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If you can not do that for you are not yourselves wise, or will not for you are not yourselves good, you deserve to be oppressed when you submit and shot when you rise. To shoot a rioter or lyncher is a high kind of mercy. Suppose that several scores of lives had been so taken, including even those of "innocent spectators" though that kind of angel does not abound in the vicinity of mobs.
The Negro obeyed, though his heart for some cause was in the court room. Suddenly there was a tumult in the court room and the Negro dropped his lemonade bucket and ran to the door. He saw a crowd surging about the lyncher that had been on trial, and he cried out in startling tones: "Gemmen, don't do dat. Don't kill de man. De boy whut wuz burnt, I'm his daddy.
"Go and see what he has to say," commanded the leader of the lynching party. The girl stepped close to the man and the lyncher stepped back. In a low tone the detective said: "Be calm and do not betray that you know me!" The girl felt her heart stand still, and a cry rose to her lips. "Hold," whispered the officer, "or you will destroy all chances for escape."
Now his gun spurted and Dan bowed far over his saddle as if he had been struck from behind. Before the rifleman could fire again Black Bart leaped high in the air. His teeth closed on the shoulder of the lyncher and the man catapulted from his saddle to the ground. With his yell in their ears, Dan and Haines galloped through the cottonwoods, and swept down the lane.
When the prisoners taken with Tate were being conducted to their place of confinement, the difficulty was to protect them, 'car la population furieuse contre les Français voulait les lyncher. Captain Desbrière dwells at some length on the mutinies in the British fleet in 1797, and asks regretfully, 'Qu'avait-on fait pour profiter de cette chance unique? He remarks on the undoubted and really lamentable fact that English historians have usually paid insufficient attention to these occurrences.
They mobilized all the machinery of modern oppression: taxes, city ordinances, licenses, state laws, municipal regulations, wholesale police arrests and, of course, the peculiarly Southern method of the mob and the lyncher.
"'I'm th' corryspondint iv th' Georgia Daily Lyncher, an' I can't undherstand a wurrud ye say. I've lost me dictionary. Th' people iv th' State iv Georgia mus' not be deprived iv their information about th' scand'lous conduct iv this infamious coort. "'Thrue, says th' prisident.
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