The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10
THE DAY OF BLOOD - WHEN
WILL THE sun SET!

WILL THE sun SET!
l. Governor Hubbard do not issue
another proclamation and put an end
10 murderous deeds, as he did TO the
Favagcs of Yellow Jack, his reign will
be deemed, in one sense, red letter
day in the annals of the commonwealth.
As England had her Bloody Mary,
even so may Texas remember Bloody
Richard The difference would affect
the two individuals rather than the
two States. Governor Hubbard, like
Uncle Toby, would not harm even q
fly," while the word "Mary" was
wholly bereft of charms and sanctity by
the vices of the bloody queen. Long
ago it was written:
Thy name is Mary maiden fair:
Melh!nks It's music should thus be,
And the sweetest name that angels bear
Is but betting thee.
She to whom 1t once was given was
half of earth and half of heaven. Sc
riously. there must be, at any cost, an
end to violence. 1t is costing the peo-
pie too much. Civilization will stand
appalled, in the presence of deeds like
these, beginning with the murder of
DR.. Calder and Of Col. Klllough and
ending with vulgar tragedies of the
common bar-room and brothel. De-
cent, honest men say that they
will soon fear to leave their
homes by day or night. Robbers
attack stage coaches in Gods day
light on the open highway; pistol
balls whistle through the windows of
houses occupied by helpless women;
armed men gulp whisky at every cor
ner to load themselves with boisterous,
murderous courage, then we have
word, q blow and corpses are
thrust into forgotten, unnamed graves.
The LAW trembles in its hiding places
and is impotent in its temples, and
when drunken knaves bear about i'm
plements o: death, and count
less shcriffs and policemen wander
forth, and can only see pistol when a
sober and peaceable citizen wears it,
these terrible deeds are done hourly
everywhere. The Church tolls IN vain,
even as the majestic voice OF the Evan
gehst Penn is lifted up in hourly pro-
testatiou. Christianity weeps; Chris
tians pray, and the Governor, stupefed |
by crime, proffers rewards for the ar
rest of bloody handed knaves. And |
yet each days catalogue of villainies is
bloodier than that of its predecessor.
Must the people find remedy outside
of the courts2 We hear it talked about.
1t is said "we cannot suffer worthless,
ignorant, reckless, drunken wretches
to destroy all that we have toiled for.
They make our homes and fields value
less, and the country, and especially
it's towns and villages, uninhabitable.
They destroy, not only property val
ues, but the security and comforts of
living. They make The name of
Texan infamous and bloody, as tbe
reign of the murderous queen, every
where, the world over. They fasten
ineffaceable bloodstains on the name |
and character of every citizen of the
State. Going abroad, one could hardly
hold up bis head and tell civilized men
that his abiding place was among peo-
pie who went armed against one ar
other, where the brotherhood of hu-
manlty is only expressed in the explo-
sion of pistol and shines only IN the
gleam of the bowie knife, where a
Calder falls and Killough is butch
cred, snd unprotected women and in
nocent children are pistoled and burned
to DEATH" Popular patience is growing
Every sense of decencY
and humanity is outraged and the issue
Is almost made up. Civilization or
his barbarism must cease to exist. If
Governor Hubbard would serve well
his great commonwealth if ne would
ward of greater moral curse than the
plague which deselates the lowlands of
he Mississippi; he would now ask the
churches, that popular attention and
Christian effort may be wisely directed,
10 zee that the fioodtide of vice and
whisky and murder now sweeping over
Texas may be damned up. There
must be an end of outrage, and when
he church and press and courts fail to
,heck the overwhelming tide of crime
ihc people may be driven to commit
that outrages may have an
md. The time is r Mt yet; but patience
md patriotism woulu swoon hopelessly
IND helplessly to-day at thengnt OF an /
ther pair ~ foully blood stained t
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