, 1860-08-30
THE TEXAS SEAHEs
4 New Orleans STAKEHOLDER barely e..
capca LynchlnE.

tFtona the n. o. P1csyune, a@lt-1
The late acts Of incendiariam in Texas, and
the evidence which gains credit there Of more
diabo!ical designs. hare created an excitement
1t distance fully to estimate. With the full
conviction prevailing IN many counties that the
cocfagrations which hare destroyed 10 many
fourishing towns are but the frat part Of deep
conspiracy, whose malignant object Is the DESC
laslou q the eount.J: no Tonder need be &
strangers that are found among them, and the
zeadtnesa of the people to rid themselves Of sll
who cannot establish their honesty OF purpose.
But this state Of public feeling may lead to ex.
szgeration Of facts to the e1altAtion Of suspi-
cion to tha dignity Ct proof; aud hArrassing
strangers. aud to the perpesration Of acts Of
cruel injustice.
Tbs following statement, mada By well
Known citizen OF New Orleans, adords painful
illustration Of the feeling existing, and an idea
Of the wrong which may, in the haste of the ex-
citeueut, be done to the innocent. We publish
it that the citizens Of Texas may see cogent
reason for cool calmness and de!lbcrstion in
their action towards the suspected, who msy be
not only innocent and true, but friendly and
hrotherly.
Ms. Savers. who has been for twenty years
| engaged in buying and seliing stock in this
| city, early ia the summer made trip to Te1as,
i
| = farm. With this object he mada tour through
| nearly I'LL the counties OF northern aad middle
T.xAs. aud happened to bs near Dallas, on biz
return to Sew orleans, about tho time the dis
hs ho travelled By stage to Palestine. in Ander-
son county, finding tn. whole people excited in
the highest degree by the dangers about them.
| Falling to make connection Ut Palestine With
the stages to Crockett, be attempted to procure
d private CONVEYANCE, aa the delay would inter
I r. h.xAk "a
iety to reach crockett, coupled With the fact
that be was stranger, coming from the direc-
ton 6f DAl1as, excited suspicion, aud he found
himself surrounded BY crowd, who took him
to be an incendiAry. So fAr from being sAtis~
fed With his explanations, aud detailed his-
An enemy and proposed TO giYe hun an intro
duction 10 Judge Lynch
Anticipating the worst, Nj. Savers stood On
his defence, drew his revolver aud stated 10 the
crowd that II they determined to hang him be
would sell his life As dearly AZ possible; and
in his Masonic character, called upon the
Masonic fraternity for aid. This sppesi proved
successful for delay, and as,er ., more caol in
restigation be WAS released.
This is brief account Of tho adventure in
the excited region Of well known citizen Of
New Orleans, himself Shareholder, born in =
| slave State, and identified with the Institutions
Of the Sauth. The slightest suspiciona were
/
He had come to that town from point where
the incendiaries had been At work, aud seemed
desirous to hasten out Of Texas, and his details
OF hin business, his personal references to
| known cifizens Of Crockett who we're not pres
sut, and his statement thss he was in Tex - with
the design Of settlement, we1s discredited, aad
but for fortunate appeal to other titles bis lie
might not have been Eared. This case should
warn the people Of Texas sgzinAt precipitation
under tbs excitement, and 10 the duty Of deal
ing With the suspected only on perfect evidence
and with the forms Of law, i possible; other
Wise, in the extreme ez5es, alier such forms d
dehbetatiou ~ will be their vindicston to theil
own conaciences and to the world But sheet
occurrences ehow, not only how deep = senti
| meat and excitement petrade The threassaet
counties. but those adjoining. E1ssgesstet
though the facts that 60 to prove widely ex
tended sud well contrired conspiracy sgains
life and property maJ be, it eannot be stx,et
that this alazu il the offspring Of delu.ion, o
| go1 up for any political kooTeEsas: There i
real cause for orgsuiz atioa for selfpFosecsion
Well for Texas viii it be il every act resulting
! be guided By Justice.