Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-02
MURDER.
How it Stays the Tide Of Immigration
and is the Fruitful Source of I'M
numbered Woes to the states of
the South.
The Infamous Lien Laws of Mississippi
the Cause, in Great Part, of the
Migration of the Negroes to Kan
sas-Read. Mark, Learn.


We copy below a number of extracts from
leading Democratic and Republican papers,
having reference to the recent murders in the
south, and their effect in turning the tide of
immigration from this section to the west,
to which also the negroes continue to move
by hundreds, alleging as a reason the shot
gun policy, and their failure to make any
thing by their labor, as the Pontotoc Demo
crdt suggests, on account of the Infamous
lien law. Is it not time to do something
definite to dispose of this state of things?
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rs a Fine Art
The Effect OF It.
Kansas City Times (Dem.): The Augusta
ga Chronicle, In commenting on the vast Influx OF
%Py d6 Sm tb66 1e east Of to
In the east come not here annually to settle,
The re is the nG friend of tSe Southern 9soo
and has full appreciation of their trials in the
Tered But there some things it is time for the
southern people to learn. Ana among the things
they have to learn IL. that when man in Europe or
Tue OLD states OF the Union concludes to make his
home in a new place and with strange people he
prefers to go where human rights are respected and
where human life is protected. Now the murder of
Judge Elliott iii Kentucky, and OF Colonel ASTON Ia
Georgia, are instances or what too often occurs In
those states and elsewhere In the south to make the
place OF the tragedy one of special attrac ion to
those in search of peaceful ana quiet homes. The
murder OF Judge Elliott of
such .atrocity as to be almost without
a parallel He was shot down in open daylight 10
the streets OF the capital Of the State Ter Iea on
that he had decided case as judge OF the court OF
appeals against Buford. his slayer. We can leel
some sympathy for the man who in the heat or pas
sion drunken oblivlOusness kills fellCwcTeature
but for brute Ike Buford, VINO in perfect calm,
perfect quiet and with per Get ana calculating De
Liberation loads his shotgun, waits for his victim
and then without the pretense OF proyocation shoots
him deao; u does appear THAT hanging oy the neck
till he is dead, IS as small Tecompense = BufOrd
can pay for The enoTmiy of his crime. In the case
or the murder OF Col nei Aston there was Just as
much elaboration, just much cool, murderOus
calculation, lust as deliberate purpose to take
human lie, Win only this oiffe ence from the Blu
forO case, that Cox gave Alston chance Tor his
lie and took some risk to his own. His crime IN
the eye OF God and man Is Just as great. and merits
one penalty only. and that is death.
We say TO our friends Of the south, and with per-
Iect KINDNESS such coduct as thls must De put an
end TO- II they expect to attract settlers other
sections of the country. MurdereTs must DE pun
tShed with death The world must knoR that muir
derers die punished with death. A respectable man
who takes human life without prCvocation, is Just as
much Il murderer as higdTdymHn- The good men
OF the south, and there are plenty OF them there,
must take this matter in hand The outside world
believe that pubic sentiment in the south uphodl
murder and blOodshed. This is not true. but the
people there must show By their conduct 1t is not
true Ii Is not enough 10 say 1t Is not true. Their
conduct is all that VIII prove it, The due execution
OF BufOrd and Cox Will be some testimony OF a tight
sentiment and purpose to enforce the law. Mercy
10 murieTsrS is cruelty TO SOcietg Satisfaction to
the world upon this point will carry settlers 70
Georgia, State where the soil is generous and easy
OF culture where the climate is genial ana where it
Is never too hot too cold for outdoor work, and
The enforcement of law will be the beginning of a
new era In those States.
westward
New York Times: "a young man resid-
ing at Trenton. Missouri mas recently written his
father that everybody seemed 10 be going TO Kansas;
that thousands Ding there every week. that the
passenger trains are full OF emigrantS TO that State
and the freight cars packed with live stock, house
hold goods and farm implements for the same des-
tinaton. The people settling in Kansas nave ener-
gy and intelligence and are every way desirable for
a new State The correspondent ADDS that there is
good land in Missouri in Kansas, but that peO-
pie pass right through one State and hu-rY to the
other without ever thinking of Missouri. The Mis-
souTians, like other Inhabitants or the late slave
States have adopted suicidal policy. They wait
a solid south; theS have given the State such ILL
reputation that good laW-bdIng citizens viii have
nothing to do with it. They beginning TO inquire
why they without friends, and 10 the reason
of it when il is too late The soUtherners seem, as
we have so often said, to be incapable of compre-
bending their own interest They commit contin-
az esReSt fSg PF9Rery or le they 90 everything %
settling with them, and then wonder Why they do
not come; why they go elsewhere, to less fertile
sense viii the sOutherners ever learn wisdom i?
