The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-06-17
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colored school teacher and minister
James Gillyard, in Van Handt county
is being used against Texas to her ines.
Unable damage. The Chicago Inter-
Occou spreads it in double headed para
graphs over the world, rcpclling from
our midst capital and labor We have
no conception of the hurt done us by
such dastardly crimes. They provoke
such incorporate uttcranccs rs the toI-
lowing editorial from the last named
paper;
1--WE desire to draw special attention
to communication signed Texas
printed elsewhere in this issue. The
writer knows whereof he speaks and
we vouch for him AS truthful man
We beg for his letter the calm consider
alton Of every friend of decem govern
mcnt 1t depicts crimes which, II per
mitted to 60 UNPUBLISHED, would dis
grace any country on earth. The scenes
being enacted in Texas are, according
to this correspondent, utterly revolving
The cruelty, the inhum0nity, the bar
barties, of the ex-Conlederates of that
State, bcggar description. And yet
clcrpymeu in the pulpit, sentimcntalists
over the graves of Union soldiers and
Democratic journalists join the army of
sore headed placcless politicians in
sneering ut expressions of sympathy for
American citizens, whipped, starved,
hunted by blood-hounds and murdered
under the very folds Of the American
flag But there is rctribution in store
for the Williams who murder, and for
their cowardly Npologists who sheer.
The shot gun policy must cease, the
shot guns must be put aside, the men
who use them against innocent negroes
mugt be punished, and the men who
apologize for such niamy must pray to
be forgiven Tor their trcachcry to Rcpub'
lican principles, their humanity, and
their treason to the doctrine of equal
rights,
1t is very difficult for the press to de.
icnd the State against such terrible vi
tupcraton, when daily the wires flash
into our offices the details Of hangingS
10y mobs and assaSsinatons by mdividu
ais, 1t is folly for MS to pretoed to ig-
more the expression Of hostile journals
whose preiudces give their articles N
undue coloring We must not only
notice them, but, with all the powo
that is in us, the press must arous,
Texas to IL suppression of disgrNceIu
crimns. As opponents of the feeling
and principles Of brave, strong, imtclli
gent law.abiding and DEMONSTRATING PEG
pie, we must speak to silence the cch,
of the shotgun and the pistol
We cannot afford to have the New York
Slo,, the st Louis Repujiica,, the Chica
80 Inter Ocean, the great, widely-reac
press of the nation, advertise our crimes
not only in America, but over Europe
We cannot afford TO have the capita
that would build our railways, dig on
canals, erect our manufactures, mills
foundries, water works repealed from
Texas by daily recitals of deeds tina
make men and women shudder to rea,
them. Civilization and humanity tn,
christianity of the nineteenth century
demand that these dark and blood,
stains be wiped from the escutcheon o
Texas. In the name of that christian
ity, of that civilization let the pres
urge upon our law makers the suprem,
Importance of preserving human life,