Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-22
MATTERS OF LOCAL INTEREST

peal 70 You Tor assistance in ha,nin,
- i""'liS 10 raise means to prosacutc
'n' 'Hhth~r~ who burned my son Frad
~ N'''ic'' ~ tho stake alive. Ian y
1901. '''' a.
! nave put the case i'm m. hands -,
the attorney. Major Wocdson of Kan
Fan 'i'y. Mo, 10 bring sui, a-ains,
l-eavenw orth City and county for dan.
ages Tor the deed ana W.. desire ,,a
sNmpatEies OF the colora1 naon,., -
ncip us by raising funds to helm us
prosecute the case
would like to state To- the people
NV "'E oecd WAS done. The sheriff
Oh l-eaN"nwo:th county let the mob
''Ne NM out CT jail and did not try
ana prevent it. While they were TAX
ihs nm Ia the place of the burning
: they hit him in the head with = hat
chet and cut his head open and cut him
All through the body with knives and
I broke his arms and then Gu, off his
ears.
y They did all of this trying to make
I MN confess that he murdered some
/ Woman OF Which crime he Was innocent
. ana when they got him to the place of
burning, they poured oil and yasolene
over his body and told him to confess
He said:
gentleman, YOU ar,. going 10 burn ~
innocent man and Won will set the right
man some day. and tn. leaders of tb..
mob said: II YOU didn't kill that woman
why We are going u barn YOU alive ana
his last words Were: Lord have mercy
yO,.' Il IL,
burned my son alive They did not civ.
my son chance for 4 trial TN, sheriff
let them take him. and without Judge OF
jurymcn, burn him to the stake alive.
Please relate my trouble 10 each ana
everyone Hoping TO hear from YOU soon.
Rev. n Alexander ana family.
81 South 10th Street
The man was burned. and 10 YOU know
he was truly innocent" said Miss Jewett
The right man was afterwards found.
do not condonc the crimes of the negro.
but this lynching must Ice done ava.
with. | do not seek the social elevation
OF the negro. In that line he must work
out his own salvation. | am working for
I law and order and the end of this bar
! barism in this Christian country.
1 |
| ply organizing the colorcd people. / vii!
| hay this one-seventh of the population
! within touch and thoroughly organic ii
| and then will be the time for men al
| power To act, and act they will. Men in
! power will then present the remedy. !
| have the sympathy and, in fact. the CO.
| operation of some of the most influential
! men in the country benind me and j
know | will live To see lynching stopped
| and every anarchist driven out Of the
| country.
| 'AnarchSm and White Capism are
| synonymous. They are on the same level
| and preach mob rule. Something has got
| to be done. and what are the people going
| to do about it? They have had the fact
| brought violently TO their minds by the
| murder Of oar late beloved President. who
was one OF my advisors and my friend.
that something has got 10 b. done and
done very soon if the supremacy Of the
| law is to be upheld.
| People ask why | come to Maine. They
| say: We don't have any lynchings up
| here; you are getting out OF your
province. | replied to one man: No You
| don't have any lynchings. but yoI tar
! and feather men up here came to
| Maine as | am going everywhere. in order
to have public sentiment with my work
| from one end of the country I" III" other.
| | have a beautiful organization in bangor.
| | don't expect To remain in Augusta long.
| There are not many colorcd people here.
want To go to Lewiston and other cities
| and then Ia Portland
Il am well acquainted with some of
Names leading men, and realize that
| the State cannot be cXce'lcd for turning
| out men of sterling quality
! Now you have told about your plans
| of orsdniza ton. do YOU really think. after
| you have got the colored people together
| in the leagues. that you can hold them?
asked the Journal man.
| II know I can. ! have proved it, was
| the reply. People have the idea that
negroes are something like cattle: that
| they haven't the intelligence of the
| whites. | tell you that ahe ordinary
| negro knows more Of the constitution OF
| the United States than the ordinary white
man There are low and ignorant negroes,
| but isn't the same true Of whites. es-
| pecialiy in the South? ! have been III the
homes of the negroes, and there ] fnd
books. pictures and other things that
would surprise people who look upon the
negro as the inhabitant Of q hoveI, living
| like a dog
| II don't want to tagoniZe the white
| people OF the South. That is no part OF
my work | am very careful to say MOTH
ing that will CRATE upon their sensibillties.
| All nv efforts are to drive lynch law ana
mob violence from the country.