Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HWjii H^HMIials clipped from our eqchanges. ^ w of The Editors Who bondemr The Horrible MurdeF j^^Hbtnbifc Evening Recofd: The dastardly, cowardly outbreak o1 ^Hb violence at Kake City is the ^^Backest crime in tlie artnals of South ^^Earolina. Every resource should be ^Hxbaustcd to bring the members ol ^BMBtejut^yUXKitnitsty mob to jus^H|^^HBHHbor becomes fatigued of the aboriginal savages the woods of South not have been more H~e is absolutely no exGreat God. can it have sunk ^ butchers of the inno^^^BnceMss. assassins and The Broxton Bridge I^^Brful enough, but is it as H^Bpared to the crime at IVA halt must be called. ^Bs as staunch an advocate ^^B)reuiacy as there is in ^^Bna, but white supremacy ^^Hmgered bv the appoint^^Hgru postmaster at Lake Bute supremacy can only ^Bned by arson and assassa^B boasted mental superiori^ nglo-Saxon race is with out i. Every participant in City outrage should be seBinished. Every ringleader be hung and the others sent nitentiary. Governor EllerHi exert the whole power of B to have the laws of the forced. The lives and propBolored citizens are as dear to as those of white citizens are I, and they should be protected r enjoyment. The blood of (and his baby calls aloud for to bs meted out to their murThe wounds of the surviving rs of his familv and the ashes home demand that justice be The friends of law and order ? that incf iee he ^1 A Hideout Crime. Iville Daily News. I party of men who visited Baker nesday morning at ooe o'clock ted or from three to seven hunI They committed the crime of fer?a crime, mark, and some* [ more than merely a serious and Lnt fault. Murder is one of the gest words in the language we U Imagine a party of three red murderers at work together ^^Hthe nighttime. Three hundroA ^ handed murderers! How would H; reader, like to come in contact ^^Bth three l^Sdred men, each and all Whom you itiitw to. be murderers? mere thougnWof three hundred ^^Bnrderers, together, assembled in the ^ Uence of the night, instigated by the ^ evil and their hearts tilled with malJHee is one of the m< at horrible that ^Kan enter the human mind. But there is a thought more horrible. It ^ ks assassination. When a man secretly and without warning kills another [giving blm no chance, creeping upon )him like a snake to strike in the nighttime, he is worse than a mere murderer who s^yx in the open. The con :epJon of three hundred assasssns together, feeling a mutual elbow touch aud harmousiy piying iueir. ?-? members of the same firm, dealing in human blood, is enough to affright the miud in which it is formed. Such a conception has beeome a picture before the people of South Carolina. As a background for this picture, to make it more hideous, the more gruesome, the more repulsive, what could bp more effective than arson? -Vssassins coupling their work of shedding " blood with arson?Three hundred assassins, in an organized capacity, and each red-handed assassitL an incendiary as well? flow is that for a picture? Could any picture be any stronger? Let us imagine that the assassins did not, like the murderer, Cain, upon whose brow Almighty God set a mark for life, confine themselves to the slaying of a man, but shot and mained a woman and her twelve-year old son. And ber two young daughters. Shot them as they (led from the sqioke and fire of their burning house, by incendiaries. Shot them as Bey ran! Shot the babe from the of its mother, shot it dead to die ^^Hfore her terrified eyes, to roast with father in the flames of his home: urder, we repeat, is a strong word, j^^lssassination is a strong word. In^^Kndiary is a strong word. But when ^^ hMa--tiundred meu unite to commit ^^Hwaer, assassination and arson and butcher women, to slaughter chi 1^ iren, little g.rls and boys? when ^Hkwth Carolinians unite to do this in ^ the nighttime, it must test the faitb I^Vof the devouiest Christian to believe that there is a just God in heaven tc ^Vshow them mercy. I Sickening Barbarity. Charleston Evening Post. H| A most astrocious murder was comM^ mitted at Lake City eariv yesterday H. morning, the direct result of a wilful H and fierce outrage upon a community, \The postmaster at Lake City, an ig nbrant and irresponsible negro, ap pointed by President McKinley to ad minister the affairs of white men, was shot to death by a mob, his wife anc I children were wounded, his baby wai I killed, and his home and office wer< [ burned to the ground. It is a tale ol ' barbarity, sickening and disgusting in this age of nominal civilization There can be no excuse or just itica ! tion for any feature of this terribh i anair, nor painaiion w in? uucnce u I any