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When they realize the situation, some of them will feel precious ugly, and you know we can't have any lynching." Sinclair glanced at the rails and gave the word at once to the conductor and brakemen, who began vociferating, "All aboard!" Just then Foster appeared, an expression of intense satisfaction showing clearly on his face, in the firelight.
The miners organized a court, appointed counsel, and gave the miscreant a trial. He confessed his guilt, and the cry arose, "Hang him!" But "Old Man Chaffee" stepped forward, drew a bag of gold-dust from his bosom, and said that he would give his "pile" rather than have a lynching occur in a camp that, spite its name, had never been so disgraced.
Some say that they left the South on account of injustice in the courts, unrest, lack of privileges, denial of the right to vote, bad treatment, oppression, segregation or lynching. Others say that they left to find employment, to secure better wages, better school facilities, and better opportunities to toil upward.
I deemed myself a champion of the negro race. I was almost putting myself alongside of Lincoln and John Brown. Their reason for inviting me was that I had had a scathing poem printed, in the New York Independent, on the lynching of a negro in Lincoln's home State of Illinois.
I won't say," and the man grinned and his eyes twinkled, "I was n't expecting to be appointed Governor myself afterwards. Anyway, I did n't care to be roped into a trial for murder just then. It would have interfered with my plans. And if the Governor had seen us apparently lynching a man right under his eyes, he could cinch us if he wanted to.
There's no question of surrender and standing trial; understand that. He'd be lynched, probably, if they ever got him in Las Uvas. A trial, even, would be just lynching under another name. They don't want to capture him anyway they want a chance to kill him." "I wouldn't want the job," said Pringle. "Hush!" said Stella. "I hear them coming. Talk about something else the war in Europe."
"Mighty few folks hev got a wife ez set store by 'em like that," Luke remarked, impersonally. The ranger's rejoinder seemed irrelevant. "'Genie be a-goin' ter see a powerful differ arter this," he said, and fell to musing. Snow, fatigue, and futility destroyed the ardor of the lynching party after a time, and they dispersed to their homes.
The mob delight in melodramatic and cruel spectacles, thus constantly fed and fostered by the judicial arm in the United States, is also at the bottom of another familiar American phenomenon, to wit, lynching. A good part of the enormous literature of lynching is devoted to a discussion of its causes, but most of that discussion is ignorant and some of it is deliberately mendacious.
Coming down to a later date, perhaps no event of its character has attracted so much comment, and been the subject, of more gross misrepresentation than the "Lookout Lynching." I have, therefore, been asked to give a true account of the deplorable affair, the causes leading up to the same, and the sensational trial of nineteen citizens accused of participating in the act.
The nobility of the Governor in his utterances on the subject of lynching should endear him to every lover of justice and the faithful execution of law. For he so grandly evinced what is so sadly wanting in many humane and law-abiding men the courage of his convictions. "For when a free thought sought expression, He spoke it boldly, spoke it all."
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