Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — GOV. M’LAURIN ON LYNCHING. [ARTICLE]

GOV. M’LAURIN ON LYNCHING.

Rte Message Deals with Necessity of Ftopping Outrages. In his message to the Legislature Gov. McLaurin of South Carolina deals with lynching in a most emphatic maimer. He says: “The remedy suggests itself. See to it that laws are so enacted aud so administered that conviction and punishment shall follow crime. It is necessary ia mere protection of society and vindication of justice that a stop be put to dilatoriness in the administration of justice, which tends not so much to the protection of individual rights as to the subversion of the rights of society. It should become of itself a high crime and misdemeanor for a sheriff or constable to allow a prisoner to be taken by violence from his hands, even though his own blood should have to be shed to protect the criminal. I recommend that any county in which the crime of lynching is committed shall be liable to the heirs of the victim of the lytichers in the sum of $5,000, and that men who shall be convicted of participating in lynchings shall be deprived of the right to vote or to hold oflice in this State.”