The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-02
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spirit Of sullen hatred and anarchy plotted to
overthrow justice at blow, and glut their hatred
by an act unparalleled even in the bloody history
OF lynch law. Mobs always towards. The
murdeters hoped to strike swiftly and escape.
They did strike swiftly. Waiting until the act
or Governor Slaton in committing Franks sent
ence had necn generally accepted the wisest
course, they organized force sufficient to over
power tho ordinary penitentiary guard dragged
their victim forth and put him TO death.
Governments not set up to be overridden
by assassina Governors not elected and put
i'll Office TO have their decisions Jiouted by muir
deIOl:s m0ba. There be condonfng any
lynchinG. A lyncning of this daring and afro
cious character is insult not only to the people
of Georgia, bat TO the people of the whole United
States. There aust be refuge for these butch
ers To give them aid or comfort, to offer them
opportunity for concealment, is a criminal act,
and should be punished as such.
The hate-crazed irresponsibles who con-
demned this Jew. as guilty, were twelve hon
est jurors, two honest Superior Court Judges
two Supreme Courts, composed of fifteen of
the best lawyers that can be chosen.
The assassination consisted in carrying
out the sentence OF the Law thrice pro-
Deunced
'Not daring to modest n courageous man
(Slaton), the towards who composed the
mob retired"
1t was the courageous man who retired:
the towards all stayed right here. They will
remain; and perhaps the courageous man
had better settle somewhere else.
"Governors are not elected and put IN
office to have their decisions fouted by muir
derous mobs"
Are juries and judges elected and put into
office to have their decisions fouted by
corrupt Governor, whose own client was the
beneficiary of his illegal fouting of two SUI
prcme Courts?
The Chicago Tribune sends us this one:
The South is backward 1t shames the United
States by illiteracw and incompetence. Its hill
men ard poor whites, it's masses of feared and
bullied blacks, its ignorant and violent politicians,
its rotten industrial conditions, and its rotten
social ideas in circumstances which disgrace the
United States in the thought Of Americans and
in the opinion of foreigners.
When the North exhibits a demonstration of
violence against law by gutter rats of society.
there is shame in the locality which the
scene of the exhibition. When the South exhibits
it there is defiance of opinion.
The South is barely half educated. Whatever
there is applicable in the murder Of Leo M. Frank
is thus eXpainable. Leo NJ Frank was an atom
in the American structure He might have died,
unknown or ignored, a thousand deaths more
agOniZing in preliminary torture and more cruel
in final execution, and have had no effect, but
the spectacle Of struggling human being, help
less before fate as a mouse III the care Of cat,
will stagger American complacency.
The South is half educated it is region of
iliteracy, blatant self-righteousness, cruelty and
violence Until it is improved by the invasion of
better blood and better ideas it will remain
proach and danger to the American republic.
Boston, Mass, does not forget us, in our
time Of ordeal and gauntlet, but helps us
along, as follows:
The lynching of Leo M. Frank, considering all