Butts County GaArchives News.....LYNCHING October 22, 1896
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Jackson Argus – Week Of October 22, 1896 October 22, 1896
Much has been said in the papers, both north and south, against lynching. 
Humanitarians have condemned and governors have offered immense rewards for the
apprehension of the lynchers.   Northern editors have prated about the brutality
of the south in lynching rapist, yet all of this has never reached that class of
people who are most guilty of this crime.   Even when one of its race is is hung
up for this crime, very few of them outside the immediate vicinity where the
crime is committed ever know or hear of the fate of the perpetrator.   If these
people who are so prone to commit such crimes could know the fate of every one
guilty of such unnatural brutality, then there would be less cause for lynching
in this country.    True, the papers give much space to comments on the crime,
but the colored man never knows or hears of the certain and quick retribution
meted to the perpetrators.    We believe that few rapists know, before the act
is committed, what will be their fate.  If they did, less of it would be done.

There is only one way to stop lynching; stop the crime and lynching stops.   The
effect must precede the cause in this case.     As long as there is virtue in
woman just so long will manhood protect it by these summary punishments.  
Volumes may be written against it and governors may drain the public exchequer
to bring the lynchers to justice, but the bodies of the brutes will continue to
hang in mid air as long as a pine sapling or an oak sprout grows on Georgia soil.




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