The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-19


aldlii.oa and cend,f afh a. boz respected
paolmmnuIiy whore bo bss ap Ions
resided, vet the Ideas therein contained
are sU peculiar, ap sentimental and sp
utterly lmpfa3ilcsblo ~ ~ demand u
notice lfpn The llHnALn, with view ~
1bvialo their exceedingly misohioyous
tendency, lilo takes for his toNt "rhe
Action of JusfioE sCnunL Ia impanOl-
ing Negro Jurors In His Court" and
sosms tn think the strlrturos upon
SUuUHL's conduct In Tho promises
ovlnce prejudice aud injustice on the
part Of tho southern people toward tho
colored race In the south. lie attributes
to JUSTICE SCHULZ the desire
To be actuatod by principle
Of perfect justice. RANDI SCHULZ
Is comparatively stranger in Dallas.
aud was elected Ia tho position ho holds
by generous people who ignored the
fact that he was radical Republican.
That no should DO our preceptor Ia JUS
tico aud equity, tho people of Dallas no
more admit than tho Jewish synagogue
did that no should Toe their eXemplar In
morals - Cor. SIMPSON. perhaps, dis
senting,
In the first place, Justice and equity
are not confined within the limits OF aD-
stractness. 1t In known that the ne
gro population OF Dallas county Is
ignorant, uneducated and morally
deficient for all the essential quail
tiles of jurymon. Tho fact that
MIR. SMoTHERs or Mr.. HOWELL
may be sufficiently intelligent 30 read
and write and even have some ideas ofed-
ucation IS no ground for the worry remark
able conclusion to which Col. SIMPSON
seems ~ have arrived that IL would be
prudent, wise, or safe TO try cases in
court with such u people as Judges of the
facts between men where liberty, prop
erty and even life itself are frequently
involved.
Why is il that this innovation upon
established usage should never have &C.
CURED until the present juncture?
Have not the courts proceeded hitherto
with justice and regularity in the ad-
justment of difficulties between tho
members OF this manumitted race? How
is it that this difficulty is precipitated
upon us and political status referred to,
just on the initiation of Democratic ad
ministration? Does not Col. SIMPSON
know that the promulging of such i'm
practicable nonsense will give an i'm
petus TO feeling already dangerously
discornible on the part of the negroes t.
claim social rights which they cannot
obtain, and, even the agitation of which
questions, may prove to be of great and
immediate injury to them as race?
As to abstract justice and equity let
Col. SIMPSON learn that practical jus.
tice and equity is what sensible people
require and will have. If he should
have a case to be tried in the district
court, and should consent that the
sheriff bring in yenire composed of
black men, picked up on the streets
between Harwood and the river, he
would simply be illustrating the sim
certify of his convictions, as expressed
in his communication. No negro has
ever desired to have colored iurymen
on his trial for life, and Col. SIMPSON
can learn that fact from every lawyer
at the Dallas bar, who has had extern
sive practice in capital criminal cases.
and Col. SIMPSON to point out to the
negro how sadly he has been misused.
Col. SIMPSON says that our courts do
not realize, and our fashionable
churches have conveniently forgotten,
that slavery has been "blown hellward
from the lannon's mouth" 1t would
be difficult for the southern people to
ignore thi- fact, when surrounded by
its debris, in the nature of thriftles,
ignorant and impoverished people, who
divide with the white children the fund
provided by their ancestors for their
who pay no taxes OF any
and who are a constant
drain of expense upon counties
and the state at large. To CD. Simp-
son the HERALD would say that whether
this agitation is proposed for the benefit
OF Justice Schulz or the negro race, it
is equally unfortunate. The negroes
have been treated with great indulgence
and liberality. In the policy adopted
with reference to them, the principles |
of common sense have been regarded |
and maudlin sentimentality discarded. !
In due course Of time the negro may |
mature as race into sufliciency of IN
to enable him to discharge the |
higher duties OF citizen. At present it |
is absurd to assert that they are capable
Of the discharge of such duties-im-
proper to inject such ideas into their
feeble and suspicious minds, and mis-
chievous in the extreme for men of
standing and character to arouse them
TO the idea that they are being wronged.
The crowds of darkies lowering, like a
black and sadly ominous cloud around
Scbuhl Office on Saturday, abundantly
testify to our apprehensons. How many
such jurymen could be had!
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MR. kiMBRoUGH'S GAMBLING BILL
Our Austin correspondent in speaking
of Mr.. KIMBRoUGH's gambling bill,
which passed the house Saturday, said
n one report it related to raffles, ten
pins, etc., but subsequently corrected
his statement in justice to Mr.. KIM