Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. Amplification Of Some Previously Dis-Cussed Questions. In one of the foregoing chapters of this book, the matter of lynching--in the case of negroes--for one crime or another, though usually for assaults upon white women, has already been referred to by me. A few paragraphs may, with advantage, be added to what was said there. Whether sincere or otherwise, the legal profession in this country has, as a rule, held but one opinion in the premises with respect to lynching; so, in quoting this stock opinion, I can do no better than to reproduce what Mr. Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, had to say on the point a number of years ago, and which was reported in full at the time in The New York Daily Tribune (August 17, 1903). It is a hum-drum, cut-and-dried legal document, but it gives, nevertheless, an old American lawyer's opinion on this crime; and, as scores of old lawyers entertain precisely the same opinion today, I feel I am not laying myself open to the charge of digging up past history when I reproduce it for the purpose of making it stand for the legal view of the matter. The Tribune published it thus: --"The following article by Justice Brewer on the crime of lynching will appear in the current issue of Leslie's Weekly. In it Justice Brewer sets forth more fully the views he has already made public in regard to lynching as a blot on our civilization and what can be done to stay the epidemic of the crime. The full text of the article is as follows: --"'Our government recently forwarded to Russia a petition in respect to alleged atrocities committed upon the Jews. That government, as might have been expected, unwilling to have its internal affairs a matter of consideration by other governments, declined to...
