But let us look well and see if we, as a people, do not bear some share of the responsibility for the prevalence of this curse.
"Our race has furnished some brutes lower than the beasts of the field, who have stirred the passions of the Anglo-Saxon as nothing in all of human history has before stirred them.

The shibboleth of the Anglo-Saxon race is the courage of man and the virtue of woman: and when, by violence, a member of a despised race assails a defenseless woman; robs her of her virtue, her crown of glory; and sends her back to society broken and crushed in spirit, longing, sighing, praying for the oblivion of the grave, it is not to be wondered at that hell is scoured by the Southern white man in search of plans to vent his rage.
The lesson for him to learn is that passion is ever a blind guide and the more violent the more blind.

Let him not cease to resent with all the intensity of his proud soul the accursed crime; but let this resentment pursue such a channel as will ensure the execution of the guilty and the escape of the innocent.

As for us, let us cease to furnish the inhuman brutes whose deeds suggest inhuman punishments.
"But, I am aware that in a large majority of cases where lynchings occur, outrages upon women are not even mentioned.

This fact but serves as an argument against all lynchings; for when lawlessness breaks forth, no man can set a limit where it will stop.