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MRS FELTON’S REPLY
'she Rtads a Lesson to the Eo too
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SHE REVIEWS. HER RECENT SPEECH
Outrages Denounced and Remedies Suggest
ed—The Georgia Woman Finds Fault
With Methods of Politicians.
Mrs. Felton replies to the Boston
Transcript in lengthy articles in the
Atlanta Constitution and Macon Tel
egraph. We print extracts from the
latter.
To the editor of the Telegraph: A
special dispatch to the Telegraph
gives a synopsis of an attack upon
myself and southern society, which
appeared in the editorial columns of
the Boston Transcript, 'because of a
garbleb statement of my address made
before the State Agricultural Society
at Tybee—iu which I declared that
white women must be protected upon
the secluded farms in rural districts,
from rapists, and these outrages must
be stopped by harsh means, when le
gal means had failed. If the Boston
Transcript had waited for a full text
of my address or quoted correctly what
I said upon the subject of lynching,
there would have been no necessity
for its savage declarations in regard
to southern women.
I am sorry that I have not yet been
able to read the editorial in full, because
I am tempted to retort by saying that
we owe much of our race troubles in the
South to the maudlin sympathy for the 1
negro, and the unmitigated hate for
Southern people, indulged in by such '
journals as the Boston Transcript.
It is positively unsafe to allow young
white women tb walk alone on the high
ways, or to be left at hutfig without male !
protectors. The brutal lust of these half- )
civilized gorillas seems to be inflamed to 1
JUadnhto—fdj l five lynchings in Georgia ‘
for the crime of rape ill the week preced- s
mg my address at Tybee—and the audi
ence at Tybee knew exactly our condi- *
*tkm, when I made my address to the
Agricultural society. I
They all understood that I urged at ]
reform in our criminal law, that crime .
should be promptly punished and the (
public patience relieved from its pres- (
ent uncertainty and unhappiness, by .
meting out justice promptly to crimi- (
nals. They all understood that I only
advocated the lyncher’s rope as the
dernier resort.-Hear my words:
“I hear much of the millions sent
abroad to Japan, China, India, Brazil
and Mexico, but I feel that the heathen
at home are so close at hand and need
so much that I must make a strong ef
fort to stop lynching by keeping closer
watch over the poor white girls on the
secluded farms; and if these poor
maidens are destroyed in a land that
their fathers died to save from the in
vader’s foot, I say the shame lies with
the survivors who fail to be protectors
for the children of their dead com
rades.
*******
I expressed my grief that corrupt
politicians had debased the negro vo
ter until familiarity bred contempt,
and also expressed my great regret
that the honest and honorable
colored people should have their hopes
for their race thus darkened by the
bad conduct of men in both races.
Yet the Transcript calls my words,
and the applause they gave me, “fiend
ish sentiment,” and wonders that ne-
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groes adhere to progressive “human
standards. ”in the dealing with our
people, and judging by my words, the
Transcript thinks there are other
‘•wild beasts” in Georgia besides the
black man.
My rebuke was intended for the in
ertness of our pulpits in this crisis; my
indignation was expended on the inca
pacity of our courts, and my contempt
was freely expressed for the deficient
manhood which could not protect the
innocent and helpless, in a land their
fathers died to save.
* * * * * * *
It is a remarkable fact that it is the
women in the rural districts that are
exposed to these fludish assaults on
the highways and in their secluded
homes. Such atrocities are not known
in towns under police regulations. It
comes with poor grace -from such per
sons as the editor of the Boston Tran
script to brand as “fiends” the women
of the South who demand protection
for these country homes that courts and
pulpits have failed to give them. In al]
probability he is never far away from the
protection of a policeman—and I sup
pose he is without a family, for it cannot be
presumed that a father or husband would
enter such a defense for a crime that
merits the most condign and summary
punishment known to civilization and
justice. Where was the word of sym
pathy for the innocent and helpless victim
of such villainy? Responding to his
hatred for the South and Southern wo
men his sympathy lines up with the per
petrator of the crime!
I am aware that there are bad men in
the white race, and they are guilty of
many fearful and astounding crimes, but
the crime ol rape has for its perpetrators
in the South ninety black men in every
hundred of these cases of outrage upon
white women,
Granting that ihete ate bad men
among the criminals In the South, who
might be justly termed “wild beasts,”
how do these compare with the atrocious
conduct of certain inhabitants of Boston,
as reported in their daily papers?
The truth is, the editor of the Bos- ,
ton Transcript does not regard these
assaults upon defenseless women in
the south ao crimes—when committed
by his pet and political favorite, the
negro. With him the crime consists
in lynching the negro criminal that
committed it. The laws of Massa
chusetts would appear to encourage
and promote the mixture of the white
and black races—because these laws
authorize and permit marriage be
tween the two races. It is possible
that he cannot understand why such
miscegenation is forbidden by the
laws of Georgia, for according to Bos- 1
ton culture and civilization, this mix- )
tureofthetwo racesis endorsed by]
the law makers and representatives 1
of Massachusetts, in thus formulating
the privileges of the black race, in
the birthplace of abolitionism.
I have nothing to say in regard to
the taste or policy of Massachusetts on
this line, but let the editor pf the Bos
ton Transcript remember that the ir
revocable edict has gone forth, from
every farm house in ‘ Georgia
and from every true man’s heart, that
the black fiend who lays unholy and
lustful hands on a white woman in
the state of Georgia shall surely die!
The people of Georgia greatly prefer
that such a criminal shall have the
sheriff to tie the rope, under the forms
and when due process of law. They
greatly perfer that he shall have trial
by jury, with every opportunity to
prove his innocence. But if he is
identified by the victim of his lust,
and if the crime is confessed,as it hap
pens in the majority of the lynchings
in this state, let the editor of the Bos
ton Transcript remember that such a
criminal is already condemned by the
civilization ot this country. Boston,
perhaps, excepted.
*****'***
If this fomentation of ignorance
with evil desires is kept up uuwise
counsellors, like the Boston Transcript,
no one can tell how soon the country
will be plunged into anarchy or pro
nounced civil war.
The South has faced a tremendous
problem in dealing with the emanci
pated slaves iu its midst. That there has
been hardship and suffering among ail
classes in the South no one will deny.
However, unless the North can better
manage its strikers and discordant ele
ments in its midst, which already
threaten the peace and prosperity of
the entire country it would appear to i
*be common sense and good policy to let
us protect our Southern households from
violence aud outrage without interfer
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