party to it, from the President o: I the United States to the most drpfav I ed member of the bloodthirsty mob m All are to blame and the condemna tion of enlightened men must resi B upon them heavily. "McKinley Most to Blame." Spartanburg Daily Herald. Of course all patriotic and peace loving citizens aeplore the bk?odi work at Lake City, which resulted ii the death of the colored postmaste and his child and the wounding of hi wife and two other children. It i lawlessness and without excuse. Bu President McKinley is most to b blamed. Not only his color made tbi negro oifensive^Br tbe people, bu various and vepT/ us charges v.tr , tiled against Up by the citizens These chargaOTent in the r.gula .'channels to Rde proper authorities j Senators and representatives a pin arc* ; to substantiate them and yet the de : iKirtment refused to act. They pre , ferred to believe that they were in j spired by race prejudices or uialac j and refused to heed the charges. Sue] a travesty upon Justice exasperate* the people beyoud the point of en f durance. i Let it be understood that there i i no sympathy here with those whi > took such brutal, barbarous measure ' to rid a community of an offensive . postmaster as was done in Lake City I We do not seek to extenuate or pal ' liate the olleuse. It was as terrible a nun tnnll Vui ilnQiTinori hl?t tfl this rP? \ I VC1IX VVV11 K*S. ium^i?*\v*? vM? ... ra?ct South Carolina is not worse thai i Pennsylvania; Two years ago Jaine Ray, a respectable negro of this cit; , went to Pennsylvania under contrac j to work in a rock quarry. lie ha< j scaroelv landed when a committee o i the citizens waited upon him and in formed him that he would not heal lowed to work for wages In that com munity. He was given three days l< get out. and when he failed to go, h was told in a more, emphatic manne and requested to leave irf three hours These people who objected to a negr working for an honest living in Penn sylvania quarries, will most likely b loudest in their proclamations of j "Southern outrage." oner the Laki City affair. Every Lynch-Law Advocate Responsibl j Sumter Evening Item. f ue Lake City horror is the culmina tionofthe spirit of lawlessness tha has been fostered and encouraged h the advocates of lynch law. Ever man who has raised his voice or pen ned a line in defense of llynchers, 01 in advocacy of lynch law in anj circumstances, is in part responsibli for the unexampled deed ofdiabolii ferocity committed under cover t darkness at Lake City on Mondaj night. Apologists for lynch law, be hold the result of your teaching! Se< i how the seeds of lawiessues hav< j brought forth murder, arson aud desI If nu^ a hnranurt trillv U UtllUU. il woo ? U4i??v . .v for white men to eugage in, the shoot ing of an unarmed man, his wife anc children as they sought to escape froir bineath the huruing root of theij house which bad been fired over tlieu heads while they slept. The pagan and savage Indians who roamed the forests of South Carolina 200 years agt were never guilty of a more tieudist and brutal crime, although they were destitute of the knowledge of law, ol God, of the teachings of Christianity There are no words strong enough tc fully; express our detestation of the brutes who shot that negro woman -and the babe at her breast. No pun ""Khraent that the law permits is tcc severe to fit their crime. It was mur der most foul and damnable and w< are Ashamed and humiliated that s< vile a crime must go ou record againsi the white people of South Carolina There are no extgpaatiag circuiustan cesand the bloooof these slaughterec negroes cries aloud from the grcunc for justice. "A Damnable Record." Florence Daily Times, i It is true that Baker, the pcstmas ter at Lake City, was black. It ii I likewise true that the people of tb< i t,\ hid >>iruiini in >nf, anii IIA/ W 14 WJl/V 1\A4 WW U lo U|/|/v *>?* ? ? ? ? .. - _ and that the departraeut at Washing ! ton appointed him over the strongest | kind of protects. Yet all or this n ! not even the faintest shadow of an ex cuse for the dastardly crime commit ted. The details are sickening. Ba ker's lH)dy a charred mass, the IkkI: of the heipless infant stiil somewhen in the*ashes, the other members of tht family painfully, and some of them, i is feared, fatally wounded. What s dismally drear and damnably dark re cord is this to he sent throughout tin length and breadth of this fair lam where culture sits enthroned and civi lizat ion has reached its highest stag of development, and what a blastinj i and eternal shame it is that men c South Carolina, the proud, sbouh bring this reproach upon their nativ i State! i Courage?is there nothing in th name? J-'orbearanee?has it ceased t be a virture? Law?has a'l res pec i for it been wiped out? Humanityhas the devilish blood-thirstiness o i the barbarian and the savage com :!bo take its place right in our midst | It the name of high heaven, whitlic are we drifting, whither arewedrfi ing? The Crime of Savages. Winnsboro News and Herald. The men who did this are guilty c . murder. It was cowardly assassina , tion. The usual crime generally inter | posed as a justification for lynch lai | j cannot be invoked in this case. Th , only possible ground upon which thes '! niiirrh>r?