Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-02

the ambitious youth who fired the tenn
pie at Eplesus. But let us hc char
table to Cox. Perhaps his imagina-
ton made him see, not exactly linen
IN buckram,n but ferocious and armed
negroe, by the hundred, thlrsting for
white blood In some respects the
whole affair seems ridiculons--not UNI
like the excitement in the summer
over a few cock and bull stories teie-
graphed and written from Monterey
Some people were led to believe then
that our neighbors across the Rio
Grande were going To arise en- masse
and wipe out every adventurous Amer
lean who had ventured into the land
of "God and Liberty" There were
"wars and rumors Of wars" and hot
headed young men, who were inclined
to be visionary and were also out
Of good job In this prae-
tical, pushing land, dreamed
of marching once more to the halls OF
the Montezumas, rs their faith ers did
nearly forty years ago. But common
sense and investigation came TO the
rescue and punctured the bubble.
for that was all IL was. We hear 30
more now of complications with MeNl-
co. But seriously this affair here at
home. while not without its laughablc
phases, has some that are very serious.
The q, 900 or s., 600 it has cost the state
is trille when we think of how near
it canle to precipitating real trouble.
During the interval while people Were
waiting in anxious suspense to learn
the real state OF affairs in Milan coun
ty, most triiling incident, not enough
to create ripple in calmer times,
would undoubtedly havecaused serious
outbreaks of passion, violence and
bloodshed in more than one locality.
Public feeling, at many points, was
as powder magazine, requiring but o
spark to produce an explosion. The
negro, the weaker party, must have
suffered the most, and without
any cause, as it now turns
out, but many whites, too, would
have shared in the disaster and still
more grave and complicated troubles
engendered. That nothing OF the kind
did occur IS to be regarded rs "a highly
| fortuitous circumstance, and rs les
/ son to be needed and remembered in
future, for, unfortunately, Cos may
not be the last man 10 raise storm
about nothing nj all. The GAZETTE's
observation and experience lead tito
| the conclusion, which will doubtless
be concurred in by all Intelligent and
fair-minded men, that the really rep
| resentative members of the two races,
white and colored desire to live in
peace and amity, practicing mutual
helpfulness. And they will do 50, If
marplots aud fools are not permitted
to Interfere. A few impudent, igno-
rant negroes, having an arrogant mis-
conception of their privileges, on the
one hand-and few hot-haded,
reckless white men on the other,
constitute material always available
for riots and race troubles. il should
be the aim Of society to regulate and
control these elements, to the end that
peace and order may be preserved
and each race, occupying its proper
and Legitimate sphere, do its part in
developing the resources of the state
and achieving common progress and
prosperity. The white race mist and
will dominate, MS IL deserves to do, but
il will see that the negro has iustic,
and protection whenever and wherever
he may merit the one or need the
other There should he delveranct
from such men rs Cox, justice of thC
pence, and Gregory, cX-colonel o
colored militia.