The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-30
AN IMPROPER SPIRIT.

In another place, to-day, we give u
brief extract from Tue llgaALD aud the
comments of the sherman Patriot there
on, and propose TO take the Patriot by
the lug for a moment, II our friends
will bear with US, The HERALD and
every other paper in Texas, condemned
the Bell county outrage without stint,
Indeed, there Is not u respectable dem-
ocratio paper in all the south, which can
be found defending this or any similar
outrage and none know this better
than the editor Of tile Patriot,
Many things are done when whole
people are phrenaled by such u war M
the one alluded TO, which people at
peace would never think Of There
we're some union men killed in Texas
during the war; II is true, Os in other
states but they were incendiaries,
whose mission was to incite the negroes
to burn, kill and destroy, while the man
hood of the state was absent contending
for their dearly cherished principles on
bloody battloN6elds In other states,
These were only exceptional cases, and
generally there was sufficient iustiflca'
ton, That republicans were murdered
for their principles is rs false rs hell
itself, as thousands upon thousands who
are living in Texas to-day can testify,
one OF whom is the editor of the Patriot
himself, one friend Chase, of the Waco
Register, and many others equally well
known.
That Texas was not alone in severity
during those eyentrul years when men
were not good enough, and when they
were too much under the influence of
their passions we have only to point to
Mcneil and Missouri, Burbridge and
Kentucky, and other instances equally
narrowing, and which should be forgot,
ten. We only allude to them to re-
prove the wanton insult TO the democ-
racy of Texas rendered by the Patriot
in moment of pique, or inadvertance,
we are willing TO believe. The Patriot
assumes that because Bell is one of our
strongest democratic counties, there
fore, this outrage is no unexpected
event. Brazoria, Waller and Harris are
our heaviest republican counties, does
the Patriot mean to saddle the republic
can party with all the crimes, outrages
and lawlessness perpetrated theredur-
ing and since the war; If so, the Bell
county outrage was ieariully avenged
long before il was committed.
The record will show The HERALD to
have been one among the strongest adj
vocates Of free schools in the state, and
if our memory serves, the Bolton Jour-
nal also. Massachusetts, has had sys-
tenn of free schools for fifty years or
more, and yet Webster murdered Park
man and burned his remains to ashes
in an oven. New York has had
system of public schools for n
goodly number of years, yet she
produced man foul hearted and cruel
enough to murder his fellow for the
sake Of courtezan. SO it is and ever
will be; there are exceptional fanatics,
as there are rogues, thieves and muir
derers.
The Patriot sees the "bloodv shirt
as n political power pale into insignif,
canoe with many misgvings. 1t under,
stands as does Blaine, Morton aud other
leaders of that ilk, that when its
potency is gone forever there will be no
resurrection for radicalism A shame
on the Patriot, shame on the man who
could deliberately insult whole state.
full of people who have been both Just
and generous to him-without provoca-
ton or hope of eflecting good. This is
the evidence of the existence of q spirit
among our Texas radicals which we
had fondly honed Ind died lony sinca