Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Company I--Cadet Captain, W. D. Sohier, Jr.; Cadet 1st Lieut., S. Trowbridge; Cadet 2nd Lieut., P. D. Putnam, Cadet Sergeants, J. T. Addison, E. S. Clark, R. E. Jackson, J. M. Frary, D. G. White, L. Richardson; Cadet Corporals, B. Williams, W. F. Pond, J. R. Coombs, H. C. Lamond, C. J. Mengert, C. M. Hollander, F. Pooler...
...bygone years how well we have loved to bedeck them, the festive sailors, the insolent Panamas, with bright ribbons colored--like the Imperial flag--of red, white and black. They have been the resting place on which we could drape our honors. They have been wound with the ribboned laurels of our fame. They have served as heralds to the whole world of our success...
Yesterday at ten of the morning, near Memphis, Tennessee, a mob of five thousand white men burned with fire a negro to the death. The negro had been accused of the commission of a capital crime. Under the law he deserved death according...
...those five thousand white men did not administer death according to the law. They seized the negro from a willing sheriff's posse, which was sworn by all honor to uphold the law. They hold him awaiting the final torture, while excursion trains ran from the city, while business houses shut down as for a holiday, while pleasure-seekers came by motor from the whole country-side to witness this festival. This festival of debauchery...
...victim was seen to pray as the fires rolled over his flesh. To what God did he pray? The South is reputed religious, far more so than this Unitarian and materialistic North. Did the white man's God hear those agonizing prayers? Or does the negro worship an impotent Diety...