New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-21
nnNnRRn1Na INDIGNATION.


One of our neighbors has correspond
ent in Marshall, Texas, who is altogether
charming. He signs himself "Citizen,"
aad not only are we fascinated by his
graces Of composition, but we are instructed
by the glimpses of peculiar and interest
ing civilization which CLEANS through his
epistles.
1t appears that there was to be Repub-
licaH meeting in Marshall on the evening OF
December 80 Such gathering would
not be an astounding novelty in New York
or in New Orleans; but in Marshall ye
gods Should such things be and over
come us: And not only was there to be Re-
publican meeting, but Judge Caldwell ,ofthe
supreme court of Texas was to address it.
Tbis information" says our sweet citizen,
"went over the town like lightning, and
there was necessarily some excitement"
or course there was, the fact that supreme
Judge stood ready to address Republican
meeting being enough to make every sepa-
rate hair ION every well-regulated Texan
head to stand on end, like quilts upon the
fretful porcupine. "The citizens generally
kept away from the meeting, not being
willing to witness the prostitution of his
high Office by judge of our supreme comt,
in haranguing crowd ofignorant Africans
at meeting of which no public
notice was given, and to which
the whites were not invited" So much
for the citizens generally but this "Citi-
zen in particular, and several others, were
willing to witness the prostitution, for they
went, and they waxed indignant,
Indignation is good thisg. We read of
q righteous indignation. But it is not ex-
cited in Marshall, Texas, without great
provocation. You may murder a mission
airy there, and nobody will be Indignant, at
least nobody who belongs to the select class
Of citizens generally" You may lynch
an abolitionist, and the waters of death will
close over him without leaving ripple of
unintelligent horror. But that Judge Cald-
well should instruct the ignorant, that
Judge Caldwell should try to enligaten
class OF voters who are sure to vote, was
little too much, and we leave the writer to
tell the story, or as much as he chooses, in
his own way:
A crowd of negroes were in attendance
at the courthouse, and this Judge, who has
never attained the position Of thrdrate
lawyer in the state, and who could not be
elected by the people county court judge,
began his address to the negroes. As might
have been expected, the indecent and in
cendiary language used by this supreme
Judge excited indignation among the few
white people present, and some indiscrset
person in the crowd fired off a pistol into
the ceiling of the house; of course gen
eral stampede ensued, and the meeting dis.
perssd. A deputy sheriff rushed into the
crowd with drawn pistol, and commanded
all persons to keep the peace. This caused
the Judge to git, and it is said he never
stopped till he reached the headquarters
CT the military commander at this post,
where he made an affidavit that this little
deputy sheriff tried to assassinate him,
and he insisted on the arrest by the mill
tary of the sheriff, the deputy, and the cit
izen who accidentally fired the pistol.
These men are now in military custody, and
Suppose General Hancock will be asked
to remove the sheriff from office Truly,
we have fallen upon evil times.
To that last uttersnee of the writer we
say amen. We have fallen upon evil times
so far as Texas is concerned. The "citi-
zens generally of whom this letter speaks
are the same Inscriptions and lawless race
who during the war converted that region
into hell on earth.
That the peace of God should be estab-
lished in their midst, that humanity should
assert its equal reign, that the poor man
should be educated, that the labOrer should
be taught to think and vote aright-these
things excite their Indignation" and, as
the days of the paddle and the cartwhip
have passed, their appeal is now the elo-
quent persuasion Of the pistol. We beg to
call the attention of congress and of the
general sent here to execute its laws to this
newell and interesting indignation.