The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-08-18
THE PENNSYLVANIA AFFAIR.


Whenever a lynching occurs in the
southland this section Of the conn
TRY has been portrayed as brutal 10
the last degree. While the best OF
citizens everywhere will not tolerate
such an affair as occurred in Penn
lsylyania Saturday night, when a
wounded negro was dragged from
hospital and burned at a stake.
yet in the heat of passions deeds are
frequently committed for which men
are sorry afterwards. The Balti-
more Sun in speaking OF the affair
editorially has the following:
He is very poor citizen OF the
country who win gloat over the fact
that in Pennsylvania, and within a
few miles OF the great city Of Phila-
delphia, where resides so large and
so critical a portion of the virtue Of
THE country, wounded negro muir
iderer was taken from hospital and
lrcasted alive, while men. women aud
lchildren looked on and reyeled in
an orgy of human suffering. And
tyet those who live in the south may
be pardcned, We are sure. for beng
glad that if such a tragedy had TO
be enacted II was staged in Penn
/, sylyania rather than in Georgia. OF
Mississippi, or Texas, or anywhere
ielse south of the old imaginary yet
very real dividing line The lesson
] OF the Coatesyille lynching, in num-
Der OF respects the most horrible
that ever occurred In the country. il
not that the people Of Pennsylvania
. are lswless and brutal. but that
human nature is much the same in
that state as In Louisiana and Ar
kansas. and that II its outbreak was
something more brutal than any.
thing ever exhibited in the south II
is only because the people Of Penn.
sylvania have less sympathy with
the negro and less patience with bis
shortcomings than have the peopl,
/, OF the south.
The burnings in the south have
not been for mere murder. but foj
that deeper. darker nameless crime
. that stirs the blood OF men t.
! vengeance as no murder can. an,
even the lynchings OF negroes tina
have taken place for murder have
a seldom been for sporadic cases, bu
z for those following in the train 3
other crimes and with others threat
Iening 20 follow them In turn. Their,
Y Is probably not d community in tn
E south with as few negroes as Coates
Vile where lynching 81 any kin,
would have followed the crime 0
which the victim Of the Pennsylvania
mob was guilty.
The people of the south. thos
n who are not passions slaves" hay
i never sought 70 justify lynchIng
e and have only offered for IT ne 81
cuse that under the same proyoea
ton the people Of other section
: would act in the same way. askin
p that the country's Judgment BE- TEN
ie pered somewhat b. that fact, i
RECOMMENDATION modified FOR that reason
And their reasoning has bee
!, justified BY events 81 the past fe'
: years in a number % the state
wherein the sDuth's iereest critic
live. New York. Ohio. Indiana, iil
IN nois, New Jersey, Colorado and no
ie Pennsylvania have given exhibition
e Of mob vengeance equal TO any eye
given in the south. thus proving tha
no geogrspher's line can serve
q mark 4 difference III human MATURE
= and that the people u the dinefel
Is sections Or this country are mur
alike. once you scratch through tn
Thin veneer OF their outward seeming
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