Thus the crime for which the man suffers, is not dwelt upon with that unanimity to make it sufficiently odious, and, as a consequence, lynching increases crime.

And, too, under the operation of the lynch-law the criminal knows that any old tramp is just as liable as himself to be seized and hanged.
"This accursed practice, instead of decreasing, grows in extent year by year.

Since the close of the civil war no less than sixty thousand of our comrades, innocent of all crime, have been hurried to their graves by angry mobs, and to-day their widows and orphans and their own departed spirits cry out to you to avenge their wrongs.
"Woe unto that race, whom the tears of the widows, the cries of starving orphans, the groans of the innocent dying, and the gaping wounds of those unjustly slain, accuse before a righteous God! POLITICS.
"'Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed!' "These words were penned by the man whom the South has taught us to revere as the greatest and noblest American statesman, whether those who are now alive or those who are dead.

We speak of Thomas Jefferson.
They have taught us that he was too wise to err and that his sayings are truth incarnate.

They are ready to anathematize any man in their own ranks who will decry the self-evident truths which he uttered.
"The Bible which the white people gave us, teaches us that we are men.
The Declaration of Independence, which we behold them wearing over their hearts, tells us that all men are created equal.