The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-10
THE NEW ORLEANS DRMooRAT THURSDAY, JULY 70, 1879.
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and violating the law to bring the offender to
speedy punishment.
The Northern press haye based bitter and
vindietive attack upon the whole people OF
Texas for the murder Of the actor Porter
Fl the whole people Of State, or OF Sec
tion, are to be denounced for the crime oil one
irresponsible and reckless man, we think
there are other States and other sections Oh
this country more deserving Of denuneiation
for disregardng human life and dishonoring
human and divine laws, than the people OF
Texas and of the South
Only yesterday we were informed by the
telegraph from New York that the criminal
record Of the past three days has been excep-
tionable lii Its ghastllness." A condition OF
society whence arises the evolution Of such
murderous deeds and unmltigated atrocities
as hive been witnessed during "the past
three days and the past three months. not
only in New York, but North, East and West,
among the Northern States Of our country, is
to be deplored wherever civilization holds its
sway.
| The child-murders done and gloated over
with mad frenzy by Massachusetts fanatics o
few months ago with many other sanguinary
crimes committed In the moral Buy State;
the long lists Of lynehings, outrages and
murders which have more recently ensan-
guined the criminal records Of Ohio; the
tomb robberies and bloody atroeitles-the
latter Of which have eliminated In thestrang-
| ling of O. weak old woman in her sleep, ami
the slaughter Of an old man while walking in
| the grounds OF a theological seminary In New
| York, are instances sufficient to mark new
epoch In criminal annals, Without bringing
| IN the late display Ia Illinois, where semi
military mob gave evidence to sympathetic
inhumanlty and barbarity, In mercilessly
slashing with sabres, stabbing with bayonets
and riddling with ball and buekshota crowd
Of unarmed citizens.
The recurrence Of such crimes. OF which we
have reported only few, Is the evidence OF
an abnormal condition Of civilization, d cal
lous and corrupted state Of society in the
communities where they occur; Or according
to the deductions Of the Northern journals,
drawn from rare instances OF crime In tie
South, they signify disregard OF law In entire
\ States and are symptoms OF the barbarlsm OF
d whole section.
The people of these Northern States may
lay claim to being law-abidlng. But the laws
they live under do not seem to prevent the
| frequent repetition of such crimes. They
! Islander and defame the people OF Louisiana,
Texas and Of other South States for lawless-
ness, when, according to the very logic laid
i down In their charges the comparative infre-
quency of such crimes in the South utterly
refutes their ISLANDERS, and their frequency In
tho North shows tIut to be the more lawless
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They may complain OF the laws slow pro-
cesses In accomplishing the punishment of
|, Curfie. Why do they not show the same i'm
patience for the punishment Of Cox? In
Texas the killing Of Porter is abhorred. the
desire Of the whole people Is for that crime to
meet with Its just punishment, when 1t Is
proven by the law In New York the MUIR
derer OF Mrs. Hull Is lionized. He enjoys the
, sympathy OF mnlttudes The murdered,
gagged. bound and scorched body CT the VIC
tim lying dead on her bed Ia forgotten, or
, only remembered now to be dug up again to
show that the marks upon the corpse are not
the traces OF the murderer's confessed crime.
II we have chosen to point the attention Of
the people to the most conspicuous criminal
incident, now occupying public attention, III
| the Empire State Of either section. It's Tor
them to Judge where the greatest disregard
, OF human life or dishonor Of human laws Is
shown.
It appears to us that neither property nor
human life is more secure in the North than
In the South. In forming this opinion we are
I guided by the records Of an immense number
of startling tragedies that have recently oc-
= CURED LII that section.
We advise our Northern friends to remedy
! the evil, and to compel a greater regard for
the laws, that they may save the fair fame Of
their States from being continually blotted
+ by atrocities that are a disgrace to human
civilization.
t And we suggest that the New Orleans
Times, in Its Jealous desire to reprobate crime,
, should be better assured of its facts before
visiting denunclation upon whole commu-
, nifty, as In their charges against the people
and authorities Of Harrison county, Texas.
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