The Denver star., 1916-12-09
Injustice Beeets Injustice.


Butally Lynched at Abbeyille, S.. Carolina.
To the Edilor of the News and allow
the writer space TO give his most &nphAtic
the article which recently appeare1 in
w. T. Clayton. in which he denounces fynchine Ne
gro in Abbeville, who charged with crime
misdemeanor his only fault being thar he nsoent and
in this had become obnoxiousin his with
some of the white citizens of the Lynchina utterly
inexcusable and indefensibe und{
is understand that thf presence Of henous
crime that might be carried by passion and
summary vengeance upon the peF}rtrator of act In
this ynchng however there absence of anything Of
this nature and this fact renders of the
tu and inexcusable crimes that has been
South Carolina and that be reproach
beve and to the whole State WE'LL for which
such thing as bottng such and Alb
bevle County live it down. Any excuses
may be made for will only make the
only thing to do to that nothing like
gam Abbev'le and not inapptopratey has often been
referred to as the Athens of South Carolina and
certain that the state possibly single
has aiyen birth TO has the
which has allowed this foul blot stain her spot
less record he voices of her have been heard
councils of their native and they taken
'nent part the of her laws; OF the
were born within her limits and the decisions of her pure
and learned judges will adorn the South
Narona On almost every battlefield of Virginia, and in
other portions of the South her and braves
men made their country and glorious by their
roc deaths willing sacrifice they knew be
pie stood supney and allowed this piece of barbarsm
cur is easy imagine that possible these great
men OF Abbevilles glorious would shake off the
ments OF the tomb and solemn and indignant
against the living tor permitting such nexcusabe crime
anything could add to the horror of would be
fact that the ynchng took place in daylight
there not the least the of the at
conceament IT, when the sheriff first rescued the mur-
dered man from the hands of the mob why he not sum
mon posse and protect the man. he had do
from the hands of the Can any sane man be made
he v
Why did he not his pistol and have shot he
questionaby to have done down few members mob
Had he done this he would in all probability have saved
his county from this burning disgrace for while mob
be composed OF individually brave mob they
the veest towards that be and can as has
been often the easily cowed determined
To make matters STILL there is the finding the corr
jury that the to his death the hands oil
parties unknown. The finding should have BEEN at the
hands of parties whose the jury not wish to
vulge II 1t we're such the taking
the life of against whom there indictment the
whole affair would furnish adequate theme the basis
OF comic opera Was the sheriff bv fear
that he unable to recognize any of the when it
came TO giving MS testimony before the ury
remember their names? He should have put in sol
taty confinement until he could sreshen his memory
little and give of the of those who composed
the mob But the writer almost forgot the fact
that the victim guilty of the terrible of striking
one OF his assaants with hammer If the hammer had
been powerful dynamite bomb he would have been per
fecty justified in throwing in the midst of his assaants
when it became evident that they determined to kill
him and take Of them along with him as possible
for they deserving Of death their victim
But while all this going where the mayor of the
city3 Where the police. and where patriotic
fee his life the fair honor of his