The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-22

GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.
Nh part Of tho stock in trade Of the
loody shirt rsbble rouser during political
10 charge that the south still
Avors the institution Of slavery and sighs for
return Of the old regime. No better answer
AN b. found TO this bslderdash than the
truthful statement from the Boston
Herald:
Free labor has given 70 the late slave sec.
zion class Of small farmers, and the diver
Dihed trades and industries that depend upon
mems ownership of themselves and their
chance 70 earn and 70 spend money. The
south /. rapidly building up, under these
conditions, whsth before Lacked, . crest
middle clsss, embraci, z small farmers, me.
chanios, tradesmen and regular wsge esrLers.
A correspondent who has recently travelled
In Searly oil the southern ststes 10 sstoni.hed
at the rapidly with which the real
prosperity Of that section 10 advancing.
And he mentions the significant
fact that I'm 1860 all tho states
that attempted to form the confederscy paid
less than 100000 to agricultural labor.
During the pas. year the state OF Georgi.
alone paid over $50 600, 700 TO the free labor
which titled her fields, and the circulation OF
this vast sum ut home creates country stores,
builds villages, improve, towns and makes
active the mechanical and all other occupa-
tons which depend for support upon the
working class In any community The
change which this implies from the condition
under the old System, when the proceeds of
slave Dor were expended upon wasIeful
plantations or contributed to the enrichment
of the prodigality OF the few. does not need
to be enlarged upon. Neither does the
equally encouraging fact that the colored
people Of the south are rapidly approaching
per capita ownership of land that is equal
ed by the laboring classes Of very few coan-
tries in the world. Looking at this wonder
full TRANSFORMED on, it hardly seems credlts-
bic that intelligent Americans could have 60
long upheld The stupendous economic bluuder
involved 10 the slave system, even 1t by edu-
cation and association they wero blind 10 its
essential barbarism. Free labor, like wisdom
in the abstract. 10 Justified Of her children.
Even bourbonism cannot stand the logic of
the shovel and the hoe. The south IL fairly
entered upon new and wonderful career Of
prosperity.
Governor Crttenden, OF Missouri, is rap.
Idly making name for himself 10 the news
papers, at least. A few months ago he re-
fused to grant requistion made upon hin
for citizen Of Missouri indicted for murder
In this state. This citizen has some political
standing in Missouri and perhap, can te Of
some service TO the governor, so he takes it
upon himself to violate tho comfy existing
between states and makes 1t an occasion to
utter Islander, by stating that there is no
certainty of q man obtsining Justice in u
Texas court That this Islander was but tho
petty venom of very small man, every one
knows. Not content with this outrage
against justice, this doughty governor again
comes to the front In an unenvAble way in
the matter of the hanging Of tho Talbot
boys 10 Nodaway county. That one of these
boys did kill his father and the other was an
accessory, after the fact, there is no question,
for they themselves admit it, but
oil the circumstances connected with
the case seem TO make it one deserving of
executive clemency. The confession OF
these boys shows that while their father was
cruelty beating their mother the younger
one shot him inf citing mortal wound. In
obedience to their fathers own appeal and
request they claimed that some unknown
paraon did the shooting, the fathers Inject
being to shield his sons and to save his
family from disgrace. This confession was
corroborated by strong chain of direct and
circumstsptial evidence, but the governor
has closed his eyes to these facts and refused
to interfere In their behalf. This no had
right to do and was jus!idabls in doing SO if
his judgment and his conscience SO dictated,
but 1t seems that he has done more than this.
He has even gone so far as to issue ordersto
the sheriff Of Nodawsy county 10 have bis
scaffold ready and to hang the Talbot boys
next Friday (lo-dsy) in the highest style Of
art Waen did it become the duly of tho gov.
ernor to send out directions of this
The st. Louis POST Dispatch
commenting on tho affair says:
Governor Cri,tenden officially proclsims
that he will not interfere further In the case
of the young Talbotls, condemned 10 death
for the murder of their father, and SO the
misguided boys will BIO slaughtered nj
Mary svllle next Friday to make u holiday
for Nodaway county.s This is what might
have been expected, in view of the fact that
Governor Crittenden has neither moral
stamina nor that very essential attribute of
manhood which the world Is in the habit of
designating rs back bone. That De- Tai
bolt was slain BY one Of bis sons. the other
acting ss an atcomplice after the fact, is
undoubtedly true. The confession of
the boys settles that point: bu. there
are attendant circumstances which
should operate upon the mind Of humane
governor and induce him 70 commute the
deAtn sentence. PArricide 10 horribly un.
natural crime, and 1t Ia never perpetrs,ed
without strong provocAtion. No child ever
kills parent save when impelled by inssn.
ity or wrong which amounts almost TO ius.
tiacation' II has been laid down by an em,
inent student Of crime that history shows no
pArricide from the day Of Beatrice di Cenci
to the present time, wherein the murdered
father did not deserve bis fate. This 10 put
ting u strongly, but we are prepared 10 say
that the assertion Is not without foundation,
Dr.. Talbot was . man Of ungovernable
temper. In bis family circle he was a brute
and q tyrant: His teachings and examples