The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-15
THE JEFFER SONIAN

cartoon showing a black coffin marked Justice
being lowered into the grave, in Georgia. Similar
cartoons, insulting this State, were printed False
stories slandering the people and the State have
been printed by the hlindreds-our papers have
not resented it--have not spoken for their peo-
pie.
AS to the mob which went to the Governors
home am of the same opinion that you are [
believe in law and order all the time But the
people, as whole, Lost tLeir heads completely in
this case. They say there is no law. 1t is not
the poor class of people l refer to-but the upper
middle class. have personally heard number
OF people who stand high in the business and
social world say this. You cannot imagine how
excited the people whole. 1t is unusual.
Everyone is side the other. In. the
office i'll which I am engaged there fifty
men, One Of them thought Frank innocent
the others thought he guilty. After the trial,
one of them thought he had not had fair trial
the others thought that he had One of them
wanted the sentence communicative others
wanted it to stand.
Half of them believe Slaton took money the
amounts ranging from $3.50, 900 to $780, 900.
But I should think that half of them think he
did not accept money, but that he didn't do the
right thing; and they are all incensed against
him.
They are angry with the Jewish race, blu tnot
at any individual Jew. No harm has been done
to a Jew here This seems to to show that
there is strong anti-Jewish feeling here. At
first there must have been practically none, but it
is true there is anti-JeW feeling rising. Cards
are being printed here today by the tens of thous-
ands and circulated, copies of which | encos-
ing.
At o'clock in the morning all the Atlanta
military forces go duty again. Perhaps you
would not learn this from the Atl;nta papers.
We not parade, either, but will go out
fully armed.
Yours truly,
IA Terminal Station.
You will be impressed by the spirit of
fairness shown IN Sergeant Grce's letter.
| put it in the record. so that the outside
world may realize how one of the soldiers
who guarded Slaton viewed the situation,
and how he felt
risk his life in the defense of Stations, and
he could not learn from the atlanta papers
achat acas happening!
He was under the necessity of going to
the Carnegie Library, where papers from
other States we're accessible to him.
Sergeant Grice tells the Montgomery Adj
vertiser that "the mob'' was not composed
of the "scum and the rif-ratf;" but of the
upper middle class" and substantial bust
ness men-citizens who felt that the Atlanta
papers, the Governor, and the ruling powers
were trampling the law under foot.
Let every outsider who wants to be fair
to Georgia weigh carefully what Sergeant
Grice says about the constituent elements
of the Atlanta 'mob."
Let every one remember that Grice was
on duty, day after day, protecting the life
of Slaton, who had aroused in the hearts of
the best men and women in Georgia the
same passionate resentment that Frenchmen
feel for Marmont who betrayed their great
Emperor, and that Americans of Washing
tons time felt against Benedict Arnold.
Whenever Treason ceases to be odious, and
the Traitor a person abhorred, let us re-
arrange our Halls of Fame, and give the
place of honor to the statue of Judas
Iscariot