The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-31
NORTHERN BARBARISM
By SAY oYARD

Washin gton. August 0-tSpeciaL)- II seems that like Bleeding Kansas. the home of John Brown Pennsylvania the home of Thaddeus Stevens, would solve the race problem by means of the stake, the fagot and the torch. Al least they burned a negro at the stake at Gainesville, Pa. a college town, q few days ago, and it was the Chris tian Sabbath at that. The victim was not accused of the unspeakable crime, which in the eyes of true man. makes murder virtue in comparison He had merely slain another, but that other Eas a white man. and he was mobbed get so much because he was murderer as because he was a negro.
 It was the invncible and ineradicable spirit of caste in action, defying gov ernment because it Is stronger than armies and navies. stronger than the warnings of prohpets and the teachings of sages. It is human nature itself, and man must be made over again be- fore he is purged of it. There is not a human being in the United States who would not sooner be @ white man, though a beggar, than negro though a millionaire That is what makes the negro race hopeless and helpless. There never was a Jew who would be other than a Jew though otherwise he were clothed with the purple of Caesar and gifted with the mind of Plato, and that makes the Jewish race noble. Pride of race is the chiefest virtue, and that, more than anything else, made a won fernf iOn of a little while go barbarian Japan.
 This caste is instinctive and just as pronounced at the north as a the south, and there would be more lynchings of negroes at the north than at the south if the raw material were at hand in equal abundance and police protection as limited there, where the population is compara lively dense, as it is at the south, where the communities are com- paratively rural. It is a frequent oe- currence almost daily, that attempted lynchings at the north are defeated yby the vigilance of the constabulary such episodes are by no means uncommon in New England, the butt cut of civiliza- tion and the upper crust of culture, re- finement and department.
 Yet not all lynchings are due to caste, but the more atrocious ones are the fruit of it. The laws delay, the impotence of courts of criminal 5udicature, the whimsical sentimentality of our people and the influence of money on jury trials, all conspire to breed mobs. It is different abroad. Dr Crippen-I be- lieve his name was-was accused of murdering his wife in London. He was Indicted and apprehended. His trial came off in the New Bailey" the sue cessor of the "Old Bailey" He was convicted sentenced and executed be- fore a jury to try him could have been empaneled in any state of our union. In England the judge on the bench se- 1ects the jury in America the lawyer for the defense picks the "12 men in a box to try his client. They were months getting q jury to try the men who slew Carmack. Tn England not half an hour would have been required for that job. That is why human life Is so valuable there and so cheap here There it is very serious thing to mur- der a man; here il is very trivial cir cumstance in ruffian's career. That is why there are few murders in Eng land and so many in America. 1 omitted to cite that in England the court fixes the time of the trial In America cour- tesy allows the accused to set the date
 But to get back to the discussion Of caste. So far as I am informed history does not mention a case where two races-one superior to the other shared political power equally under the same government. Why. there were ages when the Jewish race, equal to any in the world, perhaps superior to all others, had no political rights in countries where the civilization of which we are types was developing in the crucible of political and social eyo- lution.
 And this recalls that of all the blunderers ever appointed to place and power in any country In the world. the men who reconstructed" the south after our great war were the most hopeless and most miserable. With the exception of Charles Sumner who was hardly accountable, for he did not dwell on earth, the trusted leaders of the re- publican party of 1S65-75 were filled with hatred and prompted by revenge. Stevens, Butler, Wade Chandler. Nor ton, Conkling, Logan and that set "ele- vated' the negro to punish the south. Blaine, Garfield, Wilson and Trumbull joined with them because 1t was politi- cal suicide-vide Horace Greeley and Henry J. Raymond-to oppose them.
 But they reckoned without the in- vincible Anglo Saxon of the south, who had fought with Lee and Jackson and ridden with Stuart and Forrest. The plan was to make of the cotton states so many San Domingos, each required to deliver so many seats in Congress and ~>~~~~~-~~~-~~~~~-s-.>S,-
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