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AUGUST · 1908 the mission in effecting some arrangement whereby the territorial status quo of Liberia wouicl be secured. With Kindest regards to you and your circle Yours truly James 3 Dossen ALS Con. 369 BTW Papers DLC. A Statement on Lynching BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Baltimore, August 19, 1908 GIVES FACTS AND CONDEMNS LYNCHINGS IN A STATEMENT TELEGRAPHED TO THE NEW YORK WORLD! Within the past sixty days twenty-five Negroes have been lynched in different parts of the United States. Of this number only four were even charged with criminal assault upon women. Nine were lynched in one day on the charge of being connected with murder. Four were lynched in one day on the charge that they passed resoJutions in a lodge approving the murder of an individual. Three were lynched in one day on the charge that they had taken part in the burning of a gin house. The others were lynched for miscellaneous reasons. One was publicly burned in open daylight in the presence of women and children, after oil had been poured upon his body, at Greenville, Tex., and reports state that a thousand people witnessed the spectacle In the open square of the town. One other victim was eighty years of age. How long can our Christian civilization stand this? I am making no special plea for the Negro, innocent or guilty, but I am calling attention to the danger that threatens our can. CONDEMNS NEGRO LOAFERS For the Negro criminal, and especially for the Negro loafer, gambler and drunkard, I have nothing but the severest condemnation, and no legal punishment is too severe for the brute that assaults a woman. 611