The trial of the brute comes off next
week, and in view of the forbearance
of the whites and the usual good feeling
between the races here, your corres
pondent has interviewed a number of
the leading colored men of the county
on the subject, and takes pleasure iu
presenting them to the public:
Thoma.s S. Eaton, who is really the
leader among the R.-nu b:iean of the
county, and has held the office of regis
ter of deeds for several years, says:
That he is unalterably opposed to the
crime of rape; that it should be stopped;
that he is opposed to lynching, and
thinks that all should be accorded a fair
trial and if convicted then hung, and not
sent to the penitentiary with the chances
of being pardoned out. That while he is
opposed to lynching, yet he does not
hesitate to say that he would kill any
one who committed the crime against
finy of his own folks; that he believes
the colored people, especially the leaders,
should do all in their power to frown
down and stamp out this crime; that its
continuance must always be a cause of
friction between the two races to the
greater hurt of the colored.
