Show r MA SW fy y st 6 IN THE SOUTH tins people have been kuljit ar thirty years through the press and publics public speakers that Z there was vas no regard in the south for the iu rights and lives of the negroes groes that ozi on the most moat trivial excuses they were lynched and that the officers of the law tacitly endorsed moh mob law when invoked agan against i nt a colored man one reason why there has been more lynch ings of colored men in the south is that there are so many more of the colored people in the south than in the north but after all the exaggerations agge rations of this terrible wrong the people of the south are an as much opposed to such outrages as are the cold blooded new england era in fact the governors and legislatures of the northern and eastern states would do well to take pattern after the southern states in striving to put an end to this horrible practice the legislature of south carolina have enacted a law making the county chivily liable to the relatives of all victims of mobs the governor of georgia on the 3rd ard of this month offered a reward of the full limit tor for the conviction of the moly mob who lynched two negroes at columbus ga he offers this amount for the conviction of ten of the lyn chers or for each one in many of the northern states this would be considered a liberal reward for the apprehension and conviction of a cold blooded murderer mobs occur frequently north of dixie and yet you will look through the statute books in val vain to find where the country is held liable to pay for the life of the murdered person the south is setting a wholesome example in this particular and all the talk to the contrary is gotten up for political effect to prejudice the colored voters against their truest an and d best friends |