Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-11

avaunie. the murder of Aston by Cox, in
Georgia; the assassination of Porter by Cur
rie. in Texas; the murder of Judge Ell
lott by Buford, in Kentucky, and
the burning of two innocent men
in Nebraska. These crimes show
that murder as a fine art " has made i'm
mense strides since De Quincy wrote. I'm
less something be done society will lapse
back into state of barbarism. Every day
men are slaughtered, assassinated and shot
down like mad dogs in consequence Of the
habit of carrying concealed weapons in viola
ton of law. None but lawless desperadoes
carry concealed weapons, and when they in
suit you, as they surely will do, if by accident
YOU are thrown IN their company, If you show
a spark Of manhood, they will put you to
death, and the courts go through the farce of
another App trial and the murderer turned
loose upon society by twelve professional
Jurors no better than the assassin. We are
grati6ed to see that Judge Eldridge, of the
Bartlett circuit court, is determined to punish
men who make walking arsenals of them
selves. On Wednesday last he sentenced to
imprisonment fer three months and fine of
ten dollars, brave warrior who carried upon
his person concealed weapons. The AP-
PEAL sustained P. NJ. Winters, who in
the faithful discharge of his duties as city
recorder, labored to put down the dis
reputable and barbarous practice of carrying
concealed weapons, and it will sustain Judge
Eldridge in the same praiseworthy effort.
The DULLES who carry weapons in violation of
law must be punished. Unless this be done
the law prohibiting concealed weapons
should be repealed, AM I'll IN allowed
to carry them to protect themselves from the
cowardly DULLES who never attack a man
when they know he is armed. In the south
ern States the people are aroused on this sub
jet. The Augusta COnstitutiOnalist says:
''There have been no more murders COM
mitted in Georgia and Kentucky this year
than last-no more than have been COM
mitted during similar period in northern
and western States of equal population. But
| the character of two of these homicides has
drawn more attention to the subject of the
| prevention of the crime than it has received
before. In nearly every instance the
killing has been done with a concealed
pistol, which the slayer bore on his per-
son. 1t is evident, then, that one great
cause of the evil is the carrying of con.
cealed weapons, and therefore this cause
should be removed. But how to do it is the
question. The law Of Georgia Furnishes this
offense with a fine as high as one thousand
dollars and imprisonment for term as LONG
as twelve months, either or both, at the dis
erection of the judge. But the law, daily
violated by large numbers of men, and ever
boys, is rarely executed. Abandoning tht
| hope OF enforcing the statute, people are cast
| ing about to remedy the evil in another way
In recent interview with Hon. A. o. Bacon
| speaker of the house, that gentleman sug
! gested a law preventing the importation o
pistols into or sale of them in the State 1T
| thinks such law would be constitutions
and could be enforced. It may be constitu.
tional, but it could be SO easily evaded tina
it would amount to nothing" Another rem
edy Is suggested. The Gainesville Eagl
| says:
Hon. Edward A. Perkins, of Burke county has WI
think, struck at the root OF the matter He will In
troduce at the July session of the general assembly
bill TO tax pistols, and the ammunition therefor II
argues that long as every negro and boy can buy
pistol for a dollar and q drink for dime that ff
ana limbs are IN danger. He is correct He propose
10 levy tax on pistols that will almost amount to
prohibition or their sale. To reach those already II
the hands OF the roughs he proposes to tax the am
| munttion. The constitution of the Unite State
the right TO keep and bear arms shall not be in
trnged, but we may regulate it, would the sal