The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-23
The sam Holt Cnse.

The Sam Holt Case.
| Now, hear me! What was the policy of
the press at the North, with only two
exceptions, SO far as | know, in the lynch
| ing of that villainous fiend, Sam Holt
at Newman, my state? Great scare heads
| Another negro lynched at the South.
| FIendlsh brutality on the part of the
| whites towards an unfortunate and de-
| fenseiess negro Human devils burn a
colored man within fifty miles of the cap
ital of Georgia, and gloat over his tor
lures like demons. Surely these people
| have been remanded to barbarism and be-
come savages in a civilized land.
Not one word of sympathy for a pure
and virtuous woman; her honor gone; her
husband murdered in her presence, she
| and ner little children dragged in the fresh
warm blood of the. dying man, and not
one word said about this doubly horrible
outrage. Surely, in all The North, is there
| no sympathy except for a negro? No
kindly feeling and no tender word for the
defenseless women of the South, who car
ry with them a living shame. in a living
death, in a life all too long for its mise
ries, if il lasts but for a day.
l submit: The policy of the press at the
North, in condemning simply the lynch
| ngs while they maintain an omnous and
| painful silence about the crimes that pro-
| woke them, is incendiary in the extreme
as it encourages negroes to a repetition
Ii is worse than cruel to the broken
| hearted victim and the community that
has suffered death in its tenderest rela-
tons.
The policy is unfair, as between lynch
| ings at the North and iynchings at the
| South, making always fish of one and
fowl of The other. Let US be fair, and we
will sooner be brethren.
The Case Brought Home.
make the case your own: OWN you par
don me if in this presence, 1 tell part of
this horrible tale of woe and misery and
| loathsome wretchedness, that you may
somewhat, understand0 Let 1t be your
daughter, sitting at tea with husband and
little children, happily enjoying an even
| ing meal A bloody murderer steafthily APP
proaches, and with the blow of a fiend,
| buries an ak to the eye in the husband
head; he fells him. beats his brains till
they spread in sickenng horror over the
floor He raises his devilish hand and
| strikes a stunning blow upon the face
of little child-your grandchild, can you
| imagine? He drags it across the bleeding,
| dying body of its father-your daughters
husband, and leaves it senseless, its fa-
Tiers blood dripping from its little skirts.
See him as he takes another child, your
l ny tilC uSCiS III Oil6 manu- anu
his ak in the other, while he demands of
| the mother her consent or the cruel muir
der of her child. Be present in your
| thought at that supreme moment and
| hear her saying, save my child" See
him then as he confronts, in all the APP
palling horror of fiendsh glare, with up
lifted, AK, the trembling form of the wife
your daughter (can you imagine) curses
as only demon from hell can swear;
| i.
| imagine) and rolls her in the warm blood
of the only one she had hoped to defend
her from such awful, awful, awful cruelty
and shame! Hear her piteous cries as she
writhes, for two long, long hours in the
embrace of a villain, and then see her as
| she falls at her fathers gate-your gate
| (can you imagine), half clad and in a
death swoon, to tell her horrible, sicken-
ing, disgusting, loathso4he story Ga story
l cannot tell here, and which has not yet
been told because of its foathsomeness).
Hear her tell it into her loving mothers
| ears and tell me- would you not feel that
| the punishment of the nethermSst hell
| whether administered here or hereafter,
| was not too much for such human fend?
What would you do? What would your
neighbors do? What would mob
in Massachusetts do? am
not asking what ought TO have
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| fully agreed. l am asking what was
done. under similar conditions, in Ohio
Oregon, New Jersey, Nebraska, Pennsyl-
vania, Minnesota, Oklahoma Kansas.
Illinois, New York Gi.d other states that
have had similar or even less offenses
No state claims greater or more advanced
civilization than New York, and yet, il is
only a few years since a wild and frenzied
mob cruelty murdered e.even innocent ne
groes whose only offense was that they
were negroes, then burned the negro or
phan asylum over the heads of 300 little
helpless negro children, simply because
they were negroes and the little ones
barely escaped by the back door, while
the maddened mob beat down an entrance
at the front. Why did not the great state
of New York control the mob better than
| Georgia did?
Is the state of the President lacking in
civilization? If not, how did it happen
| that an unhindered mob seized the rape