Southern Horrors

The greater part of what is contained in these pages was published in the New York Age June 25, 1892, in explanation of the editorial which the Memphis whites considered sufficiently infamous to justify the destruction of my paper, the Free Speech. Since the appearance of that statement, requests have come from all parts of the country that "Exiled" (the name under which it then appeared) be issued in pamphlet form. Some donations were...
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The greater part of what is contained in these pages
was published in the New York Age June 25, 1892, in
explanation of the editorial which the Memphis whites
considered sufficiently infamous to justify the destruction
of my paper, the Free Speech.
Since the appearance of that statement, requests have
come from all parts of the country that "Exiled" (the name
under which it then appeared) be issued in pamphlet
form. Some donations were made, but not enough for
that purpose. The noble effort of the ladies of New York
and Brooklyn Oct. 5 have enabled me to comply with this
request and give the world a true, unvarnished account of
the causes of lynch law in the South.
This statement is not a shield for the despoiler of
virtue, nor altogether a defense for the poor blind Afro-
American Sampsons who suffer themselves to be betrayed
by white Delilahs. It is a contribution to truth, an array of
facts, the perusal of which it is hoped will stimulate this
great American Republic to demand that justice be done
though the heavens fall.