The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-05-08

NEGRO burned alive in Georgia, anu
notwithstanding his was the most dia-
{ bolical crime in the annals of CRIME
| did everything possible to prevent
the lynching. The moment hearu
of the arrest of the negro ordered the
sheriff by wire to summon sulhcleht
force, if it required every man IN the
county, to prevent violence he re-
plied that he found it impossible 10
resist the mob, and that the negro mao
already been lynched. Nothing short
of omnipotence could, in the brief In
terval between the moment wheh
was informed that Hose had been ap-
pretended and the moment at which
the torch was applied, have prevented
the lYnching.
The Roast Flesh Lie.
"The charge that received piece
of the charred flesh as a souvenir Is 40
basely, meanlv and utterly false that
it is humiliating to have to refer TO IT,
Nobody but brute would offer to re-
ceiye such a grewsome souvenir ana
had there been q man in Georgia
british enough to offer 1t to me l
would have kicked him out ofmy office
And yet these base charges are MADE
in the editorial columns OF a daily
newspaper published in the City OF
Brotherly Love.
"These miserable assassins OF char
acter and of the peace of communities
are chargeabie with all the race trict-
ion that exists. We had none before
they intermeddled, They have abns-
ed the liberty of the press and have
construed it tito license to SANDER
and abuse those who, knowing the sit
uation in the south better than they
do, dare to dissent from their dogmas-
born of ignorance and prejudice, or to
resent their insults and ISLANDERS.
"They brand as knaves or FOOLS or
brutes all who differ from them, and
while themselves spurning the negro
they damn US because we have estao-
lished separate schools for the two
races, and have prohibited their IN
termarriage. If they would emulate
the example of Booker ashlngton
and Council and southern negroes OF
that type who preach and leach the
doctrine of truth and honesty and
peace and good will instead of the Cos
pei of hate they would be respected
by the southern people as much as
Was h / N rtOn and Connect are,
'But they cannot do this, because
they are the lineal defendants OF those
who, fleeing from the old world to en-"
ioy religious freedom in the new, call
ed sort of town meeting in the little
boat in which they sailed AMI passed
"a resolution that they would be gov
erned by the laws of God until trey
could find time to enact better ones,
and when they had landed proceeded
at once 10 enjoy religious freedom by
burning witches and scourging Quak
ers and Papists at carts tail, ana
from that day to this they have busted
themselves in attending to other peo-
ple's business. This is the peculiar
characteristic by which this breed
which accords to every one the right
10 think for himself-prOvided he
thinks as they do-may always be
known. They but nobody else north or
south will denounce me as a Bour-
bon and blackguard for what
have said about them, for the truth
hurts. They will distort it and torture
it into an attack on DIR. Parkhurst and
his party and upon all the people OF
the north. This is the way this breed
always does. But the charge will be
basely false"