The gold leaf., 1903-07-09
SHOULD EXPLAIN
Differences and ExempIify That
Better Way.
Northern Press and People Should
Demonstrate Their Cure for the
"Lynching hablt'-fiuman Nature
Much Akin the Country Over-The
"PeculiarIy Southern Institution"
Becoming Popular Cup Narth."
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
Elsewhere on this page We publish
some extracts from the editorials on
the Delaware negro-burning printed
in Northern newspapers. We call
attention to the fact that not a
word of sympathy is expressed and
that all the condemnation is directed
against the spirit of impatience with
the laws delays that led up to the
lynching. And we further call atten-
tiOn to the fact that this showing by
the Northern press in nowise differs
from the views constantly expressed
by the press, the officials of States
and the better public sentiment of the
South under like circumstances.
The Constitution, after vainly argu-
ing with it's Northern contempor-
aries for many years that human ma
ture in their territories is much akin
to that in our section, was naturally
curious to see how, when their turn
came, they would deal with the
lynching evil. But we are not salts
fed with the showing Its far short
of the Mysteries and heroics played
off on us when lynchings have hap
pened in Georgia and the South. We
want, and have the right to demand,
that the Northern press and people
of Delaware give us that long-await-
ed object lesson of show to cure the
lynchingr'
They know how to do it, because
they have been telling us for twenty
years how unnecessary, barbarOus
and peculiarly Southern is the prac-
tice of lynching raping and murder
ing brutes. Now that the crime with
it's horrors has come home to them
and their people-among whom there
is no Clover class and no NEGRO
hating white trash"-have acted in
Illinois and in Delaware quite as some
Southern people have done, we call
upon them to produce their remedy
for the crime itself and their sure pre-
ventive of the rage of the mob that
ends in lynching!
At the time of the lynching of Sam
Hose at Newman, in this State, it
was published that the railway COM
pany sent out a special excursion
train to carry curious people to see
the burning of a human being by II
mob! The horror over that alleged
incident of years ago has hardly
abated in the North and Sam Hose
reappears in the editorials to this
day. Yet the New York Herald re-
ports that in Wilmington the trolley
lines ran Especial cars" to carry peo-
pie to the bonfire in which White was
being roasted, that the roadway was
lined with the carriages of respect
able citizens" eager to be in at the
death, and that zone pretty young
girl was brought up to the fire while
White was giving his last gasp and
looked on until she became sickened
and turned awayr'
What more? Why across the full
page of the Heralfs account runs a
black-letter line that reads: "Public
Sentiment in Delaware Seems to APP
prove Lynching!''
The Constitution has always de-
nounced lynching, has stood forlegal
procedure, and supported the Cover
nors in sending State troops any
where in the State to prevent the
lawless vengeance of mobs. Asheriff
at Birmingham killed a score of peo-
pile few years ago to prevent a
lynching, and a Georgia sheriff VINO
bloodily saved his prisoner from a
mob has just been given a place
of trust at the Federal prison in this
city.
But what we want now is II demon
stratiOn of all that has been alleged
in the past, to-wit: That the North
is better cultured, more law-abiding
and morally incapable of the lynch
ing crime that has been SO assiduOus-
Iy erected into "a peculiarly South
ern institution" by the press of the
North 1t is up to the critics now to
explain differences and exemplify
chat better way!'