Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-10-24
From The -, Loui. Christian Ad'oesie,
,up pEXAS EXCITEMENT


Z been kept up until desperate ianal
, les claim the right TO say what thel
please. regardless of the consequen
COS to Others, aud II large portion q
the Northern press uphold and de
fend them. No matter what incen
diarism is excited, what disordel
and confusion are produced, whaI
m .u.s or deaths ensue, 1.-The pres
must not be trammelcd, free spccc.
must not be restrained" l." This /
sub,,a ltially their doctrine, and mp
on n rs doctrine they, inmany eases
seps q net, This has becIi recent,
lv donn in Texas, Mcn-aye, and
women too, have gone there to tam
tpr, ,;th sl,s,uals,,s.s rfthay~l.ic;
'rnt AIMS, ammunition and poison
In their hands, and melted the slaves
10 u.e them in the destruction oi
the Whites. The fire brand has
been applied, and town after town
village after village, and farmhouse
afNor farm house has been reduced
to ashes. This is undcniable, and il
has been clearly proven, and in
many cases openly confessed, that it
was done by the instigation Of alb
clifton cmissaries. The people very
naturally arose in their own defence
and for their own protection gull
ty persons were secured and sum
marily punished, and the Northern
press-thc Northern religious press
cries out, "worsc than Turkish
cruelty "
Now, as law abiding citizen, we
maintain that men, everywhere and
at all times, should be punished only
under the provisions Of the law, and
consequently we oppose all moboc-
racy. But in the name Of common
sense, when men are treated as have
been the people of Texas, are they
to have no redress? Certainly no
one will pretend they should quietly
suffer these things. What are they
to do then? Proceed according to
law" SO say we. But they are
there on the ground, and we have
no right to suppose that, in a gener-
al way, they are less w-abiding, or
less order-loving than others; and
it is but fair to presume they, like
other American citizens, would re-
sort to extreme cures only in extreme
necessities. =. :.
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We respectfully ask our Northern
friends-our Northern Methodist
friends, especially, by what law was
it that men went through Texas
tampering with the slaves, melting
them to rebellion, iusni.rnctiOn and
murder, and that they might accom-
plisil -tltcso things, pre"iding them
with arms, AMMUNITION and poison ?
Rv what law was that done Don't
meet this, as you usually meet such
thing, by flat denial, or guess
that it was not so. Hundreds Of
men there on the ground, who are
discriminating and as reliable as
YOU. say it was so. They can have
no motive to deceive. On the con-
trary, they have every motive not
to believe or report these things,
were they not true. Nor will it he
sufficient for you to repeat what you
frequently say That they were un
necessarily alarmed. The people
of Texas, especially those who have
been there for some years, are not
very easily alarmed. They have
bravcd too many dangers, coming
from various sources, and in vaTi-
GUS ways, to be easily scared now
What then, will you say of these
insurrectionary emissaries? That
they were saints ? John Brown was
called saint by some, and these
were of the same faith and order,
and were as much saints as he
While you are so unsparing in your
denunciations of what you call the
enormity of slavery and "slave,,
ocrats," come out. plainly and tell
us what you think of the conduct OF
the men alluded to- What isright ?
Yes, or no, if you please, that we
may all understand precisly where
YOU are, and from what stand point
YOU view such acts. 1t is no time
to be trifing, nor is the subject one
of trifing Importance Where are
you? What do you say? You de-
nounce mobs. So do we and just
as earnestly and as sincerely as we
denouncc mobs do we denounce all
such conduct as that of the Texas
incendiaries, and believe that Of the
two, the latter is the worse. Every
man who has done, or would do, as
these Texas Abo'itionists have done,
is murderer at heart, and deserves
to be hung as high as was laman
But these are not the only parties
guilty in the premises. There are
those who rarely or never so into a
slave State-those who would have
themselves thought above all incen-
diary acts-who are nevertheless
continually stirring up the matter
BY ineamatory speeches and news
paper articles they are constantly
operating on the minds Of equally
ambitious, but less cautious ones
who foolishly and wickedly attempt
to practice what the others preach
Rentacky.-A gentleman from