The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-09

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.t,xt REMrrrANcEs MUST Acc or II 4 :
Disgusting that. Hear the words OF Wis 8
dom from the lips Of Judge Cooke, ~
passing sentence on the two W h's :. az ~
tor the late trial at Salisbury, =. -. ~.
| "This court feels mpellcd to say that,
rcther ncrsonally nor as an exponent OF
the law, can 1t allow that any man8fas
| the right to take tho law into Ills own
| hands. even for the cause OF seducuon,
| or for any other cause. 1t will DO al:
mittcd that in North Carolina lar tr ~
can be had In every case. and that men
who deserve IT, will be punished BY the
methods OF the law And the law makes
provision for securing fair trials by n no
allowing any one who has formed 4 or y,
s. nressed m opinion, or Is in any way
related to either side of the controversy,
Is lie one or those tricrs. But when In
dvid,,als take tic punishment into their
hands It is generally those who are most
Interested who settle the question OF gullt,
and execute their own judgments. And
usually their conclusions arc reached
when, by reason Of some ex citing cause,
they are lii no judicial frame a,ot mind
| This is not the only objection to such q
course for when 1t Is allowed that for
any cause, as seduction, men may dis
| regard tho mandates OF the law, It make,
| a brca CHI in the wall, and IT would be in!-s
possible to confinc the commission 81 VIC
Hence to that one offense. I need only
refer to the history Of lynchings IN TINS
| country to illustrate this. Before the Civll
i War there was no such thing as lynch-
Ling In $ North Carolina From my ,ao"l,
| Information I can recall but one, ana
that was during the Revolution. But IN
the last twenty years there have been
many q $i =.
The following from tho above editorial
| OF The Richmond ,rimcs-Dispatch comes
| with all the force OF an eplgram
"rhe law has no Inherent strength. me
|Slaw Is the creature OF public sentiment,
ana unless it be sustained by publicSsenti-
| uent. It will become dead letter.
History con firms this view, and It can
| not be too often and too persistently I'M
messed on the public mind Legislation
NAV be framed with the wisd ON OF salon
lSand the Justice and infexibility OF q ris.
| tides: but unless public sentilnen tGupleld
| 1t, bettei.sthat 1t were never on the stat
ute books "a &, .$
The laws OF Draco, an arcllonS Of Ath-i
ems. who lived about 600 years before the
| christian era, we're written IN blood
ana the comment OF the historian on the
|legislat ton OF Draco is that its very Sc
renity prevented Its enforcement and exc
cution. The pence and good order OF COM
| munities will be better conserved by y
wise and temperate frame work OF law,
firmly, but kindly, administered than
! b. n system of criminal jurisprudence
characterized by Sparton yigor ana Sc
rcnlty. History delights In contrasts ana
SURPRISES, and IT is recorded that Dracos
ljfc was sacrificed to the very laWles5-
ness OF his popularity. Reccs n.zlns nm
jin} a, theatre ut Aesina, the audiGaG:asa-
iluted him with the8n,ark Of appropatlol',
1 customary in that age OF throwing the;f
/ cans and garments on him, and IN such
| volume that he was smothered to dent H.
No people were ever governed Win
! more iron hand than the French during
| tho reig,, OF Louis XXI. The provost and
tho oxec,,tioner we're the hardest worked
men III the kingdom, who, far from wait
ms for the victims to be brought TO them,
secured the country, hanging and quar-
! tcrlng without judge or5&jury, not only
on The gibbot, hut on the first convenient
tree, and for offenses that IN this lay
would bring n punishment OF perhaps
| thirty days on the public roads. me MI
! famous Officials, Tristan r, lerll1ll e ana
| ,rroIs 1ysohcllcs, whom Scott portrays
!. wifi hIg uaEic pen lin tfQucntin Dur
i ward. ,'gboas ted ut the court OF Louis Hli
al plussIs Las Tours that they had slain
1 ( nm, malefactors with their own hands
! and doubtless they had
And vet, from 14Go to 14S5, France was
the domain or lawlcssness, and the cry
| or Parish vast labyrinth OF DARK, laf-
row. crooked streets, and lofty, gloomy
! bu!d!ngu, In the cellars o. many OF, Wlhcn
burrowed like wild beasts, bands or mugs
ma OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a cesspool OF & In
iuujty, the bloody theatre OF violence ana
murder. y. Z,
In the reign of William III. and after
! the glorious revolution of 1858. which gave
1 tofthe Englishmen the inestimnble bill OF
4 rights tile traveller might see from inc
decl, OF his vessel the chalky GIFTS o.
I Albion dotted with gallows after galr
/ lows fcstooned with chains; ana even
/ throughout the reign Of George ! ~ '.Iy-
burn Tree lind It's thousands OF victims
/. for theft. coin-dlpping, counterfc!tlng,
l birhwey robbery, etc. And yet Just rs
j many thousands continued to mutllnta
4 ana counterfeit his matesty,s money,
break intt houses, and steal linen from
4 hedges and. up to after the close @
the eighteenth century, tho Captain Mac
4 lea tbs, Claude IlIyals and Dick Tu'plns
plIed their nefarlous trade on tho ppckI'-
cts and some times o., the lives Of travel
era within sight or london town WIN
a penal code almost AS SANG linAf y ~ tlnt :
Of Draco, England, all through the sew
enteenth and eighteenth centuries, was 9
vast, eyer-ripening harvest fop 'laek
4 Kctoh. y with Its criminal law salutary,
4 finn anu Moderate, ENGLAND is now tho
4 best governed country. on earth, !, !.