Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-08
A ~DUTCHRIAX's STORY.
what He Thinks Retards Immigration
from the Fatheriand Southwark.


EDITORS APPEAI-It is a notorious custom
among many of the Southern people, upon re-
ceiving an insult, either real or supposed, to
take redress by shooting the offender, partieu-
larly as in that they have very little fear of
punishment, knowing as they do how easy it
is 10 escape the meshes of the law. A man
faneies he is insulted. Physically, he knows
himself 10 be far superior TO his antagonist.
Does any moral feeling OF this aceoun pre-
vent the blow2 No! he gives his feeble victim
a good drubbing, and has only 10 pay six dol
lars; that is all. The logged party, knowing
his inability TO fight, must bear insult upon
insult, unless he has twenty-five dollars to
spare--ten or fifteen to pay a friend for whip
ping the man who walloped him, and six for
expenses at the ~stationhouse.
Nice morals these! Cultivation in the ex-
tteme- spread 1t to the world-'tis' 'Southern
chivalry." None but men with huge fists and
brawny arm should venture South, or posi-
bly,, in absence of these, a plenty of pluck
might do, as the following will illustrate:
Something like a year ago 81 Front Row
merchant sent his drayman TO haul some
goods to the river for a CHI Drayman
losing, one load In the river, Front Row man
agreed TO pay half the loss.
Now, Dutchman was only five feet high and
slightly built, and Front Row man becoming
somewhat annoyed his opportunities for
pay, Dutehman having called a few dozen
times, or les, lifted his whip to lash the Eu-
ropean f~iye-footer, but he had mistaken his
customer. In the ~"twinkfing of an eye" the
Front Row man was pnmmeled to Jelly, and
with two blackened eyes, beheld in the
Dutchman's grasp-not shis scalp, but nearly
az. DltA-thG Vi his NA4lA. nav
man made for his pistol, and Dutchman, who
never handled such an instrument in his life,
thinking discretion the better part of valOr, -
made himself scarce.
The Dutchman who was worth some twelve
or fifteen thousand dollars, wrote to his broth
ers In Germany, all men OF means, never to
venture South, 1t was a dangerous place; and
this advice viii be followed by the multi
tudes, until such customs at the South are
done away. A DUTCHMAN.
I'VE think the conclusions of our cores
pondant, based upon SO slight a cause as the
bad passion of one man, even though he be a
merchant, are incorrect, and do Southern peo-
pie gross Injustice. We will venture to say That
all right-thinking men here rs heartily on
denim violencein any form as the same classin
Germany, and that nowhere quicker than on
Front street, Memphis, would a "Dutchman, ="
nnder the circumstance above narrated, be
more likely to receive not only sympathy, but
substantial aid in defence. There are now
more than three thousand Germans residing
in Memphis, many OF whom are, personally,
our friends, and they will bear as out that
they have not been troubled by what "Dutch-
man" denominates the Southern chivalry
and have as little to do with the gentlemen Of
the knife, the pistol or the bludgeon as If TN
der the protection of Kaiser Wilhelm him
self. There are men here, as there are eve
rywhere, who give way to their bad passions,
population, as monarchical countries or the
Northern States can boast of. The statistics
Of crime prove this, and years OF observation
sustain the statement that here the STANDARD
OF honor is as high as anywhere else on the
globe. aDutchman" is wrong. II he ~consults
his fellow-countrymen here he viii find 1t
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