Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-09-15
[From the ". q. Picayune, 2sth.1
THk TEXAS scARE-A NEW ORLEANS
SLAVE HOLDER BARELY ESCAPED
LYNCHING.

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The late acts of incendiarism ID Texas
and the evidence which gains credit there
of more diabolisal designs, have created al
excitement in-that State which it is not pos
sible for thoseat distance fully to estimate
With the fIJ conviction prevailing in many
counties tat the conhagerations which hay,
destroyed SO many fourishing towns arr
but the airst part Of deep conspiracy
whose malignant object is the desolation o
the country, no wonder need be expressed
at the suspicion that exists towards stran
gers that are found among them, and the
readiness of the people to rid themselves O.
jail who cannot establish their honesty Of
purpose. But this state Of public feeling
| may lead to exaggeration Of facts to the ex-
altation Of suspicion to the dignity Of proof
and harrassing inquisition, if not absolute
tdangef, to honest strangers, and to the per
lpetration OF acts of cruel injustice.
Ihc following statement made, by we'll
known citizen Of New Orleans, affords a
painful illustration of the feeling existing,
and an idea of the wrong which may, in
the haste of the excitement, be done to the
innocent. We publish it that the citizens
.gf Texas may see cogent reason for cool
Nsalmness and deliberation in their action
towards the suspected, who may be not on
ly innocent and true, but friendly and broth
erly.
Mr.. Savers, who has been for twenty
years engaged in buying and selling stock
in this city, early in the summer made a
trip to Texas, with the intention Of purchas-
ing and stocking farm. With this object
lbe made a tour through nearly all the
counties of northern and middle Texas, and
happened to be near Dallas, On his return
to New Orleans, about the time the disas-
trous fire broke out in that place. From
Dallas he Travelled by stage to Palestine, IN
Anderson county. finding the whole people
excited in the highest degree by the dan
gers about them. Failing to make eonnec-
ton al Palestine with the stages to Crock
EFT, he attempted to procure private con-
veyance, as the delay would interfere with
bis business arrangements. This anxiety
to reach Crockett, coupled with the fact
that he was stranger, coming from the
direction Of Dallas, excited suspicion, and
he found himself surrounded by crowd,
who took him to be an incendiary. So far
from Icing satisfied with his explanations,
and detailed history Of his business and
life, they judged him an enemy, and pro-
posed to give him an introduction to Judge
Lynch.
Anticipating the worst, Mr.. Savers stood
on his defence, drew ais revolver and stated
to the crowd that if they determined to
hang him he would sell his life as dearly as
possible; and in his Masonic character,
called upon the Masonic fraternity for aid
This appeal proved successful for delay, and
after more cool investigation he was re-
leased.
This ii brief account of the adventure
in the excited region of well known citi-
zen af New Orleans, himself stakeholder,
born in Slave State, and identified with
the institutions Of the South. The slight
est suspicious were magnifed into proofs of
crime.
He had come to that town from point
where the incendiaries had been at work,
and seemed DESTROYS to hasten out of Tex
as, and bis details of his business, his per-
sonal references to known citizens Of Crock
eft who were not present, and his statement
that he was in Texas with the design of set
tlement, were discredited, and but for for
tunate appeal to other titles bis life might
not have been saved. This case should
warn the people Of Texas against precipita-
ton under this excitement, and TO the duty
of dealing with the suspected only on per-
feet evidence, and with the forms of law, if
possible; otherwise, in the extreme cases,
after such forms of deliberation as will be
their vindication to their own conscienees
and to the world.