[Rarebooks] FS: 1867 Legal Action for the Murder of an African-American Man

[Charles Agvent]

[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] HAYWOOD, Ed. Graham. MILITARY COMMISSION. 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST DUNCAN G. McRAE, 
WILLIAM J. TOLAR, DAVID WATKINS, SAMUEL PHILLIPS AND THOMAS POWERS, FOR 
THE MURDER OF ARCHIBALD BEEBEE AT FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, ON THE 
11th DAY OF FEBRUARY , 1867, TOGETHER WITH THE ARGUMENT OF ED. GRAHAM 
HAYWOOD, SPECIAL JUDGE ADVOCATE, IN REPLY TO THE SEVERAL ARGUMENTS OF 
THE COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE. Raleigh, NC: Robert Avery, 1867. First 
Edition. Octavo, publisher's black cloth; [iv], 398 pages. "It appears, 
from Mr Haywood's argument, that one Archibald Beebee, a colored man, 
accused of having attempted to commit the crime of rape upon one Elvira 
Massey, was arrested, and carried to the town hall in Fayetteville, 
N.C., to undergo a preliminary examination before the magistrates. He 
was leaving the town hall in charge of the sheriff and his assistants, 
when he was assaulted by a mob, and, notwithstanding a stout resistance 
on the part of the of the officers of the law, was brutally murdered. 
With regard to that part of Mr. Haywood's argument which treats of the 
evidence against the prisoners, who were a part of the crowd, we need 
not speak at length here. But the rest of his address, though open to 
some criticism, on the grounds of diffuseness and unnecessary display of 
rhetoric, is to be warmly commended, in so far as it is a stand against 
that lawless spirit of violence which undertakes to punish accused 
persons on mere suspicion of their guilt, and even when they are in the 
hands of the officers of the law. Whether the persons tried for this 
murder of Beebee were innocent or guilty, we, of course, do not know; 
but we are glad that the trial afforded scope for such a manly advocacy 
of the supremacy of law over the violence of a mob" (THE AMERICAN LAW 
REVIEW 1867-1868. Volume II, 1868, pages 542-543). Contents toned. Light 
wear to spine tips. Near Fine. (#018983)        $350

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