Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-02-11
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1916.
The Outrage on Worth.

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for it's outrage upon the law, invad
ing prisons, lynching negroes and
prisoners already sentenced, we
must not think that all Georgians,
or editors of the newspapers of
Georgia are in favor of such acts,
or are afraid to express their opin-
ions with relation to them. We
copy an article written by the able
editor of the Tifton Daily Gazette,
because it speaks to the point, even
without fear or favor, showing the
condition of affairs as they actually
exist. We give it in full, as a large
percentage of our northern people,
and with good reasons, too, imagine
the better class of Georgians, while
not really assisting in these outrages,
lend their influence to them by re-
manning silent. The editor of the
Triton Gazette, located ia the heart
of Georgia, and a man of broad eX-
perience, does not remain silent.
He speaks as an unbiased editor
should speak, so plainly and covering
the ground so welI-because his
viewpoint is in the center of this
ground that we want the people
Of the north to read the article
in full Ed.
Contempt for law, disdain for
constituted authority, scorn for or
der, and disrespect for the chosen
officers of the people reached their
climax in the outrage perpetrated
on the people of Worth county
Thursday night.
The men guilty did more than
put to death five negroes connected
in the most remote manner with
the crime they ostensibly sought to
svenge. They raped the law Of
their own state; they invaded
in armed force the building
dedicated by law for the custody
Of accused until duly convicted by
legal process; they took prisoner an
official sworn to protect those &C.
cused and bound him as if he him.
self was a criminal, they crossed the
boundary of a neighbor county, rob-
he'd its jail, visited it's officers with
indignity and treated it's institutions
with derision and contumely.
More than this: They indicted
the sovereign people of a republic as
unft to govern and administer law.
So far as lay in the power of each
individual in that mob, they tried
to demonstrate that the white man
is no better than the black by de-
scending below the black mans level;
they tried to show to the world that
calls itself civilized that the white
man is unfit to govern the black
man because he cannot first control
himself; that he is unfit to make
laws for others because ne himself
viii not obey the law.
The crime committed Thursday
ght was ten-fOId more atrocious
then the one that provoked it, be-
cause it was the act of men of d
superior race; men to whom the
country must look for support fol-
law and the maintenance of order
The act of the negro slayerS OF
Moreand was that of brutes, Of
people relegated to lower order o.
life, who the world would hold only
personally responsible for the ob
eervance of law; that of the moi
was the act of men of a race which
claims the right to govern becaus'
Of superiority in intelligence AM
civilization.
Do the atrocities of the German
rordes who ravished Belgium pre-
sent anything worse than this
They at least respected their ow
organization. Do the murderou
bandits in Mexico furnish anything
10 surpass this? They do not 70
their own people and murder thos
entrusted to their charge.
Where is our boasted civilization
by what right can we point tn
finger of scorn at any race of bar
barians now inhabiting the globe
Even cannibals respect their ow
laws and institutions, such as the
are.
What a record to make Georgian
blush during the past year TIL