Show THE RECORD A case which las just terminated at charleston south carolina is extensively ten looted as of deep importance to the whole south by journals on both sides of mason and diluna line it deals an effective legal blow to the practice of lunching lynching lyn ching ao indigenous to the south and it pr encouraged by popular sentiment will go lir toward checking iho spirit of which a dark upon that fair portion of alie national estate A halt wilted white man who had been charged with a girl was set upon by a crowd of infuriated negroes and lynched public opinion applauded alie which waa meted out although it was the elret time in the history of the state that a white man had been lynched lyn chel by negroes ces influential whites labored against the steps which were taken to effect their arrest and finally the murderers were lodged in jail numerous offers of legal and financial were extended in of all this the trial of alie alcased idaa just resulted in a verdict of murder against three of the men implicated and they will have to pay the penalty of their crime A few verdicts of this kind and the courage necessary to enforce them aro what abo south needs more than anything else at alie present thaoe she has all the laws necessary for lie protection of individuals and society she holdia out rare inducements to agricultural ri and commercial enterprise she has a hospitable and chivalrous population who only need alio quickening which association w lah strangers brings to alir tsieia up to mighty deeds of success but against all this elie a leniency in dealing with outrages against the lawand law and an encouragement to deeds of personal per nonal violence which make her name almont synonymous with pistol justice mob triumphs and bloody feuds that is why alie verdict of the charleston jury if it ahall prove an example to every judicial district la the south will be of inestimable importance to alie general welfare eaul 1 I judge a man by lii ayea but a woman by her lips we too benjamin IRo anEss OP the modem pilgrim mar 4 patriotism mar 6 patriotism and politics mar 0 and up to dute |