The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Lynching is color line murder.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.