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Disgraceful Outrage article about Allen Jones's beating |
Date |
1842 |
Description |
The article appeared after James spoke out in New York about the school he built being burned (twice or more). This beating caused him to finally move his family north to Ohio. "An occurrence took place in this City, on Friday night last, which has excited a great deal of feeling, and will do much towards destroying the deservedly high reputation, which our City has always enjoyed, until recently, as a law-loving and law-abiding community. A free man of color, named ALLEN JONES, a Blacksmith by trade, who has rendered himself somewhat obnoxious, was forcibly taken from his own house, in the dead of night, by a mob, and so beaten, bruised and mangled, that doubts are entertained of his recovery. Now, with regard to ALLEN JONES, he may be a bad man, and, for argument's sake, we will admit that he is a great rascal, but that fact affords no plea of justification or excuse in the world, for the outrage which has been perpetrated. If a man's house - his castle, as the law defines it - is to be forced open at midnight, the locks broken, and he taken out and butchered, to gratify the vindictive feelings of any set of individuals, it is worse than idle to talk about the security which the law gives - for its boasted supremacy is but a farce, and Courts of Justice, ridiculous mockery. We hope, therefore that the proper authorities will go resolutely to work, to ferret out these persons, who thus set all law and decency at defiance; and that every one, who either regards his own safety, or has any respect for the laws, will aid in the investigation. For, if a high-handed outrage, like this is permitted to pass without a vigorous effort to discover the perpetrators, no man can tell what will be the next step, or who will be the next victim.-The fact that the individual, who has been mal-treated, belongs to a degraded caste, so far from relaxing the efforts of all concerned, should rather stimulate them; for as it is the proudest boast of our Republican country, that no one is so high that the law cannot reach him, so ought it to be, that no one is so humble or low, as to be beneath its protection." |
Object Type |
Newspaper article |
Collection |
Jones |
Original Collection |
Fr. Ron Clark/Helen Cameron Jones |
Search Terms |
Jones Family |
People |
Jones, Allen Jones, Anna H. Jones, Sophia B. |
Object ID |
AHJ 193 |
Creator |
The Standard, Raleigh NC |