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Show Origin or Lynch Law. It Is not generally known that the I terra "lynch law" originated in Campbell Camp-bell connty, Va., before the revolution-j revolution-j ory war. At that period the country ; I was thinly settled and was infested with j Tories and desperadoes too many of ; them, apparently, for the local authorities author-ities to adequately punish. Col. Charles Lynch, a distinguished officer of tho j revolutionary army, undertook to rid his country of the outlaws. He organized organ-ized a force, arrested the outlaws, and I having satisfied himself and comrades of tho guilt of the accused, executed them without reference to the constituted authorities. au-thorities. While not altogether approving approv-ing of the desperate remedy for a desperate des-perate cause, the beneficial effect of Col. Lynch's action was recognized, and has since been known as "Lynch's law" or "Lynch law." Lynch's process of meting out speedy justice extended to other parts of the country, and is a well recognized form of redress of grievances today, particularly particu-larly for that class of offenses that are popularly believed not to be adequately punished by the statutes and courts of the Btate, Col. Lynch's brother gave his name to Lynchburg, and left a Bon who was subsequently governor of Louisiana. Pittsburg Dispatch. |