The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-15
NEW ORLEANS TIMES ON TEXAS.

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that he is guilty of II crime
for which he must answer by servitude
for term Of years in the penitentiary Of
New York. No man is guilty of a crime UNI
til it is proven upon him in court of proper
jurisdiction, and for the Times to declare
him guilty before he has had fair trial by o
jury of his peers is, to say the least OF it, I'M
| just. 1t would surprise no one for bitter
partisan Republican paper, hoping and aim
ing to make political capital out of the mat
ter, because young Buck is Southrener, to
take such position, but for the Times, pro-
ssng TO be Democratic in its biases, and
published in great Southern city, receiving
its support from Southern people, it is out
of place, uncalled for, and ungenerous
not to say despicabe. The Times says
"The crime ofwhich he is guilty has no apollo,
gists at the North. In Texas, perhaps, there
are many who applaud his act, and, had the
deed of violence occurred there, he would
have had little to fear from the law. In few
weeks, or months, it would be forgotten, and
by many he would be received as hero.
Such will not be the case in New York.
There is no sentiment in that locality which
excuses the use of the revolverin the settle
ment Of personal quarrels" We do not know
enough of the particulars in the case in ques-
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justidable in the use of his pistol or not.
From what we have seen published in the
matter it is possible he was hasty in going to
so extreme violence as to shoot young
Thompson, who seems to have been
the ..ring-leader in the ungentle-
manly and cowardly system of hazing
prscticed on young Buck. But what the
Times means by, and what it in reality says
in the words quoted above, is that the people
of Texas endorse violence; that they counten-
ance shooting and murder, and applaud all
deeds of bloodshed. This insnuaton, or as
sertion on the part of the Times, and you can
truthtully call it either one, is just as abso-
lutely false rs it is possible for anything to
be. We are not prepared to say that the
Times knew this to be the case when it
said SO, but it ought to have known
80. The editors and proprietCrs
of that paper have certainly been in the
South long enough to know that the Southern
people, and especially the people of Texas as
q whole, are ms peaceable, as honorable, as
law abiding as any people on earth, and to
brand the people off State as being at heart
murdorers, rs upholding murder..and blood
shed, is an outr &c and an indignity that no
honorable people can be otherwise than
FESTIVE under; that no fair-minded,
upright newspaper would be guilty Of,
The people of Texas do not expect anything
better at the hands of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat or Chicago litter Ocean, for nei her
of these papers have ever let the opportunity
pass to SANDER and malign the people Of
Il, xas but they never dreamed ofputting the
New Orleans Times in the same category
with these journals. The people of Texas
would like to know if the city Of New Or
leans endorsed what the Times says. Railroad
connection with that State has nearly been
contaminated, and the mercantile interests of
New Orleans, it has been hoped by the citl-
zens of that city, and by the citizens of Texas,
too, would be greatly benefited thereby. but
if our people are looked upon as murderers,
vs. cut-throats, us people who applaud yio-
lence and protect the violent, having no re-
gard for law or the good of society, why it
will be better to withhold the trade we had
intended giving to the Crescent
City. Does the Times echo the
sentiments of the people OF
New Orleans in its charges against the peo-
pie of Texas? 1t is supported and main
tanned in most part by the citizens of the
Crescent City, and the natural inference is
that it expresses the views and sentiments Of
the community where it has its being. viii
the New Orleans Picayune, Democrat, States
and City Item please enlighten the people OF
Texas on this points But we have moi
quoted above the harshest, falsest words OF
the Times. We give them below as follows
9Th shedding o human blood is looked up
on with horror, and the taking of human life
for any cause, except in conformity with the
mandate of the law, is condemned in the
strongest terms. And yet the young Texan
is not altogether to blame. His crime is the
legitimate outcome OF his education. From
his earliest years he has been familiar with
the pistol, and was taught BY the sentiment O
the community in which he grew L
manhood that the use of the revolver
or the knife was proper in resentinl
an insult or in settling persona
difficulty. What wonder is it Their
that when he felt himself imposed upon by
the boys at the academy he should act i,
obedience to his education 1t is true he had
no reasonable cause to murder the lad
Thompson. His life was not threatened, ant
his person was in no danger of violence. HI
had simply been subjected to mild form o
hazing-a cowardly sort of indignity which
all the boys are forced to endure who
enter West Point academy. He could no
resist the inclination to retaliate upon his tor
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