Lymphatic Glands
in anatomy, of death inflicted on supposed offenders che absorbent system for the transmis- by a mob of people , without any trial of sion of the lymph, allied to the lacteal the accused being held. The practice of system, and appearing also first in lynching was hardly ever resorted to in the United States until after the Civil ever resorted to in fishes, then reptiles, then mammals. then mammals. the Un United States until after the Civil Their chief use is to effect a change in the materials absorbed, and render them more fitted for introduction into the blood. Lymphatics are found in most parts of the animal tissue, except the brain and spinal cord, the eye, bones, cartilages and tendons, the membranes of the ovum, the umbilical cord, and the placenta. ta. Lymphatic vessels, like arteries and veins, veins, have three coats, an external, middle, and internal; they are also supplied with valves.
War, except in the extreme frontier sec tions. With the emancipation of the negroes and the "Reconstruction" period, the Ku-Klux-Klan began a systematic terrorizing of the negro population. It became a written law in the South that no negro accused of the rape of a white woman should be allowed the privilege of a trial. Soon lynchings spread to the North and West, and were no longer confined to negroes accused of rape. In the thirty years from 1885-1915 over LYNCH LAW 3,500 people, almost all negroes, were thus thus lawlessly put to death. In their acts few members of the mob ever suffer, as the case against them must be tried in the district where the local officers are sympathetic with the lynching.
Many lawyers are advocating making lynching an ofrs and public men fense against Federal law and thus make punishment for participation in it much more certain. yers a