Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-02-24

AN lNAANhlAAf HAAN ''"h's''feN -
itics that cannot bo w.itteu)
In Il great number OF instances,
attempts were made TO get redress,
By calling upon military comman-
dcrs, and these almost invariably re-
fused to listen, or gave only the re,
ply: Point out the parties and
goods, and they shall be restored. ~
This was only mockeryi and tho
plundercd and outragcd-oltcn
homeless family-dcparted in sor-
row and despair,
Would that this marauding and
robbery could be limited toa few
instances. The cases were many
thousands, and the extreme features
are not here portrayed.
These miscreants took no obscure
route to hide their tracks. On the
contrary, the vestiges Of desolatlon
will mark the scared earth along
their entrance and exit, for forty
years to come, They took good caro-
it should be so.
True il is not very easy to find
the route pursued by any particular
piece Of plundcr; but the places of
deposit may now be pointed out, in
ten thousand dwellings, and on a
hundred thousand hands and per-
sons throughout sixteen States ofthe
Federal Union. In fact, it is so conf
mon in some communities, that it Ia
q matter OF boast that this silk dress
or that gold watch, or these finger
rings and bracelets, are the TROPHIES!
God curse the mark y of the late
war. These were captures from the
rebels!
Think of the hcroism of capturing
a lady's wardrobe or finger rings.
Let me tell you my friends at
home, that these possessions-these
places Of STOLEN GooDs-are already
beginning to win the contempt they
merit, among the neighborhoods
where they abound.
These people were not bred to
robbery and plunder. The moral
sentimentofsociety is already shock
ed at tho occasional parade Of the
iIl-gotton goods; and before another
year, these places will be tabood;
these persons will be secuted; these
repositories ofplundcr will be search
ed out by the vigilant police, Of
neighborhUod scandal; and the law
will begin to descend with all its
force upon the few daring ones, who
will continue to defy public decency.
There is no police so potent AS
gossip. Stand it, who will?
A gentleman from Western New
York told me that one family in his
village were already tabood, because
of their display Of the captures of
the Lieutenant, head of that family,
who returned rich with "stolen
goods.
A week ago, I was in Brooklyn,
taking walk in Clinton Avenue;
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