The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-16
MOB VENGEANCE.


We arc proud 10 see the growing
aentiment against mob justice or rather
mob phrensy, which Is manllesiing
itself In every respectable neighborhood
In The state, and upon every occasion
whore the mob spirit gives a new
impetus to the loathings Of the lave
abiding aud peacefully disposed people.
The recent killing Of the Green boys in
Coryello county is nm indellible blot on
tho state, aud u lasting disgrace TO the
neighborhood in which II occurred,
They may have been aud probably
were, bad men. We do not know how
thii s nor Is II pertinent 10 the subject
to decide whether they were or were
not The safety Of society rests alone
in reverence respect and obedience to
law, But when II whole nelghborN
hood in defiance of law pity
aud that charity which even
sayages sometimes show condemn
without trial and execute without
mercy, barbarously and furiously--eyery
sentiment upon which IL founded the
respect and reverence which gives force
and effect to law is violated, secuted
and insulted Can good come TO com
munity by and through such meansY
We do not believe there il one sane
man on earth who thinks 80, II would
be illogical and unreasonable to expect
it. What then follows No other CON
chson il possible than that spirit Of
barberous and savage revenge lurked ut
the bottom Of the move, and procured
the death of these men under their
burning roof, with their wives, sister
and mother clinging in terrified an
guish TO them, and u mad crowd of en-
ragged demons surging and hooting with.
out, Had these boys been the most
blood-stainel murderers and thieves ON
earth their death by such means, and
under such circumstances, should have
been An uttor impossibilty in chris
tion and civilized country,
The scene within the burning home
of the Green's must have been enough
to have melted heart of stone. The
brave but misguided Bill, calmly stating
his business matters to the agonized
wife, telling her whom he owed and
who was indebted to him. Enioining
his broken,hoarted wife to pay what he
owed, and after hurredly arranging his
earthly business, taking his trembling
sister--with whom he Ind prayed as Il
child-by the hand "Come Belle, Let
us pray as we did when we were chill,
dren," The hands of the aged mother
tremblingly snatching the straw, with
which the house is to be burned away.
Was ever picture more graphic, wa,
ever death more trnglc2 After utterinl
his prayer, Bill grasped his trusted gun,
stepped to the door and tronted his
foes, and before yielding up his own life
sent the death-dealing lead to the heart
of one OF them.
Texas will never be known rs II In "
abiding state while such scenes ar,
Transporting within her borders, while
such mob can work murder, aud get
off scot free, The full strength of tn,
state constabulary and military should
never rest until this foul blot has been
washed out by the arrest and punish
mont of the perpetrators We cons
mend the matter to the govern or and
to those directly charged with the arrest
and detention of the violators of law,
In another place to-day we give the
account taken from the Gatesville SIN,
paper published on the ground and
do not doubt, fora moment, the cor.
rectness of the report