wholly ignored the seven millions of colored people of this country whose
plea was for a word of sympathy and support for the movement in their
behalf. The resolution was not adopted, and the convention adjourned.

In the _Union Signal_ Dec. 6, 1894, among the resolutions is found this
one:

Resolved, That the National W.C.T.U, which has for years counted among
its departments that of peace and arbitration, is utterly opposed to all
lawless acts in any and all parts of our common lands and it urges these
principles upon the public, praying that the time may speedily come
when no human being shall be condemned without due process of law; and
when the unspeakable outrages which have so often provoked such
lawlessness shall be banished from the world, and childhood, maidenhood
and womanhood shall no more be the victims of atrocities worse than
death.

This is not the resolution offered by Mrs. Fessenden. She offered the one
passed last year by the W.C.T.U. which was a strong unequivocal
denunciation of lynching. But she was told by the chairman of the
committee on resolutions, Mrs. Rounds, that there was already a lynching
resolution in the hands of the committee. Mrs. Fessenden yielded the floor
on that assurance, and no resolution of any kind against lynching was
submitted and none was voted upon, not even the one above, taken from the
columns of the _Union Signal_, the organ of the national W.C.T.U!

Even the wording of this resolution which was printed by the W.C.T.U.,
reiterates the false and unjust charge which has been so often made as an
excuse for lynchers. Statistics show that less than one-third of the
lynching victims are hanged, shot and burned alive for "unspeakable