When the preliminaries of the lynching had been arranged, and a committee appointed to manage the affair, the crowd dispersed, some to go to their dinners, and some to secure recruits for the lynching party.
Yes, there's excuses for Jacob, andlynching ain't yet invented.
I delayed a lynching once to do just that, and relieve the patient's mind.
A few days after this, an American paper containing an account of a lynching in the South, with the most terrible details graphically described, reached Copenhagen.
It had helped, too, to do away with the impression that lynching is to the Americans of North America what bull fights are to those of South America.
And every now and then an extract from an American paper, containing the account of a lynching with all the gruesome details described, would be translated into Danish.
The story was not believed by the men, and the cold-blooded murderer escaped lynching by his companions only by the better judgment of the cooler heads of some, who insisted that possibly the tale might be true.
Comparatively few negroes have left Dougherty county, which is considered significant in view of the fact that this is one of the counties in southwest Georgia in which a lynching has never occurred.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People calls upon this country to 'clear her conscience before she can fight for the world's good,' by abolishing lynching and ceasing all oppression of negroes.
The principal occasion here was the unfortunate lynching of Anthony Crawford.
A negro newspaper with a correspondent in Abbeville said: The lynching of Anthony Crawford has caused men and women of this State to get up and bodily leave it.
Both whites and negroes in mentioning the reasons for the movement generally give lynching as one of the most important causes and state that the fear of the mob has greatly accelerated the exodus.
The lynching of Mr. Crawford was unwarranted and uncalled for and his treatment was such a disgrace that respectable people are leaving daily.
The tendency to maltreat the negroes without cause, the custom of arresting them for petty offenses and the institution of lynching have all been somewhat checked by this change in the attitude of the southern white man towards the negro.
Lynching was one of the reasons most often given as a cause of the migration.
The business of lynching negroes is bad, and we believe it is declining, but the worst thing is that the wrong negro is often lynched.
More careful investigation into hidden causes for lynching would doubtless disclose more cases when educated men have been threatened or actually murdered.
Miss Grimké, inferentially, dates her lynching somewhere in the decade of the nineties.
It is harder to know exactly what is the personnel of southern lynching parties.
From the quick lynching of the rapist and murderer--to be sure that the lawyers and courts did not acquit them--was one step.
Thirteen dead men lay, and the back-bone of lynching had been broken forever in Alabama.
These lynching proceedings, the loyalists said, increased the loyalist party very fast and made them sure of a majority.
Your ancestor belonged to the party who did all this lynching and inaugurated the reign of terror and he has himself told us how it staggered him.
An Arizona lynching can only follow an upheaval of public sentiment, when honest men are angered at having their fair fame sullied by the acts of blackguards.
From the first, after having incurred the anger of a certain lawless element in Paloma, the young engineers had understood fully that threats of lynching them had not been idly made.
It might bring about thelynching of other parties besides Black Harry.
It was plain that his words impressed them, but they were reluctant to give over the hope of lynching the boy prisoner.
The lynching at New Orleans in March last of eleven men of Italian nativity by a mob of citizens was a most deplorable and discreditable incident.
If you permit this lynching to take place in your presence, you'll be guilty of the crime of murder, and I warn you that you'll be prosecuted.
You don't catch no western sheriff lynching his own prisoners.
We didn't get the robbers," the man who seemed to be leader of the party said, "but we can amuse ourselves lynchingthese spies!
The allusion in the last resolution is to a then recent lynching of negroes in Mississippi charged with insurrection.
Mebby, when the crazy fit has passed, some white woman is worse off than if she was dead, or mebby she IS dead, or mebby a loonatic fur life, and that nigger is a candidate fur a lynching bee and ginerally elected by an anonymous majority.
Hank Egge tries by every possible subterfuge to defeat the plans of a lynching party, and finally dies riddled with bullets as he is defending his prisoner.
That was no ordinary lynching party such as some communities see in these days.
And now thelynching party, who had made a short cut, appeared between the rolling hills not more than two hundred yards behind.
The man was William Byrnes who had known Joaquin Murieta well in the days before that lynching at Murphy's Diggings.
And now fear began to seize the survivors of that lynching party.
The constable pulled off the road as the lynching party came thundering by with a whoop and halloo.
I've got to do my talking before the lynching crowd.
If the law wouldn't hang you a lynching party would.
People don't want to seelynching introduced, and a weak-kneed governor is Judge Lynch's friend.
The people seem all with you now, more shame to them, but the next murder that is committed will be followed by a lynching just because you are successful to-day.
You talk of lynching; it is such work as you are doing that makes lynching possible.
The sheriff turned to his companion, his hazel eyes aflame with anger at this threat of lynching when he had given plain warning that such lawlessness would not for one minute be tolerated by him.
Why could he not have overlooked one lynching party when property was being destroyed and lives in danger?
As long as I'm sheriff of this county I'll take care of my job without any lynching parties.
Their expertness with a running iron would have caused questions to be asked, and probably a lynching bee, in other parts of the country, but down there they were purty well alone.
Lynching was one of the mildest things they were going to do to him in Texas.
Next, the white politicians of Chinatown tried their hand and organized a lynching bee, but the intrepid doctor fortified his quarters, armed his men, and was so obviously prepared for trouble that the mob did nothing more than gather.
The worst lynching I ever see, that's what I call it!
He had no wish to be actively mixed up with a lynching party.
The lawyer thought that the sentence was harsh—but as long as lynching was so prevalent, legal punishment had to be severe.
At once the usual lynching committee was formed, and for a whole week they hunted for Johnson, who had gone into hiding.
It is not the lynching crowd on whom vengeance will ultimately be taken.
There are those who will say that if ever the lynching mob become the victims of the enraged Negroes no one will shed tears but the lynchers themselves.
They were proud of their “quick way with niggers,” they justified it, they felt the wisdom of lynching could never be disproved.
I am enclosing the lynching record for the past six months and an editorial from the Atlanta Constitution, which strongly denounces mob violence.
Has there ever been a man punished in this State for lynching a Negro?
Furthermore, every lynching drives hundreds of Negroes out of the farming districts of the South, where they make the best living and where their services are of greatest value to the country, into the already over-crowded cities.
If lynching was a cure for crime, surely the lynching of those five would have prevented another Negro from committing a most heinous crime a few weeks later.
If we would realise still more fully how far this unfortunate evil is leading us on, note the classes of crime during a few months for which the local papers and the Associated Press say that lynching has been inflicted.
I know that some argue that the crime of lynching Negroes is not confined to the South.
Lynching injures, hardens, and blunts the moral sensibilities of the young and tender manhood of the South.
Lynching was instituted some years ago with the idea of punishing and checking criminal assaults upon women.
Many good people in the South, and also out of the South, have gotten the idea that lynching is resorted to for one crime only.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lynching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
