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Rh by George White, and the subsequent lynching of White by a mob, Justice Lore said : '^ The crime of George White and his punishment are not before us. Upon his body human vengeance has done its work. If the matter concerned George White alone, there would be nothing left for our con- sideration. But for the first time, the lawless and re- volting crime of lynching has invaded this State. '' In obedience to the oath you have taken and to your duty to your State, we ask you to so act that the crime of lynching may be suppressed in this State, so far as by your action that end may be attained, and that the perpetrators of this crime and the authors of the disgrace that has come upon us through their crime, shall be dealt with according to their just merits." For my part, I do not think the State of Delaware has anything to boast of in the matter of the punish- ment of her criminals. Being burnt alive is one thing, to be sure, but there are other tortures equally dam- nable, as the following Delaware record will attest. I clip it from the Nezv York American and Journal (Sun- day, September 27, 1903), and it appeared as fol- lows : — WHIPPING POST HAS 14 TORN VICTIMS TO EM- BRACE IT Punishment Which Spectators Turned from as Too Horrible to Witness Meted Out to Screaming Men in Delaware. Wilmington, Del., Sept. 26. — Punishment almost mediaeval in its severity was meted out to fourteen offenders in the City Prison here today, in the pres- ence of hundreds of the citizens of the city. Fourteen criminals w^ere bound to the whipping post, and for more than an hour the stout-armed jailers sent the " cat " with its many thongs singing about the stripped bodies of the men. Many of those who

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