>rs ran rest their case is b cause they were indignant at the at poiutraent of a colored man post ma.ter. This is lame and weak, lie ha< a right toaoeept it, and President Mc Kinlev is the man responsible for ii ". The innoceut babe had nothing to d< 'I with it, and the wife and chiidre I were not responsible. It is hard to er ; dure a colored postmaster, but It i still harder for the State to endur ' such crimes as this oue. Governor E ' lerbeshould do everything possible t ?ihave the murderers caught an '; brought to justice. If only the post master had been assassinated, i 5 i would have been bad enough, but th f! assassination of a little baby an JI maiming children for life is a trim ; that would fit savage rather lha ! white men in a civilized State. Wher \1 is the white man's boasted superiorit f that such things are doue by him? a, In the Mould of Satan. * I Greenwood Index. t j It seems that in the matter < (crimes our unfortunate State isde ' tined to go from bad to worse. W i think every now and then the lim {Of atrocity has been reached, hi . about that time some eommunit i-1 comes to the front in a manner ca j culated toeclipse the last crime. w r thought South Carolinians could m s be guilty of a fouler deed than tt 9 , whipping to death of the poor old n l gro woman at Broxton Bridge, i e Colleton county, but Williamsburg h< g j now surpassed Colleton in the iohi / ' < . \ \ ' / * After.... e ? Taking h i a conrse of Ayer's Pills th? * system is set in good working J I order and a man begins to feel f that life is worth living. He I. who has become the gradual ^ prey of constipation, does not e realize the friction under which he labors, until the burden il J lifted from him. Then his ! e mountains sink into mole* % e hills, his moroseness gives place to jollity, he is a happy e man again. If life does not seem worth living to you, yon t may take a very different view \ of it after taking [ Aver's Cathartic Pills. r ? f mau murde r (>f tlie negro postroaste - ** T ?l?/v ??? !* bnKt* on/1 tK at liaac V/lt.) n 11,11 ma uavy ouu tu i cremation of their bodies in their las i home. How men made in the imag of their Maker can assemble and com . mit such a crime is past our com pre * hension. Somehow the moulds mus I have gotten mixed with this specia i cast of the devil when these mei r were made. i Shaming the State. k \ Laurensville Herald. , Such a murderous deed is enough t< , bring the bla; h of sha ne to the cl:e 1 \ of every Souiu Carolinian, and de servesx the strongest condemnatioi \ and severest punishment. "While i , was an outrage on the part of tb [ Washington aurhorities to appofn . this negro to the postmastership, th , brutal crime of the mob is none th . less. k ) Heartless and Bloodthirsty. While It wan very annoying an | aggravating In the extreme to have ai j incompetent negro jK>*tm:i8ter forced ujj I on them, ami their inn it facilities slmo destroyed rhreby, the people shoti! not have resorted to vol-enee, endanger ing the lives ? f u helpless and chlldrei to remedy the evil. We are sorry die deed has been done. We know per . sunnily many of the goo<1 people of l.ak 3 (Ity, and miinv of tli ?ui we know ar i incapable of doing such a heartless an | bloodthirsty deed ?Denmark Times. Disgraceful and Inhuman. 51 The heiuons crime committer! at T.ak * Ci.y on last Monday night is one of tii * most disgraceful and ir,tinman acts thr * any set of men eould have perpetrat e '' * * Kvery nrca s possible should I ~ use<l to apprehend those who took pat i in tills crime, and they should Is' suir marily dealt with. If these outrageni 4 deeds are not stop|>ed, there is no tellin where they will end. - Berkeley Echo. e 1 , Withont Justification e The murder of Baker is the sixt I lynching that lias occurred in Bout | Carolina since the beginning of th g new year. The State and local at thorities appear to be absoiitel e powerless to punish crimes of thi o sort. They made practically no el t forts whatever to stay the hand c - violence. We a re .steadily drift in: f from bad to worse. The law is no e enforced, and the law is const ' queutly not respected. The pulp! r