These are not pleasant facts, but they are illustrative of the vital
phase of the so-called race question, which should properly be
designated an earnest inquiry as to the best methods by which religion,
science, law and political power may be employed to excuse injustice,
barbarity and crime done to a people because of race and color. There
can be no possible belief that these people were inspired by any
consuming zeal to vindicate God's law against miscegenationists of the
most practical sort. The woman was a willing partner in the victim's
guilt, and being of the "superior" race must naturally have been more
guilty.


NOT IDENTIFIED BUT LYNCHED

February 11, 1893, there occurred in Shelby County, Tennessee, the fourth
Negro lynching within fifteen months. The three first were lynched in the
city of Memphis for firing on white men in self-defense. This Negro,
Richard Neal, was lynched a few miles from the city limits, and the
following is taken from the _Memphis (Tenn.) Scimitar_:

As the _Scimitar_ stated on Saturday the Negro, Richard Neal, who raped
Mrs. Jack White near Forest Hill, in this county, was lynched by a mob
of about 200 white citizens of the neighborhood. Sheriff McLendon,
accompanied by Deputies Perkins, App and Harvey and a _Scimitar_
reporter, arrived on the scene of the execution about 3:30 in the
afternoon. The body was suspended from the first limb of a post oak tree
by a new quarter-inch grass rope. A hangman's knot, evidently tied by an
expert, fitted snugly under the left ear of the corpse, and a new hame
string pinioned the victim's arms behind him. His legs were not tied.