21 Mai 1892 Jahr - Letter to the Virginia State Baptist Convention condemns lynchings in the Southern States. "Lynchings are a reproach to any community; they impeach the adequacy of our institutions for the punishment of crime; they brutalize the participants and shame our Christian civilization." But, he adds, under the laws and the Constitution “I am, in a large measure, without the power to interfere . . . "

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