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Evening Star, Issue 9124, 3 May 1893, Page 3

Our readers may remember a cablegram wo published not so very long ago concerning the torture and burning alive of a’ negro in Texas. A..S,an Francisco paper gives the ' sickening details, which we will. not repeat, ; D is sufficient to say that ft negrp. guilty of a hjdeous crime, yjias vtyign^p- farkefi W ttie* ofHcfehl of the law by a mptf, harried "through’ the tpwn in pcocessiop tfl the pubbe square, , Umnie out to the prairie, whhre a scaffold had been buijt. After giving a graphic account of thp horrible proceedings, the paper in qupstipji Pioralisea thift;—*‘|t |s ey|dept frsn fch}B

that opr, poLaMomplifiKed much.' Wre aaruge isclosd xmder the skin of the civilised tnan. The spirit that! brought the torture, crucifixion,.^and burning of hundreds of thousands of’ men in the' past is barely covered by the veneer of education and training of a few bundred years. The 20,000 people of Texas who cheered and jeered ana shouted for ai\ hour at the screams of the wretch who was seared alive before them are brothers to the crowd who applauded the torture and sacrifice of the victims of the Inquisition, and close kin to the Roman multitude that broke forth in noisy jests when the Christians of Nero’s day were smeared with tar and made into living fire statues to light the-palace grounds. ”