VIII they ever see that the customs of civilization
are at least remu0erative?'
The Infamous Lien SYSTEM.
Pontotoc (Miss.) Democrat: "Snce the
above was issued the mayor has Instructed all emf
grants from the south be quarantined at the sta
ton, Twelve miles below the city for thirty DAYS
corn and other property at a ruinOus sacrifice in
instances ana Ticking ana stalking all in their
effort to reach home amid the black hills of Kan
Some emigrants have reiurned TO Monroe
county aud give most doeful account of the stua-
ton. Instead or finding a country covered with
green grass as had been represented to them. they
left fifteen inches of snow on the ground In that
land of promise. The infamous, INSCRIPTIONS
YANKEES still finds ready victim in the southern
colored man. The same old tale of forty acres and
mule is once more held out to him, and once
accepted Our belief is that the true cause of
all this di5sffecton and suffering has its origin in
our INFAMOUS lien system. 1t needs the immediate
attention OF wise and patriotic Legislature"
The shOt-Gun Business Must Cease.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: Yesterday
another batch OF two hundred aud ffy colored emil
As rue they are better of 10 this WO.ld's goods
thap those who preceded Them and they will be able
to take passage 70 Kansas CiI without financial aid
They report that thousands OF their late neghbors
preparing TO follow them, and IT looks If the
sHouuS mas Sty laso ossun. me loss OF SO many
Injury to the cotton Interest In Mississippi and
Louisiana s as planting 1; time is at hand The
reconcile their existing differences with the negroes
They can do this ii they willing TO be fair and
reasonable. They mu give the colOTed man a
chance to save something from his earnings, and
they must restore his political rights. The shot
tnat il they given fair play, the colored people
Will do better in the south than In Kansas or any
other western Stale, ana il certainly is to the ad
vantage Of the whites to keep them. But it cannot
be done by force or fraud"
The Aurder Epidemic.
Louisville Age: Scarcely had the shock
oecasioned by the murder of Colonel Aston passed
from the public mind before actor or some oil -
unction was shot down in Marshall Texas, by
drunken ruffian, and companion wounded by the
same pistol The actor, Mr.. Porter was taking lunch
with lady, when CurTie I oted desperate, entered
the saloon and, without provOcation, insult d the
lady; and on the mild TemonStranca OF her escort to
90 away and raise no disturbance the escort was
shot down and killed, and another gentleman who
inteTfeTed was wounded. About the same time Young
Curtis, of Richmond Virginia, was attacked and
caned by mT. PolndeXter for an alleged insult to
lady which he protested was CninteHtional ana for
which ready TO dDOlOgiZa. POinlENteT
clined to accept any apology, and persisted in in
hlctng a humiliating punishment en- the al
legged offender. Curtis. on consulting
hide Poindexter in return, though the latter Tas
armed and the former was not. Urged on b. this
friend, the attack was made and he lost his lie.
victim and could easily have overpowefsd him; but
his assaiisnt Until the latter fell nierced by three
balls. About the same time shooting ARRAY oc-
CURED at VckSbuTg, which resulted in the death of
On the same day gentleman killed In a similar
too, MT. Thomas j. Wood was moFtaliy wounded al
StarksVille, Mississippi. Just previous to these
euTrences bloody encounter occurred at New Or
leans which resulted t IN hne asatn Of tR0 NO bohe
Startled by aholher deliberate murder, the victim
being judge in the court of appeals, a gentleman
of high standing and lawyer OF emlIence"
The True Issue.
Louisville COWrierJ Journal: 1--WE publish
this morning, from yesterdays GoLi5e55cJolyI.aE a
ford including detailed narrative Of the litigation
which ended in the assassination OF Judge John NJ
Elliott. The story comes from sources In every way
TO be depended on. and Is very damaging to Colonel
BufOTd. 1t presents him as a man of unsteady
character and eQuivOcal anteceOents ith respect 10
his business connections and belongings, and con-
clusiyely shows him to be- and always to have BEEN
person of the most dangerous and unFuly kind
The crime which substantially closes career of
violence rarely to be found in the sphere from which
he springs is too awful. and its expiation IS too
certain, TO add force to the use of epithets
Colonel Buf9rd is a doomed man. Even
the pity, which mistaken commiseTatIon may ex-
cite In weak minds and Overfeel1ng hea-ts VIII not
suffice to save him from fate which can only be
intensified in anguish by the prolODgation of hts
lite. Bitter, indeed, must have been the sense of
wrong perverted as It waS-deep and tOTtUring the
disappointment and resentment, misappled as they
were-which led him TO resolve the Staying OF any