat
ter; where is all this leading to, Cwhy
did he not say to lettering the crininal
What of the moral effect on the ,roplr
themselves! What is to br the out,
come of this overriding of the law
What is to be the effect ,lpun the races,
IS 1t not drepng he animuSity between
them, Il will say yes. If one of our
home papers only suggest the ,lca)
Does it not bring Ills nearer II race war ,"
q say no; even the negroes, backed
by the fanatics of the North and en-
couragcd by the impotcnt rage Of the
distinguished infidel, lngers0l, have
better sense than to declare in any
shape war. to protect the incendinry,
the rapist or the midnight assassin, and
ends his lofty periods by asking ''if we
are only civilized savages after all 2"
Now, Mr.. Editor, any ilen of n good,
clean paper is that it is the best cducn-
tor and dissemination Of useful infor-
nation that we have. Sometimes,
however, there are some things that
had better, for the good Of our country.
be left unsaid.
Mr.. Russell did not state Il fact that
is we'll known that the negro of our
country are ms fairly treated as the
white man; that he receives the same
wages and has the same chance i'm the
pursuit of fortune ns his white neigh
Dor. He is respected for his worth.
and he has respect for the white man.
In other words, they are our friends.
and we are theirs, and it can be proven
without IL fear of truthful contradic
tiOn. II the home is desecratcd and
the husband. father or brother is left
alive to avenge the deed and does it
promptly, he is arranged before the
Court Of Justice and his innocent wife
or daughter has to tell her tale of hu-
initiating woe before IL gaping audi
ence. IT the criminal is tried before
the same Court the innocent sufferer
has the same to undergo, but the hus-
bands friends, the friend OF virtlOus
woman and innocent children come i'm
and lynch the brute, and if every hon
est man everywhere does not endorse
1t, nm mistaken in my notion of them.
AS for my neighbors and myself we all
say lynch them! every time. do not
propose to fight man with his own
weapon if can help it, but have
written this after the approval of many
OF MY ncighbors, not to print, but to
suggest that some good paper (and the
INTELLIGENcER is fair sample) take
Mr.. Russell down a button hole.
The editorial last week on the Lake
City lynching, while South Carolinians
were being tried for the crime, was
rather severe and sweeping. The good
people of Georgia are of the same lin
cage az the good people Of South Caro-
lima. They are surrounded by like
condition socially, &c, and what they
have done we would have done under
similar circumstances. Now, believe
the report of the Newman lynching as
stated above to be false in the main.
but when Southern paper gives it
out rs being true, that Thousand men
took Oft bones and burning flesh of the
negro Hose, will be heralded as true.
Hamilton w. Maybe, l.. l.. b., Lit.
d., in his history, "Thc Foot Prints of
-Four Centuries page asl, says: "Thcrc
was Il series of laws forbidding negroes
meeting together. In the early years
OF the eighteenth century fears of in
surrcction became prevalent. These
fears eliminated in l74l III the episode
OF the so-called negro plot. Very
briefly stated, this plot grew out of Il
succession of fires supposed to have
been the work of negro incenilarics.
The most astonishing contradictions
and self-incnlpa.ions are to lie found
in tho involved mass Of testimony
taken at different trials. 1t is certain
that the perjury and incOhcrent accu-
sations Of these trials can only be
cqualcd by those of the alleged witches