New Orleans Republican., 1877-05-05
AN APPEAL TO TIE PISTOL,

1t is barely possible than Dan Monroe,
of Caddo parish, has not yet heard OF the
new resolutions which were adopted by
the Democratic members of the Legisla-
ture while we had company from abroad
staying with us. For we see that in a mo-
ment of passion he made an attack with
two pistols upon unarmed Allen Walker,
colored, for the purpose of settling law
suit which the courts had just decided
against Dan in Aliens favor. The press
report is thus:
For some time past there has been
lawsuit existing between Monroe and
Walker, and the cause was decided against
Monroe, who thereupon drew revolver
and remarked that he would settle the
case finally, then and there, and COM
menced firing on Allen Walker. he fired
four shots without effect, when Walker
closed in on him, and being better man,
physically, than his antagonist, succeeded
in wrenching the pistol from him, at the
same crying Murder murder !" when
Monroe got away from him, and, stepping
back few PAGES, drew another pistol and
fred again on Walker, the ball taking
effect in the abdomen. DR.. Allen was
sent for and, after an examination of the
wound, pronounced it dangerous if not
fatal. Walker was alive at last accounts,
Dan Monroe is still at large, but will be
arrested if he has not already been taken
into custody. The shooting occurred In
the Justices Office.
Now, though the bulldozer proper al
ways scrupulously limits his homicidal
attentions to political opponents, and
looks with horror upon the lower creature
who murders for pelf or selfinterest, yet
he can not be held entirely blameless for
Monroe's fault. For he has himself set
the example of resorting to arms for what
the laws would deny him, but which he
covets nevertheless. The bulldoEer lynch
es the prisoner in Jail because he wants
him killed before the lapse of time a.
lowed by law, or perhaps because he is
not sure the evidence will be sufficient to
convict. He shoots the colored man on
the way to vote, not because he is COL
ored, but because he is a Republican, or
he shoots him at the ballot box for voting
in defiance of ''the wishes of the people. !"
The bulldozer is thoroughly informed of
the ''wishes of the people, and will not
see them thwarted without making a fuss
about it.
Monroe has only extended this practice
trife. He probably thought that his
defeat in a court of law by a negro was
such an insult to the white blood of this
community, and withal SO detrimental to
his pecuniary interests, as to demand
blood. He, therefore, took an appeal
from the justice, whipped out pistol No.
l, and began vigorously to try his case in
a court where he was pretty sure of JUS
tioe, especially as poor Allen Walker had
no pistol and he had two. He gained his
case. His antagonist is believed to be
mortally wounded, and he is himself o
fugitive for few days, or until the thing
blows over. The paper from which we
quote, however, assures Dan that he will
be arrested, if he has not been already.
But we have our doubts about his ever
receiving much punishment. The regu-
lar buildozers will scold and threaten
him, peIhaps, and if his victim dies the
Governor may possibly issue proelama-
ton. And that will be the end of it.