The daily gazette., 1879-08-23

We wou d advise the Gazette TO never
mind Massachus It's and Rhode Island
lust now until it is settled whether a
man dare run for ali office outside Of the
Democratic party without being muir
dered.-Repubiicon.
The GAZETTE, as its readers well
know, does not need the advice of the |
Republican upon the subject of the Mis-
sissippi courage" If two foolhardy |
men determine to shoot each other in
the streets they can no more be prevented
in our own State than in Mary land,
Pennsylvania, New York or Missis-
sIppi, in all of which States such muir
derous outrages have been committed
within the last two years. The only
diHei cnco thoro appears W DC in the fat
in Mississippi, men do not take the
advantage Of each other; but give their
opponents warning, and as in the case Of
Dixon and Balksdale. So far as the
facts of the case have reached us there is
nothing to wa. rant any other belief than
that each man was determined to kill or
be killed, because Of some old grudge ::
and Dixon who seems to have been re
garded as the best shot and most likely
to escape, in this instance instead OF
killing Barksdale as he evidently tried
to do with his six shotted revolver with
which he was said to be a certain shot,
4, lyt1laA
found in all communities. In som,
parts of the South these characters still
exist. Happily, however, such affair
are growing infrequent.
1t is exceedingly distressing to witnes
these awful tragedies. But it should b
born in mind that with the exception
such fights, and now and then horri
murder or rape, that is perpetrated by
beastly negro, the South is free from Il
terrible butcheries and robberies tn
make men in the North dread to sle'
in their houses at night; and not II
frequently such deeds are perpetrated
the daytime as cause the blood to CT
die in ones veins. These are t
crimes that should be rooted out, a
these the kind of criminals of NH
men stand most in dread. Such alta
as that of Dixon and Barksdale fl
their own punishment very soon, in
WAYS. Dixon is dead and Barksdale
better have been killed-such a man
moral pestilence to any community &
we venture to say carried he'll witt
his own bosom made ten-fold more
rible since his murder, or shooting
Dixon, notwithstanding he will decl
he did it in self-def fence. The Repu
can only shows its want of candor I
honesty in charging Democrats with
Tending such fights. In this State Del
Gratis have born with insults and r
Guile from their opponents for years
ponents armed to the teeth with rife I
ball, only too anxious for an opportuI
to shoot unarmed Democrats down; &
it need not now attempt to make
people of this State believe that Der
Gratis favor any such murderous set
ments of quarrels, no matter what
quarrels originate about. Such alta
resemble too much the mode the
publicans in the North encouraged {
John Brown to practice in his attempt
murder the innocent men and won
of Virginia.
Barksdale will meet his fate. As
Mollie Maguires, and the men who sh
their wives, stab their daughters 9
children in cold blood, and murder til
rivals, in Philadelphia, New Yo k, Ma
land and other States, meet theirs.
The offended laws will be invol
and enforced. But where the commu