Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1899 — CRUSADE AGAINST LYNCHINGS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CRUSADE AGAINST LYNCHINGS.

Mia* Lillian Jewett, of Boston, a New Harriet Beecher Stowe. Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett of Boston, who has taken up the crusade against the lynching of Southern negroes and has won the love of the colored race for her service, is a very good looking woman. She promises to be a very effective one as well. She Is 24 years old, a little taller than the average, and a great deal more pleasing and impressive as a public speaked. In her home city she is referred to as a new Harriet Beecher Stowe. When she stood up in the mass meeting of colored people at St. Paul’s

Baptist Church and offered to bring from Charleston, S. C., the family of murdered Postmaster Baker she created a sentiment which’ will not soon subside. Sbe believed that the bringing of Mra. Baker and her orphaned children wonld arouse the North to take such action as will compel a cessation of lynchings In the South. It Is a part of Miss Jewett’s plan to take the widow and orphans with her, to have them In lecture rooms where addresses are made In the crusade against Judge Lynch. “When God has some great work to perform,” said Rev. Mr. Ferris in introducing her, "He has always touched the heart of a woman and the work has been done.” And Miss Jewett herself, in her address, declared: “The black man in this country is free, but he Is more destitute than he was thirty years ago. The country freed him, but did nothing else for him.”

MISS JEWETT.