After Them

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Title

After Them

Subject

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Description

The editor of the Walla Walla Statesman responds to an editorial in the Umatilla (O) Advertiser which deplored the vigilante execution of the black man Green, whose crime and murder was reported in a previous edition of the Statesman. The Statesman editor does not deny that vigilante justice has its risks, but also makes a comparison between extra-legality of the military tribunals which administered wartime justice in the United States and the extra-legality of the postwar vigilance committee. And he points out that not all men lynched by such committees are black.
This editorial has local application in Washington Territory and Idaho Territory because of the well-publicized activities of the vigilance committees there.

Abstract

The Walla Walla Statesman responds to an editorial in the Umatilla (O) Advertiser, concerning the lynching of the black man Green, previously reported in the Statesman.

Source

Walla Walla Statesman

Publisher

Walla Walla W.T.: R.R. and S.G. Rees

Date Issued

1865-07-28

Contributor

Umatilla Advertiser

Medium

Web

Type

article

Bibliographic Citation

Vol. IV, No. 33, p. 2, col. C

Spatial Coverage

Umatilla, Oregon

Provenance

Washington Secretary of State: Historic Newspapers

URL

http://sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx

Start Page

2

End Page

2