The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-11

witness, jury, judge and executioner and
 the defendant to be convicted and pun
 ished on mere presumption. Gs95, W. Irv-
 ing Tour on the Prairles," pp. 41-42). In Natchez negro criminals only are | thus honored, a "coat of tar and feath-
 ers'' being applied to those white men who may require some sort Of discipline not provided by the courts of justice. This l last summary process of popular justice, or. more properly, excitement, termed
 Lynch law" I believe from it's origna-
 tor, Is too much in vogue in this state. l QS35. J. H. Ingraham, The Southwest, l Ii, 185, 186.)
 l Warwick the murderer of MT. Fisk
 was tried this week at Fayette 1 (Miss). On account of some technicali-
 ties of the law failing to be observed the 1 prisoner was discharged He had no | sooner however, emerged from the court | house than he was stripped of his cloth | ing and a plentiful coat of tar and feath- CTS applied to him. He was afterward whipped until almost insensible to pain, and to restore his failing sense, we un- derstand, a large quantity of spirits of turpentine was poured upon him. !" It Is said that during the execution of Judge Lynch's sentence the culprit frequently begged to be shot, but was told that such death was too easy for him. QS35, August 8, Niles Register xlviii 397)
 We mentioned above that P. c. Dame wood had been discharged, but no sooner was he out of the view of the court than experimenting Judge Lynch's law, he put out in hurry. He was pursued and caught and received a very decent fagel- lation. There was some defect In the indictment which the High Court of i Errors and Appeals was compelled to re- gard but which the advocates of Judge Lynch's court thought proper to rectify and MT. Damewoods back bears evident marks of the supremacy of Lynch's law Qs95, August 22 ibid, xlvIli, 436) I suppose you have heard of the presen- l tation of a stout gallows to me at 23 | Brighton street, Boston. by order of Judge Lynch. It was destroyed by the city authorities. " : * The slave states continue to be excessively agitated. They appeal to have organized vigilance com mttees and lynch clubs in various places. GSS5, September IT, W. L. Garrison ih Life. 1885. i, 5l9) Garrison refers to the erection before his house of a gallows on the night of September 10 bearing Ion the cross bar an inscription, Judge Lynch's Law" (Boston Advertiser, Sep tember 12, D. 2, 4)
 Our village CKanawha Salines, w. Va.) was thrown into considerable commotion on Friday morning last in consequence of the arrival of Judge Lynch among us HIS DuSillcoS WAS NtiS oooi dSNSi tained, and by his authority four white men from Ohio ' were soon arrested and tried before twelve intelligent per sons of our country for endeavoring to persuade several slaves to leave. their masters for some free state These congenial spirits of Garrison, Tappan & Co.,, were arrested in the neighborhood of our village tried, condemned and received the sentence pronounced on them T,1 n.,d the elder Drake to receive nine and thir- teen lashes each and leave the county in twenty-four hours; the younger Drake with Ross, to be discharged for want of evidence, but with promise from them that they would also quit the county In twenty-four hours. The evidence *+" pro- duced an unanimous verdict on the part of the jury. that two should be lynched and the other two excused, provided they would leave this part of the country. GS35 October 3, Niles Register xix. 76 I'D
 A tale of terror. We learn from St. Louis that the negro was then se- cured and committed to prison but ** he was delivered to the mob, which conveyed him to the outskirts of the city placed a chain laround his neck and a rope around his body and fastened him to tree few feet from the ground. where they then placed fire round the tree and literally roasted him alive! QS36, June 4. ibid, I, 234.)
 This was the famous case, date of April 2S, which the Rev. E. P. Lovejoy censured in his Observer along with Judge Law less removing it from the grand jury on the ground that the law could take no cognizance of the acts of a frenzied null titude. In consequence Lovejoy was fore ed to remove his paper to Alton, H., but not before the St. Louis mob gutted his printing office. His subsequent mobbing to death in Alton is well known.
 On this night it appears that some per sonal friends of MT. Brux, who had been killed by Giquel, in company with sever al other individuals. feeling eXasperated at the release of Giquel and the judge who had been the author of it. proceeded to the residence of Judge BermudeZ. with a view to lynch him or to inact some severe punishment upon his person. QSS6, October 1, Ibid. li., 69)
 We have been informed that the slave, William, who murdered his master \ was taken by a party. a few days since, from the sheriff of Hot Springs (Ark) and burned alive! yes, tied up to the limb of a tree, a fire built and consumed in slow and lingering torture! QS36, De- cember 31, Ibid, li., 275.)
 At the same hour when the customary sins of the slave market were being per petrated, hundreds of the little people of Charleston were preparing for their child ish pleasure ministers of the gos- pei were agreeing to deprive persons of color of all religious education, a distant lynch mob was outraging the person of a free and innocent citizen. 1888, H. Martineau. Retrospect of Western Tray el" ii, S7)
 The lynch law of the present day, as practced in the states of the west and south may be divided into two different heads the first is. the administration of 1t in cases in which the laws of the states are considered by the majority as nothaving awarded a punishment ade- quate, in their opinion, to the offense committed; and the other when from excitement the majority will not wait for the law to act but infiict the punish ment with their own hands. QS39, r. Marryat, Diary in America" iii., 232, 233)
 Forty years ago the practice of wreak- ing private vengeance or of inf1icting sum- mary and illegal punishment for crimes, actual or pretended which has been glossed over by the name of Lynch's law, was hardly known except in sparse, frontier settlements, beyond the reach of courts and legal proceedings. -Q839, South ern Lit. Messenger, v., 2lS)
 Lynchers Punished-A Good Example, In Yazoo, Miss, some time ago a MT Harris, for some real or supposed of fense, was severely lynched by H. w. Dunn, c. w. Bain and others. He prose- cuted those two individuals fer the out rage, and the case was tried at the late