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WHITE’S GOOD WORK
Walter White, the fearless assis- :
ant secretary of the National Asso- j
ciation for the Advancement of the '
Colored People, has done not only ,
South Carolina but the United States j
a great service in his investigation
of the recent lynching of two men
and a woman at Aiken, South Caro
lina. White, by name, and white in
color, although a Negro, this cultur
ed and brave little chap, has again
and again taken his life in his own
hands, to investigate lynchings. His
skill and resourcefulness have been
placed in evidence many times, as
for example when he was sworn in
as a deputy sheriff in Tulsa, immed
iately after the riot, and gave the
inner story of that outrageous af
fair to the world. He had a narrow
escape there, because it was discov
ered that a “damn white nigger” had
been nosing in as an investigator.
He got away in the nick of time or
his wife might have been a widow
and his little daughter, Jane, fath
erless. But all this aside.
White got facts of the Aiken lyn
ching, including the names of the
lynchers, that of the Sheriff and
other officers of the law being
among them and gave them to the
governor. He gave the facts also to
the New York World which sent one
of its reporters to the scene who
substantiated White’s finding. Pub
lication of these facts in the World
has aroused South Carolina to the
evil of lynching in general and that
of Aiken in particular which un
doubtedly will eventually lead to
the suppression of this crime against
civilization. It will also have a di
rect bearing upon the passage of a
federal anti-lynching bill which will
enable the federal authorities to act
where states decline or show them
selves either unwilling or incompe
tent to proceed against mobs. Again
Walter White and through him the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People has
done America a great service in that
which must ultimately be, the ban
ishment of mob violence from the
United States and the acknowledge
ment of the supremacy and ade
, quacy of law and the courts to deal
with all criminals.
LEST WE FORGET
John Brown of Oaaawatomie
December the second was the an
niversary of the execution of John
Brown, one of the most bitter
enemies of slavery, who laid down
his life in order that this cause be
abolished.
He was born in 1800, of Puritan
stock, with a mingling of Dutch and
English blood in his veins. In his
early boyhood his parents went to
Ohio, then a wilderness, and he grew
up with a love for the woods and
wise in woodcraft. He was not a
brilliant student, in fact, his educa
tion was very meager, but he was a
great Bible student. He grew to
have a great hatred for slavery and
roamed all over the North helping
slaves to escape and preaching
against the institution.
As he went on, he got more des
perate and bold in his fight on slav
ery, and when the state of Kansas
was on the fence and there was a
fight on to make it a slave state and
voters there were being imported
from Missouri to vote for that pur
pose he organized a force of forty
men and met a force of four hun
dred ruffians at Ossamatomie went
of the Missouri line. It is said that
these forty men killed or wounded
about eighty of their enemy before
they were compelled to retreat, with
a loss of five killed and eight pris
oners. John Brown was slightly
wounded in this battle and his son
was killed by the ruffians just be
fore.
His last great effort to crush slav
ery was at Harper’s Ferry, where he
organized a small force and took pos
session of some Government build
ings. These, however, were soon
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"taken from him and he was made a
prisoner by marines under Colonel
Robert E. Lee. He was then tried
for treason and sentenced to be hung.
He refused to save his life by plead
ing insanity, stating he was worth
more to the cause dead han alive. In
the early dawn of December 2, 1859,
John Brown walked to the gallows.
The match was applied and the flame
spread like wildfire all over the
United States, resulting in the Civil
War and the freedom of the slaves.
So “John Brown’s body lie s a mould
ing in the grave, but his soul goes
marching on.”
Those who wish to visit John
Brown’s cabin will find it at Ossa
watomie, just a little south of Kan
sas City, Kan., in Battle Ground
Park where he and his handful of
men drew the first blood for the
freedom of the slaves. G. R.
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