New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-13
CALLS LYNCHING MURDER.
DIR. B4BBTTTS VIEWS.
Says GraUes Docs Not Reflect
Southern Opinion.
Inv TELEGrApH 10 THE TRIBUNE.

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C,bautauoua N y Aug 12-The Rev. DR.. Dean
| Richmond Rabbit rector of the Church of the
Epiphany Brooklyn, was the principal speaker To-
day at the conference on THE Mob Spirit in Amer
lea" He spoke "Lynchngs and Mobs from a
National Standpoint" and answered John Temple
Graves's radical address of yesterday supporting
lynchng as it is practised iE the South promi-
nent Chautauquan described DR.. Rabbits address
in its remedial effects to Mr.. Gravess address OF
yesterday 'poultice. emetic and purgatve all in
one" Dr. Babbitt said in part:
venture say with all courtesy that In the main
points OF the hon; John Temple Graves h ADDRESS
pie when IN the name or chiyalry he urges natreq
calls FOR lynchlng murders, aims 10 maintain white
supremacy. breaches forced negro exile Many IN
dignant Southerners repudiate That address saths
that it partial. incomplete, evaded true issues
anu az pest was put S % 80 clne
by, are injurng the South. He does not represent
even till all rape goes. He does not represent
the South nor the tacts OF lynching when ne says
that the crime against womanhood is the only or
the predominant occasion for lynching In the south
murder. shading down from that horse stealing.
insults to white men. and many minor some almost
The pride and rhetoric with which Southern
womanhood is laUded by this and other southern
orators, the fond euioSes OF SouIhern WpIhei al
must be accepted with that high delight the Amer
womanhood American men do not have to live
south of Mason and DiXon's line to esteem ana 40
which belong their mothers wives and sweethearts
Northern Woman's eyebrow But if in his loyalty
there be not much expression, yet there IS a
moral fibre, conviction of woman's loftlness. when
makes the Northern man the peer Oh any man as
In the rough jostie of modern life Woman.s ho-
erty has been enlarged. her coming and going is
Stance face to face has grded her with dangers
Montesquieu caiIsj it, She suffers the perils North
and South incident to liberty. The growth OF
black population from four millions in 1868 to ten
millions now and the growth of our white popula-
ton from forty to seventy millions with 09StaTGy
rapists increasing with the increase OF PoPIauioh
and woman's exposure viii account Tor the IN
charge the black race with this their own
elusive crime is be illogical and to forget facts
the white criminal who is guilty OF the awful
crime of rape cannot be control!ed Dy me amer d
mobs or without a mutilation which notes re-
race from america in behalf Of White feudaisrn
that fell, thank God with the fall OF black slavery
that permits graceful Southern orators to utter
Northern conscience and Northern sense Of justice,
that it is quite an act OF chiV4ry 10 +AIaeGtcSh
ton and lynching murder toward weak and help-
I say lynching murder. for lynching is murder
murder in the eyes of the law and OF good morals.
nor does the virtue of American womanhood need
murder and torture its support protection, nor
does 'womans purity need souvenirs OF a roasted
iessness. Where is the tender woman who croons
over the cradle or sings lulabies to her baby who
Iynehing mob going about its brutal muir.
derous work walk pretentousSiiy with woman
banner Of purity above its goddess heads
hood on behalf of whose outraged virtue l have
heard of no Southern lynchlng, nor one suggestion
of our gracious Southern orator. / speak OF the
black womauhood of the South. Whence come four
million mulattoes in this land? The black woman
is also mother daughter. wife, sweetheart, all I'M
der d black skin. Have there been any lynchlngs
If there had not beer countless assaults in the
South by low white men there would be many the
fewer lynchings of diaboiiCal black men for rape.
The law of reprsals is primitive and appeals
powerfully to bestial passions seeking excuse for
their crime And so I must venture TO decline to
take the Hon. John Temple Graves representa-
tive Of the intelligent, industrial prosperous
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bama, once Governor of his State, a Southern man,
who. United States judge for a government that
knows neither white nor black, North nor South.
puts down the slavery of peonage, Furnishes
SOutherners guilty of assault on the black mans
rights and the honor of his State the embod-
iment of that true chvalry that protects the weak
and helpless.
DR.. Babbitt then went into the general consider
alton of the mob and lynching question. giving the
assembly study of the Wilmington mob
type, and scoring in the strongest terms the Will
mington officials for cowardice and neglect of duty
He traced the widespread and increasing influence Of
mobs TO psychological suggestion desire of excite
ment and hOmicidal impulses, and held that the
remedy is in aroused public sentiment and insist
ence enforcement of law. a strict holding Of
public officials Ia duty, temporizing with lynch
ers speedy arrest of them and all rioters and
trial of lynchers quickly for murder. He
Indiana and Governor Yates of Illinois for their
firm treatment of mobs., andh ED up to Gov
ernor HUM of Delaware for his weakness and cow
ardice.