The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-05

woman survived, however. nnd named
as her assailant young negro who had
for years been employed as janitor in one
OF the public schools The superintendent
OF schools in Lynchburg said that this
negro had been one OF the best he had ever
known, conscientious in his work, polite
and gentemanly in all OF his ways, and
In the estimation OF the superintendent
entitled to implicit confidence lie mad
often remarked to his friends that there
was at least one negro who could De
trusted In any temptation. He had been
reared with the white children and seemed
to be fond Of them and they were devoted
to tho negro, yet this negro deliberately
committed tho unmentionable crime and
confessed to It.
We do not indiot the whole negro race;
we have no doubt that there are many
negro men who would scorn to do this
thing who would protect white woman
against assault. But so many others have
shown that they are not to be trusted IN
this respect that Southern white men are
afraid to trust any.
Since the above was written we have
seen an Interview with General Isaac
Jones Wistar, a we'll known citizen OF
Philadelphia, man OF Northern oirth
and Northern rearing, and a veteran or
tho Union army, which has direct bear
ing on the subject. The interview ap-
peared In the Philadelphia Press. Re-
publican newspaper, and the Press says
that General Wistar Is man with
history and attainments which lend
weight to his utterances. General Wistar
has sumner home near the scene Of the
recent Delaware lynching. and Is entirely
familiar with conditions In that section.
In speaking of the lynching he says:
Here in Delaware children cannot go
from my place to school, the distance OF
one half mile, without being accompanied
ut least part OF the way. This has been
the case for some years past There can
be no social safety or orderly Industry
without the assured safety of the home
and the family. and we have no longer
got II In Delaware.
THE State Is overrun with predatory
negroes from the South. who live with
little or no work. but chiefly on what they
can earn out OF politics. Within a few
years past the equitable market value OF
a negro vote has arisen here from 20
cents to so. and many of these Southern
negroes spend their time In wandering
from State to State, and county to coun-
ty, debauching the polls, cheating the
election officers and drawing their sup
port chiefly from that kind OF employ
ment.
"Of course, they are generally ready to
commit depredations upon the public in
their intervals of leisure from political
employment. 1t is not our native negroes
raised in Delaware They have all. since
being released by their former owners,
settled down to work where they We're
given a chance. 1t Is the wandering
negro from the South who comes here
IN search OF living without energy and
without work who do the mischief we
complain Of.
Such was the character Of the negro
who has been put to death by the people.
Such was the character OF several other
similar negroes, some OF whom were
never arrested at all. but many OF whom.
II arrested. tried and convicted escaped
all punishment by the incompetent Off
Gals on or of the bench"
No comment Is necessary. It is plain
that General Wistar and his nelghbors in
that section OF Delaware are afraid to
have negro men walking around the
country and visiting their homes when
tho men are away and tho women are
left unprotected.