Anonymous, Petition from the citizens of New Jersey praying for Congress to make the act of lynching a crime (1900)
“ We, the undersigned petitioners, citizens of Massachusetts New Jersey, beg most respectfully to represent to your honorable bodies, the Senate and House of Representatives, the alarming state of the country in respect to the appalling prevalence in the Southern States, of that species of lawlessness known as lynching whereby inhabitants of that section are deprived of life without due process of law by gangs of irresponsible and wickedly deposed persons ”
