The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-23

fails. Georgia and the south ask nothing
but to be given the same consideration as
other states and other sections. fsl3e
"You need not ask me, then, If l approve
the horrible enactment that occurred
within forty miles of my home few weeks
ago. God forbid that 1 should. DO you
condemn the burning as strongly as 1t was
condemned through the northern pressT'
l answer emphatically-just as strongly.
'"Then you approve the course taken by
the northern press in the matters of lynch
1ngs at the south?" Pardon me, If, In re-
ply, say that condemn the course of the
northern press upon lynchings at the south
with all the vehemence of an offended ma
ture. 1t is incendiawy, unfair and cruel in
the extreme
Make the Case Your Own
make the case your own: (Will you par
don me If in this presence tell part OF
the horrible tale of woe and misery and
loathesome wretchedness, that you may
somewhat understand itO Let 1t be your
daughter, sitting at tea with hus-
band and children, happily enjoying
an evening meal. A bloody MUIR
derer stealthily approaches, and with
the blow of a fiend, buries an axe to
the eye in the husbands head; he fells him;
beats his brains until they spread in sicken-
ing horror over the floor He raises his
devilish hand and strikes stunning blow
upon the face of little child-yeur grand
child, you can imagine? He drags 1T across
tine bleeding, dying body of its father
your daughters husband, and leaves it
senseess, its fathers blood dripping from
ats little skirts. See him as he takes an
other child, your grandchild, by the heels
in one hand and his axe in the other, while
he demands OF the mother her eonsentsor
the cruel murder of her child II
BE present in your thought at that SUI
preme moment, and hear her saying, Save
oh q he pQnfrOntS.
In all the appalling horror of fiendish glare
with uplifted axe, the trembling form OF
the wife-your daughter (can you imagine,
curses as only demon from hell can
swear; jerks her down-your daughter, had
hoped to defend her from such awful, aw-
full, awful cruelty and shame! Hear her
piteous cries as she writhes, for two long,
long hours in the embrace OF william, and
then see her as she falls at her fathers
gate-your gate (can you imagine. half
clad and in death swoon, to-
tell her horrible story Ia story
not as yet been told because of its loathe-
someness). Hear her tell it into her loving
mothers ears, and tell me, would you not
feel that the punishment of the netner-
most hell, whether administered mere OF
hereafter, was not too much for such hui
man fiend? What would you do? what
would your neighbors do? what wouiu
a mob in Massachusetts do?
DO you ask me how these lynchings can
be stopped at the south? answer prompt
ly-just as they can be stopped at the
north, and In on other way. Stop the out
RACES and the lynchings will cease Con-
tinue the outrages, and the lynchings Will
always follow, regardless of threats of the
law, whether in Georgia, Minnesota, Hi
nois, Ohio, or other states. -
Negro politics, in my Judgment, as
taught during reconstruction and continued
if.or IN 4
white people of the south, are responsible
for most e the blood that has been split,
the outrages that have been perpetrated,
and the sorrows that have come to the
whites and negroes of the south The
sourse of the northern press is responsible
for much of the remainder. The south is
a white mans country, and 1t will never
be delivered over to negroes, whatever the
power and influence brought to bear to
force this fearful end.