A Quote from Rebecca Felton’s Speech (this is what Manly was reacting to)

Rebecca Felton made a speech in Georgia in 1897 in which she chastised white men for allowing blacks to rape their women.  “When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue----if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession form the ravening human beasts----then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.”