Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-05-31
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LYNCH VERDICT AN
AMERICAN TRAGEDY

AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Over in South Caroline the other doy whe group of
white men, charged with Iynchng Negro, who had
fesed the crime who offered evidence testimony
in defense, and who relied wholly upon race hate and
prejudice in exenuoton of their crime, acquitted and
set Free by Jury where the highest tenets of
American law and Justice sold to find their purest
PRESTON and where lodges the first and last stronghold Of
democracy and the American ideo and ideo of the
worst and hardest blows struck against United States
World leadership and against American democracy as
the dominating world deo and ideal since the beginning
of World War when in Stating the principals upon which
the war being fought the for democracy was
stated wildly and with such clarity and force until at
the coming of We Day. the people of the vonguished as
we'll those OF the victor notions looked to the American
Declaration of independence, Constitution and Bill Of
Rights for their deos and to the United Sotes for World
Leadership.
Viewing the South Caroline Lynch Verdict in the
light of World events and their Implications since VEL
Day the failure of mission in Chno the dsoffection
in Poland the theological threats in the BoIkons France
Itoy in the Middle Eost the winning struggle for freedom
in ndo, the growing struggle for freedom of other coored
people in Afrco Koreo and the Islands of the Seas the
oil put foto weakening of the British Empire it seems
omos tragic and little bit hopeless that at the very
foundation of the American idea and deo and the hope
of it's future the words I'VE hold these truths to bel
self evident Thot oil men created equo hot they
endowed by their Creator with certain unoenobe rights
that among these life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness which, to guarantee their meaning Franklin
Roosevelt added freedom of Religion freedom of Speech
freedom from won't, and freedom from fear.
With the coming of We Day. citizens of all and
creeds and of all sections of the notions sensing the call
to the United States for world leadership and the fulfill
of the American dream still under the spell of the
great war ideoism could thrill at the new and greet
American Destiny and citizens Of minority groups, of all
races coors and creeds looked with great hope to the
translation of the deoIism into every American life
while people all the world took up the hope that
American War deoism would be translated into the life
of people oil the world The fuIIfment Of this hope
is the only boss for United States World Leadership and
the only to the fuIment Of the New American
Destiny.
One of the most trogc developments in the United
States since We Day the almost oto abandonment by
Government and the agencies and leaders Of public opin
ion of the grand high and noble deoIism of the war
years.
Roce color, and religious prejudice, otter war
fought to destroy such evils appeals active thon
before and Leading American authority recently
say the United Stoes shot through and through with color
prejudice No person in the United Stote abroad, who
is the least acquainted with the force and power of color
and JUDGE the United Stotes and especially in
the states of the South will fail understand the theology
behind the South Caroline lynch verdict
While tragic and almost hopeless in it's implications
affect the American Destiny, the South Coolino
Lynch Verdict can mean the complete triumph Of the
American idea and ideal in the world but only the states
or rne ooutn ono tner people are wiling 70 occePr tner
part in winning for the United Stotes world leadership
securing the dominance of the American idea and ideoI
and in sensing their responsibility the New American
Destiny
AS against the cry of outside influence and inter-
ference with the ooirs of the South effects its Negro
citizens and in view of the dennds of the American
Destiny there con be doubt that the time hos now
come when people of the SOUTH witness the publishing
of the reports of the South Caroline Verdict only few
hours after had been rendered. in papers throughout the
world including Russio, must realize that in all conduct