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Updated: June 4, 2025
The majority of Southern commentators argue that the motive of the lynchers is a laudable yearning to "protect Southern womanhood," despite the plain fact that only a very small proportion of the blackamoors hanged and burned are even so much as accused of molesting Southern womanhood.
Then there was a scarcely audible rustle on the margin of the woods, a dry branch snapped loudly. A little pause succeeded in which the judge's heart stood still. Next a stealthy step sounded in the clearing. The judge had an agonized vision of regulators and lynchers. The beat of his pulse quickened. He knew something of the boisterous horseplay of the frontier.
Even then, when two centers of opposition to the madness of the mob had been created, the menace could not at once be halted. The man with the rope had approached so near the lumber-pile that the sheriff could all but reach him. A furious battle ensued, and waged around the planks, between the deputies and lynchers.
As they swung into their saddles outside the shed, the lynchers raced their horses around the jail. "Straightaway!" called Dan. "Through the cottonwoods and down the lane. After me. Satan!" The stallion leaped into a full gallop, heading straight for a tall group of cottonwoods beyond which was a lane fenced in with barbed wire.
At another time he beat a young man named Russell over the head with a gun for some fancied offense. A brother of young Russell kept the principal hotel in the town, and both had been open in their denunciation of the lynchers.
The electric cars, the crowds, the murders they read of and are told of, the bandits in the picture-shows, the fearful stranglers of Paris, the lynchers, the police, who in the films are always beating the poor, as in real life, the pickpockets, and the hospitals where willy-nilly they render one unconscious and remove one's vermiform appendix all these are nightmares to the aborigines whose relations are departing.
"Oh!" cried the tender Yvonne original rescuer of Marie Madeleine from boy lynchers "you don't have charitie! That way you make yo'seff un'appie." "Me, I cann' think," her sister persevered, "that tha'z juz' for the insuranse. The manuscrip' is receive'? Well! 'ow can you receive something if you don't agcept it? And 'ow can you agcep' that if you don' receive it? Ah-h-h!"
Last week a club of Lynchers, amounting to four or five individuals, as we have been credibly informed, broke into the house of Mr. Scott of Wilkinson co., a respectable member of the bar, forced him out, and hung him dead on the next tree.
"Did the woman he loved die? did his children desert him?" asked the Englishman, eagerly. "His wife died seven year arter he married her; one ov his boys was killed by his horse fallin' on him; the other got into bad company down to Red Bluffs, an', arter leadin' the old man a devil of a life for two year or more, run off, an' got taken by the lynchers so folks said.
Nothing was done to punish the crime, as the lynchers were men of property and influence in the country. No man dared speak above his breath about the affair. Captain Hall, by secret-service men, discovered the perpetrators, and also that they were to be gathered at a wedding on a certain night.
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