The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-23
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This is no mean enu vpra Tor the negroes
OF the South, as compared with the coloIea
people at the North, with their 100 years
OF freedom. -i,cd
,,bv are negroes 50 frequently lynchea
tbo south? | reply. for the Same rea-
son they are lynched at the North
repeat with emphasis. that violence ioi
crin,e "a administered without distinction
''re race when the crime Is the same.
II lie not the color OF the skin that brings
me punlshment but the nature OF the
crime committed -
personally, / am absolutely opposed 10
mob law for any and all offenses' snall
no. take your time here to give you my
reasons. Personally and officially, ] have
A. no pverything known TO me to suppress
il in NV State But there Is an un~rlI-
ron LAW. not peculiar to Georgia or the
south hut dominating conditions IN every
state in the Union. where the clrcuin-
stances are the same that demands tue
quickest execution. in the quickest way
of the fiend who robs virtuous woman
~ her honor to CRAFTY his hell!sh dlabol-
ism. Human nature Is the same through
ami the civilized world. and say what you
may Massachusetts Will not be one whit
behind Georgia. when Won make Mira. Gran
ford the wife OF farmer in your State
and sam Hult a UEutdl menu, III HUMAN
shane. a neghbor near her home.
/ I reneat again mob law Is terrible.
| You know it's blood and slaughter in
your own state. Georgia can no more sup
4 press Il than Massachusetts or New YORK.
/ Until Massachusetts, New York, Illinois.
! Pennsylvania ANA other States can control
the wild fury OF moo. let us be done
with denuncations uDon Georgia, when
I she fails GeorEia and the South ask moth
! ipg but to be given the same considera-
I lion as other States and other sections
! Won need not ask me. then, II ! APP
prove the horrible enactment that oc-
Cured within forty miles OF my home,
few weeks ago God forbid that | should.
1 rDo Won condemn the burning as strongly
as il Vas condemned through the North
ern PRESS" l answer emphatlcally--ius
as strongly Then you approve the
course taken by the Northern press in
the matters OF lynchings at the south?'
Pardon me. H. in reply say that ! con-
denim the course Of the Northern press
iipon lvnchinas at the South with all the
vehemence OF an offended nature. II Is
ipcendiary. unfair and cruel In the ex-
Now hear me! What was the policy OF
the press al the North. with only two eX-
ceptions so far as ] know in the lynch
ing OF that villainous hend. sam Holt az
Newman. my state? Great scare bead
Another negro lynehed al the South.
Fiendlsh brutality On the part Of the
whites towards an unfortunate and de-
feneelees negro. Human devils ourn a
colored man within nifty miles OF the capt.
tai Of Georgia. and sloat over his tortured
like demons Surely these people have
/ been remsnded to haTbarlsm and become
ssyages in a civilized land.
Not one word of sympathy for n
pure and virtuous woman; her honor
gone. her husband murdered In her
presence, she and her little children
dragged in the fresh, warm blood
OF the dying man, and not one word
said about this dcuhiy horrible out
race. surely. In all the North. Is
there no sympathy except for me-