The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-11-26
lYNCHlNGS IN THE SOUTH.
a NATIVE OF NEW DERRY GIVES HIS
VIEWS IN A MORTufEN MAGAZINE
Rov. William Hayno Lenveil Writes An ar.
tlcio on Lynohing In tho South for .'Tho
Ou'lools," an Abs npd Fair nIaga-
Zinc or tho North,

Rev. William Hayno Leavel, of
Houston, Texas, native Of Newberry
South Carolina, who received his
literary and theological education in
Greenville, has contributed q very in
teresting and valuable article on
lynching in the South to the last is.
sue Of "The Outlook" one of the
ablest and fairest Of magazines in
the North. Mr.. Leavell has lived
for few years IN New England, and
he knows the prejudices and Difficult.
ties existing there in tho way of a
just understanding of the situation
in the North when it comes to the
social and political relations between
the whites nd blacks, and the editors
of "The Outlook" admit the Justice
and reasonableness of the call made
by Mr.. Leavell upon the critics Of
the South to propose some other
remedy for tho horrible crime of
rape than tho dcrnier resort of lynch
ing. Mr.. Leavell's article is as fol-
dows.
Last summer I happened to be
! spending my vacation at "Cotes-
WORTH" the old country home Of the
lato United States Senator George,
about two miles from tho town Of Car
rollton, Miss. During tho tlme was
there L heard one day that on the
i night previous two defenseless old
y speople had been done to death in q
S,SS5most foul and brutal fashion, and
%that because of it the people of the
sScounty were coming into town, and
there was likely to be lynching of
sseyeral negroes who were suspected
s of the crime. Never Eefore having
been in the Immediate lei yhborhood
S3of a lynching, and wishing to learn
something of the character Of these
outbreaks, I rode into town
Sto study the situation close 1T hand,
hoping that something might occur
Il which would make it possible to pre-
Il vent any violence. | found that
y three negroes, mother with her son
& and daughter, tenants Of tho muir
dered couple, had been arrested on
. suspicion Of having committed the
murder or having guilty knowledge
Of the facts, and wore at that time
confined in the county Jail. l found
present on the streets Of the town
many yonng farmers from the county
who were carrying rifles, shotguns,
or pistols, and mixed with them a
few Of the maturer and moro conser-
vatlve citizens of the county, to whom
the young follows seemed to look for
direction. All Of them had a serious
and determined look upon their faces.
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prominent men, among them the
State Senator from that district, the
District Attorney, and q lawyer who
had several times represented the
county in the Legislature, had been
formed and at tho hour of my arrival
were at the Jail examining the ne
groes. The committee was earnestly
solicitous to prevent lynching.
1t satisfied itself that those three ne
groes did not personally commit tho
crime, but knew who did, and wore
as yet not willing to reveal their
guilty secret. Several times, both
individually and as committee these
gentlemen addressed the mob, trying
to dissuade it fror' violence, and
pleading, in the maine Of humanity
and for the good name of the county,
to lot the law take it's course, tho
more particularly because the only
apparent hope of learning who were
tho real murderers WAS involved in
keeping these three negroes alive.
The mob was not to be dissuaded.
AS the authorities offered practically
no resistance, the mob took the no.
groes, hanged them just outside the
town, and riddled their bodies with
bullets.
Realizing that it would be regarded
rs an impertinent intrusion for mo to
offer any suggestion, since was an
outsider, an knowing that there was
no chance for me to do what we'll.
known gontlemen who had tho cen,
tidenoe Of their neighbors there faiiod
to do, I rode AVA: homo gome tune