The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-02
LESSON OF HOSE LYNCHING.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, DISCUSSES
THE NEWMAN AFFAIR.


But Intensified. the Negro cues
tion-superfor and Inferior Races
Cannot Exist Upon Equal Terms
Under the same Government-No
Administration Would Dare APP
point a Negro Postmaster in Bos-
ton.
From the New York Journal
Il is evident that the abolition of slavery
has not settled the negro question.
Iincoln's emancipation proclamation did
not free the slave.
He wears heavier chains in liberty than
those he wore in serviiude.
Enfranchisemnt was one Of those poiiti-
cal blunders that is worse than crime. 1t
has been a curse instead Of a blessing, and
after thirty years of bloody tumuit, the
race problem remains the most portentous
menace of our civilization.
The horrible tragedy as Newman shocks
the conscience Of mankind but up TO a
certain point the action Of the mob is in
teligible.
There are some crimes for which statu-
tory penalties, the verdicts Of juries, the
sentences Of judges. are inadequate.
The violation Of women is one Of them.
1t is worse than murder, because the
victim is condemned to living death. 1t de-
stroys the family and the home, which are
the foundation of the state.
The law fines ard mpTisons the adulter-
err the seducer. the ravisher; but public
opinion condemns him to death. If the
husband, the father the brother Stays the
invader of the home, though it is technical
ly murder the jury aGquits and the people
say amen"
Whoever shot Saxton in Canton, the
public verdict is that he received his des-
erts
This is the unwritten law of the Anglo
Saxon race, to which we belong.
Easy to Condemn others.
La Rochefoucauld the French moralist,
says with equal truth and cynicism that
Il is easy to endure the mIsfortunes of our
friends with forutude.
We condemn the faults end sins of 9TH
ers with the same equanimity and com
posure.
It is not difficult TO denounce the butch
cry of Sam Hose as a hideOus crime
against humanity, 4 bioodthirsty and sick
enlng atrocity, a disgrace 10 American
civilization.
The execration is deserved No con-
demnation can be too severe. But no
Judgment of the people of Georgia is just
that neglects to confess that there are
many Northern communities where sim
liar crimes have been and would be sim
ilarly avenged, less the barbaric details,
or that omits to take into considerable
The environments, or which forgets that
Massac husetts and New York are equally
responsible with Georgia and South Caro-
lima for the presence of the African race
and the existence of human slavery on
this continent.
Lynch law, from the humanitarian point
of view. admits neither OF defense nor
apology. but civilization Is largely 10 blame
for its DEGREES.
Justice is tardy. In 1895 there were 1869
homicides in the United States and 122
legal executions
The Delay of Law.
Communities become fatigued with crime
triumphant through the laws delay, the
obstacles interposed by knavish attorneys.
the escape of notorious felons by trivial
technicalites. Then society becomes Gle
mental, and mobs and vigilance commit
tees enact the rude equity of the moose, the
bullet, the fagot and the stake.
Thus California, Montana and other re-
gions have taken the law into their own
hands and executed rufians, Indicators,
gamblers and murderers who threatened
social order.
1t Is the instinct of self-preserVation
which is natures first law.
Mobs seldom make mistakes They gener-
ally burn OF hang the right man.
That Sam Hose, having split the head of
his employer with an ak, and ravished the
wife by the side Of her dying husband
should be killed by the neighbors in sud
den frenzy for revenge is easily to be I'M
derstood. What is imexplicable is the bru-
tai, hendish turbulence and ferocity of the
incident; the mutilatio of the wretched
victim and the partition of the carcass into
treasured souvenirs of a consecrated event
Northern and Southern notions about Gu
rios, bric-a-brac and bijouterie materially
differ.
But after all there is room for the sus-
picion that with the best of us civilian.
ton is superficial-like beauty only skin
deep; that culture is a varnish education
q veneer; refinement an enamel; even relia-
ion lacquer which do not change the in
herent qualities of man.
Napoleon said that If the epidermis OF
a Russian was scratched. underneath was
a Tartar. so somewhere beneath the cuti-
Gle of the scholar and the gentleman will
be found the impulses and passions of the
savage and the brute-the tigers claws
and the beak of the vulture.
Change In Negro Character.
Psychologically, the most extraordinary
phenomenon in the lamentable social con-
dition of the South is the change in the
character of the negro In slavery felon-
ious assaults on white women by the
blacks were not known. During the war
the defenseless families of the planters
were left in charge of the slaves, while
their masters were absent doing battle to
make their bondage perpetual They were
docile, loyal and faithful to their trust
Servile outbreaks would have disbanded
the Confederate armies. Freedom appears
10 have released the british instincts Of
their barbaric ancestry. Not all, buC an
increasing number exhibit an uncontrolla-
bic mania for lust and blood. I"
.
Deplorable as are the murders and
lynchiugs of the blacks in the South, they
bring us face 10 face with the fact that
there is no future for the negro in this
country except political subsection and So
cial ostracism.
Superior Race Must Rule.
History teaches that a superior and an