San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-24
Secret Revenge.

JCCICt AtCEVhSVs
ED. FREE PREss:-Your correspon
dent, on the End day of this. inst re
ceived very serious, in fact very
near fatal hurt in handling a wild
horse. For several days, or nights
rather, was alarmingly threatened
with suffocation; but is better now
And to while away the time, / under
take to write few lines suited to the
above heading.
How any man, or set OF men car
draw consolation from secret act
for revenge, I never could see. What
kind OF q creature is the man who,
under the cover of darkness, would
commit an act of which he would
blush at the very mention, or feel q
deep sense of shame for respectable
wife, children, relatives or friends, to
even suspicion that he had been a
participant in low, dark disgraceful
thing? If brave, and good man
calmly comes to the conclusion that
it is necessary to commit an overt
act, though it may be a serious one,
he will go boldly in the light of day
and do the work; he will not be found
skulking around fighting shadows; if
he has to shoot or hang a man he will
shoot or hang the man and not be
found banging away at ghosts, or
hanging shadows or figures. Such a
course would be cowardly, and would
show innate meanness, and wonder
full degree Of deprayity. The hanging of
the Editor of the San Marcos FREE
Press in effigy, was evidently the act
of an insane drunken rabble, for no
sane, sober man, or set of men who
were absolutely enemies to temper
ance reform would for one moment
have tolerated such thought, for
they would have recognized the fact
at a glance that they could not posi-
bly, have inflicted more fatal stab to
the very vitals of their pet schemes
of debauchery and intemperance than
that one lone solitary act has done
and will do. It is, suppose q cheap
mode OF advertising, and probably
not so cheap after all; I do not know
how much it has cost them to keep
up steam to proper height to keep
the senses sufficiently Stuffed for
the preparation of such an act, but,
however, that performance has adver-
fused the whole party of schemers,
perpetrators, aiders or abettors or
even sympathizers with them, through
ought the broad limits of the United
States, and even beyond its limits,
for every dollar the whole thing is
worth and for all that it may pan out
hereafter.
'sAs a man sows so shall he reap"
But now, Mr. Julian, few words
in regard to your side of this ''trage-
dy." Though you may have felt a
little mortified at first, which was
wholly unnecessary, as to your being
"disgraced" by that act, it is certainly
not the case. All the newspaper no
tees of it abundantly prove this, but
it has had a contrary effect. The
mob, or rabble went through with all
the ceremonies of murder or martyr
dom which leaves you occupying the
strange attitude of a living martyr
for the cause Of temperance, and also
leaves you standing as living mon
ument Of that great and noble cause
which is probably fraught with more
mighty consequences to the human
family both present and eternal, than
any other one single cause. And
now, sir, in my humble Judgment
all that is necessary to be done to in
sure the final prevalence Of local Op
ton at San Marcos, is 10 steadily
hold this matter up before the people
For this disgraceful act viii soon be
herAlded back With all Of its redun-
dAncy and fall With . mighty crash
like an avkardly handled boomerang
On the Perpstrators' heads 1t WI