LETTERS TO THE EJDITOIL
LYNCHING IN AMERICA.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTA.T0112] SIE,—Every one who has taken part in what Mr. McKay, of N.:aeon, Ga., 15.13.A., calls "the Ida Wells Crusade "—Spectator, July 28thwill rejoice in the official contradiction of such horrors as the skinning of a negro, or the rolling of a woman in a barrel stuck full of nails ; but Mr. McKay gives us no evidence of the latter atrocity being an invention. He seems to wish us to doubt the common occurrence of lynching be- cause one statement, made not on Miss Wells' authority, but that of Reuter, is contradicted. We have reason to be thank- ful that, roused by the crusade of which your correspondent speaks so scornfully, some of the right-minded men of New Orleans are petitioning the Legislature of Louisiana to take steps to prevent the continuance of what they feel is a dis- grace to their country. How needful such action is elsewhere than in New Orleans, the enclosed cutting shows, proving that even in the North some citizens resort to lynching in order to avoid the expenditure which their irrational criminal Jurisprudence imposes on the community.—I am, Sir, &c., [The cutting, if enclosed, has unfortunately been lost.—En. Spectator.]
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