Richmond planet., 1904-07-30
The Fourteenth Amendment a
ColOred Man Released.
THE GREAT WRIT OF RIGHT MUST BE TRIED
BY A IURY-WAS NOT DUE PROCESS OFIAW
A REMARKABLE PHILLIPIC
HENRY JAMESON DISCHARGED.
A Federal Courts Decree Respected.

CRIME of long torrid days of a semi
tropical summer, or encrusted with the
ICY mud OF winter, are their sleenine--
clothes when they throw them selves on.
their pallets or straw in the common
stockades at night. They wake. toll
rest, eat, aud sleep, 10 the never-ceasine
cianklng OF the manacles and chains OF
tins involuntary slavery. Their pro--
greSs TO and from their wo1 K is pnb-
lie, and from dawn co dark, with brier
lntermlsslon, they toll on the public
roads and before the public eve. About
them as they Sleep, journey aud labor.
Wa'ca the convict guards armed with
rifle and shot gun.
ESCApR IMPOSSIBLE
lbs is Go at once make escape inpos-
slole, and TO make sure the swift shud-
dlng ot the picks and the rapid flight of
the shovels shall never cease. If the
guards would hesitate TO promptly kill
one sentenced for petty violations of
city law should he attempt 10 escape.
the evidence does not disclose the Fact. 81,
And the fact more baeful and mor, ig
nomlnlous than all, with each panc-
stands the whipping boss, with the
badge of his authority This the evid enoe
! discloses TO be "a heavy leathern straus
ABOUT two and a half or three feet long.
with solid hand grasp, and with br Dad
heavy and flexible lash. From the ev
vloence we may judge that the agony in
nlcted by this implement of torture is
not surpassed by the Russian knout the
synonym the world around for merci-
less corporal punishment. If we NAV
also accept the uncontradicted evidence
OF the witnesses it is true that on the
Blbb county chaingang for no day il
the strap wholly idle and not infre--
lS
ness who served many months, tesCf-
fled that if the gang does not work like
nghtlng fire, to use his simile thes
whipping boss runs down the hue
striking with apparent indiscriminatiou
me convlcts as they bend 10 their tasks
Often the whipping is more prolonged
and deliberate. At times, accordn g tC,
another witness, also uncontradic ted
the convicts when at the stocSade ara
called into the dog lot" All prese Mt
the whipping boss selects the victims in
MS Judgment worthy of punishment.
HORRIBLE INHUMANITY.
They are called to the stable door
made TO lie face downward across the
Sill, strong convict holds down the
mead and shoulders and the boss lays on
the lash ON the naked body until he
thlnks the sufferer has been whipped
enough 1t is but just 20 Mr.. Wimbish
TO record his statement that he knew
nothing OF this ceremony. 1t may be
judged from the evidence that it Is g
Whipping more formal and dramatic .
than any other inflicted. Since this is
done at the stockade, we may presume
tnat the spectators and guards are the
ohly witnesses. but on the public roads,
III the presence of wayfarers ana by
ISLANDERS, often the convict, te use an ex
preston of a witness, lis taken down
and whipped" The evidence gives US
lhe account of two white persons who
were thus whipped, one, a bow with bur
one arm. For this reason, it was nor
necessary TO hold him He stood anG
cried as the boss applied the lash The.
Other white boy was compelled TO place
MS mead between the legs of q burly ne
gro convict and was thus immovably
heid The punishment will mark the
iad with lnfamy in the minds of his fel-
lows as long as he NAV live.