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The people that had seen the thing said he done it perfect; said it was just exactly the way it all happened. Then as much as a dozen people got out their bottles and treated him. Well, by and by somebody said Sherburn ought to be lynched. In about a minute everybody was saying it; so away they went, mad and yelling, and snatching down every clothes-line they come to to do the hanging with.
Wickham and the Wallachian Hospodar were liquid lead and wedges in the hand of Destiny. "By George, but this has been a lark!" he cried. "I've sent the wrong thing to everybody in England. These cousins of yours have a packing-case as big as a house. I've muddled the whole business up to that extent, Finsbury, that if it were to get out it's my belief we should get lynched."
But the man who gave her the whisky durst not leave his house for weeks. The roughs got to know of the trap he had laid for her, and would have lynched him could they have got hold of him. The third is the case of Rose.
"You mean we should have lynched those fellows as they were taken?" queried the Mayor, with a smile. "Something like that." "It won't take long to fix their guilt or innocence, once we get a jury." "Perhaps if we ever get one. But the men of New Orleans seem filled with a quality of mercy which isn't tempered with justice.
The one American whose exploits will long remain in the Boer mind was John N. King, of Reading, Pennsylvania, who vowed that he would allow his hair to grow until the British had been driven from federal soil. King began his career of usefulness to society at the time of the Johnstown flood, where he and some companions lynched an Italian who had been robbing the dead.
"He'd be lynched whoever he is," said Stevens. "That's right!" cried Warham. "This is the North, but it's near enough to Kentucky to know what to do with a wretch of that sort." His face became calmer. "That poor little baby! He'll have a hard row to hoe." Stevens flushed a guilty red. "It's it's a girl," he stammered. Warham stared. "A girl!" he cried.
Anybody who advocates divorce by mutual consent is sure to be lynched more or less fatally, and especially lynched by the very people who are making a mockery of matrimony in their own lives. "One marriage in twelve in the United States ends in divorce. You'll not find anybody who dares to say that that is not a crying scandal.
Channing had just published a volume of verses; Whittier had been lynched ten years before in South Carolina; and, continues P., "I remember, too, a lad just from college, Longfellow by name, who scattered some delicate verses to the winds, and went to Germany, and perished, I think, of intense application, at the University of Goettingen."
"Lest he should think my attitude dictated by any lingering sectional prejudice, I may tell him what you all know you people among whom I have lived for thirty years that I am a Northern man myself. "The negro who was lynched to-day might never have committed the crime he did had not the wild, disturbing dream of equality been stirring in his brain.
The story was threshed out in Dave Dyer's drug store, with Sam Clark, Kennicott, and Carol present. "That's the way to treat those fellows only they ought to have lynched him!" declared Sam, and Kennicott and Dave Dyer joined in a proud "You bet!" Carol walked out hastily, Kennicott observing her. Through supper-time she knew that he was bubbling and would soon boil over.
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