Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-04-25
HOSE LYNCHING CONDEMNED.
Press aud People OF Savannah Elk
press Themselves strongly.

press Themselves strongly.
SAVANNAH, GA. April 24.-The press
/ and people OF this city condemn in I'M
/ measured terms the horrible lynching Of
Sam Hose at Newman yesterday. The
Morning News says: "The i- nching will
send thrill Of horror through the entire
country. The method OF f. was I'm keep
| ing with the spirit Of a savage, rather
| than with that Of n civilized and Chris
/ tian community. II provoke a spirit that
/ is likely to lead 70 other crimes
The Press says that the affair will
! undo the work that friends Of the state
/ have been doing for years IL will dissi-
pate and scatter 10 the winds the efforts
| that have been patiently making to show
/ that Georgia offers 10 the h0me-seeker a
! model abode in a state whore nature,
! art and humanity are all united In a cor
| dial Welcome"
HORRIBLE AND SHAMEFUL.
City-Attorney Adams says: at is un-
| speakaby horrible and shameful The
men who mutilated their victim and, after
| burning him. cut up and SOLD pieces Of
his flesh and bones as souvenirs. have
given lesson In savagery and barbarity
70 the most savage and barbarous. If
they had only eaten some Of the cooked
flesh they would have completed the pic
ture and made the lesson perfect"
Judge T. Norwood OF the City Court.
said: The whole thing Is too horrible
70 think Of. / do not want 10 talk about
it. 1t is terrible in its hideousness. 1 am
sorry II happened"
MOST HORRIBLE EVER PERPETRA-
TED.
Colonel George Mercer said such an
offence as this cannot be condoned or TOO
severely condemned. l believe that the
killing Of this negro at Newman was the
most horrible barbarity ever perpetrated
in the world"
BAPTIST MINISTER'S CONDEMN.
PHILADELPHIA. PA. April 2i-The
Baptist ministers Of this city. at their
weekly meeting to-day, adopted resOlu-
tions condemning the burning a the stake
at Newman. Ca. yesterday of the negro
murderer Sam Hose.
"BLUSHES FOR HIS STATE"
The resolution was introduced by Rev.
Kerr Boyce Upper, who, in introducing
H. said he did 50 as one who was born
In Georgia, but who blushed to-day for
his state"
CRIME OF VICTIMS REMEMBERED.
CLEVELAND O.. April 2l-The Metho-
dist Ministers Association to-day dis
cussed the Georgia lynching and appoint
ed committee TO draft resolutions con-
demnlng the Outrdges committed bv the
victims. as we'll as those committed by
the mob.
HOLD TROUBLE DUE TO POLITICS.
ATLANTA, GA. April Ex-Governor
Allen -. Gambler to-day, in an interview
regarding the burning Of Hose az New
nan. and the putting 10 death of Preacher
Strickland. at Palmetto, said:
Il believe the whole trouble Of all these
disorders is traceable 10 politics. The
ballot was thrust into the negrO's hand
Immediately after his emancipation, when
he was utterly unprepared for the judi
cious use or II, ana the scallaWaes and
carpet-baegers who came here and took
charge of him filled his head full OF false
ideas. christened him the ward OF the
nation and for partisan purposes in
duced him to believe that he would be
protected by the General Government,
whether right or wrong.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT MUST BE EN- |
LIGHTENED
II am driven TO the conclusion that 70 |
prevent such crimes as have recently |
been enacted in Campbell, COweta, Lee, |
and other counties in the State. a healthy,
vigorous public sentiment in favor OF law !
and order must be built up.
Good white men everywhere deplore |
such occurrences as that which took |
place yesterday, and they are using all !
the influence they have 10 prevent them /
Governor Atkinson, Judge Freeman. and |
many other good men in Newman did all |
in their power to prevent the lynching of I
Hose. 70 no avail.
WORK FOR NEGROES TO DO.
"Now. good negroes must be equally |
active in building up sentiment In their !
race AGAINST the diabolical crimes which |
are always at the back OF these lynch
Ings. The ministers and church members
and teachers among the negroes must be
equally as active and earnest In building |
40 a healthy public sentiment against |
crimes which provoke lynching as they
are 10 provoke a sentiment against that
crime. The safety OF the negro race de-
nands this. and their leaders must be as
yigilant and active in this direction as
he leaders of public sentiment among
he white races are"
ATLANTA MINISTER'S ON THE BURN
ING.
ATLANTA, GA. April 2i.-The Metho-
list ministers to-day discussed the burn
ng OF Sam Hose. The question was in
reduced by Rev. Wilbur Hirkel. He smoke
~ the horrible crime OF the negro Hose
as being beyond words" and said that
action should be taken in regard 10 this
errible scene rather In behalf or our
elves than I'm behalf OF the negro"
Rev. Joel T. Davies introduced resolu-
ions relating to the affair The body OF
hese resolutions Is 10 the effect that
,othinc can condone the Negroes crime,
nd no punishment was too great for hip,
,et every lynching has a tendency 10
,verturn society. and that ministers, as
, bodv. should do all in their power 20
emove the possibility Of such occur
ences. H.. 49,
deferred one week.