The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-05-11
ARP GROWS CA|JS|C.
Denounces the Severe Criticisms
Upon Southern Lynchings.
The EVIL ON The DECREASE.
No Good Man Has Reason 10 Fear il, and the
Wicked Should Fear it-No Pity for the
Pains Of Hose, Nor Criticism for Those
Who Administered the Pu ishment.

nor stop nor Jolt Is felt socially, re-
|igiously, financially or commercially.
The fulminations Of the northern
press nor the apprehensions OF editors
nearer homo amount to anything.
History is just repeating itself. Every
few years something like this happers
and tho press and the preachers ex-
plode in about the language until
they get tired and then subside and
wait quietly for some other narrowing
thing to happen. We remember well
" hat the press said about the burning
Of the brute ut Dallas a few years ago
and the same adjectives were used and
the same anathemas hurled upon our
people. The brute who ravislel
child OF six years and then killed her
and threw her mutilated body in the
bushes actually found friends among
our enemies. They said it was brutal
to burn him. We remember when the
negro assaulted little girl near Mad
ison rs she was going home from
school alone and then cut her throat
and threw her body in q gully and
covered it with brush. When ven
geance overlook him the northern
press howled as usual,
1t is their business to howl. They
like it, and no doubt are glad this thing
has happened. 1t feeds their appetite
and nurses their wrath aud will last
ttem week, perhaps longer. In the
language OF Gov. Oates, l would Use
10 pint Of order and ask, "what nre
you going to do about it?" Nothing,
Of course, nothing. Such things will
happen sometimes everywhere az long
Intervals, but they do not affect q single
item of civilization.
Who is afraid to move to Georgia or
Texas because of lynchings? Nobody,
save, perhaps, few bad men who
think of coming because they are in
bad reputo at homo. Fitzgerald was
not afraid to come, nor afraid to stay,
aud the northern people in that grow
ing city are celebrating their content
with picnics and other hilarities while
l write. The wicked flee where no
man pursueth. No good man is in
danger of the lynchers. No law-a5iding
citizen has any fear for himself or his
houschold.
1t takes terrible crime to arouse a
whole community into such remedy,
and so | feel no personal alarm.
Reader, DO you?
The truth is That lynchings are no!
rs frequent in the sonth as they have
been. but are getting quite common
over the line. We read that they tried
to lynch a man in New York the other
day for stealing a horse. Why they
have long since quit that in Texas. Mr.,
Inman is right or nearly so. He says
in his answer to the symposium OF
opinions that "there is no just cause
for alarm among the country people
no greater cause than there has been
That 90 per cent Of the people, both
white and black, are harmless and law
abiding and We will have to watch and
punish the other 5 per cent. just as We
have been doing for many years. d
The per cent. OF bad negroes is greater
than he thinks. The number in the
chaingangs prove this, but their crimes
are generally misdemeanors, larceny
and burglary, and education does moi
correct this. Booker Washington say
it does, but obse1 walton and the stats
tics Of the prison commission prove ths
reverse.
We old men who owened slaves be-
fore the war are established in oul
opinions that educations does not les
sen crime, neither among whites MOI
blacks. Mr.. Stetson, the chairman O
the school commission Of Massachus
etts, declared this in pamphlet sew
oral years ago and proved that educa
ton increased crime not little, but t,
an alarming extent. l have great re
spect for Booker Washington, and be
leve that the kind of education he i
giving will lessen crime among the pu
pills he is educating. Our slaves wer
educated by fear of the lash or tn
whipping post. and you can pick then
out today. 1t is their children, borl
since the war, or their grandchildre,
who are in the Ct -lingang.
Why should there be 1900 negroe
in this state and county changing
OF Georgia when there are only "a
whites convicts? It will not do to ga
the negro is punished and the whit
man escapes. That is lie, and ever
observing man knows it. My own OF
servation is that the courts lean to tn
negro rather than against him. N
email per cent. of the color ed convicts ar
now serving q second term and some
third term, which proves that i'm
prisonment does not reform the negro
When he comes out his last conditio
is worse than the first, but the whiE
ping post would SO thoroughly reforl
young negro that he would not r.
peat the offensa. Confinement in ia
nearly brushes the soul out of viii
man, but a negro is perfectly content
cd there. Ask the sheriffs or the iai
ers if this is not so. Now it will tax
perhaps ten years to do it, but m
candid opinion is that the number ,
convicts would in that time be reduce
from 1000 to 400 were the whippir
post used instead of the chaingane
Delaware has experimental with th
for half a century and will rot aboli.
t. 1t is used for all colors-whit
black and mulatto. If that little sta
was south of the line wouldn't she cate
it from the northern press and mort
ern preachers.
But how can We make the chang
for as long as the negro has o vote
will vote against candidate who t
vors it and the candidates are gene
ally demagogues and dare not displea
tho negro. No, they won't ev,
pass a dog law for fear of offendil
their colored constituents. Eve
now and then my wife asks me TO br
some mutton and says We used to ba
mutton. But the negroes own
dogs and the dogs have exterminat
the sheep in Barlow county. Y
ought to change the Constitution al
elect lawmakers for four or six yea
and after that they should be inelis
BILE. Then they wouldent talk al