The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-13
Barbarian ChristendOm.

The barbarity of communities in the
Southern States has been often exhiD-
tied in appalling shapes. There have
been hangings of negroes by mObs,
shootings and killings, torturings and
burulngs, before which the wors bar
barites of the North American Indians
or the savages of dlrkest Africa pale
their lurid fires.
On Wednesday, at Maysville, XIV, a
negro was wreated from the custody Of
the Ulcers Of the law by mob OF
white men, dragged by rope about his
neck through the streets of the town,
followed by some five thousand of the
people-men and women--of the re-
gion, bound to saping, brush and
timber piled about him, his eyes goug-
ed out, other hooking barbarities COM
mitted upon him, and the pile of brush
fred amid the cheers of the gloating
assemblage.
THIS happened in country that
claims to occupy the first rank among
civilized nations. Had this thing &C.
Cured 10 Cuba during the last years OF
Spanish sovereignty it would have
added fuel to the flame that was kind
ling into war for humanity. Does a
pagan community in China commit an
atrocity against a foreigner-English
man or German or American, mission
AIRY or adventurer-instant rep ration
is demanded, a vessel of war eniOrce'
the demand, and Christianity shoulders
at the condi ion of barbarism existing
in he Celestial kingdom.
The horrible sffair at Maysville is moi
an isolated case. Any reader OF the
newspapers, fairly familiar with the
news of the day, ought to be able
without long reflection, to count up &
dozen similar atrocious offenses agains
law and order, against humanity, thai
have been committed within very re
cen times. These have been of vary
ing degrees of horror, from the sum
mary and merciful shooting by the dis
guised or midnight assassin, the simple
hanging from the limb Of the neares
tree, to torturing with hot irons, dis
memberment, annointing with kerosene
and burning at the stake. The affair a
Maysvlle does not exceed in horro
some former displays of diaboical say
agery-it could hardly.
This negro whom Christian and civil
lied American citizens, thousands o
their fellow citizens and women not
few looking on and asserting, tor ure
and burned at the stakewas charged wit
murder, and an offense against woms
more heinous than murder He ha
been kept in jail at Covington aud ha
been taken to Maysvile where hi
trial was to begiA,-with the customar
result where the culprit is a negro an
white officers of the law do not max
proper provision for his protection
The horrible and revolving charactt
of the negro's crime cannot be adj
qualely characterized. II derives n
added enormity from being committe
by negro. Had the husband of tn
murdered and outraged woman visite
swift and effective vengeance upon th
brutal destroyer no protest could hay
come up from any part of Christel
dom. But what happened was ven
different and a most brutalizing and d
grading form Of vengeance. Shockir
as was he negro's crime, the crime
the white community was a greater o
Tense against God aud society. TT
ineffectiveness of these lynchings an
immolations and this deVilish savagel
for preventing crime of any kin
ought TO De apparent. The awful 8