and some of the newspapers hav r preached against the crime < bloodshed, hut the mob moves o in its appointed way, riding clow its victims in the dead of the nigh and killing whom it please^ Bu if the mob has over-reached itself i - the present case, let us hope an - pray. Tha State authorities hav r demonstrated their id Ability .to del e with such crimes against the lav e and the opportunity is now preset ** ted for the United States Goven h ment to iuterpose. we have n 7 doubt that it will do so. The murdered inau at Lake Cit ? was a United States officer. It wa o an outrage to appoint him post n | master, lie was not acceptable t i- t lie community, and he was n? is i competent for the divcarge of hi e ' duties. lie was a colored man. II I- -i'l L L<viMI AlktvAlnio r j OUiU litII; llciYC uccii nj/yuiiiir o.posfmaster for any town Nort d East or west. He pave great offem j" j to the patrons of his office, and h g! should not have been contniued t j j the position. But whatever th e i brutal indifference of the author n ties at Washington to the reasonabl e protests of the people of Lake t'it y and whatever the incompetence r ! Baker, his assassination was with | out justification and his murderer i should receive the severest pun is! tnent that the law provides. f' "TVhile the mob at Lake City is d rectly responsible for the murder ( e the postmaster, the Stale authorith it, are indirectly responsible for th jt horrible manifestation of popuh ,y fury. The murderers had good cam I- to say we w ill never be found oti e and we can do this crime withoi >t personal peril or Inconvenient ie Other mobs in other parts of tl e* State have committed murder wit " imounity, and we need not fear th; a.; j (Continued o# page 8.] ? A Plea for Justice. Lake Cltv. ?> * Kcb. 21-32,1K98. | Where sleep- the sword ? Is righteous justice ?le?id That Jnurder foul should raise i s brazen head. And u revenged stalk boldly through the laud. And proudly raise on high Its blood dyed hand. While we, with honor gone, and draggled inline, Sit like u wanton In our naked shame > Ah God! that we .should live to 6eo this day When truth and right and lova are filched away; ? While where our fathers ruled with gentle grace " Thugs and a.-saiwins now must take their place; And devils darker than the damned of hell Do their accursed deeds and murders fell. The sucking child killed on its mother's brea>t. While losing arm* in vain are round it pre:?rd. Falls fion. the shattered hands which could not save. . And mocking Heads provide a flery grave. The f thcr dumb in death besides it lies. While crackling flames to pitying heaven rise. And timid gtrls, who but an hour before Were sleeping sale behind the bolted ( door, Half crazed with fright, and blind with smarting pain. Fly in the darki.ess from the leaden rain: And brush and thicket in the grey morn tell How all along their path the red drops fell. No Turkish blade that stabs the unborn child, - yor Spanish bloodhon-.d baying fierce r and wild e More cruel is thau those who wrought t thi? crime Beneath the shadows of the Southern ' pine? ? To brand our State to :ige; yet unborn I The object of a just mail's ilghleous ] scorn. n And what their crime for which such judgment came? Ah I tell it uot, to blazon forth our ( shame; But with their rourd'rers' mem'ry let r> it rot, " ? It A cm sed tale, a thing to be forgot ? A du?ky color wa* their only sfn, n And all their guilt tiie blackness of their t skin, e r, Men of our State, how long shall deeds e like this e Give us a name at which the nations hUs? I plead the cause of that long faithful rac?. Whose loyal service time can ne'er efd face, * ti Who. while their masters buttled at the h fore, <t Kept want and famine from each South- I rl ern door. , u Near where tho Saltkehnthic winds its t way 1 . Through tangled glades of cypress and L. of bay, ? L, Then; is a lonely mound, half hid fiom d fijfht. When* tall reeds rustle through each sun mer t ight. And resiimr there, within that humble grave," 1 Sleeps on * most dear to me, though but e a slave? it I. My mnuma: she who nursed ine wl en a e boy, . ' t And counted nothing hard which gave ; me joy. i lit My foster-mother. Ah! her love was g / strong? , Nor can 1 silent be while hellish wrong Smiths down her race with shot and torch and nick. And mocks their crips because their It skins are black. , ? I plead for justice! If our State should ,! fa". ., And ail her righteous power cannot ; avail ; To sink this shame, then far acres our " land, *f To where our nation's council-chambers If stand, I cry, "How loDg In this great land so " free it Will ye permit such wrongs as this to e be ?" *1 Enthroned on