The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-15
|SUDDENl MAKES
HER DEP AIR}TlIRI.
Miss Jewett Departs As Suddenly As
She Came 10 Richmond.
TOLD SHE WAS NOT WELL COME.
Communications Received Advisin:
Her 70 Leave the City and
Challenge TO Engage in
Joint Debate.

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After having received two communl-
cations advising her that her presence in
this city was undesirable and one chal-
longing her to joint debate on the sub
ject OF lynchings in the South, Miss Lii
lian Clayton Jewett. the anti-lynching
agitator of Boston, gathered her bag
and baggage yesterday and took the
she left as an immediate response
to these communications is not known,
but it is said at the Jefferson that Miss
Jewett was greatly distressed because
she had not received a more hospitabie
reception in the famous old capital of the
Confederacy.
It is said that the writer of one OF the
letters, whose name could not be learned,
informed Miss Jewett that if she had not
left the city by this evening, she would
be escorted out of the Jefferson, and
started to a cline which might be more
congenial
Before Miss Jewett left, her views on
the subject of the administration of JUS
tice in the South were challenged by
gallant young Virginia, Mr.. John S. Egg
gIeston, a young attorney and stenogra-
pher of this city, inviting her to particl-
pate in a joint debate on lynching in the
South.
In her visit to Richmond, Miss Jewett
failed to make an impression on either
the intelligent white persons or the col
ored race that she came to defend from
the alleged brutality of their white
brethren. It is not known here when
she will come again.
LEFT THE TOWN.
Miss Jewett said yesterday morning tiat
she had intended going away on the noon
train and that the communcat tons she
received possessed no terrorS Tor her
She admitted that she was mindful OF the
fact that not all the people who met
death at the hands Of mobs were not
negroes, but added that the appalling NUM-
Der who did become victims of mob Vlo-
lence had proved upon her sympathles
until she had taken up the cause OF these
poor unfortunates.
81 will confess" added Miss JeWett,
that were the only victims of lynchings
NEGROES who had committeed outraSeS
against white women, would nave no
part in this movement to suppress them
Miss Jewett declared that she mad de-
nounced Rev. Graham, the pastor OF the
colored Baptist Church, in which the
National Baptist Convention is being held,
as a coward and that this characterization
of the colored brother met with some
appreciation among her auditors.
THE CHALLENGE.
The following is a copy OF the letter
sent by Mr.. Eggleston to Miss Jewetl
Yesterday which is as yet unanswered:
Dear Miss Jewett:
/ have for a long time admired the
zeal which you have displayed in be-
half of the negro race. The hberailty
with which you have given your valuable
time towards attempting to amehorate
their unfortunate condition is indeed COM
1nendabIe. | have not the slightest douDt
that the motives which prompt you pro-
coed from a great heart, throbblns and
beating in sympathy for supposed SUI
fering humanity; but l know you VIII
pardon me, Madam, for expressing myself
as Of the opinion that your zeal is mis-
directed But this is an error of the
head, and not Of the heart, and is caused
ny your utter ignorance of the true con-
tiition Of affairs in the South. In my
opinion instead of directing your atten-
ton towards the stopping of lynchins,
you should bend all your efforts towards
preventing the crime which makes lynch
ing necessary. You expend all your SYM
patty upon the criminal brute, and dc
not seem to shed one tear in behalf of
his unfortunate VICTIM
believe that this question should be
thoroughly understood all over the coun-
try, and settled once and for all time.
And to this end, both sides should have
a representative to lay the facts and ar
guments before the world. I, therefore,
hereby Solemnly challenge you to a pub
lie debate. My great respect for the
ladies prompts me to offer you the adj
vantage in both opening and closing the
debate. All 1 desire is to sandwich a
few words in between your opening and
closing remarks.
To show you that T.. too, am in thorough
sympathy with suffering humanity, l
suggest that a small admission fee is
charged to hear the debate. and that the
proceeds be used to found home for
the orphans of the lynched. You should,
undoubtedly, be at the head of such an
institution and I am DESTROYS Of doing
all in my power to furnish you with such
a position.
1 hope you will not refuse to accept
this challenge. because your own sense
of Justice must prompt you to realize that