The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-05-11
THE GORGIA LYNCHlNG.
Opinions of Some North Carolina
Newspapers on the Subject.

In the burning at the stake Of Sam
Hose in Georgia the punishment more
than fitted the crime. 1t was more
than justice; it was vengeance. But
if the fate of Sam Hose does not prove
a lesson to his race and all others
who commit like crimes. the work of
the mob, which was the most horrible
of which we have any record, will
have been in vain.-Durham Herald.
1t is insulting to the English lang
uage to call this by any other name
than murder, and every man who had
hand in it is a murderer. The
state of Georgia stands blankened be-
fore the world by SO awful crime.
The men who burned this negro alive
were actuated by no loftier motives
than the wretch they murdered. He
was an animal in human form and
committed the crimes of wild beast.
They did the same.--Asheville
Gazette.
In Georgia, a black brute struck
down a young white farmer, tore
from the mothers arms her infant,
dashing it in the blood of it's murder
ed parent, and added to his foul deeds
the hellish one of outraging the
young wife in the very blood of her
butchered husband. The act madden
ed and Infatuated the people OF the
section, and the brute met a terrible
fate. He deserved death for his foul
crime, but it is matter of regret
that it was accompanied with such
CHASTITY deeds as the account of the
lynching gives. -Wilson News.
The lynching of Sam Hose, the
rapist-murderer, by burning at the
stake, near Newman, Ga, was one of
the most horrible casses OF mob
murder on record. The details are
too revolving for print--they make
the type shiver and shudder. Nearly
two thousand people witnessed the
| awful scene. 1t is indeed unfort-
innate when community is wrought
up to such a bloody frenzy. The
| crime for which Hose died was a
most diabolical one. He had killed a
worthy white farmer, named Crawford,
| and assaulted Mrs. Crawford. 1t is
all too terrible to talk about. What
pity the law could not have been
| allowed to have given him swift
| justice.-Durham Sun.
So long as negroes continue to rape
white women there will be lynching
and burning and mutilation. Any
one ought to be convinced that lynch
ing will only stop when rape stops.
The Southern people are not cruel
and never were; they are a kind
hearted people, good to one another
and to all men; they are kind to
dumb brutes. Whatever may be
true or false about them, they were
never a cruel-hearted people,; they
were kind to the negroes when they
were slaves; they are kind to them
now. They are a people who have
borne with much, but there is one
thing that they will not bear, and
that is the outrage of their women.
We may argue all we will, and abuse
as much as we like, but the Southern
white. man has decreed that this
thing shall not be. There is in the
South "knightly''. attitude toward
women. Whatever part this old
fashioned gallantry may play or may
ever have played between individual
men and women, it is a fact that is
yet indomitable. Nothing else can
SO arouse all the white mems race
feeling, no other crime or combina-
ton OF other crimes, not even murder
and arson and massacre altogether.
These crimes arouse Indignation, but
the outrage of white woman by a
negro makes the Southern white man
insane. Cutting off ears and fingers
and toes, kindling fire with oil and
pitch, and yelling and shooting
while miserable negro is being
consumed is the work Of insane peo-
| ple.-Charlotte Observer.