The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-22
DELIBERATE SANDER.

IN pdEuOuAhB DunC COOpSf, tue as
sassin of Senator Carmack, Patterson
says: In my opinion neither Of the
defendants is guilty, and they have
not had a fair and impartial trial. but
we're convicted contrary to the Law
and evidence" These are statements
wholly at variance with the facts
without one single semblance OF truth
TO support them. They are a deliber.
ate, wilful and cruel Islander of the
dead. The knightly Carmack's lips
are forever sealed by the hand of an
assassin his voice is forever hushed
because it was ever raised for the
right and for truth. II is Tennessee 8
eternal shame that the Governor
should be so utterly destitute Of
shame that he would foully Islander
one whose only offense consisted in
his persistent and courageous opposi-
ton to a depraved gang of political
buccaneers and pirates.
Every man who knew Edward Ward
Carmack knows that he never had
murder in his heart; that his pen was
ever used for law and its supremacy;
that his voice never uttered stronger
appeals than when he pleaded for a
sentiment that would make crime in
tolerable. It is therefore a cruel and
heartless SANDER of the dead to say
that his murder was justifable. Pat
terson has no sense whatever of the
prophecies of the occasion else he
would better conceal his animosity to-
ward a dead political foe and his sat
isfaction at his taking OF.
Only two short weeks before the bull
lets of the assassins sent his soul to
its eternal reward, Carmack's pen was
busy in ringing calls for law enforce
ment and earnest appeals for its SUI
premacy" Read, If you will, the fol-
lowing editorial written by him a
fortnight before the killing and then
ask IL your conscience will approve
the charge that he sought to do MUIR
der to his fellowman:
Homicide, a contempt for human
life, lenient tolerance of sheer blood
is increasingly stain up
On our civilization. Is it not fact to
shock the conscience that there are
more homicides in Nashville or Mem
ohis than in the great a city of Lon
more than in the whole of
England? Is it not an indictment of
)ur civilization For what purpose is
except to supplant person
Il force and violence with the peaceful
of the law?
Let us take this lesson to our
learts and learn it we'll. How many
# us can say that our garments have
n them no stain of this mans blood?
very man who has encouraged in I
imself or others a mawkish tender L
ess for the lawless man-killer, who o
irectly or indirectly has shorn the a
NV of its terrors and held out to the J
iolent and depraved the hope of i'm u
lunity, has his share of guilt. Be- p
cath the surface of our civilization T
ne old-time blood lust of our ances- Il
,rs sleeps in ftful, uneasy slumber. v
l the hearts Of thousands of men c.
cree passions are as tigers Gagged, Il
nd they only need for the keeper to
i'm his back to relapse into native d
lvagery. "
Before we can teach the fierce and Of
client a wholesome awe of legal JUS pi
&c we must have the great body of a
If citizenship deeply imbued with d.
e sentiment that respect for law &C
Their than the law itself is the cor &C
II stone of all government and the 81
eet-anchor of all civilization" c.
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