The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-25
Di68afth0 Hand8Ofa Mob
LICE STRICKLAND STRANGLED
PROTESTING HIS INNOCENCE.
The Negro Implicated by Sam Hose-Major
Thomas, a Prominent Georgian,
Vainly Pleads for the
Mans Life.

meyer before been ordered to leave n
town and | am not going to leave this
one" And then the Major, uplifting his
hand to give his words force, said to the
messenger:
Tell them that the muscles in my
legs are not trained to running; tell them
that | have stood the fire and heard the
whistle of the minnies from n thousand
Yankee rifles, and | am not frightened
by this crowd"
Then with the understanding that
Lige Strickland was to he delivered to
the Jail or at Fairburn. Major Thomas
saw the negro he had pleaded for led
to his death. The mob took the negro
to a grove near the home of Marshall
J. j. Givens, of this place. and again
the moose was adjusted around his neck.
He was hauled off the ground but was
let down to allow him to confess. He
refused to do so. and the lyncherS We're
about to haul him up again when the
son of Marshall Givens came upon the
scene and asked that the lynching should
not occur near his fathers home. The
negro was then taken to the yard in the
rear of DIR. w $. Zellers' home and
hung up to a perslmmon tree and left
hanging. A coroner's jury held an in
quest over the body this evening and
rendered the usual verdict: death at
the hands of parties unknown"
ALL TRACEABLE TO POLITICS.
Atlanta, Ga, April 24.-Governor Al
len ID. Gambler today in an interview
regarding the burning of Hose at New
nan, and the putting to death of Preach
er Strickland, at Palmetto. said: Il be-
leye that the whole trouble of all these
disorders is traceable to politics. The
ballot was thrust into the negros hand
immediately after the emancipation,
when he was utterly unprepared for the
judicious use of it, and the scallawags
and carpet baggers who came here and
took charge of him filled his head fun
of false ideas, christened him the ward
of the nation and for partisanship pur-
poses induced him to believe that he
would be protected by the general Gov
ernment whether right or wrong. | am
driven to the conclusion that to prevent
such crimes as have recently been en-
acted in Campbell. Cowetta, Lee and
other counties IN the State. healthy,
vigorous public sentiment in favor of
law and order must be built up"
Good white men everywhere deplore
such occurrences as that which took
place yesterday and they are using all
the influence they have to prevent them.
Ex-Gov. Atkinson, Judge Freeman and
many other good men in Newman did air
in their power to prevent the lynching
of Hose but to no avail.
Now good negroes must be equally
active in building up sentiment in their
race against the diabolical crimes which
are always at the back of these lynch
ings The ministers and church members
and teachers among the negroes must
be equally active and earnest in build
ing up healthy public sentiment against
crimes which provoke lynching, as they
are to provoke Il sentiment against thar
crime. The safety Of the negro race
demands this and their leaders must be
as vigilant and active in this direction
as the leaders, Of public sentiment among
the white races are