Well since we've talked about appeals to time in just about everything else we've read lately, I'm going to talk about appeals to time used by Wells-Barnett in "Lynch Law in America". I think that this article as a whole is a huge example of the rhetoric of crisis. Wells is arguing for something to be done against the laws (both written and unwritten) that allow lynching in the U.S and calling for a change in policy. She is also portraying the time that this was written as a time of crisis through statements such as "butchery is made a pastime and national savagery condoned."