the matter, received the following reply:

OFFICE OF
S.S. GLOVER,
SHERIFF AND COLLECTOR,
LONOKE COUNTY.

Lonoke, Ark., 9-12-1892

Geo. Washington, Esq.,
Chicago, Ill.

DEAR SIR:--The parties who killed Hamp Briscoe February the ninth, have
never been arrested. The parties are still in the county. It was done by
some of the citizens, and those who know will not tell.

S.S. GLOVER, Sheriff

Thus acts the mob with the victim of its fury, conscious that it will
never be called to an account. Not only is this true, but the moral
support of those who are chosen by the people to execute the law, is
frequently given to the support of lawlessness and mob violence. The press
and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have
condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.


TORTURED AND BURNED IN TEXAS

Never In the history of civilization has any Christian people stooped to
such shocking brutality and indescribable barbarism as that which