Show NO SOUTHERN OUTRAGE THIS but if it had taken place in louisiana its perpetrators would have been horrified WHEN the good people of port morris N J read of the awful outrages which the poor negroes of the south suffer from time to time their blood runs cold and they wonder the vengeance of offended justice does not fall upon their perpetrators it was a cold night in port I 1 M morris or on wednesday some of the 1 good people of the place their names are being whispered about but stealthily knocked at thedoor the door of the house occupied by the lawson family and when that door was opened they thrust in their big feet so that the door could not be shut hut again and demanded the body of charles moore the features of the men were hidden bidden behind the familiar whitecap white cap decorations they carried guns and seemed to be determined the lawson family are white moore is a colored man that was the excuse the only one for this nocturnal visit the trembling negro was dragged out into the woods stripped to the skin and tied to a tree when the cold air truck struck upon his dark skin it fairly quivered but the good men of port morris did not mind that their errand was one of stern justice far different from the fiends who torture negroes in the south besides they had something warm in store for him they lashed him with a whip until his back was covered with great ridges then they let him dress and warned him not to return to the lawson house he disappeared where he has gone is not known exchange our northern friends look upon such an ac act t when done in the south as the greatest barbarity an act if wrong is wrong no matter where it may have been committed place cuts no figure under such circumstances such outrages upon human rights receive the condemnation of every honest man liberty can live only through law and by law when the law has lost its power liberty dies the constituted authorities who permit a mob to take a real or supposed offender and subject him to punishment without the least pretense of a trial thereby confess confes s their inability to govern and thus abdicate their functions to 0 o the power of lawlessness and misrule A good man will obey the law because it is the law governments have established laws and courts to take fake the place of private vengeance therefore the men who inflict upon a real or supposed offender such unusual punishment are the guil guiltiest est of the guilty and they know it or else they would not perpetrate such inhuman acts in disguised faces and wider under the cover of night the liberty and security of every man demands that such barbarity shall hall be suppressed by the firm hand of the law |