high, Thou God of truth n and lighr , Must sin like this pollute Thy holy ' sight ? c To Th e I cry, "How long, oh I^trd. J how long " Wilt Thou permit to pa?s such fearful P wrong?" tl Fair justice i!ics, cut down by sinful vr might. I- Arise, oh God! and in Thine anger j- smite. O ?E. A. WlNGAHD. ,3 Rev. E. Edwards, pastor of the t_ English Baptist Church at Einersvil e, Pa,when suffering with rhu 7 matism. was advised to try I'harais berlain's Pain Bulra. He says: MA P few applications of this liniment d proved of graet service to me. It h subdued the inflamation and re,e lieved the pain. SoouJd any sufferer e profit by giving Pain Balm a trial ;o it \vi!l please me." For sale by e Wallace & Johnson. ^ Lake City, 8. CM is one of the if towns that always responds prorapily when there is an appeal i- for funds for the missionary cause in China.?Washington Fosl. ;s I have been afflicted with rhumajs tism for fourteen years and nothing ir seemed to give any relief. I was a,e ble to be around all the time, but |t constantly suffering. I had tried j.' every thing I couffl hear of and at g4' last was told to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which I did. and was ^ immediately relieved and in a short at time cured. I am happy to say that _ it has not since returned.-Josh Edgar, Germantown, Cat. For sale by Wallace & Johnson. \ IF PEA h.c-srer o'pri REDD SIR iS *^7"e are 3a.< ters for G\ Z^strzrr I nvn on +<=5 i s XDKT-G Harness, Saddle \ AT LOW DIXIE PLC H.D.REDDICK STSfl ninffiinir UlUlUlilg $ Our FhII Stock h now ready and aw buy a suit every day for various reasor you come to us. We can prove it by y k! with us. Give us an eye-sight test Msi's, Ms* d Ira No one in the Carolinas can under That's an impossibility. We bought o law went into effect, and our customer and price we meet your wish at every Men's good, serviceable suits at Men's extra good, all-wool suit*, in sel Men's fine black diagonal suits at Meu's suits in Imported and selected f Children's stylish, serviceable school si Hats and Caps. Howard hat, which is equal to nnythii thing worth having in the Head-gear li FURNISHING G ?from a pair of suspenders to a collai underwear to a pair of kid gloves, you at prices to meet your approval. Boots and Shoes. celebrated Hess & Bro.'s fine shoes. Y where. They're all right in material, want a pair of shoes, remember its. FINE CLDTHIft Extra room and extra hands have It's wonderful growth demanded this, rienced tailors are now prepared to n Trade. And when you'll now our spit surely be satisfied that this is the plae suit of cloths. Tiie satisfaction we gi\ banov ' Cor. King and Calhoun 3 Points to Remember.*IN QUALITIES ! win it. No room for the unsatisfactoi CJTVT XT' Fashion's latest fai OX X lugs. When a thir PDirVC ^ou can alwa>'8 I lilvrju* further here thai dersold?not if we know it, and that's MAIL IRDEBS PR0HP1 We have in our employ MR. W. B. some of the largest Nort hern houses, i posted, and keeps in touch with the d< intrusted to him win receive prompt t v ' .frf,-. < - : / 1/ - , CE 7-1 ?a.e T nrid I \J IS. ^ 1 Pillar. ' ". - JjW 3Std-<gvLScr^' I aooeaAoaL., ylj IzM.plp- ?S|j Clotlx- 'I 3.n.d. .. .JJ | -OO IDS. | s, Bridles, 4c. | PRICES. | :'S RACKET | IM ICS J alts your inspection. Tmi don't . vfjw is, not easy or economical (Hildas - iet our neighbor if be haa never tradsometime. _. jjS i i Eaiy-M Mai sell us on Ready-Made Clothing, ur entire sb>ck before the tariff s reap the benefit; in quality,style point ^ | 2.4^ Ji ee ted patterns, at |5 and 6.00 abries from $7.50 to - | 15.00 uits from 75c up. ibtless yon know we are the sole _ j irleston agents for the celebrated' ~ ng on the market. We have every- ^ ine at prices most reasonable. AA From a natty neck UU LJ iO tie to a dress shirt r-button?from a ?uit of woolen will find our line complete, at /.p is department is flourishing. We ? sole Charleston agents fcir the " ../2 rou can't find better shoes anystyle, shape and price. Whea yoo IB TO ORDER j been secured by this department. An extra cutter and extra expe* ?- a ti It VlW iioet increasea neinanos w?r ran ^ indid assortment of fabrics yo?*M i'[i e to leave your measure for a fin* 'e is in far advance of our prices. ^ t/OLASKI. | Sts., Charleston, 8- C. ~ '.-Jm ?^? ,-im We aim to keep only the'best?the kind that retain trade, as well as 2 y in our stock. ? \ ^ ncles find full swing in our show* ig is new and good, we have it. * ^ ' / \ count on your dollars traveling J i anywhere else; we are never on- * one of the secrets of our success. . ii nma it LOG AN, who, having represented - J n this section, for years, is well >mands of this section, Anything ? attention. * t ' -v') . ' :m