The North-Carolina standard., 1841-11-10
HORRlD OUTRAGE.

Some Texas marauders lately crossed over
the line and took forcible possession OF Gill
zen in the parish of Caddo. After they had
carried him into the territory of Texas, 1t was
proposed to bury him alive. With this III
tention a grave was dug-the unfortunate
man being q witness to their movements
He stood helpless, counting each shovel full
OF earth as the quick termination of his life,
surrounded by gang of desperados ready to
crush him beneath the clod, and from whose
sentence, escape was death. Overpowered
with the friehtful fate before him, he bound
ed from his keepers into an adjacent thlcket !;
but before his steps had measured many pa
ces over the earth heavy volley OF musket-
ry brought him to the ground, and there ne
| lay a Iileless corpse, a victim to the lnsecurl-
! ty of our border protection. HIS body, a1ter
being cut up, was hung upon the branches
of the neighboring trees, there TO meet Tie
gaze of the traveller and tell him OF power
| that knows nothing of the bounds OF law, or
of human authority; but like the howlng
beasts of the wilderness, would snap the ira
ollie cords of life, if interest once stirred up the
fatal ire of their wrath upon him whose voice
dare rise against their iniquities. The de-
ceased man, whose name was Boatright, had
thus offended them he had, with other of
his felow-citizens, declared himself to be O.
peny opposed to them, and, as might have
been expected in country like ours, where
from the sparseness of frontier population,
the avenues to the wrath of banditti are wide
open, the unfortunate man had TO forfeit his
life as q ransom for his alienation to their au-
Ithortv. The citizens of our border country
have witnessed these men under the name OF
Regulators and Moderators, committing III
the territory of Texas some of the most bar
barous crueIties of the 18th century.
The country on our border towards the
33d degree of latitude, is the principal scene
of action, and it is but few years ago, that
an American, who had shipped from New
Orleans to one of their towns, large assort-
rnent of groceries and dry goods, was routed
out, and his goods forcibly taken off by the
gang. Nothing was ever done about it, and
the act is now almost forgotten. A while
ago, one of the captains of the Regulators
and man that was with him, was shot i'll a
small village of the name of Logansport-
The captain and the person with him, had
not long been gone from the store where they
had been making a purchase, when dis
charge of muskets was heard by the store
keeper. He rushed out, and soon discovered
the two bodies lying on the ground there
was no one near, and he was left to conjec
ture the cause of their death. Examining
infinitely the place around, it was not long
before he discovered on the earth, beneath
two fallen trees, the impress of five or six
men; and it thus appears that these two men
had been shot down without quarrel or fgh
without intimation, and with the most COO
determination. In view of their enormities
we cannot wonder why Boatright, or any
other American citizen should have express
ed their dissatisfaction. But we shall no
seek arguments to prove what the bare facts
evince and we call upon the friends of thi
man and the citizens generally, to bring thi
act before their government, and let it claim
their attention. The subject is one certainly
: ton. Ndtchitoches Herald.